Design Delivery Lead

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Job Description

Objectives / Purpose: Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across assigned projects and portfolios. Ensure engineering scope, cost, schedule, resources, quality, and deliverables are effectively planned, managed, and delivered. Drive integration across engineering disciplines to ensure consistent, efficient, and high-quality design solutions. Support engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with business, project, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Accountabilities

Design Delivery Management: Accountable for planning, coordinating, and managing multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across assigned projects and portfolios. Manage engineering scope, deliverables, priorities, and resource requirements. Ensure engineering activities are delivered in alignment with project objectives, schedules, budgets, and quality expectations. Coordinate engineering interfaces across all GCC disciplines.

Cost, Schedule & Resource Management Develop and maintain engineering schedules, resource plans, and delivery forecasts. Monitor engineering budgets, resource utilization, and delivery performance. Identify and manage delivery risks, resource constraints, and priority conflicts. Support project reporting, forecasting, and performance reviews. Quality & Governance Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality, GMP, compliance, and business requirements.

Coordinate design reviews, quality checks, and multidisciplinary reviews. Manage engineering change processes and design risk assessments. Drive delivery consistency, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities. Stakeholder Management Serve as the primary GCC interface for assigned projects and portfolios. Collaborate with Project Teams, Engineering Functions, Manufacturing Sites, and Business Stakeholders. Communicate project status, risks, priorities, resource requirements, and delivery commitments.

Facilitate decision-making and resolution of cross-functional issues. Continuous Improvement & Innovation Promote digital engineering, standardization, and best practices. Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, quality, predictability, and efficiency. Support implementation of innovative engineering delivery approaches and tools.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or related discipline. Master's Degree preferred.

Experience

10+ years of experience in engineering, design management, project delivery, or capital project environments. Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering activities in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated industries. Experience managing engineering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and quality. Experience across Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, and Project Delivery phases. Behavioural Competencies Leadership and team coordination.

Stakeholder management and influencing. Strategic thinking and decision making. Commercial and financial awareness. Risk management and problem solving. Continuous improvement mindset. Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Technical Skills

Design Management and Engineering Delivery Management. Scope, Cost, Schedule, Resource, Risk, and Quality Management. Multidisciplinary engineering coordination. Engineering planning, forecasting, and performance management. Pharmaceutical capital project delivery. Engineering governance, change management, and reporting. Digital engineering and project management tools. Locations IND - Bengaluru Worker Type Employee Worker Sub-Type Regular Time Type Full time