Lead / Senior Design Engineer

Functional area:  Research and Development
Location:  India
City:  Pune
Company name:  Atlas Copco (India) Private Ltd.
Date of posting:  Dec 8, 2025

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Purpose / Mission

As Lead / Senior Design Engineer – NPD – Piston Technology, your mission is to deliver & participate in new product development projects with engineering point of view while Improving Time to Market and driving the technical competence of GECIA teams with a solution centric approach. You shall achieve this, by developing your competence and by reorienting your energy towards Product Innovation, technology platforms maintaining On-time Delivery & First Time Right Approach.

As Design / Senior Design Engineer you need to plan project execution with the objective of delivering projects within the estimated time and quality standards within the limits of GECIA's structure, processes, and guidelines.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Customer Focus

  • Understand the project requirements and work content based on the inputs received.
  • Ensure GECIA’s contribution to improve Time to Market.
  • Communicate progress and deliverable updates to the stakeholders, raise red flags and highlight any concerns to all stakeholders. Demonstrate GECIA’s contribution to NPD Projects.
  • Monitor deliverables with adherence to SOPs, resolve technical issues raised.
  • Ensure proper co-ordination with other competences involved CAE, Electrical design etc.
  • Ensure that designs are reviewed by design reviewer prior releasing the same.
  • Willingness to travel to Talegaon MIDC for onsite deployment.

People Focus

  • Adhere to the Team spirit towards Driving Customer Success & Improving Business Results
  • Instill “CAN DO; WILL DO” attitude in yourself.
  • Maintain a positive team moral with an open atmosphere of teamwork and co-operation.
  • Contribute in competence development/efficiency improvement activities initiated at team/organizational level.
  • Provide feedback during team meetings & design reviews.
  • Guide team members on technical/project matters.

Technology Focus

  • Nurture innovative ideas and focus improvements in the product performance, cost, life, reliability, Sustainability.
  • Promote use of advance manufacturing techniques while designing new products.
  • Promote sharing best practices across all NPD teams.
  • Adopting new/emerging tools & technologies (AI & Automation) in daily work to reduce time to market.

Product Focus

  • Create & Promote use of reusable components, product platforms, Subassemblies, Modular Designs.
  • Gaining knowledge about the product.
  • Sharing of latest updates in our products within team.
  • Conducting knowledge sharing sessions for the teams.

Operational Excellence

  • Suggest different CAD automation projects to automate repeated processes & to improve the quality.
  • Adherence to Atlas Copco common purpose “innovation-interaction-commitment”.
  • Should be a cultural fit for Atlas Copco culture.
  • Fully understand & adapt to Activity based costing, to allow optimum mix & better alignment with Partner Resources and define work to be carried out by Vendor resources.

 

To succeed, you will need

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Production Engineering, combined with 5 to 10 years of proven experience in reciprocating compressor design and development.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of international engineering standards such as ASME, CE, and API.
  • Familiarity with the design and integration of skid packages for compressor systems will be advantageous.
  • Experience in project management and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams effectively.
  • Technical expertise in sheet metal work, piping design, flange selection, and heavy fabrication techniques.
  • Strong understanding of product development lifecycle from concept through to production, including APQP, DFMEA, and design review procedures.
  • Proficiency in Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and designing with serviceability in mind.
  • Advanced skills in CAD software such as Autodesk Inventor and PLM systems like Enovia; experience in BOM generation and ERP systems such as BPCS.
  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities coupled with the capability to perform detailed component-level design calculations.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to work effectively under pressure while meeting deadlines.

In return, we offer

  •  Culture of trust and accountability
  •  Lifelong learning and career growth
  •  Innovation powered by people
  •  Comprehensive compensation and benefits
  •  Health and well-being

Job location

Hybrid
This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our (insert organization here) in Pune, India (IN).

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