Group Leader - Mechanical Engineering for TICO Engineering Hub (TMHG)

Job description: Group Leader - Mechanical Engineering for TICO Engineering Hub (TMHG)

Company profile

Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO), manufactures and sells material handling solutions for customers throughout the world. The Toyota Automated Logistics Group (TALG) and Toyota Material Handling Group (TMHG) are two strong pillars of TICO.

TMHG, the material handling equipment business unit of TICO, focuses on the development and sales for material handling solutions such as forklifts, energy storage, digital technologies, and automation.

Recently the decision was taken to establish a TICO Engineering hub for the forklift business in Pune, India. This newly established organization will be supporting the TMHG engineering teams worldwide with development centers located in Europe, North America, and Japan.

This role for Group Leader - Mechanical Engineering is for this TICO Engineering Hub, which is a sister company of Vanderlande, both part of the parent organization i.e. TICO.

Role description

As a Group Leader - Mechanical Engineering, you will play a key role in supporting our global development initiatives.  You will be responsible for establishing and managing a team of mechanical engineers who will work in close collaboration with the onshore stakeholders in the respective TICO entities.

Success in this role will require mechanical engineering expertise and an ability to motivate the engineering team in a manner that reflects Toyota’s Core Values.  In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders across the globe to balance priorities, improve processes and satisfy a complex set of goals.  Success will require strong technical skills, creativity, problem solving, strong interpersonal skills, drive, and passion.  In this role, you will play a key part in helping ensure quality, cost, and delivery objectives. 

The Group Leader-Mechanical Engineering will report to the TICO Hub leader.

Responsibilities / Key Activities:

The Group Leader - Mechanical Engineering has the following responsibilities and key activities:

• Operationally establish TICO Engineering Hub for TMHG business.
• Recruitment, Onboarding, Training & Line Management of a team of mechanical engineers.
• Understand the requirements from each onshore stakeholder and translate the requirements into high quality deliverables.
• Build and motivate team managing towards clear KPI’s.
• Responsible to coordinate workload management of the Engineers within the relevant offshore teams
• Drive business growth by developing the competences in the team to enable better performance.
• Functions as a technical expert, coordinate complex issues and support engineers in their team.
• Creating a standard mechanical design & models based on information available.
• Cultivating robust communication channels with onsite teams, actively addressing customer needs, and fostering enduring, trusting relationships.

Location & Travel:

The location and travel are:

• Based at Pune at combined location with VOICE (Engineering hub of Vanderlande with >1000 FTE)
• Full time job (100%)
• Travel: 10% travel expected on normal basis (to Toyota Material Handling North America and Toyota Material Handling Europe), during first year an increase of up to 20% expected to familiarize with the (TMHG) business and key stakeholders

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, 6-8 years of experience
• Understands both the technical service and tactical business administration.
• Adaptability and ease in an international & multicultural product-oriented environment.
• Experience in building teams of technical professionals, typically in an offshore center.
• Strong problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Excellent analytical abilities, capable of driving team members to rapid technical recommendations
• Quality oriented person realizing small errors can have big impact due to mass production.
• Strong problem solving and able to handle time sensitive situations, quickly set the right priorities, while maintaining a firm grasp of the details
• Familiar/Experienced with Catia, Siemens Solid Edge, AutoCAD, Siemens Teamcenter (PDM)
• Background / experience in the forklift industry and / or automated logistics industry