Associate Engineer

Number of positions: 5

Locations : GEC - ITEC, Chennai

Designation :Senior Engineer / Technical Specialist

Total Experience: 5+ years

KONE Way Role:SL Engineering Specialist /SL Chief Engineer

Grade :5L/5M

Qualification : B.E / B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Skills Required:

• Experience in Elevator background, if in layouts, then preferred.
• Working knowledge in AutoCAD.
• Experience in Elevator General Arrangement Drawings.
• Exposure to EN, SS550, GB codes is preferable.

Responsibilities & Key activities:

• Develop highly demanding concepts and solutions globally
• Take a leading global role as an engineering stakeholder in various development projects
• May lead global development cross-functional engineering projects from several viewpoints.
• May make management decisions as substitute for management and typically can take be substitute for a manager.
• Has knowledge and understanding of KONE global equipment offering, technical design, structure and details and of the technical strengths and limitations of products.
• Analyses contracts and specifications for equipment and selects the right products for the required solution.
• Designs highly demanding customized solutions.
• Cost understanding of solutions and components.
• Takes safety aspects into account and designs environmentally sustainable solutions when possible.
• As a member of a global engineering team, shares his/her knowledge and skills with colleagues and participates actively in meetings and workshops.
• May play the role of Chief Design engineer for supporting Major Projects
• Analyses technical requirements and identifies possible solutions
• Selects the optimal product/solution that meet the customer needs
• Clarifies with relevant stakeholders in case of unclear requirements and decides the solution
• Designs the solutions and/or components to meet customer specific requirements
• Creates drawings, engineering structures or other relevant outputs for the solution
• Understands basic cost levels of different components and solutions and utilizes cost knowledge in his/her work
• Takes all design relevant aspects into account when making engineering designs, like:
• Safety, codes, and standards
• Installability
• Maintainability
• Manufacturability
• Sustainability
• Self-checks outputs of his/her own work. Participates in checking of colleagues work outputs.
• Reports his/her work progress on a timely basis
• Communicates deviations from the given customer specification and passes outputs of his/her work to relevant parties on time

General responsibilities

• As a member of an engineering team, shares his/her knowledge and skills with colleagues
• May act as a local or global trainer
• May contribute to development projects for tools and processes
• May support R&D and other stakeholders in Change Request/Product Development process, and similar tasks

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