About River :

River is an electric vehicle company building multi-utility scooters. At River, we’re building scooters of tomorrow for the ambitious youth of today. Because we believe people only need two things to achieve success: the desire to make it to the top, and the means to get there.

With our flagship product River Indie, SUV of Scooters, is designed to help you get things done. Engineered to be a dependable ally on your road to success. We are backed by marquee international investors - these are mobility focused funds backed by Yamaha Motors, Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Toyota VC and Maniv Mobility.

Job Description:

• Prepare strategic plan for Development Engineering dept, with respect to Company Vision.
• Prepare detailed KPI for DE department to achieve organisation goal.
• Collaborative interaction with the internal team & effective communication on a timely basis on the project status.
• Interact with external teams (Business partners) strategically to execute the projects as per the targets (QCD).
• Review of internal & external project plans, 4M readiness & support to the team to achieve the targets.
• Interact with the design team & Vendor for DFM, DFA & DFT for electronics product (PCBA), Box build, harness, etc & enhance the development procedures.
• Identify the project risk, plan for contingency action & communicate the risk & mitigation plan well in advance to keep the projects on track.

Ideal Candidate:

• Should have experience in strategic management in development dept, budgeting & hands on experience in team handling.
• Min 10 Years of overall experience & worked in electronics product development dept (PCBA, box build, harness & lighting parts).
• Hands on experience in supplier assessment, project plan, 4M readiness, risk & mitigation.
• Good experience in SMT process (SPI, stencil design, solder paste Printing, P&P, reflow profile setup, AOI, routing & box build).
• Hands on experience in jig & fixture development (Stencil, PCB carrier, pallets, routing fixture, wave pallets, conformal coating, potting, box build fixtures) by working with suppliers based on takt time & UPH.
• Experience in quality issue & customer complaint handling & issue resolving by working with Suppliers.
• Experiences in DFA, DFM, DFT, PFMEA, ECN, cycle time, takt time, WLLC, quality tools, continuous improvement & LEAN.
• Good experiences in MS office & good communication skills