AGM - Thermal Expert

John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities
Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures.

Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With more than 8,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1.417 billion in 2024 in 28 countries, on 5 continents.

Job Purpose
Plan, lead, and deliver on key engineering for Thermal equipment's like furnaces and ovens for strip processing lines that enable to achieve operational excellence and support the growth objectives of the organisation.

Key Result Areas

• Development and sustenance of engineering equipments, processes and systems
• Meeting the targets around Quality, Delivery and Cost by leading team
• Innovation mindset to bring in new designs to improve functionality and reduce cost.
• Team Leader ensuring sub-ordinates career and competency development.

Key Responsibilities
Qualified candidate will be groomed in Engineering (Design) Function.

• Understand the contract requirements and develop basic and detailed design for the same.
• Lead team of Engineers and Designers to ensure engineering deliverables in form of specifications, 3D Models, detailed drawings, calculation sheet and other documentation for engineering.
• Work in team with group leaders, Engineers, and Designers within Engineering and other functions
• Create and check engineering related documents as per the Quality Management System (QMS) and Design Approval Matrix.
• Work with other functions to update documentation in line with engineering requirements.
• Generating bought out specifications and approving the offers received from suppliers.
• Aid manufacturing in case of any design queries.
• Keep themselves abreast of the new technologies and imbibe the same in product design and development.
• Communication with customer, participation in technical discussions with customer
• Co-ordination with Erection and commissioning for site support
• Understand the process requirements, define the instruments needed for the process, develop the process instrumentation diagram.

Education And Experience

• The candidate should be BE/B TECH in Mechanical / Production Engineering from Reputed college.
• 20- 25 years in design of thermal equipments for heavy engineering/steel processing
• Candidate worked in multinational company will be an added advantage.

Background, Skills, And Competencies

• Good knowledge of Auto CAD Inventor for modelling and drawing creation, and Product Data Management Tools (like Vault)
• Team management capability. Should have led team of engineers and designers with defined metrics around quality, delivery, and cost.
• Mechanical and thermal calculations with thermal equipment design knowledge
• Basic Metallurgy knowledge (steel composition, heat treatment processes)
• Value Engineering knowledge and should have executed the same.
• Planning, Decision making ability, time management and task prioritization.
• Good Interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment in a Collaborative way.
• Experience in steel processing thermal equipment design like furnaces and ovens (Nice to Have)

Who We Are
About John Cockerill

John Cockerill India Limited an ISO 9001:2015 engineering company – formerly CMI FPE Limited was incorporated on May 28, 1986. The Belgian group Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI) now known as John Cockerill completed the acquisition in June 2008. John Cockerill India is the Indian entity of John Cockerill Group.

'John Cockerill India Limited.' John Cockerill Industry's Indian hub and center of excellence for cold rolling mill complexes, is the world leader in the conception, manufacture, and installation of reversible cold rolling mills. It has developed a wide range of technologies in the field of processing lines, rolling mills, thermal and chemical processes. It also supplies auxiliary steel treatment equipment. John Cockerill India offers the entire product portfolio of John Cockerill Industry and is coordinating the whole range of its activities including, but not limited to local engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing. As an international specialist in industrial processes and technologies, John Cockerill Industry designs, supplies and modernizes cold rolling mills, processing lines, chemical and thermal treatment installations for the steel and the non-ferrous industry, as well as state-of-the-art heat treatment technologies for the aviation, forging and casting industry, and hydrometallurgical processes for the extraction of ores.

John Cockerill India complements John Cockerill's strategy for growth with minimal overlaps in products and a versatile range of technology synergies. John Cockerill India is a preferred partner to supply thousands of innovative solutions for clean, reliable, and efficient Equipments worldwide.

Based on decades of experience and successfully running references all over the world, John Cockerill Industry not only supplies greenfield and brownfield installations and equipment's, but also provides the related services, as well as training and technical assistance. John Cockerill India's reliable and cost-effective, yet innovative solutions are always adapted to the specific needs of each and every customer.

The Company's workshop in Taloja is equipped with state-of-the-artwork centers and ensures in-house equipment production, assembly and fabrication activities that conform to the most stringent international quality and safety standards.

John Cockerill India has at its helm, a team of professional managers with international experience who are committed to taking the Indian subsidiary to new heights of excellence. John Cockerill India has a global footprint across Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, North America, and South America, Russia and therefore complements John Cockerill's global presence. John Cockerill India has its head office in Mumbai and two workshops outside Mumbai. The Indian entity is ISO 9001:2015 certified and employs over 500 people.

Our vision is to exceed customer expectations by delivering quality products and services in time and at competitive prices. Because each project is unique, every project has its own project management team. The customer benefits from the expertise of highly qualified specialists who have an international experience with a deeper knowledge of the customer's environment.

The Group's ambition is to be the leading industrial partner of international customers, to design equipment and develop its overall performance through a combination of expertise in maintenance and engineering.

The Group's capabilities lie in Design & Engineering, Manufacturing, Erection & Commissioning and After Sales & Support.

Thanks to the cumulated experience in Engineering and Maintenance, John Cockerill India is able to assist its customers in achieving the overall performance optimization of their equipment, from their design phase to the end of their service life through Tailor-made solutions, Optimization of cost, Local relationship, Advanced training & Unique complementarities of solutions and areas of excellence.

Equal Opportunity Employer
John Cockerill and all John Cockerill Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law.

John Cockerill offers you career and development opportunities within its various sectors in a friendly working environment.

Do you want to work for an innovative company that will allow you to take up technical challenges on a daily basis?

We look forward to receiving your application and to meeting you

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