Head of Engineering – Modular Building Platform

Join the Mission: Engineering the Product of Construction. We aren’t just building projects; we are building a Product Platform . Our mission is to move construction from the field to the factory, transforming how humanity creates shelter. As the Head of Engineering, you are the architect of our \"Right to Win.\" You will lead the transition from traditional, site-heavy civil engineering to a high-precision, Productized Construction model.

Your core focus is to develop our prefab technology (PEB, LGSF, Modular, and Foldable systems) into a scalable, highly profitable reality. You will bridge the gap between rigorous IS-code-compliant civil engineering and automotive-grade manufacturing precision.

• Platform Development: Transition from a \"Project\" mindset to a \"Product\" mindset. Develop standardised, reusable, modular building systems that win on cost, speed, and quality.
• Value Engineering for Scale: Use First-Principles Thinking to ruthlessly optimise structural costs. Enable the business to win more projects by engineering out waste without compromising safety.
• Factory-First (IC) Strategy: Drive the engineering roadmap to increase the percentage of construction work done in the factory to 99% , minimising on-site skill requirements.

• Automotive-Level Quality: Develop engineering processes that ensure building quality is measured in millimetres, not centimetres. Implement PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) into the design phase.
• DFMA Mastery: Oversee the implementation of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles to ensure every component \"snaps\" together seamlessly on-site with zero rework.
• BIM-to-Factory Pipeline: Establish a robust digital thread using BIM and ISO 19650 standards to automate the flow from design to the fabrication shop floor.

• Mentorship & Growth: Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team. Foster a culture of high agency where \"Nothing is someone else's problem.\"
• First-Principles Innovation: Challenge the status quo. Encourage the team to rethink traditional RCC and Steel constraints to develop revolutionary \"foldable\" or \"rapid-deploy\" structures.
• Strategic Collaboration: Act as the primary technical interface with IIT Madras (IITM) for design validation, vetting, and cutting-edge R&D.

•  Structural engineering excellence, with a proven track record of moving beyond \"blueprints\" to \"product platforms.\" You don't just design for codes; you design for the User Persona , understanding how occupants interact with and feel within a modular space.
• Customer-Centric Innovation: 3-5 years leading engineering in a Modular/Prop-tech or startup environment where you successfully translated complex user behaviors and customer feedback into technical structural requirements.
• Behavioral Engineering: Experience in developing building systems that prioritize the \"User Journey\"—from the ease of intuitive assembly (the \"Lego\" experience) to the long-term mental and physical well-being of the end-user.
• First-Principles Validation: While your years of experience provide the foundation in PEB/LGSF/RCC, your most important metric is your ability to strip away legacy construction \"habits\" to build what the customer actually needs: speed, quality, and adaptability.
• Systems Leadership: You have experience managing teams not just to \"finish a project,\" but to build a Modular Building Platform that scales across different demographics and geographies.
• Scale Thinking: You have previously taken a concept from a single prototype to a mass-produced structural system.
• Material Science: Deep knowledge of modern building materials (composite panels, specialised coatings, high-tensile steel) to optimize for \"Foldable\" and \"Modular\" mobility.

• Engineering the Margin: You are responsible for the financial health of current service projects. You must ensure that \"Design-to-Cost\" is a core discipline, identifying high-cost structural bottlenecks in bespoke projects and engineering them out to protect and expand project margins.
• Scaling Profits through Parallelism: You will create the technical framework that allows us to execute multiple service projects simultaneously without a linear increase in engineering overhead, ensuring that as the business scales, the profit per project grows through standardised efficiency.