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Role & responsibilities

- Lead pad replacement activities for lapping and polishing machines.

- Maintain polishing and lapping pads, brushes, slurry systems, and consumables to achieve required surface finish and flatness specifications.

- Ensure correct pad selection, bonding, alignment, curing, and dressing processes.

- Verify disc flatness, run-out, pressure distribution, and machine geometry.

- Perform pad conditioning and process qualification activities.

- Troubleshoot pad-related issues including glazing, uneven wear, peeling, vibration, scratches, waviness, and haze.

- Work closely with Production, Process, and Quality teams during trials, NPI activities, and process validations.

- Optimize pad life, replacement cycles, and consumable costs while improving process capability.

- Develop SOPs and preventive maintenance schedules for pad replacement and conditioning.

- Support preventive and breakdown maintenance of lapping and polishing machines.

- Maintain records of pad usage, performance, and lifecycle.

- Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions for recurring surface quality issues.

- Ensure compliance with safety standards,



LOTO requirements, statutory regulations, and 5S practices.

Preferred candidate profile

- Diploma / B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering.

- 04 to 09 years of experience in lapping, polishing, surface finishing, or precision manufacturing processes.

- Hands-on experience with polishing and lapping machines, pad replacement, conditioning, dressing, and alignment activities.

- Robust understanding of surface roughness, flatness, parallelism, process capability, and surface quality requirements.

- Knowledge of PU pads, diamond pads, slurry systems, adhesives, curing processes, and dressing techniques.

- Experience troubleshooting polishing defects such as scratches, waviness, haze, vibration, glazing, and uneven wear.

- Familiarity with NPI support, process validation, preventive maintenance, and root cause analysis.

- Knowledge of LOTO, machine safety, statutory compliance, and 5S practices.

- Strong communication, analytical, and team coordination skills.

- Willingness to work in shifts

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📌 Maintenance Engineer / Sr. Engineer - Pad Maintenance (Chennai)
🏢 Motherson
📍 Chennai