Designation: Manager

Location: India Dadra and Nagar Haveli Hindalco, Silvassa

Organization: Metals

Job Description:

Job Purpose

- Plan, monitor, and control the operation of Manufacturing activities to ensure the availability of high-quality extrusion dies.
- Ensure die manufacturing activities within budgeted costs and in a safe working environment.
- Involve to set up a cutting-edge Die Manufacturing facility with leading industry practices and the most up-to-date machines for high productivity and scalability for future needs.
- To ensure the full utilization of manufacturing resources and achieve best delivery and productivity norms.
- Conduct work, Motion studies to optimize resources including Men and process flow.

Job Context & Major Challenges

Job Context: Hindalco is the country's largest aluminium producer. Extrusion is a versatile and cost-effective metal forming process. Because Hindalco has three plants in addition to fourth one in the construction phase, the dies required at the plants are designed based on empirical knowledge and experience at their respective locations. As technology has evolved over time, new innovation has led to improved performance, and the market's demand for stringent quality products has compelled existing plants to upgrade their capabilities in terms of new die design and manufacturing setup with cutting-edge equipment. The die design and manufacturing cell will concentrate on practice standardization and technology transfer. It will concentrate on assisting the Plants in realizing their latent potential and mastering the die design concepts.

To achieve continuous development activities in the product and process, the job necessitates critical die design and manufacturing via CAD system and Simulation. This must be accomplished through value addition in the design, manufacture, and repair of dies used to produce high-quality extruded products.



The main aspect of the job would be to introduce innovative technologies at the plant in order to improve the team's productivity and efficiency.

Job Challenges: Manufacture dies based as per the design specifications.

- Ensure the availability of high-quality dies for Extrusion Press production
- Innovate the ease manufacturing methods to utilize the machines properly
- Lowering the cost of die manufacturing.
- To shorten the time required for die development
- Preparing people for multi-skilled activities in all of machine centers
- Identify digital technology projects across the die shop to increase machine availability, die quality, and team efficiency.
- Continuous improvement through structured research and training methodology will improve domain expertise and ensure expert availability.
- Develop the necessary skill sets for operation and train the workforce.
- Implement the fully automated job loading / manufacturing systems in future.

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1

Die manufacturing

- To manufacture the dies as per the design best in class.

- Minimize the die development time from world standard.

- Upgrade the Die manufacturing continually as per new development tin the market.

- Control the die manufacturing cost.

Eliminate Muda in die manufacturing process

KRA10

Safety
(To ensure safe work practices and procedures at work place)

- Monitor and ensure the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at work

- Regularly counsel workers to follow secure working procedures

- Maintain safe working conditions in the Die Shop.

KRA2





Autonomous maintenance

- Implement routine inspections of machines by the operatives.

- Make systems of autonomous maintenance

- Ensure systematic working practices

KRA3

Technology transfer

- Absorption of technology from technology partners/ Various other resources

- Implementation of the leading industry practices

- Ensuring key elements of the technology transfer agreement is implemented

- Managing the technology transfer relationship with the partner

KRA4

Customer Centricity

- To deliver dies on time to the plants

- Meet delivery schedules

- Support customers to develop new products, in terms of feasibility, Alternate options etc

- Monitor and ensure the sample approval process is completed

KRA5

Quality

- Ensure inspection of process in each stage

- Achieve 6 sigma level of quality standard within one year on start of Central Die Shop

- Organize Technical trainings for operatives.

KRA6

Cost Reduction
(To implement effective utilization of resources to achieve minimum cost)

- To increase productivity

- To ensure the uses of high quality of steel for dies manufacturing considering the die criticality.

- Eliminate errors from manufacturing

- Monitor and improve KPI through use of digital technologies and analytics projects

KRA7

People Development
(Build and develop skills of people to enable them to contribute effectively in operation.)

- Grievance redressal for healthy work culture

- Appraisal & Counseling for career growth

- Multi-skilling and on-the-job training

- Develop skills of all employees in Die Shops

KRA8

Standardization of process

- Develop standard operating practices for die manufacturing

- Do standardization to minimize the cost

KRA9

Digitalization and Projects

- Complete the die shop project according to the timeline.

- Involve to develop suitable MES and ERP for the new die shop.

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