Roles & Responsibilities - IE Head

Develop and execute the Industrial Engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with business, customer, growth, and manufacturing objectives.
Own factory capacity planning, including equipment, manpower, floor space, utilities, and future expansion requirements.
Drive productivity and operational efficiency through cycle-time reduction, line balancing, bottleneck elimination, and optimized resource utilization.
Lead NPI industrialization and production ramp-up, ensuring manufacturing readiness from prototype/engineering builds through mass production.
Own manufacturing process and line design, including process flow, workstation design, takt time, UPH, staffing, and material flow.
Lead Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement programs using VSM, Kaizen, Six Sigma, SMED, Standard Work, and waste elimination.
Develop and execute the factory automation roadmap, identifying high-ROI opportunities across assembly, inspection, testing, material handling, and packaging.
Drive manufacturing cost optimization, covering labor cost, conversion cost,



machine-hour cost, overhead reduction, and cost per unit.
Lead CapEx planning and investment justification for recent equipment, automation, capacity expansion, and manufacturing technology.
Own factory layout and space optimization, including greenfield/brownfield planning, production lines, warehouses, logistics routes, and future expansion.
Establish and maintain standard time, labor standards, machine capacity, and productivity benchmarks across manufacturing operations.
Lead DFM/DFA/DFX and manufacturing feasibility reviews to ensure products are designed for scalable, cost-effective, and reliable manufacturing.
Drive Industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing initiatives, including MES, traceability, IoT, real-time dashboards, analytics, and smart-factory solutions.
Establish and govern key manufacturing KPIs such as UPH, OEE, line efficiency, labor productivity, capacity utilization, FPY, WIP,

📌 Head - Industrial Engineering (India)
🏢 Larsen and Toubro
📍 India