Job Requirements

Position

Manager – Industrial Engineering (Solar Manufacturing)

Designation

Sr. Manager/Manager

Experience Required

10–15 years

Department

Industrial Engineering – Solar PV Manufacturing (Ingot, Wafer, Cell and Ancillary)

Location

[HO]

Role Overview

The Manager – Industrial Engineering will drive productivity, capacity planning, and process/cost optimization across the Ingot, Wafer, Cell manufacturing lines along with Ancillary of a large-scale (GW size) Solar PV facility. The role owns line balancing, time & motion studies, plant/facility layout optimization, manpower and machine productivity analysis, and OEE improvement, working closely with Production, Process Engineering, Projects and Finance to ensure the plant operates at target capacity, cost, and efficiency benchmarks from ramp-up through steady-state operations.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain plant/facility layouts, material flow diagrams, and value-stream maps to minimize handling, travel distance, and work-in-progress.
Conduct time & motion studies, work-sampling,



and line-balancing exercises across Ingot, Wafer and Cell process lines to establish standard cycle times and manning norms.
Prepare and validate manpower planning and organization structuring for production and support functions, including comparison of offshore vs. in-house resourcing models.
Active role and support in tool selections.
Drive capacity planning and de-bottlenecking studies to support ramp-up to rated capacity and future expansion phases.
Own OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) tracking and improvement across ingot pullers, wire saws, diffusion furnaces, PECVD/LCVD and screen-printing equipment.
Lead cost-reduction and productivity-improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma, FIFO, Kaizen and TPM methodologies.
Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs), standard work instructions, and process/cycle-time benchmarks in coordination with Process Engineering.
Support BOM validation, raw-

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