Job Purpose To ensure safe, efficient, and quality-focused production by managing shop-floor operations, manpower, machines, materials, and processes while achieving production targets and maintaining compliance with company standards.

Key Responsibilities

Production Operations

- Plan and execute daily production activities as per production targets and schedules.

- Monitor production output, productivity, downtime, and process efficiency.

- Ensure optimum utilisation of manpower, machines, and materials.

- Identify and resolve production-related issues to minimise downtime and losses.

- Maintain production records, reports, and shift-wise MIS.

Manpower Management

- Allocate manpower across production processes and workstations.

- Monitor attendance, deployment, productivity, and discipline of shop-floor employees.

- Provide on-the-job guidance and ensure employees are competent for assigned operations.

- Coordinate with HR for manpower requirements, absenteeism, and employee-related issues.

Quality Management

- Ensure adherence to defined process parameters, SOPs, work instructions, and quality standards.

- Coordinate with Quality for rejection, rework, customer complaints, and process deviations.

- Identify root causes of quality issues and implement corrective actions.

Safety & Compliance

- Ensure strict compliance with safety rules, PPE requirements, and protected operating procedures.





- Conduct regular shop-floor safety observations and take corrective actions.

- Report and support investigation of unsafe conditions, incidents, and near misses.

- Ensure compliance with applicable statutory and company requirements.

Continuous Improvement

- Identify opportunities for productivity improvement, cost reduction, waste elimination, and process optimisation.

- Implement Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, TPM, and other improvement initiatives.

- Analyse production losses and implement corrective and preventive actions.

Maintenance & Equipment

- Coordinate with Maintenance for preventive and breakdown maintenance.

- Monitor machine/equipment availability and minimise breakdown-related production losses.

- Ensure proper operation and basic care of production equipment.

Coordination

- Coordinate with Quality, Maintenance, Stores, PPC, HR, EHS, and other functions for smooth production operations.

- Ensure effective shift handover and communication of production issues.

- Support trials, new product/process introduction, and process improvements.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

- Production target achievement

- Productivity / Output per Man-Hour

- OEE / Machine utilisation

- Rejection and rework percentage

- Production downtime

- Material yield / consumption

- Safety performance

- 5S and housekeeping compliance

- Kaizen / continuous improvement implementation

- Manpower utilisation

- Adherence to production plan

📌 Production Engineer (Ahmednagar)
🏢 Exide Industries
📍 Ahmednagar