Role:

- The Manager will be expected to operate as a hands-on technical problem solver and methoding/process-control owner, while developing the capability of the junior engineering team.

- The Manager will be expected to operate as a hands-on technical problem solver and methoding/process-control owner, while developing the capability of the junior engineering team.

Responsibilities

- To design and improve methoding of new products through simulation software
- To standardize methoding and processes and prepare method cards for Stainless Steel MOCs for Alphaset No Bake sand system and Replicast process.

- To Monitor and Control the process to achieve rejection and rework as per business targets
- To optimize cost of manufacturing through improvement in gross yield
- To plan daily visits to machine shop to understand and improve casting rework and rejection
- To plan and present Quality Improvements on Rejection, Rework and Yield Improvement
- To standardize, review and control the process parameters




- To review and design methoding of new products
- To co-ordinate and support to pattern shop in new pattern designing and manufacturing
- To review and suggest product design changes suitable to improve casting quality
- To able to make 3D methoding to incorporate the same in tooling manufacturing or 3D printing

Preferred candidate profile:

DMD or BE in Mechanical or Metallurgy The ideal candidate should have around 7-12 years of hands-on experience in a steel/stainless-steel foundry, with robust exposure to:

- Carbon Steel and Stainless-Steel castings.

- Austenitic, Ferritic and Martensitic Stainless Steels.

- Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steel castings.

- 2-Part No-Bake / Alphaset sand process.

- Replicast process; hands-on exposure preferred.

- Casting methoding, gating and risering.

- Casting simulation, preferably MAGMASOFT.

- 3D CAD, preferably ProE/Creo or CATIA

📌 Manager - Foundry Operations (Kirloskarvadi)
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