Role & responsibilities

A. Production Planning & Capacity Analysis

- Analyze production requirements, machine capacity, manpower availability, and process capacity.
- Prepare and maintain machine and process capacity calculations.
- Identify capacity constraints and bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions.
- Support production planning for extrusion, cutting, splicing, molding, curing, assembly, inspection, and packing processes.
- Establish production standards based on cycle time, process time, and available working hours.

B. Time Study & Work Measurement

- Conduct time studies, method studies, and work sampling for production processes.
- Establish and periodically review Standard Minute Value (SMV) / Standard Time.
- Develop and maintain standard cycle times for machines and operations.
- Identify process losses and eliminate non-value-added activities.
- Conduct man-machine analysis and optimize operator utilization.

C. Line Balancing & Manpower Optimization

- Perform line balancing based on customer demand and takt time.
- Optimize manpower allocation across production lines.
- Identify excess/shortage manpower and recommend suitable deployment.
- Develop manpower standards for different production processes.
- Support multi-skilling and operator flexibility initiatives.

D. Productivity Improvement

- Monitor and improve labour productivity, machine productivity, and production efficiency.
- Analyze productivity losses and establish improvement actions.
- Track daily/weekly/monthly productivity against targets.
- Implement productivity improvement projects using Lean Manufacturing techniques.
- Support reduction of downtime, waiting time, changeover time, rejection, rework, and material movement.

E. OEE & Machine Utilization

- Monitor and analyze Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Analyze Availability, Performance, and Quality losses.
- Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Quality, and Engineering teams to improve machine utilization.
- Develop action plans for major machine losses and bottlenecks.

F.



Lean Manufacturing & Continuous Improvement

- Drive Kaizen, 5S, Visual Management, Poka-Yoke, SMED, and waste elimination activities.
- Identify and eliminate the 8 wastes (DOWNTIME) in manufacturing.
- Conduct Value Stream Mapping (VSM) where applicable.
- Lead continuous improvement projects and document improvement results.
- Support implementation of Lean Manufacturing practices across the plant.

G. Process Improvement Rubber Manufacturing

- Study and improve processes related to rubber extrusion, curing/vulcanization, cutting, splicing, molding, assembly, and inspection.
- Analyze material yield, scrap, rejection, and process losses.
- Optimize process flow and workstation layout.
- Reduce unnecessary material handling and operator movement.
- Support improvement of rubber compound utilization and reduction of process scrap.

H. Cost Reduction

- Identify opportunities for manpower, material, energy, machine, and process cost reduction.
- Calculate savings from IE improvement projects.
- Monitor actual savings against approved targets.
- Support Value Engineering and Cost Reduction initiatives.

I. Layout & Material Flow

- Develop and improve plant, line, and workstation layouts.
- Optimize material flow from incoming material to finished goods.
- Reduce transportation, handling, WIP, and unnecessary movement.
- Support implementation of FIFO and appropriate line-side material storage.

J. New Product / Recent Process Support

- Participate in new product development and process feasibility activities.
- Prepare manpower, machine, capacity, cycle-time, and process-flow requirements.
- Support PFMEA, Control Plan, Process Flow Diagram, and work instruction development.
- Conduct capacity and investment analysis for new projects.
- Support APQP activities related to manufacturing feasibility.

Preferred candidate profile

- Automotive rubber sealing systems
- EPDM rubber extrusion
- Rubber profiles
- Weatherstrip / sealing systems
- Rubber molding
- Vulcanization / curing
- Cutting and splicing
- Automotive component assembly
- Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen
- Production capacity and manpower planning

📌 Industrial Engineer (Sriperumbudur)
🏢 GoldSeal Saargummi India
📍 Sriperumbudur