Role: Lead-Facility & Tooling- Battery
Location: Chatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, MAHARASHTRA
Reporting to: Head (F&T;), Manufacturing Engineering
Team name: Manufacturing Engineering- Assembly
About the Team and the Role:
The Manufacturing Engineering (Facility & Tooling)- Assembly team at Ather is responsible for managing the end-to-end scope of manufacturing projects, for NPDs & existing products. This team ensures process planning, design & sustenance of existing as well as recent products on the production line.
This role is for a Team Lead-Manufacturing Engineering (Facility & Tooling), who will serve as the single point of contact for Driving the Projects from Planning to Execution. Overseeing project timelines, capacity governance, and team bandwidth to ensure successful adherence of projects & improvements.
Responsibilities
- Lead manufacturing facility and tooling design, process planning, capacity governance, ordering, installation, and commissioning for battery assembly lines while meeting cost, quality, and schedule targets.




- Establish manufacturing standards for visual factory, safety, lean, ergonomics, line automation, error-proofing, MTTR/MTBF, and system integration across manufacturing operations.
- Drive digital transformation and early-stage virtual validations including virtual builds, plant/process simulations, layout engineering, IoT projects, and Digital Twin implementations.
- Lead periodic PFMEA/EFMEA reviews, implement proactive control mechanisms to reduce RPN, and maintain standard Control Plans and Reaction Plans.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Design on DFA/DFM feedback and CTQs, and with Production on capacity constraints and human-in-the-loop layout planning.
- Formulate technical roadmaps for advanced process automation, robotics, and emerging technological process innovations.
- Prepare budgetary estimates and resource allocations for all manufacturing engineering scopes across new product development and brownfield/greenfiel

📌 Lead-Facility & Tooling- Battery (Nagar)
🏢 the Team and the Role
📍 Nagar