Description

1. Job Purpose

To drive Manufacturing Excellence across the API business by improving productivity, process efficiency, equipment effectiveness, manufacturing cost, yield, quality, reliability and overall operational performance.

The role will act as a central excellence function, working closely with Site Heads, Production, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain and Finance teams to identify performance gaps and implement sustainable improvement initiatives across API manufacturing sites.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Manufacturing Excellence Strategy

- Develop and implement the Manufacturing Excellence roadmap for the API business.
- Establish common manufacturing standards, performance benchmarks and operating practices across sites.
- Identify opportunities for productivity enhancement, capacity improvement and cost optimization.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision making.
- Benchmark manufacturing performance across plants and identify best practices for replication.

B. Productivity & Operational Improvement

- Drive improvement in:
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- Production productivity
- Batch cycle time
- Yield
- OEE
- Capacity utilization
- Manpower productivity
- Equipment availability
- Energy consumption
- Solvent recovery

- Identify bottlenecks and develop structured improvement plans.
- Lead cross-functional projects for debottlenecking and productivity enhancement.




- Review production losses and establish corrective actions.

C. OEE & Asset Utilization

- Establish a robust OEE measurement and review mechanism.
- Analyze availability, performance and quality losses.
- Identify major equipment losses and coordinate with Engineering and Production for corrective actions.
- Improve utilization of critical API manufacturing assets.
- Drive reduction in equipment-related production losses and idle capacity.

D. Process Optimization

- Analyze manufacturing processes to identify opportunities for:
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- Cycle-time reduction
- Yield improvement
- Reduction in process losses
- Reduction in solvent consumption
- Reduction in energy consumption
- Reduction in reprocessing
- Improvement in batch consistency

- Work with Technical, Production and Quality teams for process optimization.
- Support scale-up, technology transfer and process improvement initiatives.

E. Cost Optimization

- Lead manufacturing cost-reduction initiatives across API sites.
- Identify opportunities for reduction in:
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- Conversion cost
- Energy cost
- Solvent consumption
- Manpower cost
- Maintenance cost
- Material losses
- Waste generation

- Develop measurable business cases for improvement projects.
- Track financial perks and ensure savings are sustainable.

F. Lean & Continuous Improvement

- Implement Lean Manufacturing principles across API operations.

📌 Assistant Manager (India)
🏢 Cadila Pharmaceuticals
📍 India