Job Title: Sustenance Engineering Lead

Function: Manufacturing Operations
Location: Hubli

Job Summary:

The role is responsible for leading endtoend manufacturing operations with a strong ownership of process engineering during mass production. The position ensures seamless collaboration between NPD, quality, supply chain, and production teams to enable rapid, costeffective, and highquality product industrialization. The role includes building greenfield capabilities, scaling operations, and driving operational excellence across surface finishing operations

Key Responsibilities:

1. Industrialization Leadership

- Drive manufacturing readiness prior to industrialization
- Ensure DFM/DFA/DFX alignment with design, R&D;, and customers
- Improve processes, PFMEA, tooling, and capacity for ramp programs
- Deliver ramp targets on cost, quality, timeline, and rampup
- Manage risks, validation, and seamless operations

2. Manufacturing Operations

- Lead surface finishing operations
- Achieve production targets across safety, quality, delivery, and cost
- Drive Lean, Six Sigma, OEE improvement, and waste reduction
- Ensure robust documentation, traceability, and compliance

3. Strategic & Greenfield Development

- Build and scale greenfield manufacturing operations
- Align manufacturing strategy with business needs
- Plan capacity, layout, automation, and technology roadmap

4. Quality, Cost & Performance





- Drive zerodefect culture through root cause and corrective actions
- Manage budgets, cost per part, and productivity improvements
- Track KPIs for cost, schedule, efficiency, and quality performance

5. Leadership & Talent

- Build and develop highperforming manufacturing teams
- Strengthen skills in problem solving and process engineering
- Drive crossfunctional collaboration across teams

6. Stakeholder & Change Management

- Interface with customers during production rampup
- Manage change in highmix, fastpaced environments
- Drive innovation, digital manufacturing, and continuous improvement

Key Skills & Competencies

- Strong experience in high-volume industrialisation and highprecision component production
- Deep knowledge of surface finishing process
- Expertise in DFM/DFA, process validation, Lean, Six Sigma, and industrial engineering
- Proven leadership in greenfield setup, scaling operations, and team building
- Strong project management, decisionmaking, and problemsolving capabilities

Qualifications & Experience

- Bachelors degree in engineering (masters preferred)
- 15+ years of experience in manufacturing with significant exposure to high-volume industrialization
- Experience in electronics, consumer products, automotive, aerospace, or precision engineering preferred.

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