Role: Manufacturing Module Lead
Location: Hosur, Tamil Nadu
Reporting to: Plant Head
Team Name: Plant Operations
Vertical: Operations
About the Team and the Role:
Ather’s Operations Vertical thrives on a high-velocity matrix execution model called "Swimlanes," designed to maximize time-to-value and destroy organizational silos. As the Manufacturing Module Lead, you will act as the "Chief of Shop Floor Execution" within a cross-functional team.
In this role, you will represent the holy trinity of plant operations: Production, Quality, and Maintenance in the swimlanes. You are the vital bridge between Organizational strategic objectives, driven in cross functional swimlanes, and the on-ground plant execution. Your mission is to ensure that all swimlane delivery initiatives are perfectly executable, cost competitive, and of highest standards to strictly adhere to Ather’s non-negotiable quality and safety gates.
Responsibilities:
- Tri-Function Representation: Act as the single point of contact and authority representing Production, Quality,



and Maintenance engineering within the cross-functional swimlane.
- Technical Execution & Feasibility: Scrutinize recent designs, line modifications, and product updates to ensure they fit seamlessly into plant architecture.
- RCA Gateway Ownership: Lead and execute rigorous Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for sustenance topics (Scrap reduction, Quality escapes, OLE drops, and Spares issues) before translating them into executions.
- Built-In Quality Governance: Enforce the organizational Quality Gates across all swimlane deliverables to guarantee safety and compliance.
- Decentralized Decision-Making: Make rapid, first-principles-based technical and operational decisions regarding shop-floor trade-offs (e.g.,cycle-time optimization vs. preventive maintenance schedules).
- The Engineering Shield: Act as a tactical shield for the shop-floor execution teams, filtering out administrative noise and meeting overhead to safeguard their deep-work a

📌 Manufacturing Module Lead (Hosur)
🏢 the Team and the Role
📍 Hosur