Job Purpose

To carryout physical analysis of market cement samples and to highlight deviations for improvement projects. To assess & evaluate lab practices of all UTCL Units as part of lab proficiency testing and impart training to gaugers, for ensuring conformance to standards.

Job Context & Major Challenges

Job Context:

UltraTech Cement is the largest Cement Manufacturer of the country. Its Grey Cement Business have 12 Integrated cement manufacturing Units, 14 Grinding Units and 6 Bulk Terminals at present (2015). 2 GUs are under construction. 2 IUs and I GU are being planned.

Growth of Indian Cement Industry is forecasted from present 282 mtpa capacity to 550 mtpa by 2020. In order to at least maintain market share, UltraTech will go from 64.7 mtpa to more than 100 mtpa during the same period.

To maintain the leadership position of UltraTech in India and to achieve ambitious growth enabling to be prominent global player, warrants meeting vital need for technical expertise of high order.

Even in commodity industries, competition is getting knowledge driven. Scale,



size and cost driven strategy will no longer be sustainable. Customer centric Innovation has already started playing a key role for sustainable competitive advantage. The need is therefore innovation driven differentiation and Know How driven cost optimization. With sudden changes in technology, digitization and analytics would be new drivers of operational excellence.

Further, the group aspires to be most efficient cement business in the world in all spheres of business encompassing product, quality, cost, safety, setting, etc. Considering the magnitude of operations and challenges involved, R&D; is expected to play a pivotal role in terms of value addition and problem solving in all the facets of challenges.

The “Go-To “ Experts and Specialists at C R & D would provide action plans and facilitate, monitor and ensure implementation of action plans for improvements and enhancements of plant p

📌 PF R&D (India)
🏢 UltraTech Cement
📍 India