Skills

- Knowledge & Posting Location

- Central Manufacturing Engineering

- Continuous Improvement

- Costing

- Digital Asset Management

- Factory Management

- Financial Analysis

- Industrial Automation

- Layout Design

- Leadership

- Lean Manufacturing

- NPI Management

- P&L; management and capacity planning skill

- SMED

- Space Management

- Value Stream Mapping

Minimum Qualification

- Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Roles &

Responsibilities - IE Head

- Develop and execute the Industrial Engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with business, customer, growth, and manufacturing objectives.

- Own factory capacity planning, including equipment, manpower, floor space, utilities, and future expansion requirements.

- Drive productivity and operational efficiency through cycle-time reduction, line balancing, bottleneck elimination, and optimized resource utilization.

- Lead NPI industrialization and production ramp-up, ensuring manufacturing readiness from prototype/engineering builds through mass production.

- Own manufacturing process and line design, including process flow, workstation design, takt time, UPH, staffing, and material flow.

- Lead Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement programs using VSM, Kaizen, Six Sigma, SMED, Standard Work, and waste elimination.

- Develop and execute the factory automation roadmap, identifying high-ROI opportunities across assembly, inspection, testing, material handling, and packaging.

- Drive manufacturing cost optimization, covering labor cost, conversion cost, machine-hour cost, overhead reduction, and cost per unit.

- Lead CapEx planning and investment justification for current equipment, automation, capacity expansion, and manufacturing technology.

- Own factory layout and space optimization, including greenfield/brownfield planning, production lines, warehouses, logistics routes,



and future expansion.

- Establish and maintain standard time, labor standards, machine capacity, and productivity benchmarks across manufacturing operations.

- Lead DFM/DFA/DFX and manufacturing feasibility reviews to ensure products are designed for scalable, cost-effective, and reliable manufacturing.

- Drive Industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing initiatives, including MES, traceability, IoT, real-time dashboards, analytics, and smart-factory solutions.

- Establish and govern key manufacturing KPIs such as UPH, OEE, line efficiency, labor productivity, capacity utilization, FPY, WIP, lead time, and cost/unit.

- Support RFQ and business development activities by providing manufacturing concepts, capacity models, manpower estimates, equipment requirements, CapEx, and manufacturing cost inputs.

- Lead product and production-line transfers between sites, ensuring capacity, process, equipment, quality, cost, and ramp-up readiness.

- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, NPI, Facilities, IT, Finance, and Commercial teams to achieve manufacturing and business targets.

- Drive material-flow and internal logistics optimization, including supermarkets, Kanban, point-of-use delivery, WIP reduction, AGV/AMR, and warehouse-to-line flow.

- Build and develop a high-performing Industrial Engineering organization through competency development, mentoring, succession planning, standard methodologies, and best-practice sharing.

- Provide executive-level manufacturing leadership, identifying operational risks and opportunities while driving improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Productivity, and Customer Satisfaction.

Locations

- Lead - Industrial Engineering

- LNT/L-IE/1882254

- DEIC-L&T; Precision Engineering & Systems ICCoimbatore Campus

- Posted On 07 Oct 2026

- End Date 05 Apr 2027

- Required Experience 18 - 25 Years

📌 Lead - Industrial Engineering (India)
🏢 Larsen & Toubro Infotech
📍 India