Industrial Engineering Director - India

GETAHEAD India | Full-time leadership opportunity

GETAHEAD is an international sourcing, supplier development and industrialization company supporting European and international customers in developing capable manufacturing partners across Asia.

We are expanding our activities in India and are looking for an experienced Industrial Engineering Director who can take ownership of supplier qualification, industrialization, ramp-up and continuous improvement projects across the country.

This is not a purchasing role. We are looking for an experienced manufacturing professional who can walk into a supplier's plant, understand its processes and organization, identify weaknesses and risks, and lead the supplier toward the required technical, quality and production level.

A key part of the role is working at the interface between the supplier and the different technical specialists required to industrialize and stabilize production . Depending on the project, these may include testing laboratories, tooling and fixture experts, manufacturing/process engineers, quality specialists, metrology experts and customer engineering teams.

The Director does not need to be the deepest technical specialist in every discipline. However, he or she must understand how these disciplines interact, know when specialist expertise is required, and be capable of coordinating the different parties toward a stable production process.

Your Responsibilities

- Lead technical assessments and audits of manufacturing suppliers across India
- Evaluate manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, quality systems, capacity, organization and industrial readiness
- Identify technical, quality and operational gaps and translate findings into structured improvement plans




- Lead supplier industrialization and development projects from initial assessment through qualification, ramp-up and secure series production
- Act as the technical interface between suppliers, customers and external/internal specialists
- Coordinate testing laboratories, tooling and fixture experts, process engineers, quality specialists, metrology resources and other technical experts as required by the project
- Understand laboratory and validation results and translate identified failures or deviations into concrete supplier-development activities
- Coordinate corrective actions following failed tests, product validation, process capability findings or customer feedback
- Ensure that technical issues are not only corrected temporarily, but translated into robust manufacturing processes and controls
- Work with suppliers to determine root causes and implement sustainable technical improvements
- Determine when additional specialist expertise is required and coordinate the appropriate resources
- Follow technical issues from identification through corrective action, validation and successful closure
- Support tooling, equipment, process and quality improvements necessary to achieve stable production
- Coordinate specialists, suppliers and customer teams during qualification and industrialization projects
- Assess whether suppliers are capable of supporting international customers and multiple geographic markets




- Prepare professional supplier assessment, industrialization and management reports for international customers
- Present findings, risks, corrective-action status and recommendations to senior customer and supplier management
- Build and lead GETAHEAD's future industrial engineering and supplier-development organization in India
- Travel regularly to supplier locations throughout India

Your Profile

You should bring:

- Approximately 12+ years of relevant industrial/manufacturing experience
- Several years of project and/or team leadership responsibility
- Solid practical understanding of manufacturing processes and factory operations
- Experience conducting supplier, process, manufacturing or quality audits
- Experience in supplier development, industrialization, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering or operational improvement
- Experience taking products or processes through industrialization, ramp-up and production stabilization
- Good understanding of the interaction between manufacturing processes, tooling, testing/validation, metrology and quality
- Ability to interpret technical findings and coordinate the appropriate specialists to resolve them
- Ability to identify the difference between a supplier that looks good during a presentation and one that can reliably perform in series operations
- Experience developing and following up corrective-action and improvement programs
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Confidence communicating with plant management as well as engineers and operators on the shop floor
- Ability to prepare concise, management-level reports in English
- Professional English communication skills
- High willingness to travel throughout India

Experience

📌 Industrial Engineering Director India (Central India)
🏢 GetAhead Pte.
📍 Central India