Roles and Responsibilities

- Plan, organize, and monitor daily production activities according to customer requirements and production schedules.
- Manage heat treatment processes such as hardening, tempering, annealing, normalizing, and stress relieving.
- Monitor and control furnace temperature, soaking time, heating cycles, and quenching parameters.
- Ensure compliance with customer specifications, process standards, and approved heat treatment procedures.
- Monitor furnace loading patterns, batch quantities, cycle times, and furnace capacity utilization.
- Coordinate with Quality, Maintenance, Planning, and Dispatch departments to achieve production targets.
- Ensure proper quenching operations using oil, water, polymer, or other specified cooling media.
- Review hardness test results, microstructure reports, and other quality inspection reports.
- Investigate process deviations, customer complaints, rejection, and rework, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Monitor production costs, energy consumption, consumables, and manpower utilization.
- Ensure preventive maintenance of furnaces, quenching tanks, conveyors, temperature controllers, and related equipment.
- Ensure calibration and verification of thermocouples, temperature controllers, and temperature-recording instruments.
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve productivity, quality, and process efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with EHS requirements,



PPE usage, fire safety, LOTO, and emergency procedures.
- Train, guide, and supervise production supervisors, furnace operators, and other production staff.
- Maintain production reports, furnace records, traceability records, and process documentation.
- Monitor and improve rejection rates, downtime, productivity, and on-time delivery performance.
- Support customer audits, internal audits, ISO requirements, and other applicable quality-system requirements.

Required Qualification and Experience

- Qualification: BE / B.Tech / Diploma in Mechanical, Metallurgy, or Production Engineering.
- Experience: Typically 5–10 years in manufacturing or heat treatment, including relevant production leadership experience.
- Knowledge of heat treatment processes, furnace operations, quenching methods, and metallurgy.
- Knowledge of hardness testing, microstructure evaluation, and heat treatment quality standards.
- Experience in production planning, manpower management, cost control, and process improvement.
- Knowledge of ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and customer-specific requirements where applicable.
- Robust leadership, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.

Pay: ₹80,000.00 - ₹90,000.00 per month

Benefits:

- Flexible schedule
- Food provided
- Health insurance
- Leave encashment
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

📌 Production Manager (Sanand)
🏢 Hightemp Furnaces
📍 Sanand