Bhiwadi, Rajasthan Full time Senior

About this role :

- Mission Brief: Build the Factory That the World Hasn't Seen Yet
- We didn't just build India's largest eyewear factory. We built a living, intelligent manufacturing system — and now we're looking for the leader who will take it to a level no one in this industry has reached.
- At Lenskart, manufacturing is not a support function. It is a core strategic weapon. Every lens ground, every frame assembled, every order shipped on time — these are competitive advantages that compound at scale. We produce millions of units annually across a facility powered by robotics, AI-driven quality systems, real-time digital intelligence, and one of the most advanced smart warehouse ecosystems in Indian manufacturing.
- This is not a plant management role. This is a platform leadership role — where the platform is a 3,000+ person, fully automated, AI-integrated factory that serves tens of millions of customers globally.
- Core Mandate: Own, Build, Transform
- 1. AI-First Factory Operations (The Builder's Focus)

- Intelligent Systems Ownership: Lead the deployment and continuous improvement of AI/ML systems across the factory — including computer vision-based quality inspection, predictive maintenance models, AI-driven production scheduling, and real-time yield optimization engines. You won't just use these systems — you will define their roadmap, partner with data science and engineering teams to build them, and ensure they are embedded in every critical decision on the shop floor.
- Digital Manufacturing Architecture: Own the end-to-end smart manufacturing stack — MES, IIoT sensor networks, PLC/SCADA integration, AMRs/AGVs, AS/RS systems, and the WES WMS MES integration layer. Ensure this architecture evolves continuously and stays 3-5 years ahead of industry standard.




- Data-Driven Decision Culture: Drive the transition from supervisor instinct to system intelligence. Every throughput decision, quality gate, preventive maintenance call, and capacity allocation should be driven by real-time data. Your job is to make that the default, not the exception.
- 1. Manufacturing Performance & P&L; Impact (The Business Focus)

- Factory KPIs: Own total manufacturing performance across safety, quality, cost, throughput, yield, delivery, and uptime — for a facility producing millions of units annually with 3,000+ team members across multiple production lines.
- P&L; Ownership: Every automation investment, headcount decision, and process change must tie back to a measurable business outcome. You will own the manufacturing P&L; levers with the same rigour as a business unit head.
- Capacity & Scale-Up: Lead capacity planning and factory scale-up to support aggressive growth across Lenskart's global retail and e-commerce network — anticipating demand surges, managing peak capacity, and designing for future product lines.
- Zero-Compromise Quality & Compliance: Maintain world-class EHS standards, statutory compliance, and quality systems — with AI-assisted defect detection and traceability built into every production stage.
- 1. People, Culture & Cross-Functional Leadership (The Leadership Focus)

- Shop-Floor Leadership at Scale: Build and lead a high-accountability,



high-performance culture across 3,000+ blue-collar and technical team members. Create leaders at every level — not just managers.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work directly with central product, tech, data science, supply chain, and merchandising teams to co-build manufacturing capabilities. You are not a downstream recipient of technology — you are a co-creator of it.
- Institutionalise Excellence: Embed Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, and Kaizen not as periodic exercises but as the operating system of the factory — deeply integrated with AI tools and digital workflows.
- What Winning Looks Like — Year 1
- OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) improvement of 5-10 percentage points through AI-driven scheduling and predictive maintenance deployment
- Defect escape rate reduced by 30%+ through AI-powered vision inspection systems integrated into production lines
- MES and real-time IIoT data coverage across 90%+ of production operations — eliminating manual tracking as the default
- Capacity scaled by 20-30% without proportional headcount increase, through automation and intelligent line balancing
- A leadership pipeline: at least 2 levels of shop-floor management operating with full accountability and data literacy
- Why This Role Is Genuinely Different
- The world's largest eyewear factory — unmatched scale, complexity, and ambition in one of the fastest-growing consumer categories globally
- A factory already running robotics, cobots, AI vision systems, and a deeply integrated smart warehousing ecosystem — and a mandate to go much further
- Freedom to place bold technology bets and rewrite the manufacturing playbook — backed by leadership that views factory innovation as a company-level priority
- Direct accountability for a p

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