Lead production activity across CNC operations, delivering planned output on time, at the required quality and at the lowest possible cost. You will work directly with programmers, operators, production supervisors, quality,

maintenance and tooling suppliers to keep machines productive and jobs running right the first time.

Key responsibilities

- Machine utilization: With production and maintenance, find and remove lost machine hours from setup,

program prove-out, tooling, inspection, material availability, machine breakdown, operator availability,

production planning, and waiting and idle time. Drive improvement in productive spindle utilization and OEE,

recognizing the challenges of a high-mix, low-volume environment.

- Setup-time reduction: Reduce machine setup, fixture and jaw changes, job prove-out, tool-setting,

component alignment and indicating time, and first-piece approval delays. Apply SMED, standardized workholding, zero-point and clamping systems, probing and offline tool presetting where technically and commercially justified.

- Scrap, rework and first-pass yield: Work with Quality and Production to improve first-time-right production.

Analyze recurring dimensional deviations, process instability, tool failure and setup-related variation using 5

Why, Pareto analysis, fishbone and capability studies. Reduce the total cost of scrap and rework: material consumed, machining hours, tooling, re-machining and additional inspection.

- Fixture and workholding: Review existing fixtures, soft jaws and workholding concepts. Develop more rigid,

repeatable and operator-friendly solutions, reduce indicating and alignment, improve access for multi-axis machining and use modular, standardized fixtures. Make sure workholding does not introduce distortion or compromise critical GD&T.;

- CAM and CNC programming: Establish and improve CAM and CNC programming standards. Review feeds,

speeds,



depths of cut, stepovers and cutting conditions. Promote reusable programming strategies and proven methods for common component families, and make sure lessons from successful jobs are kept and reused.

Exposure to Mastercam, Siemens NX CAM, hyperMILL, PowerMill or equivalent is desirable.

- Automation and technology: Identify technically and commercially viable opportunities in CNC probing, tool presetting, tool-life monitoring, quick-change fixturing, zero-point systems, in-process gauging, palletization,

robotic loading (where justified), CAD/CAM standardization and manufacturing-data collection.

Candidate profile

Education: BE / BTech / Diploma in Mechanical, Production or Manufacturing Engineering. Practical CNC capability matters more than the qualification alone.

Experience: 12–18 years in CNC machining and production, including several years leading production and productivity improvement. Solid in CNC turning and/or machining centers, 3-, 4- and preferably 5-axis machining, CAM, complex workholding, cutting tools and parameters, forgings and alloy steels, GD&T; and tighttolerance parts. Oil & gas, valves, pressure-control or energy experience is particularly relevant.

Critical competencies

Technically strong: can review the drawing, program, fixture and tooling at the machine and challenge the process.

Data driven: minutes saved → machine hours released → tooling saved → scrap avoided → saved per component.

Hands-on: spends substantial time on the shop floor, not mainly on presentations.

Commercially minded: knows the lowest cycle time is not always the lowest cost.

Challenges methods: asks Why are we machining it this way and proves a better one through controlled trials.

Cross-functional leader: aligns programmers, supervisors, operators, quality, maintenance and suppliers without direct authority.

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📌 Manager Manufacturing Engineering and Productivity (Pune)
🏢 VALVEWORKS INDIA
📍 Pune