Role Overview:

BE / B.Tech in Mechanical, Rubber Technology, Polymer or Chemical Engineering. Take complete ownership of the plant floor - from machine erection and commissioning, through validation trials, to steady-state production. The role is accountable for delivering consistent belt quality on the transferred technology and for building a production system that runs to standard without depending on the promoters being present each day.

Key Responsibilities:

- Apply engineering fundamentals to machine settings, process parameters and fault diagnosis, rather than relying only on accumulated operator experience.

- Understand lathe and machining operations supporting in-house grinding, trimming and tooling work; supervise the accuracy of finishing operations.

- Own calendering and mixing operations - roll settings, temperature control, sheet thickness, gauge consistency and batch-to-batch repeatability.

- Operate and supervise internal mixer batch cycles including loading sequence, mixing time, dump temperature and discharge consistency.

- Execute compound recipes accurately to specification, control weighing and dispersion, and identify compound-related defects.

- Manage all shop floor employees, ensuring optimum utilisation of resources and driving performance.

- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly production plans against order position and machine availability; sequence batches to minimise changeover time and material loss.

- Run a daily coordination rhythm with sales on order priority and committed dates, and with dispatch and packaging on dispatch readiness.

- Investigate internal rejections and customer complaints to root cause; raise corrective and preventive actions with named owners and dates.

- Enforce FIFO for raw rubber, chemicals and compounded stock; monitor shelf life and prevent quality loss.

- Track material yield, scrap and rework; improve machine utilisation and reduce wastage per metre of output.

- Ensure shop floor compliance with statutory, safety and environmental requirements; support factory licence conditions and inspection readiness.

- Write, issue and maintain SOPs for every process step; train operators against them and audit adherence.

- Work with the Maintenance Engineer on preventive schedules, breakdown priority and critical spares.

- Maintain production data in Excel and ERP; generate daily production, rejection and consumption reports independently.

- Build and run a technical training calendar for supervisors and operators, including on-machine training and periodic skill assessment.

- Read production and quality data to identify trend and drift; audit the accuracy of shopfloor records.

- Apply structured improvement methods like Kaizen and Six Sigma to reduce rejection, cycle time and downtime; lead at least one improvement project each quarter.

- Manage supervisors and operators across shifts; set expectations, handle discipline consistently, and ensure the second shift performs to the same standard as the first.