Assistant Manager - Manufacturing

Balmer Lawrie And Co Kolkata; Vadodara; On-site; INR 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Balmer Lawrie And Co Kolkata is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to manage shop floor operations in a manufacturing plant. The role focuses on optimizing plant capacity, maintaining quality, and controlling costs through effective production planning and coordination with multiple functions.

The candidate should have 1 year post-qualification experience in a engineering plant, with a full-time Mechanical Engineering degree.

Qualifications

• Experience - 1 year post-qualification in shop floor in engineering plant.
• Education - Full Time Engineering Graduate [Mechanical].
• Preferred Experience - shop floor management in engineering plant of automatic machines or sheet metal fabrication; hands-on maintenance in batch production.
• Preferred Qualification - Post Graduation with specialization in Mechanical preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure optimum utilization of plant capacity to meet production, quality, yield, maintenance, and cost targets.
• Monitor production activities to minimize wastage of raw materials and energy.
• Adhere to customer specifications and quality standards to minimize returns and rework.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Stores, SCM, Sales, Maintenance, contractors to ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Update production data in SAP and maintain accuracy between physical and system inventory.

Skills

Shop floor management

Mechanical maintenance

Quality control

SOP adherence

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

Production planning

Job description

Job Responsibilities

1. Ensure optimum utilization of plant capacity to achieve daily, weekly, monthly, and annual production, quality, yield, maintenance, and cost targets.
2. Monitor production activities to minimize wastage of raw materials, energy, consumables, and other company resources.
3. Ensure adherence to customer specifications and quality standards to minimize product returns, rework, and work-in-progress (WIP).
4. Coordinate with Procurement, Stores, SCM, Sales, Maintenance, contractors, and service providers to ensure uninterrupted production operations.
5. Ensure timely updation of production data in SAP, support stock verification activities, and maintain accuracy between physical and system inventory.
6. Ensure compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), statutory requirements, safety standards, and company policies in the assigned area.
7. Support implementation of improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, optimize resource utilization, improve OE E and OTIF, and reduce the cost of quality.
8. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to achieve operational targets and maintain production, safety, and statutory records.
9. Support vendor development, value engineering, and process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
10. Promote a culture of safety, teamwork, discipline, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with EHS requirements.
11. Participate in Manufacturing Excellence initiatives such as TQM, TPM, Lean Manufacturing, 5S, CLTI, and Daily Management Meetings, utilizing root cause analysis and SQC tools for continuous improvement.
12. Identify operational, quality, and safety gaps in the assigned area and initiate corrective and preventive actions.

Requirements

• Experience - 01 Year of post qualification experience in Shop floor in Engineering Plant
• Education - Full Time Engineering Graduate [Mechanical]
• Preferred Experience - Experience In Shop Floor Management in Engineering Plant of Automatic Machines and/or in Sheet Metal Fabrication Industry and/or Hand on Experience in Mechanical Maintenance In Batch Production Facility and/or Steel Forming Products would be preferred.
• Preferred Qualification - Candidates who have Post Graduation with Specialisation in Mechanical will be preferred

Additional Information

Last date to apply - 29.09.2026

Website - https://www.balmerlawrie.com/careers/current-openings