Craftsman - Casting

PeopleStrong; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Kama Jewelry Private Limited in India is seeking a Casting Lead to oversee the casting process for jewelry pieces, manage the casting team, and collaborate with designers and other departments to ensure timely, high-quality production.

The role requires oversight of processes from tree making to burnout, ensuring quality, purity targets, and 100% OTIF delivery while maintaining safety and efficiency in the casting lab.

Qualifications

• Oversee the casting process of precious metals and alloys to create jewelry pieces.
• Lead and supervise the casting team and coordinate with designers, metalworkers and other departments to ensure high-quality production and OTIF delivery.

Responsibilities

• Casting Process Management: Lead and supervise the casting department in all aspects of the casting process, which involves tree making, investment, alloying, burnout, casting.
• Quality Control: Ensure the quality of cast pieces meets the highest standards and conforms to design specifications.
• Material Selection: Collaborate with Gold Central departments to ensure correct target purity set as per company standards.
• Production Protocol: Facilitate associates to achieve 100% OTIF of Product and maintain high efficiency and zero rejections.
• Training and Development: Train and multi-skill associates to meet upcoming challenges.
• Data Maintenance & Analysis: Maintain data for production defects, identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Continual Improvement (Kaizen): Drive Kaizen projects for continual improvement.
• Plant Maintenance: Ensure all machines in the department are in working condition.
• Health and Safety: Ensure safe working conditions by enforcing safety norms.
• KPI: Track and improve key performance indicators.

Skills

Casting

Job description

• Kama>Kama Jewelry Private Limited>Export>Production>Casting>Casting
• India

Posted On 22 Aug 2026

End Date 30 Sep 2026

Required Experience 5 - 15 years

Basic Section

No. Of Openings 3

Employment Type On Roll

Closing Date 30 Sep 2026

Organisational

Group Company Kama

Business Area Export

Department Production

Cell Casting

Country India

Region West Region

State Maharashtra

Skills

Skill

Casting

Job Description

• Purpose of the Job/Role
• To responsible for overseeing the casting process of precious metals and alloys to create jewelry pieces. They manage the casting team and work closely with designers, metalworkers, and other departments to ensure the efficient and high-quality production of jewelry items and OTIF delivery.
• Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
  • Casting Process Management: Lead and supervise the casting department in all aspects of the casting process, which involves Tree making, investment, alloying, burnout, Casting.
  • Quality Control: Ensure the quality of cast pieces meets the highest standards and conforms to design specifications. Implement quality control procedures and inspect castings for defects, porosity, and other imperfections.
  • Material Selection: Collaborate with Gold Central departments to ensure correct target purity set as per company standards.
  • Production Protocol: Facilitate associates to achieve 100% OTIF of Product. Ensure minimum 95% efficiency of every associate. Ensure 0% rejection. Control Gold Loss/Diamond Breakage and Achieve the set targets of Gold Loss, Platinum Loss as per the norms.
  • Training and Development: Training, multi-skilling of associates to achieve the upcoming challenges.
  • Data Maintenance & Analysis: Maintain data for production defects, find out the root cause & take corrective actions.
  • Continual Improvement (Kaizen): Own involvement & associates’ involvement in Kaizen Projects of continual improvement.
  • Plant Maintenance: Ensure all machines in own department/area are in working conditions.
  • Health and Safety: Ensure safe working conditions in own department/area by implementing necessary safety norm.
  • KPI
• To be competent, the user/individual on the job must be able to:
• maintain Ageing, OTIF & FTA as per designed norms.
• Gold loss standard set as per company standard.
• Diamond breakage.
• Zero accident.

Competencies and Levels

• Knowledge of different types of precious metal, alloys, diamonds and gemstones.
• Knowledge of Investment, Casting, Alloy making SOPs

a) Qualification (Less than Graduate, Graduate, Post Graduate, PhD, Any Specialization)

i. Any Qualification with Diploma in Designing /Experience in Jewelry Designing.

b) Techno-functional Skills

i) Knowledge of Computer Skills

ii) Knowledge of Quality Standard requirements