Head - Industrial Engineering

Larsen & Toubro; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineering leader in Tamil Nadu to shape the IE strategy and road map. You will own capacity planning, line design, and NPI ramp-up, driving productivity across manufacturing operations and digital manufacturing initiatives.

You will lead cross-functional teams to optimize process flow, reduce cycle time, and implement smart factory solutions, ensuring safety, quality and cost targets are met.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Industrial Engineering in large manufacturing environments.
• Strong capability in capacity planning, line design, and production ramp-up.
• Proven track record with Lean, Six Sigma, and digital manufacturing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute IE strategy and roadmap.
• Own factory capacity planning including equipment and floor space.
• Drive productivity via cycle-time reduction, line balancing and bottleneck elimination.
• Lead NPI industrialization from prototype to mass production.
• Lead manufacturing process design, takt time, UPH, staffing and material flow.
• Drive Industry 4.0 initiatives: MES, IoT, dashboards and analytics.
• Establish and govern KPIs such as UPH, OEE, lead time, and cost per unit.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet targets and improve safety, quality and delivery.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Kaizen

Capacity Planning

Line Balancing

NPI Ramp-up

DFM/DFX

Industry 4.0

MES

OEE Improvement

Tools

MES

ERP

Job description

• Develop and execute the Industrial Engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with business, customer, growth, and manufacturing objectives.
• Own factory capacity planning, including equipment, manpower, floor space, utilities, and future expansion requirements.
• Drive productivity and operational efficiency through cycle-time reduction, line balancing, bottleneck elimination, and optimized resource utilization.
• Lead NPI industrialization and production ramp-up, ensuring manufacturing readiness from prototype/engineering builds through mass production.
• Own manufacturing process and line design, including process flow, workstation design, takt time, UPH, staffing, and material flow.
• Lead Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement programs using VSM, Kaizen, Six Sigma, SMED, Standard Work, and waste elimination.
• Develop and execute the factory automation roadmap, identifying high-ROI opportunities across assembly, inspection, testing, material handling, and packaging.
• Drive manufacturing cost optimization, covering labor cost, conversion cost, machine-hour cost, overhead reduction, and cost per unit.
• Lead CapEx planning and investment justification for new equipment, automation, capacity expansion, and manufacturing technology.
• Own factory layout and space optimization, including greenfield/brownfield planning, production lines, warehouses, logistics routes, and future expansion.
• Establish and maintain standard time, labor standards, machine capacity, and productivity benchmarks across manufacturing operations.
• Lead DFM/DFA/DFX and manufacturing feasibility reviews to ensure products are designed for scalable, cost-effective, and reliable manufacturing.
• Drive Industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing initiatives, including MES, traceability, IoT, real-time dashboards, analytics, and smart-factory solutions.
• Establish and govern key manufacturing KPIs such as UPH, OEE, line efficiency, labor productivity, capacity utilization, FPY, WIP, lead time, and cost/unit.
• Support RFQ and business development activities by providing manufacturing concepts, capacity models, manpower estimates, equipment requirements, CapEx, and manufacturing cost inputs.
• Lead product and production-line transfers between sites, ensuring capacity, process, equipment, quality, cost, and ramp-up readiness.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, NPI, Facilities, IT, Finance, and Commercial teams to achieve manufacturing and business targets.
• Drive material-flow and internal logistics optimization, including supermarkets, Kanban, point-of-use delivery, WIP reduction, AGV/AMR, and warehouse-to-line flow.
• Build and develop a high-performing Industrial Engineering organization through competency development, mentoring, succession planning, standard methodologies, and best-practice sharing.
• Provide executive-level manufacturing leadership, identifying operational risks and opportunities while driving improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Productivity, and Customer Satisfaction.