Manager - Manufacturing Engineering

Tata AutoComp Systems Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata AutoComp Systems Limited in Pune is seeking manufacturing engineering leadership to direct fabrication, machining, assembly, testing, and related production operations. The role focuses on translating forecasts into equipment, tooling, space, and capital needs while improving productivity and quality.

You will guide lean initiatives, standard work, and process development for automotive manufacturing, automation roadmaps, and capital deployments, ensuring safe, scalable production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing engineering activities for fabrication, machining, assembly, testing, packaging, and related production operations.
• Develop manufacturing strategies for new products, product transfers, capacity expansions, and production-line improvements.
• Translate demand forecasts and production schedules into requirements for equipment, tooling, manpower, floor space, utilities, infrastructure, and capital investment.
• Establish manufacturing standards for process design, line balancing, tooling, fixtures, layouts, and production readiness.
• Improve productivity, throughput, first-pass yield, quality, ergonomics, and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Apply lean manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma, value-stream mapping, root-cause analysis, and standard-work principles.
• Develop and execute an automation and smart-manufacturing roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Evaluate, select, design, integrate, install, commission, validate, and sustain:
• Industrial robots and cobots.
• PLC, HMI, SCADA, and machine-control systems.
• Automated assembly and inspection systems.
• Vision systems, sensors, servos, pneumatics, and motion-control equipment.
• AGVs, AMRs, conveyors, and material-handling systems.
• Manufacturing execution systems and production-data solutions.
• Prepare technical justifications, capital requests, business cases, ROI calculations, and payback analyses for automation projects.
• Define user requirements, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and validation plans.
• Manage machine builders, system integrators, consultants, and equipment suppliers.
• Lead factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, installation, commissioning, production ramp-up, and handover to operations and maintenance.
• Control project scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, procurement, and technical deliverables.
• Assess emerging technologies and determine their readiness for production deployment.
• Ensure new equipment is maintainable, scalable, safe, and compatible with existing plant systems.
• Develop manufacturing processes for new automotive products and product variants.
• Review product designs for manufacturability, assembly feasibility, process capability, and cost.
• Define process flow, operation sequence, cycle time, manpower, tooling, fixtures, gauges, and equipment requirements.
• Prepare process concepts, line layouts, capacity studies, and preliminary capital-cost estimates.
• Select suitable technologies such as machining, welding, stamping, injection molding, painting, assembly, battery assembly, or automation.
• Ensure effective handover of validated processes from product development or launch teams to serial production.
• Define technical specifications for machines, automation, dies, molds, fixtures, gauges, test systems, and material-handling equipment.
• Review supplier quotations and technical proposals.
• Manage equipment design reviews, procurement, installation, commissioning, and acceptance trials.

Job description

Manufacturing engineering leadership

Lead manufacturing engineering activities for fabrication, machining, assembly, testing, packaging, and related production operations.

Develop manufacturing strategies for new products, product transfers, capacity expansions, and production-line improvements.

Translate demand forecasts and production schedules into requirements for equipment, tooling, manpower, floor space, utilities, infrastructure, and capital investment.

Establish manufacturing standards for process design, line balancing, tooling, fixtures, layouts, and production readiness.

Improve productivity, throughput, first-pass yield, quality, ergonomics, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Apply lean manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma, value-stream mapping, root-cause analysis, and standard-work principles.

Automation and controls

Develop and execute an automation and smart-manufacturing roadmap aligned with business objectives.

Evaluate, select, design, integrate, install, commission, validate, and sustain:

Industrial robots and cobots.

PLC, HMI, SCADA, and machine-control systems.

Automated assembly and inspection systems.

Vision systems, sensors, servos, pneumatics, and motion-control equipment.

AGVs, AMRs, conveyors, and material-handling systems.

Manufacturing execution systems and production-data solutions.

Capital projects and technology deployment

Prepare technical justifications, capital requests, business cases, ROI calculations, and payback analyses for automation projects.

Define user requirements, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and validation plans.

Manage machine builders, system integrators, consultants, and equipment suppliers.

Lead factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, installation, commissioning, production ramp-up, and handover to operations and maintenance.

Control project scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, procurement, and technical deliverables.

Assess emerging technologies and determine their readiness for production deployment.

Ensure new equipment is maintainable, scalable, safe, and compatible with existing plant systems.

Process development and industrialization

Develop manufacturing processes for new automotive products and product variants.

Review product designs for manufacturability, assembly feasibility, process capability, and cost.

Define process flow, operation sequence, cycle time, manpower, tooling, fixtures, gauges, and equipment requirements.

Prepare process concepts, line layouts, capacity studies, and preliminary capital-cost estimates.

Select suitable technologies such as machining, welding, stamping, injection molding, painting, assembly, battery assembly, or automation.

Ensure effective handover of validated processes from product development or launch teams to serial production.

Manufacturing equipment and tooling

Define technical specifications for machines, automation, dies, molds, fixtures, gauges, test systems, and material-handling equipment.

Review supplier quotations and technical proposals.

Manage equipment design reviews, procurement, installation, commissioning, and acceptance trials.