About Welspun World
Welspun World is one of India's fastest growing global conglomerates with businesses in Home Textiles, Flooring Solutions, Advanced Textiles, DI Pipes, Pig Iron, TMT bars, Stainless Steel, Alloy, Line Pipes, Infrastructure & Warehousing.
Job Title
SUP-OPS-Coating
About Welspun World
Welspun World is one of India's fastest growing global conglomerates with businesses in Home Textiles, Flooring Solutions, Advanced Textiles, DI Pipes, Pig Iron, TMT bars, Stainless Steel, Alloy, Line Pipes, Infrastructure & Warehousing.
About Welspun Entity
Welspun Corp Ltd (WCL. is a leading player in Pipe Solutions and Building Materials industry with manufacturing presence in three countries; India, USA and Saudi Arabia. We are amongst the top three large diameter pipes manufacturers globall
Job Purpose/ Summary
The SUP-Ops-Coating will be responsible for managing and monitoring shift-wise production activities in the Pipe Coating Plant, ensuring safe, efficient and quality-compliant execution of coating operations as per approved production plans, customer specifications and applicable standards. The role will focus on achieving production targets, controlling critical process parameters, minimising rejection/rework and material wastage, maintaining equipment efficiency, and ensuring compliance with quality, safety and operational requirements. The incumbent will coordinate with Quality, Maintenance, Planning, Stores and other functions to ensure smooth and uninterrupted coating operations.
Job Description
The Shift Engineer – Pipe Coating will be responsible for execution and control of day-to-day coating operations, including surface preparation, abrasive blasting, pre-heating, primer/FBE application, adhesive and PE/PP extrusion coating, internal coating, cooling, end preparation, inspection, holiday detection, repair and handling of coated pipes, as applicable to the plant.
The role will ensure adherence to approved process parameters, SOPs, ITPs, customer specifications and applicable international standards. The incumbent will also monitor manpower, equipment, raw material consumption, production performance, quality parameters and shift-wise operational issues, while supporting continuous improvement initiatives for productivity, quality, cost and safety.
Responsibility
- Execute shiftwise production activities in alignment with the production plan customer requirements and delivery schedules
- Monitor and control critical parameters of pipe coating processes to ensure consistent coating quality
- Supervise activities related to surface preparation blasting preheating FBE 3LPE3LPP internal coating cooling end preparation and repairtouchup as applicable
- Ensure proper surface preparation and required surface cleanlinessprofile before coating application
- Monitor coating parameters such as pipe temperature line speed coating thickness extrusion parameters curing conditions and cooling parameters
- Ensure coated pipes meet specified requirements for coating thickness adhesion peel strength holiday detection impact resistance visual quality and other applicable tests
- Coordinate with Quality Control for inspection testing clearance and release of coated pipes
- Identify coating defects conduct preliminary analysis and implement corrective actions to minimize rejection rework and customer complaints
- Ensure proper identification segregation and traceability of accepted rejected and repaired pipes
- Monitor consumption and utilization of coating materials such as FBE adhesive PEPP epoxy abrasives and other consumables as applicable
- Control material wastage and support initiatives for optimum material consumption
- Monitor condition and performance of critical coating equipment and coordinate with Maintenance for breakdowns and equipment abnormalities
- Support preventive maintenance activities and ensure equipment is available for planned production
- Deploy and supervise shift manpower effectively across different coating operations
- Ensure operators follow approved SOPs work instructions process parameters and safety practices
- Maintain shiftwise records for production rejection rework downtime material consumption process deviations and equipment breakdowns
- Conduct effective shift handover highlighting production status quality issues equipment problems and pending activities
- Ensure compliance with EHS PPE work permit housekeeping and 5S requirements within the coating plant
- Support investigation of safety incidents near misses and unsafe conditions and ensure corrective actions
- Coordinate with Planning Quality Maintenance Stores Logistics and Dispatch for smooth flow of operations
- Participate in RCA CAPA Kaizen TPM Lean and continuous improvement initiatives
- Identify opportunities for improvement in productivity coating quality equipment efficiency energy consumption and material utilization
- Support trials and qualification of new coating materials processes and technologies
- Ensure compliance with applicable API ISO NACEAMPP ASTM DIN and customerprojectspecific coating requirements wherever applicable
- Provide technical support during customer inspections thirdparty inspections and internalexternal audits
- Ensure safe handling storage and usage of coating chemicals powders solvents abrasives and other process materials
- Ensure timely escalation of major quality safety production and equipmentrelated issues to the Shift Incharge Production Manager
Company Name
Welspun Corp Limited
Division
ECP 2
Key Interactions
- Auditors
- Change Management
- Client Relations
- Conflict Resolution
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Customers
- Employees
- External Communication
- Internal Communication
- Logistics
- Plant Production
- Quality Assurance
- Stores
- Vendors
Relevant Work Experience
5 - 8 Years
Relevant Industry
- Manufacturing Industry
- Iron & Steel
- Pipes & Fittings
Education-Qualification
Education-Specialization
- Mechanical Engineering
- Production Management
Language Proficiency
Certifications
NA
Skill
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Analytical Thinking
- Attitude & Focus to Values
- Audit Management
- Awareness of QMS
- Business & Process Knowledge
- Technical Documentation
Competency Names
- Business & Commercial acumen
- Entrepreneurship
- Global Mind-set
- People Excellence
- Technical Knowhow- Process_Sup_Coating
- Production planning & control
- Production Process Knowledge
- Awareness of Quality & Safety
- Business & Commercial acumen
- Entrepreneurship
- Global Mind-set
- People Excellence
- Technical Knowhow- Process_Sup_Coating
- Production planning & control
- Production Process Knowledge
- Awareness of Quality & Safety
- SAP\/ERP Data Management