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Lead - Industrial Engineering

Date Posted: Aug 25, 2026
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    Location Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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Roles & Responsibilities - IE Head

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

Job details

  • Business: L&T Precision Engineering & Systems IC
  • Location: Coimbatore Campus, Tamil Nadu
  • Experience: 18-25 years
  • CTC range: ₹30,00,000 – ₹40,00,000 a year
  • Skills: Leadership, Central Manufacturing Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Continous Improvement, NPI Management, Industrial Automation, Digital Asset Management, Costing, Financial Analysis, Factory Management, P&L management and capcaity planning skill, Layout Design, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, Space Management

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Larsen & Toubro
Larsen & Toubro · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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