Senior Manager - Industrial Engineering

Job Summary

The Sr. Manager - Industrial Engineering owns the Industrial Engineering function across all Group Bayport plants and processes - printing, stitching, cutting, and across the Covers All (outdoor furniture covers, cushions) and BannerBuzz (banners, signage displays) product lines. This is a senior, cross-plant leadership role: standardising IE method and measurement (SAM/MOST, line balancing, layout re-designing, SMED) across previously fragmented, undocumented practice, and directly supervising the Stitching IE and Plant Area IE teams. Designation: Senior Manager - Industrial Engineering. Location: Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Key Responsibilities

1. Plant-Wide IE Leadership

• Lead plant-level Industrial Engineering strategy across all factory floors - printing, stitching, cutting, and across the Covers All (outdoor furniture covers, cushions) and BannerBuzz (banners, signage displays) product lines.
• Act as direct supervisor for the IE - setting priorities, reviewing output, and developing the team.
• Standardise IE methodology, templates and reporting formats so results are comparable across areas and roll up cleanly to Management.

2. Methods, Layout Line Balancing

• Own workstation layout design, line ergonomics and tooling standardisation across all plant areas.
• Direct line-balancing exercises against Takt Time on printing, stitching, cutting, and across the Covers All (outdoor furniture covers, cushions) and BannerBuzz (banners, signage displays) product lines.
• Review and approve area-level SMED / quick-changeover initiatives before roll-out.

3. Time Motion Standards

• Own delivery of the Departmental SAM (Standard Allowed Minutes) Catalog, in partnership with MDM team for BOM set-up.
• Validate area process times against field time-study data before they are published as standard.
• Sign off the time-study methodology and sample sizes with each Plant Area IE before field work begins.

4. Visual Management

• Implement hourly production tracking boards - with BPM Team.
• Introduce Poka-Yoke / mistake-proofing where scrap or quality leakage is systemic rather than one-off.

5. Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with MDM Team for BOM Preparation for Time Measurement (Crue member size/labour/machine).
• Partner with the Manager, Global Capacity to feed validated IE process-time data into the Capacity vs Demand model and the monthly Capacity Governance Review.
• Partner with the Manager, Automation Business Analyst on layout and line-balancing implications of newly commissioned machines, and on post-commissioning variance audits.
• Support the Ops Excellence Head on the phased CIP / LDM / VSM roll-out.

Qualifications & Experience

• B.E. / B.Tech in Industrial, Mechanical or Production Engineering; a Masters degree or equivalent Lean/Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) is preferred.
• 10-15 years of progressive Industrial Engineering experience in an apparel manufacturing environment, including at least 8 years in a managerial role leading multiple engineers or areas.
• Demonstrated, hands-on expertise in BOM/SAM/MOST/MTM time-study methods, line balancing, workstation layout design and Takt Time setting.
• Experience standing up or running a structured time-study or work-study programme, including supervising junior engineers/interns collecting field data.
• Prior exposure to apparel, soft-furnishing, furniture or comparable multi-SKU manufacturing is preferred, across the Covers All (outdoor furniture covers, cushions) and BannerBuzz (banners, signage displays) product lines.
• Working proficiency in Excel and, ideally, Power BI, for data-driven decisions.

Skills & Competencies

• Senior stakeholder management - comfortable presenting to and being evaluated.
• People leadership across multiple, physically dispersed teams and areas.
• Analytical rigor balanced with pragmatic, shop-floor-first problem solving.
• Structured change management - able to introduce new standards without disrupting live production.
• Clear written and verbal communication for cross-functional coordination with MDM, Global Capacity and Automation.

Key Performance Indicators

• BOM Preparation for Time Measurement (Crue member size / labour / machine calculation) - SKU wise
• Departmental SAM Catalog - % of process elements documented and signed off, against plan.
• Line efficiency / OEE improvement on lines where IE has intervened.
• On-time delivery of hourly production tracking board roll-out.

Required Skills

• MOST
• BOM
• Standard Time
• SAM
• Industrial Engineering Principles
• SMED
• Allowance Calculation
• Mam-Machine Crew Calculation
• PMTS

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