Manager - Manufacturing Engineering

Position Title

Manager- Manufacturing Engineer (Cable Division)

Position Summary

This position will be responsible for overseeing the entire operations of the cable/ conductor manufacturing facility, ensuring efficient and safe production processes, maintaining product quality, and meeting organizational goals related to cost, output, and profitability.

The role also involves leading a large team, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Operations Management: Lead end-to-end power cable manufacturing operations, ensuring production targets, timely delivery, process efficiency, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop production managers, engineers, supervisors, and operators while driving a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and high performance.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with quality standards and customer specifications; oversee quality controls, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Maintenance & Asset Management: Ensure preventive and corrective maintenance, high equipment uptime, effective asset utilization, and availability of critical spares.
• HSE: Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards and drive initiatives to minimize workplace incidents.
• Cost & Budget Management: Manage plant budgets and drive cost optimization across materials, energy, manpower, and processes while monitoring key operational KPIs.
• Supply Chain & Vendor Management: Ensure timely availability of raw materials, optimize inventory, and manage key supplier/vendor relationships.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements, manage audits, and implement corrective actions.
• Projects & CAPEX: Lead capacity expansion, equipment upgrades, process improvements, and CAPEX projects within approved timelines and budgets.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Sales, Finance, HR, senior management, customers, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders to align plant operations with business objectives.
  Critical Success Factors - Essential
• Educational Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics, Polymer, or related field.) or equivalent.

Experience

15+ years of experience in managing plant operations with at least 3 years as production Head in capital goods transmission or cable conductor manufacturing sector

Competencies

• Behavioural - Impact and Influence
• Behavioural - Information Seeking
• Behavioural - Initiative
• Behavioural - Innovative Thinking
• Functional - Financial
• Functional - Operational
• Functional - People
• Functional - Strategic

About Us

Sterlite is a leading integrated power transmission developer and solutions provider globally, focused on addressing complex challenges in the sector by tackling the key constraints of time, space and capital.

We believe that electricity access transforms societies and delivers long-lasting social impact. Sterlite is uniquely positioned to solve the toughest challenges of clean energy delivery.

Sterlite Electric is expanding horizons in the Power Transmission industry by developing an efficient, reliable and resilient transmission ecosystem. Our work impacts communities and businesses by enabling access to reliable, high-quality electricity. With power utilities facing increased pressure due to a rapidly growing population, increased demand and ageing infrastructure, there is an urgent need for augmentation and upgrades.

We help power utilities to tackle their network congestion challenges, by providing solutions that upgrade and uprate corridor intensity. Our strategic solutions through system design, application engineering, complete engineering procurement and construction as well as project management, commissioning and lifecycle services, ensure improved performance in the short and long-term.