About the role
Designation: Senior Manager – Industrial Engineering Location: Gandhinagar, Gujarat
About the RoleThe 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.
Key Responsibilities1. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Implement hourly production tracking boards – with BPM Team.
- Introduce Poka-Yoke / mistake-proofing where scrap or quality leakage is systemic rather than one-off.
- 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.
- B.E. / B.Tech in Industrial, Mechanical or Production Engineering; a Master's 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.
- 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.
- 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.