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**Designation**:Senior Engineer

**Updated**:December 13, 2024

**Location**:Andhra Pradesh, India

**Organization**:Metals

**Job Purpose**:
Implementing the new product development activities for Kuppam plant post customer approval. Follow up with supply chain management for on time die receipts, Collaborating with manufacturing teams for initial trials, evaluating samples and submitting for customer approval with supporting documents.

**Job Context & Major Challenges**:
Job Context: The global aluminum market is valued at USD 87.84 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow 7.5 % (CAGR) from 2022 to 2030. Increase in demand for lightweight and durable extruded products is driving the growth. Top aluminum extruders are investing and creating tough competition.

Hindalco Industries Limited have acquired the extrusion business of SAPA located at Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh with effect from 01 Feb 2022 through Business Transfer Agreement

This plant is first of its kind, across the globe to have mill finish, anodized, powder coated, fabricated products manufactured under one roof. The profiles developed and manufactured are highly complex in nature, having critical die designs, challenging operations, involve highly skilled technicians, special machinery, and processes. This unit has two 8-inch press with a capacity of 16,000 TPA, anodizing 2500 TPA, powder coating 3200 TPA along with various fabrication machinery like manual & robotic welding, CNC cutting & machining centers, Flaring & collaring, assembly lines serving for Building & Construction (25%), Industrial (40%), Exports (25%) Automotive (7%), and Solar segments (3%).

The unit is increasing its business in automated warehouse system, premium anodizing finish products (exports), Solar energy and automotive (domestic) segments by increasing utilization of existing facility with additional shifts for continuous operation, setting up new fabrication facility, additional anodizing tanks and a brand-new extrusion press.

Job Challenges:Major challenge is meeting customer requirements with stringent tolerances beyond the standard norms, setting up process during development based on customer specific requirements, Customer demanding on reduction in development lead time.

**Key Result Areas**:
**KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)**

**Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)**
- KRA1
- Customer interface
- '¢ Cooperating with sales team to clarify the customer concern on submitted sample.
'¢ Providing the necessary documents for sample approval based on customer requirement.
- KRA2
- Customer audits (Supplier assessment audit) during initial development.
- '¢ Preparing the supplier assessment document, investigating with other department for required details to fill up the format.
'¢ Recording the required reports, supporting documents at one place to support the audit.
'¢ Review the audit points with reporting manager & closing the NC with supporting documents & maintain the records.
- KRA3
- Development of new dies
- '¢ Review the customer approved drawing with feasibility report and RFQ inputs, Provides new die number for the drawing & update in tracker.
'¢ Consolidate all required information from feasibility report and RFQ & attaching along with indent justification form (IR).
'¢ Discuss with die shop head, Finance head, Product development head & plant head and getting their approval for new die release.
'¢ Requesting the finance team for line-item creation in Talley.
'¢ Indent creation in Talley for PO & generate the indent number.
'¢ Requesting mail along with consolidate document and drawing to SCM team for making PO to suppler.
'¢ Follow up with SCM team for PO creation.
'¢ Follow up with die supplier and die shop team for die design finalization or approval for manufacturing.
'¢ Follow up with SCM and die supplier for die ETA date, and update to customer.
'¢ Follow up with SCM team to get the die on time from suppler end.
- KRA4
- New Product section drawing, and new die register in SPES
- '¢ New drawing article list release in SPES by giving date mentioned in drawing.
'¢ New die code creation & releasing in SPES to access for sales order loading.
'¢ Trial order releasing for new die trial to planning for trial planning.
'¢ Follow up with finance team for trial order validation.

**Qualifications**:
Bachelor Of Engineering

**Minimum Experience Level**:
3-5 Years

**Report to**:
Manager