Capacity Planning - EGS
Mahindra Group · Posted Oct 19
Automotive, farm equipment, information technology, financial services, and hospitality services
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About the role
The Strategic Sourcing Unit (SSU) at Mahindra Group builds a resilient supply chain for Elastomer, Glass & Sealing (EGS) commodities across current and future vehicle programs, covering automotive glass, weatherstrips, seals and rubber molded components. The role works across rubber and glass manufacturing processes including compounding, extrusion, molding, vulcanization, glass bending, tempering, lamination and sealing system assembly. This capacity planning position leads long-term supplier capacity assessment, bottleneck and risk mitigation, and capacity creation initiatives in collaboration with sourcing, product development, supply chain, supplier quality and manufacturing teams.
What you will do
- Support Strategic Sourcing Unit (SSU) in building a resilient supply chain for Elastomer, Glass & Sealing commodities through long-term capacity planning, supplier capability assessment, risk mitigation, and capacity creation initiatives across current and future vehicle programs.
- Lead long-term capacity planning and supplier capacity assessment for Elastomer, Glass and Sealing commodities in line with business plans, production forecasts and new vehicle programs.
- Conduct supplier capacity mapping, identify capacity constraints, manufacturing bottlenecks and business continuity risks, and drive mitigation plans to ensure uninterrupted supply.
- Evaluate supplier readiness for upcoming vehicle programs, facelifts, technology transitions and volume ramp-up requirements through detailed capacity and capability assessments.
- Collaborate with Strategic Sourcing, Product Development, Supply Chain, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing and suppliers to drive capacity creation, expansion and readiness initiatives.
- Assess manufacturing capabilities across key EGS processes including rubber compounding, extrusion, molding, vulcanization, glass bending, tempering, lamination, encapsulation and sealing system assembly.
- Develop and monitor supplier capacity enhancement plans, tooling readiness, line expansion projects and productivity improvement initiatives to meet current and future business requirements.
- Identify vulnerable suppliers, single-source dependencies and supply risks; drive alternate source development, localization opportunities and risk mitigation actions.
- Support new product development programs by ensuring supplier capacity availability, manufacturing readiness and timely closure of supply-related risks before SOP.
- Drive short-term and long-term capacity interventions to address supply constraints, demand fluctuations, quality-related disruptions and escalation cases.
- Conduct supplier visits, capacity audits and process reviews to evaluate utilization levels, bottleneck operations, operational efficiency and future scalability.
- Monitor critical supplier investments, equipment commissioning, capacity augmentation projects and readiness milestones to ensure on-time program execution.
- Analyze production plans, market demand, supplier loading and capacity utilization trends to proactively identify potential supply challenges and recommend corrective actions.
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews with commodity teams and suppliers to ensure alignment on demand forecasts, capacity planning assumptions and risk mitigation strategies.
- Leverage APQP, PPAP, Run-at-Rate, Production Trial Run (PTR) and supplier readiness review processes to ensure smooth industrialization and launch execution.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to supplier productivity, operational efficiency, manufacturing capability and supply chain resilience.
- Ensure timely handover of stabilized programs to sourcing and supply chain teams while maintaining focus on cost, quality, delivery and capacity performance objectives.
- Prepare management reviews and dashboards on supplier capacity status, readiness risks, mitigation actions and program health for leadership decision-making.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Education Qualification B. Tech Plastics Engineering / Mechanical Engineering MBA Preferred
- General Experience 4 to 10 yrs experience
- Experience in development, sourcing or manufacturing of Elastomer, Glass and Sealing products.
- Strong understanding of rubber and glass manufacturing processes.
- Supplier assessment and capacity evaluation experience.
- Knowledge of automotive quality systems and APQP framework.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Exposure to supplier audits and manufacturing process capability assessment.
- SAP knowledge.
- Exposure to capacity planning tools and digital manufacturing systems.
- Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma certification.
Preferred qualifications
- Preferred Industries Automobile Farm Sector
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mahindra Group
The Mahindra Group is a multinational conglomerate federation of companies with a presence across more than 20 industries globally. The group holds leadership positions in utility vehicles, farm equipment, information technology, and financial services. Driven by its core purpose to enable people to Rise, Mahindra operates across over 100 countries.
- Industry
- Conglomerate
- Company size
- 327000+ employees
- Founded
- 1945-10-02
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman
Group CEO & Managing Director
Group Chief Financial Officer
Group Chief Technology Officer
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