📂Department: R & D, Production
📌Reports To: Directors (R&D)

🎯Role Overview
The Assistant Manager – Flavour Development is a senior technical role responsible for leading complex flavour creation projects for nutraceutical and functional food applications. The role involves innovation, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring commercially viable,stable, and regulatory-compliant flavour solutions.

⚒️Key Responsibilities

• Independently develop and optimize innovative flavours for nutraceutical formulations in line with customer briefs, regulatory requirements, and cost targets.
• Lead end-to-end flavour development projects from concept to commercialization, ensuring smooth scale-up from laboratory to production.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including R&D, Quality Assurance, Production, and Sales to troubleshoot formulation challenges and improve product performance.
• Conduct advanced sensory evaluation, stability studies, and application testing to ensure consistency and shelf-life performance.
• Evaluate new raw materials, ingredients, and technologies to expand the flavour portfolio and enhance product differentiation.
• Stay updated with market trends, customer preferences, and global regulatory guidelines relevant to food and nutraceutical flavours.
• Utilize analytical tools and techniques (such as GC-MS) for flavour profiling, troubleshooting, and quality improvement.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, supporting skill development and maintaining best laboratory practices.
• Support client interactions, technical discussions, and trials as required.

⚒️Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong expertise in flavour chemistry, formulation, and stability for nutraceutical applications.
• Proven project management and problem-solving capabilities.
• Knowledge of Indian and global food regulations related to flavours and nutraceuticals.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to cross-functional teams.

📋 Skills: Line QC, inspection, documentation, basic quality tools

📋 Skills:

Accounting basics, store & inventory handling, ERP knowledge preferred

📋 Key Responsibilities:
✅ Develop new business opportunities in fabrication sector
✅ Client acquisition & key account management
✅ Prepare & negotiate commercial proposals and contracts
✅ Market research, competitor analysis & lead generation
✅ Coordinate with design, costing & production teams
✅ Achieve sales targets and revenue growth

📋 Job Responsibilities:
✅ Prepare product & project cost estimations
✅ Analyze BOM, raw material, labor & overhead costs
✅ Coordinate with design, purchase & production teams
✅ Support pricing, quotation & tender activities
✅ Monitor cost variations and suggest cost-saving measures

📋 Job Responsibilities:
✅ Prepare fabrication drawings using AutoCAD
✅ Understand fabrication & manufacturing processes
✅ Coordinate with production and site teams
✅ Modify designs as per project requirements
✅ Maintain design documents & revisions

📋 Job Responsibilities:
✅ Preventive & breakdown maintenance of fabrication machines
✅ Machine troubleshooting and repair
✅ Coordination with production team
✅ Maintaining maintenance records & schedules
✅ Ensuring minimum downtime

📋 Key Responsibilities:
✅ Customer handling & service
✅ Medicine dispensing & billing (Pharmacist)
✅ Patient/customer queries handling
✅ Inventory support & store coordination
✅ Maintaining records & compliance

Role Purpose
To design, validate, and continuously improve paint shop jigs for plastic automotive parts by correctly identifying holding points, ensuring paintability, surface quality (Class-A / Piano Black), ergonomics, and high productivity in conveyorized and manual paint operations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Jig Design & Holding Point Identification (Core Skill)
2. Study plastic part geometry, Class-A surfaces, ribs, bosses, clips, snap features, and non-appearance areas.
3. Identify exact holding / clamping points that:

• Do not disturb Class-A or visible surfaces
• Avoid paint shadowing, thin film, edge build-up
• Prevent part distortion during hanging, curing, and cooling

1. Decide number of holding points based on:

• Part weight and CG
• Conveyor pitch and acceleration
• Oven temperature & sag risk

1. Finalize primary & secondary supports (hard stop, floating supports, spring-loaded pins where required).
2. Paint Process Compatibility
3. Design jigs compatible with:

• Primer, Basecoat, Clearcoat / 2-coat / 3-coat systems
• conventional spray guns

1. Ensure:

• Maximum paint exposure
• Minimal shadow areas
• Easy gun access at 45°–90° spray angles

1. Consider DFT uniformity, orange peel sensitivity, and gloss critical zones.
2. Jig Design & Detailing
3. Prepare:

• 2D manufacturing drawings
• 3D CAD models
• BOM for jig assemblies

1. Select appropriate:

• Jig materials (MS, SS, Aluminum)
• Insulation bushes / ceramic sleeves (for heat zones)

1. Design for:

• Quick loading/unloading
• Operator ergonomics
• Fool-proof part location (Poka-Yoke)

1. Trial, Validation & Shop Floor Support
2. Participate in:

• Paint trials
• First-off approval
• Jig buy-off

1. Analyze defects related to jig design:

• Paint skips
• Edge thinning
• Hook marks
• Sag due to wrong holding
• Implement on-line jig corrections quickly.

1. Continuous Improvement
2. Improve :

• Jig life
• Cycle time
• Part handling ease

1. Reduce:

• Rework
• Touch-ups
• Operator dependency
• Standardize best holding practices for similar parts.

Required Technical Skills (Must-Have)
Plastic Part Understanding

1. Injection molding features:

• Ribs, bosses, snap-fits
• Draft angles
• Sink-prone areas

1. Understanding of:

• Heat distortion temperature (HDT)
• Warpage behavior in oven

Jig & Fixture Knowledge

• Hanging jigs, pin jigs, clamp jigs
• Spring-loaded supports
• Floating locators
• Conveyor-mounted and trolley jigs

Paint Shop Knowledge (Preferred)

• Paint defect root causes related to jig design
• Masking vs jig holding trade-offs CAD & Tools
• AutoCAD / SolidWorks / NX / Creo (any one)
• Ability to read GD&T and plastic part drawings
• Jig trial checklists & validation sheets

Experience Requirement

• 5–10 years in automotive plastic paint shop jig design
• Preferred Hands-on exposure to:
• Conveyorized paint shops
• Direct involvement in part trials and shop floor problem-solving

Behavioral & Practical Skills

• Strong shop-floor mindset
• Ability to visualize paint flow and gun movement
• Fast decision-making during trials
• Good communication with:
• Production
• Quality
• Paint engineers

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• First-time-right jig approval
• Reduction in paint defects due to jig
• Jig loading time
• Jig durability & maintenance frequency
• Line rejection reduction

Preferred (Added Advantage)

1. Experience in:

• Class-A / Piano Black parts
• Chrome-look or high-gloss finishes

1. Knowledge of:

• Oven airflow & temperature impact on jigs
• Static charge behavior in plastic parts

📋 Key Responsibilities:
✅ Overall Quality Management (Inward, In-process & Final)
✅ Handling Customer & ISO Audits
✅ Quality System implementation & improvement
✅ Team handling & training
✅ Rejection reduction & process improvement
✅ Coordination with Production, Purchase & Management

📋 Key Skills Required:
✅ Line Quality Control
✅ In-process inspection
✅ Problem solving & rejection control
✅ Coordination with Production team
✅ Quality documentation & reporting

1. Supplier audit, co-ordinate sub vendor quality issue.
2. Book monthly PO in SAP hana.
3. Vendor selection.
4. Inviting quotation. & comparison.
5. Cost effective procurement shoud have knlowledge of VDA 6.3

🔑 Key Responsibilities:

• Implement, monitor & maintain Quality Management System (QMS)
• Ensure compliance with ISO / IATF standards
• Prepare & control QMS documentation (SOPs, manuals, records)
• Conduct internal audits & support customer/third-party audits
• Handle corrective & preventive actions (CAPA)
• Coordinate with production & quality teams for process compliance
• Continuous improvement & process standardization 🎯 Candidate Profile:
  ✔ Strong QMS & audit handling experience
  ✔ Background in sheet metal / fabrication industry preferred
  ✔ Good documentation, analytical & communication skills

🔑 Key Responsibilities:

• Overall plant operations & production management
• Manpower planning, productivity improvement & cost control
• Ensure quality, safety & delivery targets
• Coordination with Production, Quality, Maintenance & Stores
• Implement lean manufacturing & continuous improvement practices
• Monitor KPIs, daily reports & plant performance
• Ensure compliance with ISO & statutory requirements 🎯 Candidate Profile:
  ✔ Strong leadership & decision-making skills
  ✔ Experience in sheet metal / fabrication industry mandatory
  ✔ Knowledge of production planning, quality systems & maintenance

Job Description

1.Costing & Cost Control
2.Maintain books of accounts as per accounting standar
3.Preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
4.Support budgeting and forecasting activities.
5.Inventory & Stores Accounting
6.Statutory & Taxation Compliance 7.Working knowledge of SAP / Tally ERP systems.
8.Liaison with Auditors, Consultants, Banks, and Tax Authorities.
9.Provide cost and financial data to Management, Production, and Purchase teams.