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Monitoring Anodizing department's Production & Process activities for meeting specifications and deadlines of internal & external customers by liaising with peer's departments, Lab Chemists and Shift Supervisors.
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.
Kuppam Anodizing adds Value on Extruded Aluminium profiles by giving decorative finish to Aluminium with wide range of colors for Automotive, Construction, Solar and Industrial segments. Kuppam Anodizing has special process called Brit dip, it gives silver finish to aluminium profiles which are widely used in shower cubicles, US based customer called Alumax imports these value-added aluminium profiles (45T per month) from Kuppam plant, apart from this Kuppam Anodizing plant equipped with Italtechno three rectifiers - 2 normal and 1 color which are capable to anodize Natural, bronze, champagne & Black colors with 196T per month capacity.
Job Challenges: 1. Achieving efficiencies & productivity in Anodizing to deliver targeted cost of production.
| KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters) | Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters) | |
|---|---|---|
| KRA1 | Safety: | Monitor, Review & update surface treatment processes regularly for safe & enviro-friendly operations. Focus on Material handling equipment's, Overhead cranes, Chemical handling, Material movement, Machine guarding, Hot & Height works and all non-regular activities like tanks cleaning. Attending safety trainings and cascading the learnings to downstream. Having frequent rounds in shop floor to identify & report Near misses and potential incidents together |
| KRA2 | Production planning: | Responsible to achieve department KPI's and implementing and reporting the same to the top management |
| KRA3 | Focus on sustainability of Surfacetreatment department: | Drive improvement that light of highly illuminating sheet to be provided and all unwanted lights off in day light and machines are off when not in use and all are identified through line audit in each shift by supervisor. Maintaining the discipline and monitoring of the department allotted zone wise area as per 5S Methodology. |
| KRA4 | Audits: | To Ensure all the documentations required for audit are in place related to ISO and Qualicoat. Maintaining documents, Production and quality records for all Projects Responsible to internal and external audits Internal IATF auditing doing to other depts as per schedule. |
| KRA5 | Indents making: | Daily tracking and maintaining minimum stocks by Ordering the regular consumables and chemicals based on available orders and forecasts Getting budgetary offers to future projects. |
| KRA6 | Projects: | Monitor the responsibilities and the supervision on project related works through the staff under his supervision and in conjunction with the project department. Advises on matters related to his expertise and proposes alternative and make alterations on the existing machinery, equipment, building layout etc. when |
Job ID: 147030297