Maintenance Engineer / Sr. Engineer - Pad Maintenance

As a Lead Engineer for pad replacement activities on lapping and polishing machines, your role involves the following key responsibilities: - Leading the pad replacement activities for lapping and polishing machines. - Maintaining polishing and lapping pads, brushes, slurry systems, and consumables to achieve required surface finish and flatness specifications. - Ensuring correct pad selection, bonding, alignment, curing, and dressing processes. - Verifying disc flatness, run-out, pressure distribution, and machine geometry. - Performing pad conditioning and process qualification activities. - Troubleshooting pad-related issues including glazing, uneven wear, peeling, vibration, scratches, waviness, and haze. - Working closely with Production, Process, and Quality teams during trials, NPI activities, and process validations. - Optimizing pad life, replacement cycles, and consumable costs while improving process capability. - Developing SOPs and preventive maintenance schedules for pad replacement and conditioning. - Supporting preventive and breakdown maintenance of lapping and polishing machines. - Maintaining records of pad usage, performance, and lifecycle. - Conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions for recurring surface quality issues. - Ensuring compliance with safety standards, LOTO requirements, statutory regulations, and 5S practices. Qualifications required for this role include: - Diploma / B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering. - 04 to 09 years of experience in lapping, polishing, surface finishing, or precision manufacturing processes. - Hands-on experience with polishing and lapping machines, pad replacement, conditioning, dressing, and alignment activities. - Strong understanding of surface roughness, flatness, parallelism, process capability, and surface quality requirements. - Knowledge of PU pads, diamond pads, slurry systems, adhesives, curing processes, and dressing techniques. - Experience troubleshooting polishing defects such as scratches, waviness, haze, vibration, glazing, and uneven wear. - Familiarity with NPI support, process validation, preventive maintenance, and root cause analysis. - Knowledge of LOTO, machine safety, statutory compliance, and 5S practices. - Strong communication, analytical, and team coordination skills. - Willingness to work in shifts. As a Lead Engineer for pad replacement activities on lapping and polishing machines, your role involves the following key responsibilities: - Leading the pad replacement activities for lapping and polishing machines. - Maintaining polishing and lapping pads, brushes, slurry systems, and consumables to achieve required surface finish and flatness specifications. - Ensuring correct pad selection, bonding, alignment, curing, and dressing processes. - Verifying disc flatness, run-out, pressure distribution, and machine geometry. - Performing pad conditioning and process qualification activities. - Troubleshooting pad-related issues including glazing, uneven wear, peeling, vibration, scratches, waviness, and haze. - Working closely with Production, Process, and Quality teams during trials, NPI activities, and process validations. - Optimizing pad life, replacement cycles, and consumable costs while improving process capability. - Developing SOPs and preventive maintenance schedules for pad replacement and conditioning. - Supporting preventive and breakdown maintenance of lapping and polishing machines. - Maintaining records of pad usage, performance, and lifecycle. - Conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions for recurring surface quality issues. - Ensuring compliance with safety standards, LOTO requirements, statutory regulations, and 5S practices. Qualifications required for this role include: - Diploma / B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering. - 04 to 09 years of experience in lapping, polishing, surface finishing, or precision manufacturing processes. - Hands-on experience with polishing and lapping machines, pad replacement, conditioning, dressing, and alignment activities. - Strong understanding of surface roughness, flatness, parallelism, process capability, and surface quality requirements. - Knowledge of PU pads, diamond pads, slurry systems, adhesives, curing processes, and dressing techniques. - Experience troubleshooting polishing defects such as scratches, waviness, haze, vibration, glazing, and uneven wear. - Familiarity with NPI support, process validation, preventive maintenance, and root cause analysis. - Knowledge of LOTO, machine safety, statutory compliance, and 5S practices. - Strong communication, analytical, and team coordination skills. - Willingness to work in shifts.