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About TejTatv InnoTech
TejTatv InnoTech Private Limited is an industrial deep-tech company developing ρ-MATRIQS™, a material intelligence platform for complex industrial material flows across Mining, Metals, Recycling, Cement, Critical Minerals, and Circular Economy sectors.
ρ-MATRIQS™ combines multi-sensor fusion, industrial IIoT, AI, real-time analytics, material intelligence, prediction, sorting and segregation, and end-to-end industrial decision and control to help industries understand the material entering and moving through their operations.
Together with ρ-SENTRIQS™ sensor retrofit solutions, TejTatv enables existing industrial infrastructure to adopt advanced sensing and intelligence without necessarily replacing the complete plant system.
The platform converts fragmented sensor and process data into actionable material intelligence, helping plants improve:
- Feedstock quality
- Material recovery
- Productivity
- Resource utilisation
- Traceability
- Equipment and operational reliability
- Process visibility and control
Our technology approach is modular, scalable, retrofit-ready, and economically practical, allowing medium and large industrial operations to start with high-value applications, demonstrate measurable results, and progressively expand.
TejTatv's technology direction supports broader industrial objectives including
resource efficiency, circular economy, decarbonisation, critical-material recovery, and sustainable industrial growth.Co-Founder — Steel Scrap Processing, Product, Operations & Deployment
TejTatv is looking for a highly specialised Co-Founder with deep, hands-on experience specifically in steel scrap processing and steel recycling plants.
Strict Requirement
Only candidates with direct steel scrap processing plant experience will be considered.
The ideal candidate will have senior-level experience as a:
- Steel Scrap Processing Plant Head
- Steel Scrap Recycling Plant Head
- Steel Scrap Plant Operations Head
- Steel Scrap Plant Project Execution Head
- Steel Scrap Plant Maintenance Head
- Senior Steel Scrap Plant Engineering / Technical Leader
Experience limited to mining, cement, generic manufacturing, software, consulting or other industries will not qualify.
Core Industry Focus
The role is exclusively focused on:
Steel Scrap Processing + Steel Recycling + Metal Scrap Processing + Circular Steel Operations
The candidate must understand the complete plant flow:
Scrap Receipt → Inspection → Feeding → Processing → Separation → Sorting → Quality Control → Storage → Dispatch
and the challenges associated with variable scrap quality, contamination, recovery, equipment reliability and plant productivity.
Mandatory ExperienceSteel Scrap Plant Operations
Direct experience in:
- Scrap receiving and handling
- Scrap preparation and processing
- Scrap sorting and segregation
- Scrap quality and contamination management
- Material flow
- Recovery and yield improvement
- Production planning
- Plant productivity
Steel Scrap Plant Project Execution
Experience in:
- Plant setup and expansion
- Machinery installation
- Equipment commissioning
- Production-line integration
- Capacity enhancement
- EPC/vendor coordination
- Site execution
- Plant modification and retrofit
Steel Scrap Plant Maintenance
Strong hands-on experience in:
- Preventive and predictive maintenance
- Breakdown maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Root-cause analysis
- Equipment reliability
- Shutdown planning
- Spare-parts planning
- Mechanical and electrical maintenance
- Instrumentation and controls
- Plant availability improvement
Mandatory Equipment Experience
Hands-on experience with steel scrap processing equipment, including:
- Conveyors
- Feeders
- Crushers
- Shredders
- Screens
- Sorting and separation systems
- Magnetic separation
- Air separation
- Material-handling systems
- Hoppers and chutes
- Motors and drives
- Industrial electrical systems
- Instrumentation
- PLC / SCADA
- Industrial control systems
The candidate must understand how equipment performance affects throughput, recovery, quality, downtime and operating cost.
Role Objective
Build the bridge between:
Steel Scrap Plant Problem → Product Requirement → Solution → Pilot → Deployment → Operations → Scale
The Co-Founder will bring real steel scrap plant knowledge into TejTatv's product development and help ensure that solutions address genuine, measurable and commercially valuable industry problems.
Key ResponsibilitiesProduct
- Identify high-value steel scrap processing problems.
- Convert plant problems into product requirements.
- Define practical AI, sensing, analytics, sorting and automation use cases.
- Work with AI/ML, computer vision, sensor, automation and software teams.
- Drive products from problem → prototype → pilot → industrial product.
Operations & Maintenance
- Analyse plant processes, bottlenecks and downtime.
- Identify equipment reliability and maintenance opportunities.
- Assess condition-monitoring and predictive-maintenance opportunities.
- Evaluate existing instrumentation, automation and plant infrastructure.
- Define retrofit requirements.
Deployment
- Lead plant surveys and technical assessments.
- Support installation, commissioning and pilot execution.
- Coordinate with plant, maintenance, production, electrical, instrumentation, OEM and EPC teams.
- Ensure solutions work with existing infrastructure and PLC/SCADA systems.
- Build repeatable deployment and service processes.
Customer & Commercialisation
- Validate customer problems and economic impact.
- Support plant visits, technical discussions and pilot planning.
- Define ROI and measurable outcomes.
- Convert successful pilots into repeatable products.
Problem Validation
A core responsibility is to validate real industry problems.
The Co-Founder should determine:
Is the problem recurring?
What does it cost the plant?
How is it currently managed?
What information is missing?
Can it be measured?
Can TejTatv solve it technically?
Can it be deployed without disrupting production?
Will customers pay for the solution?
This makes the role both a steel scrap domain expert and industrial problem-validation leader.
Ideal Candidate ProfileExperience — STRICTLY MANDATORY
The candidate must have substantial direct experience in steel scrap processing / steel scrap recycling plants.
Preferred backgrounds:
Plant Head | Operations Head | Project Execution Head | Maintenance Head | Engineering Head | Senior Technical/Operations Leader
Candidates without direct steel scrap plant experience should not apply.
Education
B.Tech / B.E. — Required
M.Tech / M.E. / Master's — Strongly Preferred
Relevant disciplines include:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics
- Instrumentation
- Metallurgy
- Industrial Engineering
- Mechatronics
- Automation / Control Systems
- Other closely related engineering disciplines
Ph.D. is not required.
Core Capability
The candidate should operate across:
Steel Scrap Processing + Maintenance + Operations + Project Execution + Product + Automation + Sensors + Data
and convert:
Plant Problem → Validated Problem → Product Requirement → Pilot → Deployment → Scalable Product
What We Are Looking For
We are not looking for a generic CTO, Product Manager, Operations Manager or Maintenance Manager.
We are looking for a steel scrap industry insider who can become a co-founder and build products around real problems in steel scrap processing plants.
The candidate should be able to identify:
- Major unresolved plant problems
- Problems with measurable financial impact
- Recovery, quality, throughput and uptime losses
- Existing methods and their limitations
- Information and sensing gaps
- AI/automation opportunities
- Practical retrofit opportunities
- Customer willingness to pay
Co-Founder Commitment & Investment
This is a genuine Co-Founder — Steel Scrap Processing, Product, Operations & Deployment role.
The selected candidate should be:
- Willing to accept meaningful founder-level equity, subject to mutual agreement.
- Willing to participate in an equity + ESOP structure, as mutually agreed.
- Willing and financially capable of contributing ₹1–2 Crore of capital to the company.
- Prepared to lead industry problem validation, product development, pilots and deployment.
- Prepared to build the Product, Operations and Deployment function.
- Comfortable with the risks and responsibilities of an early-stage deep-tech company.
Important
The ₹1–2 Crore contribution is not a fee for obtaining the Co-Founder position.
It would be treated as a potential capital investment into the company, with investment structure, valuation, equity allocation, governance rights, investor rights, use of funds and other terms mutually agreed and formally documented, subject to due diligence.
The requirement is intended to identify a co-founder demonstrating long-term financial and strategic commitment to TejTatv.
Preferred Location
Mumbai • Pune • Maharashtra • Gujarat • Nagpur • Hyderabad • Karnataka • Odisha • Chhattisgarh • Delhi/NCR
Candidates from other locations may be considered only if they can travel regularly for steel scrap plant visits, customer discovery, plant surveys, project execution, pilots, product validation and deployments.
Why This Role Matters
Steel scrap processing is equipment-intensive, operationally complex and highly variable. TejTatv needs a leader who understands the actual steel scrap plant environment.
This Co-Founder connects:
Steel Scrap Industry × Plant Operations × Maintenance × Project Execution × Product × AI × Sensors × Material Intelligence
- The objective is to identify genuine problems, validate their economic value, build practical solutions, deploy them in real plants and scale successful solutions across the steel scrap industry.
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