Website:
kpcbs.com
Job details:
Position Overview:
Keerthi Holdings Pvt Ltd, operating its PCB business as Keerthi Circuits, is seeking a high potential Operations Associate who will report directly to senior leadership. The role is for an engineer with factory comfort, analytical ability, learning agility, and ambition to take on broader responsibility.
The role combines manufacturing exposure, operational analysis, execution tracking, and process digitisation. The candidate will work with production, quality, purchase, stores, planning, maintenance, finance, and leadership teams.
This is not an administrative or office only analytics position. The candidate must understand problems on the factory floor and use data, digital tools, and structured thinking to help solve them.
Key Responsibilities
· Spend regular time on the factory floor to understand processes and operating problems
· Collect and validate operational data with the teams that generate it
· Build dashboards, reports, comparisons, and basic scenario evaluations
· Track output, yield, rejection, rework, downtime, delivery, and material availability
· Support process digitisation and ERP workflows using generative AI and other tools
· Record decisions, actions, owners, and timelines, and ensure follow through
The role requires combining factory observation with analytical problem solving rather than working only from reports.
How This Role GrowsYear 1
· Learn the plant, manufacturing processes, and operating data with factory teams
· Focus on data preparation, dashboards, ERP support, and execution tracking
Year 2
· Own recurring reviews, analytical workstreams, or defined digitisation projects
· Contribute insights and structured recommendations in management reviews
Longer Term
· Lead larger cross functional initiatives, improvement programmes, or strategic projects
· Grow into general management responsibility based on judgment and reliability
Growth is performance driven and tied to learning ability, ownership, and operating understanding.
Candidate ProfileEducation and Experience
· Bachelor's degree in Engineering, B.Tech or B.E., in any discipline
· Approximately 2 to 4 years of experience, preferably in manufacturing or another physical operating environment
Skills and Competencies
· Excellent written and spoken English
· Strong analysis of operational, financial, and performance data
· Ability to connect data with factory activity, identify root causes, and recommend practical actions
· Hands on use of generative AI tools beyond basic chat
· Ability to use Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar tools for analysis, automation, internal tools, or ERP improvement
· Strong Excel skills; Power BI, SQL, Python, Tableau, or similar tools are useful but not mandatory
· Ability to learn unfamiliar software independently and apply it to business problems
· High integrity, professional judgment, and evidence of ownership
Preferred Background
· First preference for Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, Production, or Manufacturing Engineering
· Other engineering disciplines considered with strong plant or physical operations exposure
· Factory experience in process manufacturing, automotive, heavy industry, electronics, chemicals, or similar environments
· Exposure to production, quality, purchase, stores, planning, maintenance, supply chain, cost analysis, or financial reporting
Location and Work Environment
· Fully in person at the Balanagar plant in Hyderabad, operating six days per week
· Comfort around chemical and wet processes, plating lines, presses, CNC equipment, machinery, noise, heat, and protective equipment
· Preference for candidates in Hyderabad, Telangana, or Andhra Pradesh, or with a clear reason to relocate
Why Join Us?
· Competitive salary and benefits with direct exposure to senior leadership
· Work on factory expansion, ERP development, process improvement, and digitisation
· Performance based path toward manufacturing and general management responsibility
About Keerthi Holdings Pvt Ltd
Keerthi Holdings Pvt Ltd, operating as Keerthi Circuits, was the first company to establish flexible PCB manufacturing in India. With more than 30 years of experience, we supply flexible and rigid PCBs to multinational medical technology companies and strategic defence sector PSUs.
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