Lenskart Head of Frame Manufacturing

Role overview

Lenskart Head of Frame Manufacturing at Lenskart

Head of Frame Manufacturing Lenskart |Bhiwadi, India | On-site | Full-time Mission Brief: Build the Factory That Will Define Eyewear Manufacturing for Asia Lenskart is building one of the world's most ambitious eyewear manufacturing ecosystems — and this role is at the very centre of it.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation roadmap development: identify high-ROI opportunities for robotic process integration, vision-based quality inspection, and AI-assisted defect detection.
• Drive lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and TPM practices — not as compliance frameworks but as a living culture of continuous improvement.
• Build a culture anchored in craftsmanship, accountability, and curiosity — where every person on the floor takes ownership of the product they make.

Required qualifications

• 10–15 years of progressive leadership in precision manufacturing — eyewear frames, consumer durables, automotive components, or precision plastics/metals — with a demonstrated track record of setting up or significantly scaling a greenfield or brownfield facility.
• Technical Depth: Deep hands-on knowledge of eyewear frames manufacturing processes (injection moulding, acetate machining, metal processing, finishing, assembly) combined with a genuine appetite for technology — automation, smart manufacturing, and AI-assisted operations.
• Systems Thinking: You understand manufacturing as an interconnected system, not a collection of machines.
• You design for flow, data, and resilience — not just capacity.
• Leadership: Proven ability to build and lead large cross-functional teams in high-growth, ambiguous environments.
• You set direction, develop people, and hold yourself to the same standard you hold others.
• Strong engineering foundation — B.Tech / B.E. / M.Tech in Mechanical, Production, Industrial, or a related engineering discipline from a top tier 1 institution.
• The Mindset Builder, not optimizer.
• You're energized by the blank canvas — the greenfield setup, the zero-to-one challenge, the chance to build something that has never existed before.
• Tech-forward.
• You believe the factory of the future is a data-generating, AI-informed, continuously learning system — and you want to build one.
• Ownership without ego.
• You get into the details when it matters, you delegate when it doesn't, and you never blame the system — you improve it.
• Pace and precision.
• You thrive at the intersection of speed and quality — moving fast enough to stay ahead of Lenskart's growth curve while maintaining the craftsmanship standards the brand demands.
• Long-term builder.
• You're not here for two years.
• You want to build a legacy — a facility that becomes a case study in what modern, responsible, technology-enabled manufacturing looks like.
• Why This Role Own a mission-critical mandate at the centre of Lenskart's global expansion — this factory is foundational to the company's next phase of growth.
• Build from zero — rare, real greenfield authority with the resources, talent access, and leadership support to do it right.
• Work at the intersection of craftsmanship and technology — where precision manufacturing meets AI, automation, and data intelligence.
• Join one of Asia's most ambitious consumer tech companies — a brand that has already transformed how 50M+ customers access eyewear, and is just getting started.

Employment details

• Location: Gurugram

About the employer

• As Head of Frame Manufacturing, you will lead the ground-up design, commissioning, and full-scale operation of Lenskart's proprietary frames manufacturing plant.
• Factory Build-Out & Commissioning (The Founder's Mandate) Own the end-to-end setup of Lenskart's frames manufacturing plant — from concept, layout, and technology selection to full-scale production launch.
• Leverage AI-driven demand signals from Lenskart's planning systems to dynamically align production schedules, WIP levels, and raw material flows. 3.

Additional role details

• This isn't a role where you inherit a system and optimize it at the margins.
• You are the founder of this facility — owning everything from plant architecture and technology selection to the culture, the team, and the KPIs that will define world-class eyewear production.
• You will be building a smart, AI-enabled manufacturing engine that produces millions of frames annually, serves Lenskart's rapidly growing global retail and e-commerce network, and sets a new benchmark for what modern eyewear manufacturing can look like.
• If you've spent your career mastering precision manufacturing and have always wanted to build something at scale, from scratch, with the full backing of one of Asia's fastest-growing consumer tech companies — this is your moment. 🔑 What You'll Own 1.
• Define the facility's physical and operational blueprint across injection moulding, acetate machining, metal processing, finishing, and final assembly.
• Lead technology transfer and vendor partnerships, ensuring world-class equipment and process capability from day one.
• Partner with global design, product, and sourcing teams to engineer for manufacturability, speed, and consistency at scale. 2.
• Smart Manufacturing & AI-Driven Operations (The Technology Mandate) Build the factory as an Industry 4.0 operation from inception — embedding IoT-enabled process monitoring, real-time quality sensing, and data-driven production control into the plant's DNA.
• Implement predictive maintenance systems that use machine learning signals to minimize unplanned downtime and extend asset life.
• Define and own the plant's data architecture — ensuring every process generates actionable intelligence on throughput, yield, cycle time, and quality.
• Operational Excellence (The Execution Mandate) Institutionalize end-to-end plant operations across production planning, quality assurance, maintenance, and EHS.
• Define, track, and relentlessly improve core operational KPIs: throughput, first-pass yield, OEE, cost-per-unit, and on-time-in-full delivery.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, Finance, and Product teams to align manufacturing output with commercial goals, inventory targets, and new product launch timelines. 4.
• Team & Culture (The People Mandate) Recruit and develop a high-performance leadership team across production, quality, engineering, and plant operations.
• Champion a data-driven decision-making culture where operators, supervisors, and managers all work from the same real-time performance dashboards.
• The Essentials