Manufacturing Investment Committee Adviser — Film Line Scale-Up

The mandate

Manufacturing investment papers describe the output of a new film line using equipment nameplate capacity and selected successful trials. Directors need a more grounded assessment of the path from commissioning to dependable saleable production. This adviser will examine whether resin availability, process competence, utility readiness, downstream conversion and customer qualification can support the ramp assumed in the capital case, and where missing evidence should change the commitment sequence.

The nine-month engagement begins on 26 October 2026, reserving four days monthly for paper review, site observation and technical challenge. A quarterly manufacturing investment committee meeting is included; additional meetings or exceptional travel days require an agreed fee before scheduling. The chair receives an initial view of a newly supplied complete paper within five working days. Incomplete evidence is identified within two working days, with the missing inputs named rather than an unsupported answer rushed into the meeting.

The adviser has no line authority over capital-project teams and no executive responsibility for equipment procurement, commissioning or investment approval. Project managers manage contractors, site leaders run plants and directors authorise investment. Advice must distinguish a technically feasible process from a commercially usable output mix. It should expose whether the proposed downstream equipment can handle the product portfolio, whether startup waste has been funded and which assumed efficiencies depend on an operating capability not yet demonstrated by the team.

The committee chair decides whether to seek renewal after the ninth-month assessment. Continuation needs a board-approved written term of no more than twelve months, with capacity and retainer agreed afresh. Other non-competing assignments are allowed within the reserved capacity. Paid relationships with competing line suppliers, bidders for the same project or counterparties selling the proposed equipment must be disclosed and can prevent appointment. The adviser will not receive commissions, certify construction safety or provide equipment performance guarantees. A disagreement with a supplier should become a precise question and an evidence request, not a claim of authority the advisory role does not possess.

What you will own

• Examine proposed output assumptions against demonstrated process windows, grade breadth and changeover behaviour, explaining to the committee which figures represent proven capability and which remain hypotheses requiring operating validation.
• Challenge the relationship between upstream line capacity and metallising, coating or finishing capacity, identifying downstream restrictions that could leave expensive installed output unable to meet the planned customer portfolio.
• Assess startup and qualification allowances for material losses, trial duration and customer acceptance, drawing attention to unfunded periods during which production may be technically satisfactory but not yet commercially released.
• Advise on a staged evidence schedule for capital release, proposing practical demonstrations of utility readiness, operator capability and usable output while leaving approval and contractual conditions with authorised owners.
• Review alternative investment configurations for flexibility and exposure, helping directors compare a lower-cost narrow process with a broader platform whose complexity may require more technical capability than currently exists.
• Summarise unresolved technical assumptions in a concise committee challenge note, distinguishing questions for suppliers, independent engineers and operating management so the board can seek the appropriate evidence before deciding.

Candidate qualifications

• Bring a 12–18-year manufacturing career with practical responsibility for polymer film processes and exposure to line expansion, commissioning support or substantial production-capability changes. Describe how actual ramp behaviour differed from an initial capacity claim. Your evidence should explain the operating causes, downstream implications and decision consequence rather than relying on the equipment brand or the headline capital budget.
• Have substantive knowledge of cast film or double-bubble orientation and at least one downstream operation such as coating, metallising or finishing. You must be able to recognise when upstream output cannot support the intended product mix and when a supplier's successful sample represents a narrower condition than sustained commercial manufacture. Relevant technical education should underpin that assessment.
• Demonstrate utility and process-readiness judgement, including the ability to distinguish capacity adequacy from stable service performance. Energy-management or structured improvement credentials are valuable where applied to real operating decisions. Construction design, certified safety assessment and equipment valuation remain specialist disciplines; the adviser must identify their necessity without claiming to replace them through general manufacturing experience.
• Produce clear technical challenge for senior decision-makers while respecting an advisory boundary. Show how you made uncertainty understandable, changed a proposed assumption and preserved a productive dialogue with management. Disclose supplier interests and concurrent project relationships before receiving papers. The four-day monthly reservation includes preparation and site evidence review, so committee attendance alone will not satisfy the agreed contribution.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 8 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-ADV-2026-IND-217.