Principal, Film Yield and Capacity Evidence Programme

The mandate

One production line reports strong running efficiency while material-accounting records show a persistent gap between resin issued and film sold. Startup loss, rework, downgraded rolls and retained material are recorded differently across shifts. The project will establish a defensible loss boundary and test a small set of operating changes. It must determine how much usable capacity can be recovered without confusing faster running, inventory accumulation and genuinely improved saleable yield.

Delivery begins on 26 October 2026 and runs for six months at three days weekly, combining site observation with analysis. The production and finance controllers jointly accept the reconciled baseline on 10 December 2026. Quality and the process manager accept the trial-evidence file on 18 February 2027. The transformation sponsor accepts the complete improvement and measurement package on 26 April 2027, after nominated analysts reproduce its conclusions from retained source records without the principal's assistance.

The sponsor provides batch histories, material movements, downtime logs, relevant quality results and protected access to agreed trial windows. The principal designs analysis and experimental comparisons; site managers control operating decisions and quality authorises trial-product disposition. A result requires reconciled input and output mass, stated measurement limitations and validation of product properties. Unsupported attribution of every unexplained loss to operator behaviour will not satisfy acceptance, nor will a claimed gain whose comparison period used an easier product mix.

The agreed fee covers one line, its existing grade family and the specified trials. New equipment installation, changes to customer specifications, a second production facility and implementation of a plant-wide software platform are excluded. A new grade family or unavailable source history triggers a written scope decision with the sponsor, including the effect on testing, fee and delivery dates. Final materials must include unsuccessful experiments, residual uncertainty and a practical measurement routine, leaving management able to decide which improvements merit deployment rather than depending on a consultant's continuing interpretation.

What you will own

• Map material states from resin issue to released, downgraded, reworked and retained film, agreeing a measurement boundary that prevents the same quantity from disappearing between production efficiency and financial inventory records.
• Construct the baseline using source-level batch reconciliation and observation of recording practice, documenting measurement tolerances and unresolved differences before ranking supposed causes of yield loss or unavailable capacity.
• Design a limited experiment plan that tests specific hypotheses about transition loss, stable running conditions or rework, specifying comparable grades, necessary samples and the evidence required to distinguish an effect from ordinary variation.
• Analyse trial outcomes with quality and process specialists, preserving negative findings and checking whether any output gain increases downgrade, downstream rejection or material retained for later disposition.
• Calculate recoverable saleable capacity under the existing product mix, separating physical constraint removal from savings dependent on future demand, extra staffing or additional capital that falls outside this investigation.
• Deliver an improvement decision file with cost, expected effect, uncertainty and implementation prerequisites, allowing the sponsor to compare actions without mistaking an attractive experiment for an already approved plant-wide change.
• Train nominated analysts to repeat the material balance and trial comparison, testing their interpretation of a deliberately introduced recording error before final acceptance of the measurement instructions and handover records.

Candidate qualifications

• Have 12–18 years of relevant manufacturing experience with substantial practical work in polymer films, cast processing, orientation or downstream film conversion. Provide a loss investigation where you reconciled physical material and production records, including a result that contradicted an accepted efficiency measure. Personal participation in defining the boundary and examining evidence matters more than sponsoring a generic improvement campaign.
• Demonstrate structured experimental judgement and a command of variation, comparison conditions and process constraints. Lean Six Sigma training or equivalent rigorous improvement practice should be supported by actual trials. Explain how you prevented a grade-mix change, deferred quality disposition or extra operating time from being reported as an improvement caused by your intervention.
• Bring relevant technical education and sufficient process depth to work credibly with operators and quality specialists. You must understand the significance of film properties and downstream suitability while respecting independent release and safety authority. The project requires practical observation as well as analysis; conclusions assembled entirely from dashboard summaries will not establish the necessary command of the manufacturing evidence.
• Be able to deliver within a fixed scope and leave reusable methods rather than a proprietary black box. Show an accepted technical handover with source references, limitations and trained internal users. Protect the three-day weekly commitment and disclose equipment-supplier relationships. When sponsor inputs are missing, your practice must make the acceptance consequence visible rather than quietly replacing unavailable evidence with assumptions.

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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-CON-2026-IND-218.