Head Operations- Plant

Lead production planning and execution for the assigned plant; Ensure and provide inputs for improvement project planning and execution, Review metrics to ensure achievement of set production objectives; Coordinate with other departments such as maintenance, quality, improvement, etc. to align and remove roadblocks .

1. Production Planning:

Understand the targets set for sales, manpower cost & variable cost

Draw own functional priorities and participate in the cross functional team to convert these targets to relevant targets for production; Propose PPM targets, Scrap cost, PQCD cost, etc.

Develop plans to ensure minimum production cost in line with the business plan to achieve the PQCD targets by ensuring continuous improvement.

Conduct discussions with the key customer - Purchase, to finalize material planning for the coming month, identify and provide suggestions for resolution of issues

Execute the production plan as per the PPC guidelines to meet the Customer schedule.

2. Improvement Projects:

Define projects in line with the overall improvement targets for production, maintenance, etc.;

Provide inputs to PE team on project planning and execution; Analyze and identify lines with opportunities to improve/ reduce cycle time, etc. Provide ideas and brainstorm with the improvement PE team on opportunities and scope for improvements in manufacturing processes through process elimination, process merging, changes in layout etc.

3. Cost Reduction

Cycle time reduction of bottlenecks by changing program, modifying machine assembly & manpower training etc.

Improve productivity by multi machining, reducing cycle time & training to new machine operators on Machine Operations, Job Handling, Product quality specification.

Monitoring Kaizen, 5s & TPM training & train employees for multi machining & multi skilling.

4. Customer Complaints

Monitor & Reduce complaints level by analyzing the product and process defects and taking corrective action by improving production process and deploying the same horizontally.

Review day to day production process for rejection monitoring (process wise & product wise) to identify top defect for down the line Implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

Monitoring SPC (Statistical Process Chart) & PQC (Process Quality Chart) repots to correct production process.

5. Safety

Monitoring implementation of EHS guidelines, implementing various EHS systems, monitoring strict usage of PPEs.

Monitoring for audit compliance & taking corrective actions to clear nonconformities.

6. Internal Audit and Documentation

Monitor internal audit for auditing adherence to Safety, TPM,5s etc

Ensure completeness of documents for IATF, Customer & other external audits

Workout and implement SOPs (Standard operating procedures), OPL (One Point lesson) for production process.

Monitoring Employees Skill matrix & Preparing Production MIS.

Document preparation for IATF, Customer & other external audits.

7. Stakeholder management

Manage stakeholders such as maintenance, quality and improvement to achieve common objectives e.g. with maintenance to ensure maximum uptime of machines

Engage with maintenance and improvement department on the lines to be run 24*6, maximize uptime, improvements with minimal cost, etc.

Work with quality team on smooth customer audits, monitor house rejection against set targets and reduce rejection trends, maintain customer PPM, etc.

8. Team development

Establish individual performance expectations and regularly review individual performance of the team

Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance functional knowledge

Plan for second line development and scale up, provide additional responsibilities for team from time to time

Educational Qualifications

a) Qualifications Diploma/ B.Tech /B.E. degree from a recognized institution (Any Specialization).

b) Work Experience Minimum 15-20 years of experience In-depth knowledge of Manufacturing industry (Wiring Harness experience will be advantage)

Past experience of production management of similar products categories