Position reporting to: Designation

Reporting to Location:

VP-Operations

Chennai

Direct reports: Designation & Grade level

Direct reports Location:

All functional incharge/ operations head at Chakan/ Ranjangaon plant

 Chakan/ Ranjangaon

Job Purpose

Responsible for overall management of the manufacturing plants

1. Overall performance management of plant operations and drive improvement
2. To monitor, guide and ensure smooth running of each plant and ensure that they achieve their respective QCD target
3. Lead the activities towards establishing Built-in-quality approach through implementation of best practices and quality methods, management tools (eg. APQP, QMS, 3S,..)
4. Ensure the smooth start-up and early stabilization of all new programs at plants under scope and focus on timely improvement actions
5. Lead the actions towards strong customer relationship management
6. Organization development & compliances adherence

Profile

Experience:

Qualification:

18 - 20 yrs in Automotive Industry

with experience of multi-site operations handling

Graduate Engineer (B.E. / B.Tech.)

Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving the desired quality of the final product by ensuring process & quality in the various manufacturing processes
• Managing operating cost by ensuring adequate control on expenses and wastages reduction
• Responsible for achievement of production & dispatch as per customer schedule
• Achieving and improving performance on agreed operational metrics
• Leading talent management including hiring, coaching & development of people in collaboration with HR
• To drive performance improvement based on actual internal results & identified gaps, customer feedbacks and establish strong internal reviews & response mechanism.
• To proactively and regularly interact with customers & internal stakeholders to exchange necessary information and build strong communication, relationship.
• To ensure compliances towards all regulatory, legal and systemic requirements through strong monitoring & review mechanism and keep overall administrative control over the plants.

Competencies

Competencies

Definition

Level

Commitment

• Has the sense of Responsibility and is dedicated to do his job.
• He completes his job always on time by planning and hard work.
• While displaying his sense of Responsibility, dedication and timeliness, he motivates others also to achieve the same standard.
• In addition to all above, he displays ownership by taking decisions independently and takes responsibility for the consequences.

Leadership

• Develops the team to deliver results by communicating his expectations clearly and concisely.
• In addition to above, he expresses his views with his team members to help them achieve under normal circumstances. Develops subordinates to take independent good decisions on tough situations without getting agitated.
• Is accepted by his team and all in the company as a good leader to guide the team in tough situations with ease. He takes good decisions calmly, is able to interact with external people also with ease.

Initiative

• Proactively seeks additional responsibility beyond domain / function / location.

Capability Building of team

• Has required knowledge for the job to delivering by him.
• By sharing his knowledge, a) he guides his team members, b) corrects wherever necessary,
• Able to understand the limitations of existing resources and helps his team to overcome the limitations thus building their capability.
• Trains and develops people in other teams also.

Result Orientation

• Understands his Role & Responsibility, Understands company's objectives, delivers on all parameters of efficiency ( his Key result areas).
• Identifies the known solutions to existing problem.
• Identifies new solutions to existing and new problems with good analytical ability and understands the financial impact of decisions taken on business.
• In addition to above, identifies new business opportunities / future areas of focus & make use of his knowledge& analytical ability since he understands the financial impact of decisions being taken on business.

Communication

• Able to listen and communicate orally.
• Proactively gives feedback, using appropriate vocabulary
• Has the ability to make concise written & oral presentation with good clarity of thought on familiar & new subjects.

Relationships

External

Internal

• Customers (OEM customers)
• RM suppliers, contractors & other vendors
• Govt. agencies, QMS certification partners

• Regional Heads & Plant Heads
• Other Functions / Teams at Chakan Plant
• Other Functions / Teams at Ranjangaon Plant
• VP – Auto Operations
• Central functions at Corporate Office & Pune