Operations Manager - Automotive Production

Operations Manager

• Co-ordinate with PPC for daily production planning of cells.
• Ensure all shop floors follow Personnel and Machine Safety standards.
• Daily interactions with customer & representatives to ensure customer is having 2 days coverage of materials
• Monitoring & Review of Hourly / daily production of cells as per target with Team leaders & Group leaders
• Work with various departments to resolve production 4M loss issues which affect productivity & target of cells
• Drive continues improvements projects to achieve plant productivity, CI targets & quality targets
• Quality focus on shop floor i.e. review daily cell level rejection, defects, and customer complaints. Drive team for proper root cause analysis & actions
• Active participation for feasibility and risk assessment in new ECN & projects
• Managing a team of 800 teams which includes union workman, engineers, team leaders & Group leaders
• To handle various customer & system audits.
• Strongly familiar with lean manufacturing techniques.
• Able to plan & execute operational expenses as per annual operating plans.
• Ensure shop floor will maintain/arranged as per global 5S standards
• Technical knowledge of welding, Press components and Assembly.
• Daily tracking and controls of Operation cost of the plant.
• New Project launches and development
• SMED and VSM knowledge
• Bottleneck Management and improvements
• Knowledge of TPM and Autonomous Maintenance.
• Knowledge of Problem-Solving tools and approach

 

 

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (DME, B.E., B. Tech etc.)
• Minimum 18 to 20 years of experience of production in automotive Tier 1 companies.
• Excellent communication & co- ordination skill to interact with support functions, union committee & members
• Familiarity with drawings, APQP, PPAP & knowledge.
• Well versed with Quality Systems such as ISO9001, IATF16949, TS16949 & customer audit like M&M MSES, VW formal Q capability etc.
• Advanced PC skills (MS Office, Spreadsheets, ppt etc.).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, Marathi & Hindi
• Excellent in welding process.
• Excellent in root cause analysis techniques 8D, Fish bone diagram, why- why analysis.
• Excellent analytical skill
• Ability to do annual operating plan:- Capacity planning, productivity planning & operations expenses planning

 

 

 

Experience Level

Senior Level