Plant Head || Aluminium Casting || Western India

Role & responsibilities

Role and Responsibilities:

• Management of Facilities & resources
• Oversee all operations of the plant in line with Business Unit guidelines and deliver quality products on time & at optimum cost
• Enhance & manage plant efficiency levels with optimum performance of capacity utilization and productivity
• Oversee the preparation & execution of monthly/ weekly/ daily production schedule and allocation of manpower, material and machines for their effective utilization.
• Responsible for budget preparation and monitoring of the plant operations.
• Ensure availability of materials, tools and dies and other spares and consumables for smooth operations and timely delivery.
• Executing cost saving and energy saving techniques / measures and modifications to achieve substantial reduction in operational cost (manpower, raw material, energy).
• Identifying bottlenecks and process problems for production shortfall for taking corrective action.
• Periodic PDCA daily/weekly/monthly

Management of Equipment:

• Ensure adequate preventive, predictive and breakdown maintenance activities in order to minimize production downtime.
• Improvement in capability of machines & equipment

Process & Quality management:

• Ensure strict adherence to quality control and quality assurance processes and norms to deliver best in class quality products.
• Monitor every stage of production and take course correction, if necessary.
• Monitor quality, accuracy, and timeliness of all orders to ensure customer commitments are met.

Manpower:

• Ensure skill up-gradation and multi skilling of workers along with HR.
• Ensure proper performance appraisal for his team, mentoring & coaching
• To ensure the implementation of improvement schemes, Kaizen, pokayoke, SPC / SQC, 5S and TPM and small group activities & continuous improvement programs in the company

New product development:

Support NPD activities by leading & participating in CFT

Preferred candidate profile

• Knowledge of metallurgy and aluminum alloy die casting in GDC, LPDC, heat treatment of casting & shot blasting, CNC, Paint shop
• Knowledge of Aluminum alloy wheels / low pressure die casting preffered
• Customer handling for Q & d
• Forward-planning and strategy

Problem-solving and administrative skills

bharti@symbiosisindia.net or sabneet@symbiosisindia.net