Production Lead

Position Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall planning, execution, and control of manufacturing operations to ensure products are manufactured efficiently, on time, and to required quality standards.
• Manage resources, optimize processes, and lead a team to achieve production targets while adhering to safety and compliance regulations.
• Champion process control and change management efforts to adapt to upstream and downstream operations changes, drive improvement to process capability, and mitigate resultant process variation in own department.
• Provide supervision to section supervisors, team leaders, technicians, and engineers, including effective management of key resources and overall talent management objectives.
• Build and maintain close relationships with other operations departments to share and receive feedback on upstream and downstream operations.
• Facilitate and monitor all process/equipment changes and experimental plans involving the production process, including process improvement, new product trial runs, equipment/tooling redesign, and raw material/batch/component changes.
• Responsible for personal safety, the safety of co-workers, and promoting a safe work environment, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations.
• Lead projects in Manufacturing/Operations, such as OEE quality yield improvement, new product implementation, and transfer of new product or process.
• Lead root cause analysis related to process equipment failures through Problem-Solving approaches (DMAIC, MEE, etc.).
• Monitor and analyze process data, identifying trends, proposing solutions for continuous process improvement through statistical process control (SPC).
• Implement Lean Manufacturing principles to eliminate waste and improve efficiency.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical/Chemical Engineering) from a premium institute.
• Experience and understanding of process management systems, process control, and discipline techniques, Lean Manufacturing principles, and Six Sigma methodology.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to resolve complex process issues.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of safety and quality standards.
• Proven capability to manage, coach, direct, and develop salaried exempt and non-exempt employees, including training in employee effectiveness, conflict resolution, coaching, and supervisory effectiveness.
• Experience leading teams and projects to meet significant continuous improvement goals, cost reduction, or performance improvement initiatives.
• Green Belt certified in Performance Excellence (Six Sigma), Lean Sigma, and DMAIC methods.
• 12 to 15 years of experience in a similar capacity with a firm of repute.