Senior Opex seniors - Manufacturing

EY-GDS- Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O): IWS, Manufacturing, Operational Excellence Senior Consultant

As part of our EY GDS SC&O team, you will help clients to improve the performance of their Manufacturing processes. Working with EY GDS-SC&O proprietary frameworks, you will help clients to improve reliability, flexibility and transform the manufacturing landscape whilst reducing the total cost. Typical role representation would include developing operating models, redesigning manufacturing processes, optimizing working capital, performing quick assessment, developing assets/tools and coming up with thought leadership.

The opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Consultant with an expertise in Manufacturing and Operational Excellence to join us in EY GDS-SC&O. This is a fantastic and rapidly growing opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering. Most of your time will be spent embedded with our clients’ team and we’ll look to you to provide our clients with a unique business perspective on how they must continue to innovate and remain competitive in this ever-changing industry.

About IWS

P&G’s Integrated Work System (IWS) is a proprietary way of improving manufacturing reliability, reducing costs and elevating productivity. IWS is a disruptive way of working predicated on two primary principles: the drive to zero losses and 100 percent employee ownership. The EY and P&G alliance combines the Integrated Work System with the global EY manufacturing performance improvement experience and P&G certified consultants to help clients improve performance via sustainable change and transformation.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Analysing as-is operating model especially for manufacturing clients
• Creating the vision for the manufacturing organization in line with the overall business strategy and targets
• Designing and frame working implementation to measure and manage the selected operating model of the organization
• Driving operational excellence to improve client’s performance and supply chain stability
• Designing and implementing EY Smart factory solution.
• Implementing measures to improve resource utilization and customer satisfaction: OEE, lot size adjustments, SMED, Predictive Maintenance, TPM, 5S, 7QC Tools
• Hands on experience of shop-floor process and ability to interact with shopfloor people (technicians, operators, casuals) to understand the real problem and to implement various systems.
• Ability to drive Digital transform projects for various manufacturing processes.
• Understanding of various systems like Agile, MES, ERP, QMS etc is desired
• Assisting in digital shop floor transformation and implement modern technology solutions enabling Factory of the Future
• Strong analytical skill to handle structured and unstructured data generated during manufacturing process and ability to devise meaningful stories around the same.
• Participate actively in building an industry focused practice across EY GDS service lines
• Identify opportunities, lead others to follow your unique solutions to unstructured problems
• Ability to share and interact with CXOs and present them with rational way forward and solutions

Requisite Core Skills

• Strong leadership and project management skills
• Street Smart
• Self- motivated, innovative and strong team player
• Strong core consulting skills- i.e. analytical, primary and secondary research presentation and including logical structuring and storyboarding, superior knowledge of excel and PowerPoint
• Solid knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation.
• Strong presentation and verbal and written communication skills, and experience communicating to and working with onsite teams, clients and senior leaderships.
• Exceptional attention to detail, responsiveness, and strong track record of executing high-impact initiatives

Qualification, Experience, Requirements:

• Academic qualification: MBA from IIMC PGPEX VLM, NITIE or Tier I colleges (preferably in Operations Management)
• Work Experience: 6-10 Years of Manufacturing/OP-Ex/ Performance Improvement/maintenance experience(ideal) with any core manufacturing sector who has had his/her sleeves dirty
• The person should be willing to travel outside the country when needed on short- or medium-term assignments 50% of the times.