Manager Operations

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Key responsibilities

• Overall responsibility includes leading IAF Operations in India through medium / large and capable subcontractors located in various parts of India.
• This is ending to end responsibility that includes - managing subcontractors Project Management Ensuring Quality On Time Delivery Cost control Localization and optimization
• Coordinate all the cross functional team and resources to support the IAF Business growth in India. Lead the transfer and localization effort manage and coordinate the international purchasing parts / product delivery and project Manage the local customization fabrication painting and final assembly with sub-contractors.
• Controls and manages product/sales projects/subcontract projects to assure they meet strategic objectives while managing impact on affected customers entities plants and departments.
• Product transfer - Lead Product Engineer PPC and subcontractor for new product transfer/APD process trial and mass production in subcontractor site. Training and develop subcontractor better understand product spec. Coordinate material preparation per project need. Support on fixture design process standardization workmanship and project related documents preparation.
• Quality Control - Working and lead Quality Team for manage customized project quality control in subcontractor site to meet with Donaldson quality standard. Build quality standard inspection check list in-process quality control quality control plan.
• Lead Time - Provides project leadership to define plan organize and manage assigned projects management. Take lead of project scheduling to manage material and production plan in subcontractor site to meeting with customer lead time requirement.
• Cost Control - Working with Product Engineer for define project costed BOM manage cost control from order taking to shipping. Identifies maintains and controls project related planned costs.
• Gathers and analyzes information for decision making and actions related to assigned projects.
• Communicates projects status and manages overall planning for meet with customer request.
• Develops and documents improved processes and procedures for projects related progress as for quality/lead time as part of a cross functional team.
• Supports the point of manufacture process through data analysis and develops procedures surrounding the decision-making criteria.
• Understands and uses fundamentals of strategic planning.
• Initiates and integrates ideas in novel ways.
• Takes responsibility for setting goals for teams and communicating individual responsibilities to achieve the goals.
• Delegates and directs the work of others across project related entities plants suppliers/vendors and departments.
• And other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Possess strong leadership capabilities and ability to manage upward and downward relationship in Organization

Education Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in business management or engineering.

Technical Competence & Skills:

• Sound knowhow / knowledge of Fabrication Welding and Painting process Quality and Assembly. Experience and expertise in this area.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and use of the problem-solving tools
• Thorough working knowledge of the industries (suppliers customers sources of income behaviors expectations etc.)
• Demonstrated project management or project engineering leadership experience in complex and strategic programs in a manufacturing and distribution company.
• Experience in leading teams
• Process thinker
• Lean skills (customer consciousness enterprise thinking adaptation taking initiative innovation collaboration and influence)

Leadership Competence:

• Strong Techno-commercial abilities
• Strong leadership and people management skills: Leadership (setting pace decisiveness change management team development ability to influence organizational awareness).
• Entrepreneurship and strong drive
• People development (assessment of others feedback/coaching delegation motivating others performance. management communicating expectations).
• Interpersonal skills (relationship building teamwork interpersonal insight conflict resolution customer orientation).
• Communication (verbal communication persuasive impact listening written communication).
• Judgment and thinking (strategic thinking original thinking judgment and decision making problem solving awareness).
• Performance skills (accuracy with detail planning and organizing efficiency business acumen).

Personal characteristics (motivation/commitment flexibility assertiveness. orient. results orientation resilience quality orientation).

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum 10 years professional level experience in materials management production control engineering or project management.
• Customized equipment fabrication industry related experience and technical background:

Sheet metal Laser Cutting / CNC punching / Bending / Welding / Painting and Equipment Assembly. Well understanding global welding process with global quality standard. Well understanding global painting standard and metal surface pretreatment process.

• Machine equipment industrial experience familiar with metal fabrication engineering standard.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including the ability to influence people within all levels of the organization

Others (% of travel language etc.):

• Fluent in English
• Able to travel 80% of the time outside most for local suppliers/subcontractors.

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