Role Summary:

This role involves facilitating continuous improvement implementation at the business level. Shall lead/facilitate cross-functional teams in the application of Continuous improvement tools to achieve process improvements. Accountable for teaching/coaching Lean enterprise methods and integrating with the business to form and execute business improvement plans that deliver tangible perks to business performance. This role will contribute to build a people-first culture that delivers significant business results.

Responsibilities:

- Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets.

- Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects.

- Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives.

- Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results)

- Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups.

- Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results.

- Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation.

- Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields.

- Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams

Accountability & Authority

- Achieving savings as targeted by platform.

- Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant.

- Monitor, track, and report project status





- Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required.

- Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives

- Conduct training and organize kaizen events for improvements

Requirements:

- Typically,10+ Years of industrial experience5+ years of experience in Operation Excellence / CI.

- Knowledge on Product – Valves manufacturing.

- Manufacturing Process knowledge & Flow / Layout / Throughput time

- Knowledge on Assembly & Testing

- Reading of Drawings and tolerance requirements (GD&T;)

- Knowledge on SAP / ERP

- Lean tools & applications -

- Practitioner of Lean tools including VSM (Value Stream Mapping), OFP Operations Flow Process, Material-flow, Structured problem-solving methodology, OEE, Product-process / machinery matrix, Activity analysis, Future state design, Lean Layouts, FIFO, Kitting process, Shop Floor Management & Office floor management

- 7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s / Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)

- 6S Improvements

- Ability to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business.

- Experience in Power BI dashboard development

- Application development / deployment experience with PowerApps and power platform business

- Excellent oral, written and facilitation communication skills.

- Experienced inn Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business.

- Knowledge on Data analysis & Visualization

- Demonstrated Change Management Experience

- Strong Facilitation Experience: Instructional Design is a plus.

- QMS & EMS knowledge

- Six Sigma or LEAN Certified

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📌 Manufacturing Engineer (Chengalpattu)
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