Responsibilities:

- Assess the performance of the plant regarding any given referential, typically maturity of management organization, process, equipment adequacy and efficiency, maintenance, housekeeping and dust management, quality, etc.
- Work with the plant management to determine and justify the priorities.
- Elaborate and coordinate any relevant action plan to deal with the priorities.
- Lead and Coordinate Kaizen/Lean and 5S workshops

Role includes:

- To be involved in each agreed action,
- Train the members in the use of lean techniques and help in training others to train,
- Agree the actions and follow their implementation,
- Measuring the success of the action plan,
- Check the sustainability of the new processes.,
- Ensure EHS procedures are fully included in the scope
- Check in due time the status of work group results, push them to analyze further and achieve their goals
- Share the opportunities with the OPEX teams and roll out best practices.
- Report progress and resource needs to the plant manager
- Apply & follow safety rules within the plant
- Coordination for IMS implementation with all functions & consultants.

Profile/Competencies:

Education, background, level of experience Essential/Mandatory:

- B.E/B.Tech in Chemical, Ceramic, Production, or Industrial Engineering




- Six Sigma Green Belt or any equivalent Lean certification
- Professional with a background of 5 - 8 years in an industrial site operating ideally in fields similar to Calderys (continuous processes like steel, cement, refractories etc)
- Solid technical basic skills, even scholar, enabling him to understand all aspects of industrial life.
- Field production experience
- Ability to lead multi-disciplined teams
- Experience and knowledge in the field of lean production, production system design principles and know how to use lean methods as improvement tools in a targeted manner.
- Open minded, experience in multicultural environments

Desirable Skills:

- Problem solving, Planning, negotiation and arbitration
- Oral and written communication - internal/external contacts
- Team player with positive mindset
- Ability to “influence without authority”, lead multi-disciplined teams, train: able to explain concepts, help people without substituting himself, able to make concrete feedback to encourage improvements
- Qualified English (Knowledge of Hindi is desirable), MS Office, Strong analytical skills, Data analytics skills, including experience of statistical methods (knowledge of a statistical software package like Minitab is an advantage)

📌 Opex Manager (India)
🏢 Calderys
📍 India