Define business concept, long-term vision, and business strategy.
Create operational measures to ensure the organization is moving towards the desired direction of realizing the Business Plan, Vision, Mission, and Objectives.
Capture, evaluate, and analyze competitors operations assess the competitive forces in the marketplace that could potentially affect operational excellence.
Analyze various aspects of manufacturing process-related competition including competing firms. Create benchmarks to enhance processes and performance metrics, and deploy crucial information about the competition into operational strategies for competitive advantage.
Participate in identifying the organization s thrust areas in line with long-term Vision, Mission, and Strategy.
Provide operational insights during PPW for the specific thrust areas.
Drive departmental goals derived from thrust areas and cascade them further to the next levels viz., section, sub-section, and individuals.
Drive Operational Excellence :
Define and introduce Stretch Performance Measures for the department in line with the organization s trust areas, Vision, Mission, and Strategies.
Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the organizational structure of the department and make required changes to meet business requirements.
Govern and manage SCM, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering Functions to meet organization as well as departmental goals.
Continuously evaluate the performance using effective metrics for all three Functions viz. SCM, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering and take required actions.
Drive development of SOPs for various critical processes for all three functions and ensure execution of orders accordingly.
Study the output of all three functions as per the target and business needs and conduct continual improvements and corrective actions.
Introduce best manufacturing practices as found fit for the organization to stay ahead of the competition.
Ensure compliance with national and international standards of operations across the three functions.
Minimize throughput time and work in process inventory by systematic material, production, and industrial engineering planning and efficient monitoring of the plans.
Ensure reduction in quality cost with the help of analysis of non-conformances on a periodic basis and also by following suitable actions (both corrective and preventive)
Monitor operations costs and reduce them wherever possible by deploying efficient systems and using plant layouts properly or correctly.
Ensure reduction in quality cost with the help of analysis of non-conformances on a periodic basis and also by following suitable actions (both corrective and preventive).
Monitor product standards and compliance with quality-control programs for their effectiveness and implement corrective actions.
Manage and help provide world-class evaluations and key performance indicators to evaluate and predict performance and process adherence with the operational strategies.
Develop, implement, and monitor capacity and utilization measurement standards within various product verticals.
Drive root cause analyses, independently and in cross-functional teams (both internal and external), develop mitigations, corrective and preventative actions for operational issues in all three areas - SCM, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering.
Direct and coordinate various programs essential to SCM, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering (e.g., training, safety, housekeeping, cost reduction, worker involvement, security, etc.).
Lead, monitor, and coordinate major projects (e.g., plant layout changes, installation of capital equipment, major repairs, etc.).
Deploy TPM tools and techniques and Lean Manufacturing processes, for enhanced manufacturing outputs.
Team D evelopment and Leadership :
Ensure obtaining of the right manpower with the support of HR department.
Direct and monitor department managers to accomplish the goals of the operations plan, consistent with established manufacturing and safety procedures.
Act as a liaison between department management/subordinate levels, as well as executive/department manager levels to communicate decisions, policies, and all matters that affect their performance, attitude, and results.
Establish high-performance standards for the team members and guide them to successfully achieve the same.
Continuously upgrade team capability and efficiency by providing improvement suggestions.
Provide feedback to the team on customer problems or needs.
Monitor, improve, measure and manage the performance of the team.
Promote a culture of sharing and teamwork for superior performance.