Deputy Director - Plant Manager

Job Profile:

The role of a Plant Manager is to manage a production plant. The main missions of the role are to:

- Assume the management of the Autonomous Production Unit Managers and of the support function managers (HR, Quality, Finance, Logistics, Purchasing)

- Ensure smooth inbound and outbound information flows

- Ensure customer satisfaction

- Drive plant Quality, Cost, Delivery and People (QCDP) performance and build and meet the plant budget

- Drive product/process QCD improvement; optimize plant lay-out and equipment usage

- Ensure manufacturing readiness and launches at plant level

- Drive supplier performance improvement

- Define a deployment plan for the Companies Excellence System and implement it

- Drive plant improvement networks and involve everyone in continuous improvement processes

- Ensure employees safety, respect for the environment and security of the plant

- Fulfill legal responsibilities and interface with local authorities

- Ensure staffing, induction, training and development of plant employees

- Manage social climate and labour relations

- Develop future experts and managers

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have/be:

- Proven experience in production management

- Proven experience in team management

- Ability to build and manage a budget

- Results orientation

- Minimum bi-lingual (English required)

- Should me able to speak Tamil.