Opex Manager

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
• Professional 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)