Production Manager

Job Summary & Key Objectives

The Manager Production is responsible for leading day-to-day production activities, including manufacturing operations, shopfloor management, Production schedule, Manpower management, shift planning, Maintenance, Plant Utility, Work order completion, , Quality assurance, Achieve Yield target, scrap control also support Implementation of Lean concept’s. This role ensures safe, reliable, and efficient production performance across Plant KPI, assigned areas, while strengthening Production process, Manpower capability, Enhance the Output & Efficiency with supporting cross-functional teamalignment, and driving continuous improvement.

This position plays a key role in ensuring that production operations delivers effectively to the site’s broader objectives in Revenue in principle of Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), with a strong emphasis on Lean principles, operational discipline, and collaboration.

Key Objectives:

- To ensure strong coordination between production, Logistics, material preparation, Maintenance & quality control.
- To deliver stable and high-quality production output everyday target at High efficiency in aligned with customer and business requirements.
- To Promote a culture of Plant safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- To Support organizational capability by developing supervisors, line leaders, other key role.
- Need to provide comprehensive and reliable data for production-related decision-making.
- To Enhance process stability, equipment reliability, and material flow effectiveness.

Duties & Responsibilities

Production Management & Daily Operations

- To drive daily production operations & ensure Smooth, efficient, and high-quality output , provide strong leadership to line leaders, supervisors and quality personnel.
- Responsible for production scheduling, shift planning, weekly/monthly schedule production calendar , Festival work planning in view of efficiency enhancement.
- Managing DL count & ensure target efficiency achieved daily/weekly/monthly
- Overall resource planning, including capacity, materials, equipment’s, Jig/fixtures , Work instructions, Electricity & AC maintenance.

- Production Performance & Reporting To Monitor production KPI, also submit detail, accurate, timely reporting, date to all
- To Manage adherence to production budgets and resource utilization targets.
- To drive scrap reduction, and productivity improvement.

- Safety, Quality & Compliance To Uphold and enforce all safety regulatory compliance, procedures, best practices.
- To Ensure adherence to quality standards, in-process controls, and Collaborate with Quality team on defining RCA & CAPAC with target date & ownership.
- Continuous Improvement & Lean Implementation To Drive Lean practices, waste elimination. Kaizen, 5S, Standard Work, Visual Management in shopfloor, deploy culture of continuous Improvement daily.
- To empower Yield Improvement, Process optimization, cycle time reduction.
- To enhance efficiency of Production Process workflow & material storage/movement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- To closely work with all supporting functional team to succeed production continuity.
- To get best support from Engineering and Maintenance for equipment efficiency/less downtime, higher output, preventive maintenance, and process stability.
- To Participate in cross-functional projects to enhance site performance and efficiency.

- People Leadership & Development To Build a cardial relationship with all team , keep proper bonding, intent to create high-performing team through Mentoring, coaching and structured performance assessment & monitoring.
- To Develop leadership capability among supervisors and line leaders, Foster a culture of teamwork, Recognize, accountability, and continuous learning.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- Mechanical/Production or a related field.
- Language:
Mandatory to be TAMIL speak local candidate with good English skills
- 12+ Years of Overall Experience in Manufacturing industry including mandatory 7+Years in in electronics industries.
- 8+ years of experience in shopfloor management/production & manpower planning/ leadership of 100+ team size with shift operations 24hrs x 6 Days. Also 3+ Years of experience in handled Quality assurance activities added advantage

- Experience with ERP systems, data-driven decision-making, Lean methodologies/CIP