Assistant Manager- External Assembly Full Time NEW

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Safety Culture (EHS): Promoting strict compliance with Safety, Health, and Environmental standards, Ensuring zero-accident work environment.
• Quality Control: Ensure compliance with Nidec quality standards, reducing scrap, internal rejection, and customer complaints. Support internal and external audits (quality, customers, certifications, safety, compliance) and ensure the implementation of corrective actions.
• Operations Management: Lead and enforce strict adherence to SOP’s Safety Protocol and quality standards in respective shifts to minimize downtime and defects in Assembly area to deliver volume.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead and participate in the implementation of projects/Kaizens for waste reduction, layout optimization, Industry 4.0, line balancing, and increased productivity using innovative methodologies.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Management, Monitor and be responsible for the Assemblyarea’s key indicators as established by the Organization.
• Leadership and People Development: Manage, empower, and inspire a high-performance team, identifying talent, developing successors, and promoting a positive and engaged organizational climate, always based on Nidec’s 3Q6S culture. (Quality Worker, Quality Company, Quality Product Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, Show Respect)
• Cost Management: Control OPEX for the machining area, ensuring budget compliance, headcount, overtime, and Consumables costs.
• Multifunctional Interface: Collaborate closely with Maintenance, Product Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and HR to resolve bottlenecks and ensure continuous production flow.
• Improvement Projects: Implement continuous improvement projects (Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, SMED, Poka-Yoke, work standardization, Digitization) in conjunction with Engineering and Quality.
• Discipline Management: Break time adherence, shift time adherence, shift schedule adherence, unauthorized absenteeism, workplace conflict management ensuring zero impact on productivity due to indiscipline.
• Team Accountability: Drive a culture of Ownership by setting clear KPI’s, conducting regular performance reviews and implementing corrective actions.

REQUIREMENTS, HARD & SOFT SKILLS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics Engineering or related fields
• Solid knowledge of Assembly processes.
• Experience in manufacturing assembly line with cycle time below 8 seconds per piece.
• Mastery of Lean Manufacturing concepts and tools (5S, Kaizen, OEE, VSM, Kanban, SMED, Poka-Yoke, Just-in-Time) to problem solving agility.
• Knowledge of Quality Management: Relevant ISO Standards, SPC, FMEA, PDCA, 8D, non-conformity control, root cause analysis (Ishikawa, 5 Whys).
• Problem-Solving Agility: Proactive approach to handling emergency line stoppages.
• Conflict Management and Interpersonal Relationships: Ability to deal with different profiles, negotiate and resolve conflicts constructively.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Dissatisfaction with the status quo, always seeking better, simpler and more efficient standards.
• Organization and discipline: strong focus on standardization, process adherence, and rigorous monitoring of action plans.

Additional Information

• Fluent in English, Marathi and Hindi
• Experience in the processes: minimum 6-8 years & Ready to work in all 3 Shifts.
• Experience in environments with high production volume and strong quality requirements
• Industrial areas/sector:
• Consumer Electronics Industry
• Electric Motor Manufacturing
• Automotive
• Telecommunications
• Aerospace and Defense
• Industrial Control and Automation
• Oil and gas industries
• Large-Scale Tool and Die Shops