The Manufacturing Lamination Rotor and Welding Manager will be the main leader responsible for the Lamination, Rotor and Welding area. This professional will be tasked with ensuring focus on Safety, Quality, Costs, Productivity along with Continuous Improvement & People Engagement.
The manager will lead large-scale multidisciplinary teams of 300 members, (including supervisors, process technicians, and operators) driving a mindset of continuous improvement to become the benchmark and ensuring that the compressors maintain their global standard of quality and innovation.
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 across all 3 shifts to minimize downtime and defects in Lamination, Rotor and Welding area to deliver volume. Manage Stamping process ( Mechanical/ Hydraulic , Coil feeding ), tooling ( dies punches), rotor processes (Ovens, Moulds, and welding systems) Transformers, Inverters calibration.
- 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 Lamination, Rotor and Welding area'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 Lamination, Rotor and Welding 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.
- HR Interface: Collaborate with HR in talent management, partnering in selection, performance evaluation, development plans, and succession planning. Ensure clear communication of the area's objectives, goals, and results to all levels of the Lamination, Rotor and Welding area.
- 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.
- In-depth knowledge of MIG/ MAG . TIG shielded metal arc and resistance welding, knowledge of phase transformations heat treatment (stress relief, and weldability of different alloys)
REQUIREMENTS
- Solid knowledge of lamination, rotor manufacturing and welding processes.
- Mastery of Lean Manufacturing concepts and tools (5S, Kaizen, OEE, VSM, Kanban, SMED, Poka-Yoke, Just-in-Time) to problem solving agility.
- Experience in Rotor manufacturing processes (BLDC and Die casted rotors)
- Knowledge of Quality Management: ISO Standards, SPC, FMEA, PDCA, 8D, non-conformity control, root cause analysis (Ishikawa, 5 Whys).
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, product specifications, and process instructions.
- Familiarity and ability to structure data-driven decision making and drive outcomes.
- Knowledge of industrial ergonomics and line balancing.
- Integration with ERP/MES systems (SAP or similar) and production management tools (digital shop floor).
- Knowledge of industrial costing and transformation cost analysis (direct labor, indirect labor, efficiency, etc.).
- Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of discrete Lamination, Rotor and Welding on machines, conveyor belts, industrial automation, robotics, and end-of-line quality testing.
- Problem-Solving Agility: Proactive approach to handling emergency line stoppages.
Required Soft Skills
- Inspirational Leadership: Ability to mobilize large teams (shop floor and technical staff) towards common goals to become benchmark & lead with empathy and firmness.
- Resilience and Emotional Intelligence: Ability to make quick decisions under pressure in a dynamic production environment with high turnover times.
- Systemic and Strategic Vision: Ability to see the impact of the sector on the entire company's value chain.
- Assertive Communication: Ease of communication at all hierarchical levels.
- Practical Shop Floor Leadership: Daily presence in operations, accessible, providing constant feedback and building a pleasant environment.
- Results Orientation: Focus on exceeding challenging goals in all pillars of the manufacturing management system.
- 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.
- Development: ability to train successors, coach teams, and build high-performance, autonomous teams.
- Adaptability and change management: ease in leading changes in layout, technology, processes, and culture, engaging the team.
Additional Information
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Production, Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, Industrial or related fields).
- Desirable: postgraduate degree/MBA in Operations Management, Lean Manufacturing, Industrial Management or related areas, Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or Black Belt)
- Fluence in English, Marathi and Hindi
- Experience: Minimum 12 years
- Experience in environments with high production volume and strong quality requirements
- Knowledge of Industry 4.0
- Industrial areas/sector:
- Consumer Electronics Industry
- Automotive
- Telecommunications
- Aerospace and Defense
- Industrial Control and Automation
- Oil and gas industries
Large-Scale Tool and Die Shops
