The Opportunity
As a Production Manager, you will play a key role in overseeing the end-to-end manufacturing process of high-voltage switchgear and related components. You will be responsible for ensuring smooth production flow from initial planning through final dispatch, while driving efficiency, quality, and timely delivery across operations
How You'll Make An Impact
- Ensure all production activities comply with company policies, safety standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop, monitor and manage daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules.
- Allocate resources, tools, and equipment to meet production targets.
- Sequence tasks and assign workloads to work centers or production lines.
- Adjust schedules in response to design changes, backlogs, machine downtime, or material/manpower shortages.
- Communicate changes and updates effectively to internal stakeholders and team members.
- Analyze current processes and identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve scheduling conflicts and bottlenecks and implement best practices
- Ensure in process quality checks and skill certification of blue-collar employees.
- Blue collar management for optimum qualitative output.
- Drive operational efficiency and enhance productivity across our manufacturing processes.
- Take ownership of equipment and facility performance within the production line, and proactively recommend technical improvements to enhance reliability, efficiency, and safety
- Monitor production costs and implement cost-saving initiatives.
- Identify opportunities in production area and lead improvement activities (JDI, Kaizens, A3) and oversees implementation and deployment of actions to improve production performance.
- Lead Technology Transfer of new products for Production and participate in all the Greenfield/Brownfield projects for new facility development, expansion, or incorporation in existing line.
- Leading the Lean Light House deployment with factory operations team.
- Set clear goals and objectives for team members aligned with operational outcomes.
- Supervise professional and para-professional staff, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures.
- Provide guidance, coaching, and performance feedback to team members.
- Oversee the entire production process, from the initial manufacturing stages through to final packing and dispatch to ensure overall operational efficiency
- Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
- Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Your background
- Bachelor's degree in engineering - Mechanical/Electrical with 8-10 years experience in a manufacturing environment required, preferably from Switchgear Industry.
- Hand on experience on using S4 HANA / SAP (PP & MM modules)
- Should have high attitude for quality.
- Experienced professional in Continuous Improvement. (Greenbelt in Lean Sis Sigma is an advantage).
- Proven track record in driving quality and continuous improvement across operations
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.
With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.
Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.
