Assistant Manager - Assembly

Chart Industries, Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Chart Industries' Howden unit seeks an Assembly In Charge to lead daily assembly operations for assigned projects. You will plan and direct assembly and testing activities, identify material shortages, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure timelines are met.

You will also monitor and optimize processes for efficiency, ensure on-time delivery to meet customer deadlines, and develop SOPs and training to improve safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with 7-11 years of experience.
• Strong leadership and manpower management capabilities.
• Experience with lean manufacturing principles and Kaizen in assembly environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and direct assembly and testing activities.
• Identify material shortages and communicate with stakeholders to meet timelines.
• Monitor and optimize assembly and testing processes for efficiency.
• Ensure on-time delivery of completed projects to meet customer deadlines.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering background

Lean manufacturing

5S and Kaizen

Problem solving

Leadership and manpower management

Quality control

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree or Diploma

Tools

SOP development

FMEA

Job description

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600077

Company: Chart Industries

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

We are inviting you to join Howden, a Chart Industries Company become a trusted and valued member of our Business Intelligence Team. As part of this vital team, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining business intelligence solutions that drive data-driven decision making across the organization. Howden was acquired by Chart Industries in 2023. Chart Industries is a leader in innovation focused on our transition to a greener energy environment. We are a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment and solutions serving multiple applications in the Energy, Industrial gas end sectors. We supply cryogenic systems and have a global presence in 40 countries, and more than 11,000 employees. Howden's long heritage and technology enable this transition on a more efficient level. Our vision is to enable the vital processes of our customers and thereby promote a more sustainable world via our Nexus of Clean Strategy.

What Will You Do?

The Assembly In Charge oversees the daily assembly operations of the assigned projects.

This Role Involves

• Planning and directing assembly and testing activities.
• Identifying & communicating material shortages to relevant stakeholders, ensuring project timelines are met.
• Monitoring and optimizing assembly and testing processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensuring on-time delivery of completed projects to meet customer deadlines (CDD).

The Assembly In Charge Is Responsible For

• Manpower management: Ensuring adequate staffing levels and continuously developing employee competencies through training and development programs to meet safety and quality standards as per company policy.
• Operational efficiency : Implementing lean manufacturing principles and best practices to optimize operational costs and improve overall efficiency.
• Employee engagement: Fostering a highly motivated workforce through training programs, motivational events, and a positive work environment.

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

Safety & Quality

• Conduct Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) and frequent safety audits to identify and eliminate unsafe conditions and acts.
• Identify and mitigate assembly defects.
• Conduct Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to prevent future failures.
• Communicate part-level rejections to buyers/vendors prior to assembly.
• Validate final assembly with GAD checks.
• Prepare dimensional reports and submit them to Quality Control (QC).
• Review and reinforce fan part aesthetics in coordination with QC.

Operational Efficiency

• Arrange necessary equipment (ducts, motors, cables, test beds) in advance.
• Support QC in resolving performance deviations during fan testing.
• Prepare assembly micro-plans based on expected material receipt dates.
• Ensure timely highlighting of material issues and record in COPQ.
• Communicate material shortages to planning/buyer/ production to meet customer deadlines (CDD).
• Optimize operational costs by minimizing manufacturing costs (labor, welding, power).
• Ensure effective usage and maintain records of production consumables.
• Follow FIFO (First In, First Out) for assembly and PDI to align with vehicle loading plans.

Education

Your Experience Should Be...

Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with 7 -11 years of experience.

Customer Focus

• Ensure on-time delivery as per CDD.
• Coordinate with customers during fan dimension, mechanical run, and performance tests.
• Respond professionally to customer complaints and concerns.

Process Improvement & Communication

• Conduct initial analysis reports for assembly and testing failures.
• Effectively facilitate problem-solving methods (like Daily work management - DWM) with stakeholder input.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for new change implementations.
• Monitor the effectiveness of action plans by reviewing control charts.
• Conduct Team Building (TBT) sessions to improve communication.
• Stringently follow up with all stakeholders to achieve assembly plans.
• Keenly monitor and record assembled parts dispatch to customers.

General Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed monthly performance reports and present to HOD.
• Lead 5S and Kaizen activities across assembly and testing.

Chart Industries is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicants because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law. Additionally, it is and shall continue to be our policy to provide promotion and advancement opportunities in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Chart complies with applicable local, state, and federal statutes governing “equal employment opportunity” and nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.