Head - Operations

BorgWarner; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

BorgWarner seeks an experienced Engineering leader to supervise a team of Senior Engineers and Engineering Assistants in our Chennai area plant. You will drive daily production attainment, safety, and operations excellence across multiple modules while coordinating environment, health & safety and facilities responsibilities.

The role requires a Degree in Engineering and a strong track record in people management, with about 15+ years in engineering roles.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering is required.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Engineering preferred.
• Demonstrated track record in people management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a section of Senior/Engineers and Senior/Engineering Assistants to ensure daily production attainment, safety and operations excellence across modules.
• Manage environment, Health & Safety and Facilities related matters in the plant.
• Plant wide manufacturing expense control and CAPEX oversight.
• Drive plant wide cost savings initiatives and KPI consolidation.
• Coordinate validation parts, packaging changes and new program developments.

Skills

People management

Leadership

Education

Degree in Engineering

15+ years of experience in Engineering

Job description

Job Description:

This position Manages a section of Senior / Engineers and Senior / Engineering Assistants to oversee daily production attainment, safety and operations excellence across modules. The incumbent will also manage environment, Health & Safety and Facilities related matters in the plant.

Roles & Responsibility

• Plant wide manufacturing expense controller
• Work with respective (Process/Test/Quality) stakeholders to drive down plant scrap within budget
• Work with respective (Process/Test/Quality) stakeholders to plant FTQ targets
• Plant Wide KPI consolidation
• . Support new launch engineering builds
• Plant Wide CAPEX controller
• Lead plant wide cost savings initiatives
• Plant Capacity /Layout Forecast Planning across all modules((Viper/ECU/Inverter/CSP/Pressure Sensors)
• Plant OE consolidation/improvement
• New project /business quote CCET/CAPEX /conversion cost study
• New project MSD setup with core teams
• Office relay out & seats allocation for new joiner
• New program/ packaging change development/evaluation
• New project packaging conversion cost study
• Drive packaging cost reduction & improvement activities
• Coordinate validation parts and packaging material for packaging validation tests

EHS/Facilities

• Ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements
• Actively engage employees from multiple levels and functions in committee
• Develop and retain documentation of health and safety procedures and performance
• Integrate effective health and safety training in the job training of all employees
• Increase safe behaviors through observation, data gathering, feedback and planning
• Identify best practices and implement continual improvement
• Measure and periodically audit health and safety performance so appropriate improvements can be made
• Develop and retain documentation of Energy Management procedures and performance
• Assessment and Setup of facilities for ME & SDEC equipment within target deadline
• Analyze facilities supply (N2, Energy, Compressed Air, etc) and make suitable suggestion to reduce cost
• Intermediary between landlord and BWSG on equipment setup, facilities issue and OPEX
• Review & provide advise on facilities set up requirement prior to execution
• Intermediary between BWSG and global team for facilities and sustainability issue
• Provide immediate action when equipment experience downtime due to facilities supply

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (Minimum Qualifications)

• Degree in Engineering
• Min 15 years of experience in Engineering preferred

Demonstrated track record in people management