Lead- PPC

IMI Process Automation; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

IMI plc seeks a Project Planning & Production Control Lead in Chennai to manage project and production schedules ensuring on-time delivery. You will work with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production to align material availability and capacity with project milestones.

Key responsibilities include maintaining detailed schedules, monitoring progress, and communicating plans and risks to stakeholders. A strong manufacturing background and ERP proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• Good communication and relationship-building with internal & external stakeholders.
• Basic ERP knowledge and strong analytical abilities.
• Excel proficiency and awareness of manufacturing processes.
• Power BI knowledge is a plus for data-driven decisions.
• Valve industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules with Engineering, Supply Chain and Production teams.
• Monitor milestones and provide weekly status reports to management.
• Coordinate with production to balance capacity and resources for on-time delivery.
• Identify bottlenecks, optimize loading of machines, and manage material readiness.
• Communicate plans, changes, risks and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Track KPIs and drive continuous improvement in scheduling and execution.

Skills

Communication

ERP knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Excel

Power BI

Manufacturing knowledge

Problem solving

Valve industry experience

Education

BE (Mechanical Engineering)

Job description

IMI plc We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems, partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business, everyday life and making a better world - creating lasting impact for everyone.

IMI plc We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems, partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business, everyday life and making a better world - creating lasting impact for everyone. We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications. We focus on five market sectors: Industrial Automation, Process Automation, Climate Control, Life Science and Fluid Control, and Transport. Process Automation is a world leading provider of flow control solutions for critical applications across the Energy, Marine and Pharmaceutical markets.

Role Overview

The Project Planning & Production Control Lead is responsible for developing and managing project and production schedules to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders. The role works closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, and other cross-functional teams to align material availability, manufacturing capacity, and project milestones.The position plays a critical role in capacity planning, resource optimization and production scheduling.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in close coordination with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production teams.
• Monitor project milestones and overall progress, and provide timely weekly status reports to management
• Collaborate with production teams to understand capacity, resource availability and production capacity to create accurate schedule
• Sound knowledge in capacity planning and identify the bottleneck resources/process
• Ensure sufficient loading of machines. Monitor daily output in terms of quantity as well as time.
• Coordinate with supply chain to ensure materials available on time to start production activities
• Communicate production plans, schedule changes, priorities, and risks to relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively identify project execution risks and develop mitigation plans to minimize schedule impacts.
• Monitor engineering changes and assess their impact on project schedules, inventory, and production activities
• Hands on experience in identifying and maintaining safety stock and Kanban.
• Review with concerned stakeholders to ensure manufacturing completes on time.
• Revise production schedules as required to accommodate changing priorities, material availability, capacity constraints, and customer requirements.
• Track project-wise material shortages and develop assembly kitting release plans to support smooth production flow.
• Monitor Key performance indicators on daily, weekly, and monthly and apply problem solving for continuous improvement.
• Foresee the risks in project execution and **escalate** to management.
• Prepare and present project status reports, performance metrics, and recovery plans to management.
• Co-ordinate with other functions and pull materials for uniform loading in machining, welding, and assembly. Improve utilisation of plant capacity.

Critical Competencies for Success

• Good communication skills with the ability to form and maintain good relationships with internal & external stakeholders.
• Basic knowledge in ERP function
• Good interpersonal, negotiation and analytical skills.
• Strong technical mindset and able to read and interpret technical data and translate to others.
• Assertive, optimistic, resilient and welcomes changes.
• Good proficiency in excel.
• Knowledge of overall manufacturing process
• Result orientated and organised with the ability to deliver against deadlines.
• Basic knowledge in Power BI added advantage
• BE (Mechanical Engineering) with 10-12 years post qualification experience with valve industry(Preferably).

IMI is an inclusive employer; diversity is very important to us, and we want to receive applications from people from all backgrounds