Lead- PPC

IMI Process Automation; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

IMI plc is seeking a Project Planning & Production Control Lead in Chennai to develop and manage detailed project and production schedules, ensuring on-time delivery across Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production teams.

The role focuses on capacity planning, resource optimization, and proactive risk mitigation while coordinating with cross-functional teams to align material availability and milestones. Strong ERP and data skills are essential for success at IMI plc.

Qualifications

• BE in Mechanical Engineering with 10–12 years post-qualification experience in valve industry.
• Strong capacity planning and production scheduling expertise.
• Proficient in ERP and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in coordination with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production teams.
• Monitor milestones and progress; provide weekly status reports to management.
• Collaborate with production to understand capacity and resource availability for accurate scheduling.
• Ensure sufficient loading of machines and monitor daily output.
• Coordinate with supply chain to ensure timely material availability for production.
• Communicate production plans, schedule changes, priorities, and risks to stakeholders.
• Identify risks in project execution and develop mitigation plans to minimize impacts.
• Review engineering changes and assess impact on schedules, inventory, and production.
• Maintain safety stock and Kanban where applicable.
• Report on project status and recovery plans to management.
• Coordinate with functions to optimize plant capacity and loading.

Skills

Project scheduling

Capacity planning

MS Excel

Power BI

Education

BE in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ERP system

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.

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 escape 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