Lead- PPC

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

Job summary

IMI plc in Chennai is seeking a seasoned Project Planning & Production Control Lead to develop and manage project and production schedules, aligning material availability, capacity, and milestones across Engineering, Supply Chain and Production.

The role demands strong capacity planning, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure on-time delivery, optimise loading, and drive continuous improvement with tools like Excel and Power BI.

Qualifications

• BE Mechanical Engineering with 10-12 years post-qualification experience in valve industry preferred.
• Experience in capacity planning, production scheduling, and material management.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules with cross-functional teams.
• Monitor milestones and provide weekly status reports to management.
• Coordinate with production and supply chain to ensure on-time material availability.
• Identify bottlenecks and optimize capacity to meet production targets.
• Prepare project status reports and recovery plans for management.
• Ensure safety stock and Kanban practices are maintained.
• Improve plant capacity utilization through better load balancing.

Skills

Communication skills

ERP knowledge

Analytical skills

Excel

Power BI

Manufacturing knowledge

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Education

BE Mechanical Engineering

Valve industry experience

Tools

Power BI

ERP systems

MS Excel

Job description

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 elevate 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

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