Operations Manager

Tenneco; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenneco in Maharashtra seeks an experienced Plant Head to drive production planning, safety, and continuous improvement across a large workforce. You will coordinate with PPC, ensure 5S and lean practices, and lead root-cause analysis for defects and process losses.

Strong collaboration with multiple departments is required. The role calls for 18–20 years in automotive Tier 1 production, robust communication skills in English, Marathi, and Hindi, and deep knowledge of welding and APQP/PPAP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
• 18–20 years of production experience in automotive Tier 1 companies.
• Excellent communication & coordination with support functions and unions.
• Familiarity with drawings, APQP, PPAP & knowledge.
• QMS: ISO9001, IATF16949, TS16949 and customer audits.
• Advanced PC skills (MS Office, spreadsheets, ppt).
• Strong English, Marathi & Hindi communication.
• Welding process expertise; root cause analysis methods.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with PPC for daily production planning of cells.
• Ensure shop floors follow safety standards.
• Interact with customers to ensure materials coverage within 2 days.
• Monitor hourly/daily production with team leaders.
• Resolve 4M loss issues with cross-functional teams.
• Drive CI projects to improve productivity & quality targets.
• Review cell-level defects and customer complaints; root-cause actions.
• Participate in feasibility and risk assessment for new ECNs & projects.
• Manage a large team including union workmen, engineers, leaders.
• Handle customer & system audits; apply 5S standards.
• Plan and execute annual operating plans and expenses.
• Track operation costs and new project launches; SMED/VSM knowledge.
• Apply TPM and autonomous maintenance practices.

Skills

Leadership & team management

Operations planning

Lean manufacturing

Quality systems & audits

Communication (English/Marathi/Hindi)

Problem-solving (8D/Fishbone)

Root cause analysis

Annual operating plan

Welding process knowledge

Drawing & APQP/PPAP

MS Office / Spreadsheets

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (DME, B.E., B. Tech)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate with PPC for daily production planning of cells.
• Ensure all shop floors follow Personnel and Machine Safety standards.
• Daily interactions with customer & representatives to ensure customer is having 2 days coverage of materials
• Monitoring & Review of Hourly / daily production of cells as per target with Team leaders & Group leaders
• Work with various departments to resolve production 4M loss issues which affect productivity & target of cells
• Drive continues improvements projects to achieve plant productivity, CI targets & quality targets
• Quality focus on shop floor i.e. review daily cell level rejection, defects, and customer complaints. Drive team for proper root cause analysis & actions
• Active participation for feasibility and risk assessment in new ECN & projects
• Managing a team of 800 teams which includes union workman, engineers, team leaders & Group leaders
• To handle various customer & system audits.
• Strongly familiar with lean manufacturing techniques.
• Able to plan & execute operational expenses as per annual operating plans.
• Ensure shop floor will maintain/arranged as per global 5S standards
• Technical knowledge of welding, Press components and Assembly.
• Daily tracking and controls of Operation cost of the plant.
• New Project launches and development
• SMED and VSM knowledge
• Bottleneck Management and improvements
• Knowledge of TPM and Autonomous Maintenance.
• Knowledge of Problem-Solving tools and approach

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (DME, B.E., B. Tech etc.)
• Minimum 18 to 20 years of experience of production in automotive Tier 1 companies.
• Excellent communication & co- ordination skill to interact with support functions, union committee & members
• Familiarity with drawings, APQP, PPAP & knowledge.
• Well versed with Quality Systems such as ISO9001, IATF16949, TS16949 & customer audit like M&M MSES, VW formal Q capability etc.
• Advanced PC skills (MS Office, Spreadsheets, ppt etc.).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, Marathi & Hindi
• Excellent in welding process.
• Excellent in root cause analysis techniques 8D, Fish bone diagram, why- why analysis.
• Excellent analytical skill
• Ability to do annual operating plan:- Capacity planning, productivity planning & operations expenses planning