Production Segment Manager - eAxle

Schaeffler; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Schaeffler is seeking a Segment Manager to lead a defined manufacturing segment, translating business strategy into production plans and measurable results. You will coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver customer requirements while improving segment performance, safety, quality, and cost efficiency.

The role emphasizes leadership, production planning, budgeting, and continuous improvement, with a focus on capacity, throughput, and operational excellence across multiple functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical/industrial field is preferred.
• Significant experience in manufacturing/operations leadership roles.
• Experience managing budgets, cross-functional teams, and production performance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee segment performance and translate strategy into production plans.
• Lead cross-functional teams across production, maintenance, quality, supply chain, engineering, finance, and sales.
• Develop and execute segment strategy, budgets, and capacity plans.
• Monitor revenue, cost, margin, productivity, and investments for the segment.
• Drive safety, quality, and environmental performance.
• Lead continuous-improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma, 5S).
• Ensure on-time delivery, reduce lead times, and optimize inventory.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

KPI dashboards

Safety standards knowledge

Manufacturing systems experience

Operational data usage

Education

15-20 Years of Experience in Automotive Manufacturing sector

Job description

Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.

Your Key Responsibilities

Segment manager:

• The Segment Manager is accountable for the overall business and operational performance of a defined manufacturing segment, product family, or value stream. The role translates business strategy into production plans and measurable results, balancing customer delivery, safety, quality, cost, productivity, and people development.
• The Segment Manager leads cross-functional teams across production, maintenance, quality, supply chain, engineering, finance, and sales to deliver customer requirements while improving operational performance and building long-term segment competitiveness
• Develop and execute the segment strategy, business plan, and growth initiatives.
• Analyse market trends, customer needs, competitors, and segment performance.
• Set and monitor targets for revenue, profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction.
• Prepare annual budgets, forecasts, capacity plans, resource allocation and business cases for improvement or capital projects.
• Responsible for PCR. Owns the segment’s revenue, cost, margin, productivity, and investment performance.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, operational standards, and applicable regulations.
• Translate customer demand, market conditions, and company priorities into operational and financial plans.
• Ensure production plans are realistic, aligned with demand, and supported by available capacity, materials, equipment, and workforce.
• Monitor production flow, bottlenecks, line balance, changeovers, and work-in-process.
• Establish escalation and recovery plans for delivery risks, equipment downtime, material shortages, or quality issues.
• Improve on-time delivery and reduce lead times while maintaining appropriate inventory levels.

Responsible for Safety, health, and environmental performance

• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure employees follow safety standards, procedures, and legal requirements.
• Ensure timely investigation of incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions, with effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Support risk assessments, safety audits, training, and workplace ergonomics initiatives.
• Monitor environmental performance, including waste, energy, emissions, and resource use, as applicable.
• Ensure compliance with relevant environmental, health, and safety requirements.

Responsible for Quality and customer satisfaction

• Ensure products and processes meet customer, regulatory, and internal quality requirements.
• Work with quality teams to address defects, customer complaints, audit findings, and process nonconformities.
• Lead structured root-cause analysis and verify the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Promote prevention-focused quality practices, process discipline, and standard work.
• Support new product introductions, process changes, and customer-specific requirements.

Drive Cost, productivity, and continuous improvement

• Own the segment’s cost and productivity improvement agenda.
• Identify and deliver improvements in labour productivity, material usage, scrap, rework, energy, and conversion cost.
• Apply continuous-improvement methods such as Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, problem-solving, and standard work where appropriate.
• Reduce downtime and process losses through improved operating practices and collaboration with maintenance and engineering.
• Track savings and productivity gains, ensuring benefits are validated and sustained.
• Responsible for Equipment, maintenance, and capacity enhancement
• Partner with maintenance and engineering teams to improve equipment reliability, availability, and performance.
• Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance activities are supported by production requirements.
• Identify capacity constraints and develop plans for debottlenecking, layout changes, automation, or capital investment.
• Participate in equipment commissioning, process validation, and production-readiness reviews.
• Ensure production standards, work instructions, and equipment procedures are current and followed.

Drive and Promote People leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop production leaders, supervisors, and team members.
• Establish clear responsibilities, performance expectations, and routines for daily management.
• Review staffing, skills, shift patterns, training needs, and succession plans.
• Promote employee engagement, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Support labour relations and workforce planning in line with company policies and applicable agreements.

Ensure healthy Cross-functional coordination and reporting

• Coordinate with sales, customer service, planning, procurement, logistics, finance, HR, quality, engineering, and maintenance.
• Lead regular segment performance reviews and communicate priorities, risks, and actions.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting on operational, financial, customer, and people performance.
• Coordinate with planning and supply chain teams to manage schedule adherence, order prioritization, inventory, and customer requirements.

Your Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, operations, business, or a related field.
• Significant experience in manufacturing, operations, production management, or a related leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing production performance, budgets, and cross-functional teams.
• Practical knowledge of manufacturing systems, production planning, quality management, and continuous-improvement methods.
• Experience using operational data and KPI dashboards to identify issues and drive results.
• Knowledge of relevant safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• 15 : 20 Years of Experience in Automotive Manufacturing sector.
• Languages: English, Hindi and Marathi

Core competencies

• Operational and commercial judgment
• Strong people leadership and communication
• Structured problem-solving and data analysis
• Customer and quality focus
• Planning, prioritization, and execution
• Change management and continuous-improvement leadership
• Ability to balance competing safety, quality, delivery, cost, and workforce priorities

As a global company with employees around the world, it is important to us that we treat each other with respect and value all ideas and perspectives. By appreciating our differences, we inspire creativity and drive innovation. In this way, we contribute to sustainable value creation for our stakeholders and society as a whole. Together, we advance how the world moves.

Exciting assignments and outstanding development opportunities await you because we impact the future with innovation.

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Your Contact

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