Manufacturing Engineer Specialist (Chennai)

Role Summary:

This role involves facilitating continuous improvement implementation at the business level. Shall lead/facilitate cross-functional teams in the application of Continuous improvement tools to achieve process improvements. Accountable for teaching/coaching Lean enterprise methods and integrating with the business to form and execute business improvement plans that deliver tangible perks to business performance. This role will contribute to build a people-first culture that delivers significant business results.

Responsibilities:
- Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets.
- Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects.
- Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives.
- Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results)
- Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups.
- Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results.
- Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation.
- Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields.
- Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams.

Accountability & Authority
- Achieving savings as targeted by platform.
- Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant.
- Monitor, track, and report project status
- Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required.
- Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives
- Conduct tra .