Team Leader – Product Management- Continuous Product Improvement Group (CPI)

As Senior Project Leader – Product Processes your mission is to lead from the front, Continuous Product Improvement Group (CPI) team of GECIA to deliver & participate in continuous product improvement with engineering point of view while Improving Processes and driving the solution-centric approach of GECIA teams. You shall achieve this, by developing the competence of the team and by reorienting the team energy towards Process Innovation, On-time Delivery & First Time Right Approach.

As Senior Project Leader you need to plan and monitor project execution and resolve escalated issues both internally and externally with the objective of delivering projects within the estimated time, cost, and quality standards within the limits of GECIA’s structure, processes, and guidelines.

Continuous Product Improvement Group (CPI) team within GECIA focus on continuously improving products within Atlas Copco group through Value engineering. For example, & not limited to:

• To identify trends and process variations as part of establishing a continuous improvement monitoring system
• To identify and deliver service improvement activity across all divisions through employing process improvement methodologies and the application of innovative thinking
• To support Product upgrade & enhancements projects.
• To support various value engineering projects such as cost reduction, material change, weight reduction projects.
• Streamline workflows and reduce waste through product and process audit improvements
• Actively participate in Product upgrades & enhancement projects
• Tracking clear Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

Key Responsibilities:-

 Customer Focus:-

• Timely execution of the Product Processes of all Business Areas.
• Create & maintain various Dashboards, KPI to Control, Monitor & Improve the Quality, Delivery, and the cost parameters.
• Ensure GECIA’s contribution to improve Product Life Cycle Management process
• Ensure dedicated resources / team availability for the customers
• Ensure communication at Internal / External Customer meetings and demonstrate GECIA’s contribution to Product Processes
• Obtaining customer approvals where necessary

 People Focus:-

• Create and develop subject matter experts in various domains, who in turn can establish GECIA firmly as competence center.
• Develop the teams based on the Skills & Competence matrix,
• Create the Team spirit towards Driving Customer Success & Improving Business Results
• Instill “CAN DO; WILL DO” attitude in the team
• Help Team members identify their purpose

Technology Focus:-

• Drive the innovation culture in the team to nurture innovative ideas and focus improvements on the product processes.

Process Focus:-

• Create, Develop & maintain the Knowledge management Portals, Databases, etc. to document the knowledge about Product, Process, People & Tool.
• Continuous Process improvement using Automation, Standardization, Innovation, Digitalization, Efficiency Improvement Projects etc.

Operational Excellence:-

• Create, Develop & Maintain a Resource Planning Mechanism to deliver optimum resource utilization
• Ensure the Costs per hour remains as targeted by the Group Management
• First time right is very important KPI for this role
• Fully understand & adapt to Activity based costing, to allow optimum mix of GECIA resources & Partner Resources
• Bring Transparency in resource Planning to indicate the Resource Occupancy on different Processes, Projects and identify potential bottlenecks.
• Define different automation projects to automate repeated processes & to improve the quality

Experience Requirement:

• 7-8 years of experience in Mechanical / Equivalent Engineering/Design domain.
• People Management experience of handling large reporting team is must.
• Experience with operational issues.
• First-hand experience of working on Product Processes is essential.

 Knowledge Requirement:-

• Good knowledge of Business processes and applications.
• Expertise in Product Life Cycle Management, Engineering Change Management & Product Sustenance Engineering, Technical support.
• Expertise in handling cross functional divisional projects.
• Good knowledge of different systems of Atlas Copco.
• Good knowledge of PLM & PDM tools (e.g., BPCS, Enovia, Windchill, SAP etc.)
• Knowledge of Atlas Copco products would be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of Six Sigma, 5S, 8D problem Solving, VA VE, Lean Design, Design Thinking etc. would be an added advantage.

 Expected Skills:-

• People Management Skills.
• Dynamic, Result Oriented, Customer focused.
• Excellent Planning Skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Flair for Automation tools like Robotic Process Automation (RPA), CAD automation etc.
• Basic knowledge of advance digital tools – Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics (DA) etc.
• Ability to manage the team as per new talent framework

 Personality requirements:-

• You are process oriented person
• You have absolute clarity for the role which you are applying.
• You have big picture vision for this role.
• You are passionate for this role.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You are entrepreneurial and are open to different cultures.
• You are very customer focused, enthusiastic, and professional.
• You can work under extreme time pressure to respect deadlines.
• You can integrate smoothly into the existing team and stimulate the knowledge sharing between your colleagues.
• You are also able to collaborate easily with colleagues in the engineering departments from other divisions and product companies.
• You also maintain good relations with third parties.

Location:-

• Pune, Maharashtra.

Company Overview:-

Established in 1960, We provide our customers with the solutions they need to enhance productivity and achieve their manufacturing goals. At Atlas Copco India, we deliver value and innovate with the future in mind. Our passionate people, expertise and service bring sustainable value to industries everywhere. We are a part of the Atlas Copco Group, with extensive local presence, and our innovative compressors, vacuum solutions, generators, pumps, power tools and assembly systems help our customers achieve maximum efficiency and produstivity. Our nationwide service personnel are always close at hand to provide repairs, service and spare parts locally. With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities today at Pune and Chakan, the company has a global engineering competency centers for compressors at Pune