Factory Manager
Trindel Lighting
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
• Leading the project of developing the manufacturing plant from scratch to the operational level.
• Responsible to make the complete road map and execution plan for the manufacturing plant.
• Selecting the site according to the required factory size, making the sketch layout based on the required equipment’s and resources.
• Procurement and purchasing of the assets based on the required specifications and functions.
• Responsible to liaise and communicate with Suppliers, customers, and other service providers.
• Attend meeting with the project stakeholders based on the business need and work requirements. Produce written progress reports and make presentations for the management.
• Finalizing the products portfolio to be produced with the other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain strong relationship with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
• Undertake continuous training and development.
• Managing the new initiatives and NPDL operational requirement in processing and report the successful completion of new products.
• Recruiting new employees and arranging trainings to improve effectiveness of the working staff.
• Effectively and efficiently managing the required daily targets in line with quality specifications, delivery expectations and allocated cost.
• Managing the equipment and tools maintenance to improve reliability and performance and reduce the Down Time.
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact.
• Accountable for the departmental safety, customer quality, cost and on time delivery.
• Led and coach regular meetings, kaizen events and continuous improvements projects to achieve the measurable goals.
• Implement MFG standards for working methods, equipment, and tools to improve workflow, quality, efficiency, behavioral and environmental safety.
• Cultivated effective team support in line with site plan and Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
• Comply with corporate requirements on adherence to the policies, procedures and instruction related to the regulatory directives to ensure safe and risk-free environment.
• Driving operational improvements, maximizing the value of the asset base while keeping a tight control on the operational costs.
• Maintaining HSE standards and carry out all the duties in compliance with HSE policies and procedures.
• Ensuring quality of the product within design specifications. Investigate the customer escapes (RCA) and implement corrective/preventative actions to avoid re-occurrences.
• Review the scheduled work against the available capacity and required components to ensure that all production targets are meet.
• Maximizing performance via measurement, monitoring and analysis of resource information’s including wastage, efficiencies and labor utilization.
• Plan, organize and prioritize the workloads to meet customer commitments.
• Review drawings, BOM and routing to identify and drive opportunities for improvements.
• Full involvement in localization of new LED & conventional lighting products with the local R&D team both L4L and L4R.
• Drive continuous improvement via LEAN/Six Sigma to reduce the cost and enhance the performance and quality.
• Allocate the required resources effectively and fully utilize assets to generate optimal results.
• Layouting and cells building approach to improve process flow and labor productivity of the factory cells.
• Manage and coordinate the activities of staff recruiting, training, coaching and performance evaluation.
• Develop operational score cards which track and optimize the performance against the targets to ensure effective return on the assets.
• Managing diverse relationship, mentor employees and build effective team.
• Manpower planning based on going and future projects requirements.
• Capable of managing multiple priorities and projects at the same time.
• Key role in making the strategic initiatives (Hoshin Plan) of the Manufacturing unit.
• Keeping positive relationships with peers and key stakeholders within the Business.
• Lead teams collaboratively with active listening & respect opinions while establishing trust.
• Team player with energetic personality, quality focused, committed and able to work independently in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Provide technical assistance to maintenance team in terms of preventative measures for machines and tools.
• Working with external auditors in facilitating operational audits to make sure that all the documents and procedures are complying the ISO standard.
• Contributes to develop and maintain a comprehensive program (BCP) that encompasses corporate emergency response, equipment safety, remote work solutions, and incident management.
• Plan and determine the optimal utilization of manufacturing workers and equipment’s to meet manufacturing goals.
• Deliver the production targets against the demand plan in terms of quality and quantity.
• Ensure that manufacturing stays on schedule and within budget.
• Lead supervisors and production workforces to achieve the target production within customer specifications.
• Understand all the production related process, review all production targets, record downtime (production stoppages), use Rout Cause Analysis to identify the production problems and take action to solve.
• Work closely with maintenance team regarding machines and tools issues.
• Managing diversified manufacturing equipment’s including, Roll Forming, Plastic Extrusion, Paint Lines, Slitting, CNC and NC Punching, Bending, Shearing, Spot Welding, and final assembly lines for indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures.
• Analyze manufacturing data to identify trends, anomalies and opportunities for improvement, identify and utilize methods of making manufacturing process more efficient by eliminating waste via using lean principles.
• Correction of any manufacturing problem that may arise regarding design/process and quality with the Team by implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Implemented problem tracking system, FAP to address the shop floor issues related to Safety, Quality, Production and personals with the concerns.
• Lead, coach and continuously develop the team of direct reports and drive towards continuous improvements.
• Flexible to challenge cultural thinking, drive improvements and sustain the best results.
• Facilitate training and development of production workforce and impose standard working procedures and manual instructions.
• Lead and guide the team to have mind setup of health and safety, provide safety awareness about the machines and work environment and implement safety policy.
• Leads improvement projects and Kaizen events, coach continues improvement thinking in the factory.
• Drive lean thinking and implementation of lean principles in the manufacturing site.
• Conduct quality inspection to find parameters deviation, execute the root cause analysis and implementing the corrective/ preventive solutions.
• Introduce effective quality programs, develop KPI, s and formulate weekly plan status.
• Conduct ISO and 5S audits to ensure standardization, efficiency and safety in the work place.
• Create quality control policies and drive continuous improvements efforts by training and educating the production teams on quality management system.
• Train production workers and quality inspectors to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Using process mapping and capability study to remove the bottleneck and improve throughput.
• Reviewed, updated, and maintained all Specifications, Work instructions and SOPs to ensure quality.
• Collaborated with engineering team to communicate and achieve quality standards and outputs.
• Resolve escalated case of non-quality compliance and participates in customer experience monitoring to promote the strategy of providing quality product the customer.
• Prepared and reviewed environmental investigation reports.
• Assisted management with permit requests and supporting documentation.
• Gathered and distilled data from environmental monitoring and third-party reports.
• Managed sanitation projects from conception through to completion.
• Ensured that all the work is carried out in accordance with the specifications, legal requirements and within the time frame and cost.
• Worked for the development and cleanliness with aim of sanitation.
• Responsible for making of all required documents (MOU/TOR and Final project reports).
• Plant layouting and providing technical support to the project team for the installation of water purification plants.
• Make sure that all the installation processes are going smoothly and safely.
• Inspected and regulated sanitary schemes in public place, such as camps houses, hospitals, and schools.
• Produced test plans and reports.
• Started as a dedicated trainee professional with skills of searching out opportunities for improvement, increased productivity and waste reduction.
• Executed production operation in coordination with other functions.
• Organised plant start-up and shut-down schedules to minimise loss of production time.
• Carried out Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) to achieve high performance levels.
• Planned staff and materials costs to meet production schedules.
• Examined and planned workflow, space requirements and equipment layout to improve manufacturing efficiency.
• Reduced variability in manufacturing by providing standard work methods and work instructions.
• Lead a manufacturing team of 45 members for achieving the periodic production target.
• Perform engineering analysis to determine the root causes of the most critical and repetitive equipment failures.
• Carried out process monitoring and preparation of internal reports for the management.
• Attend seminars and keep learning to ensure best practices.
• Supervise the manufacturing processes and ensure quality work is done in a safe, and efficient manner.
• Partner with and assist others to promote an environment of teamwork and achieve common goals with manager and supervisor.