Hod - Operational Excellence

**HOD - Operational Excellence**

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**Location**:
Bharuch

***Reporting Relationship**:
President and Unit Head

***Company Background**:
A leading business conglomerate into Chemical Manufacturing

**Responsibilities**:
**_Strategic_**
- Create a vision and roadmap for operations excellence at site with focus on cost optimization, technology adoption, revenue enhancement, customer satisfaction, quality and safety
- Drive stakeholder engagement and alignment to create process improvements
- Understand site challenges and plan technology solutions to strengthen current and future process delivery
- Partner with leadership to identify opportunities to increase operational efficiency (workflow, systems, material usage, cost)
- Create a model of continuous improvement where the focus is on creating value for the customers

**_Financial_**
- Evaluate financial impact of technology adoption/ automation/ process changes vis a vis cost optimization or profit improvement
- Prepare the budget and proposals for improvement initiatives
- Identify and implement cost savings initiatives/ profit maximization initiatives

**_Customer/ External Orientation_**
- Work with customer functions/ end customers to execute desired initiatives and improve efficiencies and reduce costs
- Leverage cross functional teams to execute the operations excellence strategy across various functions

**_People Orientation_**
- Develop employee capabilities to create a culture of operations excellence and continuous improvement
- Develop and strengthen employee capabilities in the area of data analytics, IoT, smart manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma & Kaizen

**_Core operational accountabilities_**

**Process Improvement**
- Study & recommend debottlenecking initiatives to enhance production capacity, improve quality and eliminate technical problems in conducting safe operations
- Conduct process feasibility studies
- Develop design specifications and sizing for equipments
- Prepare and own process documents, design basis, process flow diagrams, P & IDs and plant layouts, Heat and mass balance for improvement schemes and debottlenecking of existing plants
- Identify areas of breakdowns and rectify the issues by implementing trouble shooting tools, SPC tools etc.
- HAZOP study and safety audit of the system
- Interacting with technology/equipment suppliers for achieving performance parameters
- Provide inputs for product and technical development
- Propose automation of processes and systems in line with global standards

**Product Development**
- Take up technical feasibility study of New Value Added Products

**Energy Conservation**
- Ensure optimum Energy Consumption
- Identify priority areas for improvement in energy consumption
- Critical review of daily power consumption
- Conduct energy mapping & energy audit

**Risk Management**
- Identify risks from a technical, financial and EHS perspective in technical services to ensure their potential impact on the business is identified, documented and communicated
- Ensure that appropriate risk mitigation strategies are in place to address all identified risks. Support Operations Teams in risk mitigation

**Quality, Safety and Environment**
- Demonstrate high concern for the health and safety of self and others. Act and lead teams to a professional standard with respect to safety and environmental issues
- Direct and monitor adherence of statutory compliance related to Safety, Health and Environment to provide safe working environment
- Identify best safety practices and train the people to adopt the practices
- Ensure compliance to all Pollution Control norms
- Regular monitoring of cost drivers and discussion amongst the team for improvement
- Participation in Break down meetings

**System Management**
- To ensure implementation of Integrated Management System, British Safety Council, Responsible Care procedures and systems like TQM, TPM, KAIZEN, SIX Sigma etc

Review audit reports and plan for improvement
- BE Chemical with 20 years of experience in a broad range of technical and Operational roles.
- M. Tech in Chemical Engineering will be preferred.
- Should have worked in medium to large scale chemical manufacturing organization
- Should have experience of leading projects/ executing solutions in Digital, IOT, Industry 4.0
- Strong customer orientation, should be able to understand functional needs and leverage Lean Six Sigma methodology to create process improvements
- Strong understanding of new data analytics tools

**_Behavioral Skills_**
- Strategic and innovative approach to problem solving and ability to define critical value drivers (cost and profit)
- Multifaceted leadership experience including Identification, prioritization and implementation of operational improvements
- Collaborative skills and ability to work with employees/ partners across levels
- Strong decision-making skills to effectively manage internal and external stakeholders
- Result oriented, highly energetic and system d