Our client is a famous foreign enterprise in automobile parts industry.

Position Title: Operation Manager
Location: Suzhou
Reports To: GM

Overall Purpose of Job:

Lead and manage Operations for Suzhou Plant. To achieve the best performance results in the areas of product quality, delivery, process reliability, product lead time & efficiency, unit cost, customer satisfaction, and associates development.


Major Responsibilities:

1. Business Strategy and Plan Implementation.
a. Support and achieve goals set in Suzhou plant business plan.
b. Communicate Suzhou business, direction, goals, objectives and tactics in terms

that are understandable to all associates for alignment purposes.

2. Production capacity & efficiency management.
a. Achieve production and productivity goals.
b. Meet production needs as specified by order Management to meet customer demand.
c. Identify and implement structural changes to assure continuous improvements in

labor productivity, capacity , efficiency and lean promotion to fit business

development and reach final cost saving.
d. Manage minimized in-process inventory, but still have sufficient inventory to

insure an uninterrupted production flow.
e. Assist area supervisors /managers in managing the shift assignments of operative

associates to achieve a balanced workload and maximum production potential.
f. Identify lean production improvement opportunities to support business plan.

3. Logistic and Delivery Reliability
a. Ensure that pieces produced match the timing and quantity requested with the

highest yield in the first time, as committed to with yearly Business Plans.

Meet or exceed customer on time delivery demands.
b. Identify, support, and help implement programs designed to improve efficiency via

revised production scheduling and reporting.
c. Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of production reporting. Develop a mechanism

to feedback any changes to rates, routings, setup times, utilization, scrap etc.

to the master database.
d. Identify, implement, and communicate procedures to improve the delivery of

internal manufacturing, and shipping requirements of final products.
e. Inventory control and management.

4. Quality Assurance
a. Meet or exceed all quality goals.
b. Monitor scrap daily/weekly/monthly.
c. Identify and implement programs to reduce the cost of non-conformance.
d. Ensure that procedures are in effect that maintain and continually improve the

capability of the workforce.
e. Ensure that all product is manufactured to product engineering specifications.
f. Identify and support the implementation of programs that reduce process

variability.
g. Meet or exceed KPIs for customer satisfaction as stated in the yearly business

plan.
h. Implement quality concept of saving parts instead of reject parts.

5. Engineering Development
a. Identify, support, and help production in any improvement on capacity, tooling,

technical process etc.
b. Engineering design, process design and other tooling design etc. on any new

products or transferring products as phase –in step. Also fully support after

the mass production from engineering point of view.

6. Maintenance Management
a. Organize and manage maintenance team to support production.
b. Continually develop and improve maintenance quality and efficiency to assist

productivity.
c. Spare parts management based on cost & machines analysis.

7. Associate Relations
a. Use the Lean 6Sigma team management concepts to involve all associates in

executing our business plans and tactics and to institutionalize continuous

improvement and resolve specific problems.
b. Regularly meet with all associates and strive to provide challenging, rewarding,

and meaningful jobs that contribute to professional growth.
c. Maintain a positive workplace environment guided by the Group and Gear

World core values.
d. Meet or exceed Health and Safety goals for the plant, maintaining a clean, safe

and healthy work environment through proactive EHS management.

8. Lead, direct and develop the operation team as performance oriented and result

oriented.
9. Cooperate with each department/function to provide support to final achieve plant

business goals.
10.Other assignment is by GM.


Key Competencies:

Ø Good communication skill in local language and English.
Ø Strong personality but with very good teamwork.
Ø Strong leadership and people management
Ø Good coordination and good implementation ability.
Ø Business sense and cost management.
Ø Open mindset and adapt.
Ø Working under heavy pressure.


Education and Experience:

Ø Bachelor degree or above, majored in Mechanics field.
Ø At least 20 years working experience in manufacturing industry. And at least 5

years experience in operation management position. Work from foreign automotive

manufacturing company preferred.
Ø Be good familiar with ISO9001, ISO/TS16949, ISO14001 management system and Lean