Manufacturing Excellence Manager

The Manufacturing Excellence function is responsible for driving continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing operations to enhance productivity, quality, cost efficiency, safety, delivery performance, and overall operational excellence. The role focuses on implementing Lean Manufacturing practices, standardizing manufacturing processes across Crompton manufacturing sites, driving data-driven decision making through MIS and analytics, and enabling digital transformation initiatives. The incumbent will work closely with plant leadership and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, institutionalize best practices, and build a culture of continuous improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and drive Manufacturing Excellence (ME Index) initiatives across all manufacturing locations.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement productivity improvement projects to enhance operational efficiency.
• Facilitate Lean Manufacturing initiatives including Kaizen, 5S, Visual Management, Waste Elimination, Line Balancing, and Process Optimization.
• Drive structured problem-solving methodologies and root cause analysis for operational challenges.
• Monitor and track improvement initiatives to ensure sustainable results and benefits realization.
• Develop and deploy best practices to improve manufacturing performance across plants.
• Own and manage Manufacturing Excellence MIS covering productivity, quality, cost, delivery, safety, and improvement metrics.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards and performance reports for leadership review.
• Ensure accuracy, integrity, and governance of manufacturing data across locations.
• Analyze data trends and generate actionable insights to support business decision-making.
• Establish systems for data collection, validation, visualization, and reporting.
• Drive digitization of reports and automate performance-monitoring systems using analytics tools.
• Conduct training programs, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions across manufacturing sites.
• Facilitate employee involvement programs and continuous improvement culture development.
• Support cross-functional teams in executing improvement and transformation projects.
• Drive change management initiatives to ensure effective adoption of new processes and systems.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Master/ bachelors degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering

Work Experience: Minimum 37 years’ experience in Operational/Business/Manufacturing Excellence

Must hold Lean Six Sigma Black/Green Belt Certification

Strong working knowledge of:

• Microsoft Excel (Advanced)
• Power BI
• Power Query
• Power Automate
• SAP / ERP Systems
• Minitab
• SQL (Preferred)
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• SharePoint