Responsibilities：
1.Safety at work
- Responsible for health and safety of the workforce.
- To ensure safety in production, avoid personal injury.
2.Staff management
- Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members that allows for disagreement over ideas, conflict and expeditious conflict resolution, and the appreciation of diversity as well as cohesiveness, support, and working effectively together to enable each employee and the department to succeed.
- Consciously create a workplace culture that is consistent with the overall organization's and that emphasizes the identified mission, vision, guiding principles, and values of the organization.
- Provide oversight and direction to the employees in the operating unit in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures.
- Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
- Empower employees to take responsibility for their jobs and goals. Delegate responsibility and expect and regular feedback.
- Lead employees using a performance management and development process that provides an overall context and framework to encourage employee contribution and includes goal setting, feedback, and performance development planning.
- Provide effective performance feedback through employee recognition, rewards, and disciplinary action, with the assistance of Human Resources, when necessar
3.KPI and routine work: production & maintenance
- Plan and implement systems that perform the work and fulfill the mission and the goals of the department efficiently and effectively.
- Plan and allocate resources to effectively staff and accomplish the work to meet departmental KPIs.
- Plan, evaluate, and improve the efficiency of business processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, efficiency, and output.
- Make business decisions that are accountable, justifiable, and defensible in accordance with organization policies and procedures.
- Establish and maintain relevant controls and feedback systems to monitor the operation of the department. Such as OEE/scrap cost monthly report after equipment hand over.
- Lead employees to meet the organization's expectations and goal accomplishment.
- Lead QRK and foreman to summarize the quality problem and reduce the scrap cost and risk with TQ department.
- Maintain transparent communication. Appropriately communicate organization information through section meetings,
- Lead section team to solve deviation in production process according to standard, identify the reason and define the countermeasure, Escalate when necessary.
- Dealing with the interface problem with the other departments
- Supplier management for 3rd party support
- Perform planned and preventive maintenance
- Timely problem solving of equipment stoppage
- Spare parts management
4.Staff training and qualification
- Supervise the foreman to train new employees to meet the qualification matrix;
- Develop foreman training plan;
- Cultivate everyone's enthusiasm for learning ;
- Competence transfer to new project
5.Audit after SOP:
- Conduct the regular audit activity and document the problem, improve the findings;
- Organize audit activities with auditors;
6. Overall budget planning and controlling for production and equipment maintenance activities
7. Production preparation during project phase: production material purchasing and management, foreman room, blue collar rest room build, blue collar hiring, working instruction creation…
8.Creat, verify, improve and standardize new standards for battery plant in production and maintenance area and ensure knowledge transfer to new project
Qualifications：
1.Necessary education:Bachelor / master degree in automotive/engineering/project management major
2.Personal skills:
- Familiar with battery cell manufacturing processes, technology, and crafts of common battery types.
- Knowledge of project management and familiar with new product introduction project of battery cell.
- Well know battery performance, safety, and other aspects.
- Experienced in battery cell new production line set up.
- Familiar with battery quality management systems.
- Familiar with battery cell quality requirement with production release, product release and audit.
- Proficient in battery cell production planning / scheduling and problem analysis / resolution.
- Knowledge of production system implementation.
- Experienced with daily KPI tracking to reaching target by continuous improvement.
- Experienced in team set up.
- Clear and logical communication skills.
- Strategic and analytical thinking.
- Leadership to drive team and people development
3.Working experience (in years):
- 15+ years of production management experience in manufacture industry.
- 10+ years with production management experience in battery cell industry.
- 5+ cross-function / internationally working experience is preferred.
4.Language skills:Chinese, Proficient English and German would be an advantage
5.IT knowledge:Office application software
