Operations Manager
Date: Jun 26, 2026
Location: Pune, IN
Company: Tenneco
- Co-ordinate with PPC for daily production planning of cells.
- Ensure all shop floors follow Personnel and Machine Safety standards.
- Daily interactions with customer & representatives to ensure customer is having 2 days coverage of materials
- Monitoring & Review of Hourly / daily production of cells as per target with Team leaders & Group leaders
- Work with various departments to resolve production 4M loss issues which affect productivity & target of cells
- Drive continues improvements projects to achieve plant productivity, CI targets & quality targets
- Quality focus on shop floor i.e. review daily cell level rejection, defects, and customer complaints. Drive team for proper root cause analysis & actions
- Active participation for feasibility and risk assessment in new ECN & projects
- Managing a team of 800 teams which includes union workman, engineers, team leaders & Group leaders
- To handle various customer & system audits.
- Strongly familiar with lean manufacturing techniques.
- Able to plan & execute operational expenses as per annual operating plans.
- Ensure shop floor will maintain/arranged as per global 5S standards
- Technical knowledge of welding, Press components and Assembly.
- Daily tracking and controls of Operation cost of the plant.
- New Project launches and development
- SMED and VSM knowledge
- Bottleneck Management and improvements
- Knowledge of TPM and Autonomous Maintenance.
- Knowledge of Problem-Solving tools and approach
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (DME, B.E., B. Tech etc.)
- Minimum 18 to 20 years of experience of production in automotive Tier 1 companies.
- Excellent communication & co- ordination skill to interact with support functions, union committee & members
- Familiarity with drawings, APQP, PPAP & knowledge.
- Well versed with Quality Systems such as ISO9001, IATF16949, TS16949 & customer audit like M&M MSES, VW formal Q capability etc.
- Advanced PC skills (MS Office, Spreadsheets, ppt etc.).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, Marathi & Hindi
- Excellent in welding process.
- Excellent in root cause analysis techniques 8D, Fish bone diagram, why- why analysis.
- Excellent analytical skill
- Ability to do annual operating plan:- Capacity planning, productivity planning & operations expenses planning