Operations Manager

3 weeks ago


Shanghai, Shanghai, China ABB Full time
Operations ManagerAt ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.
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This position reports to

Business Manager - Operations

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to oversee the operational aspects of local units, encompassing the full scope of Operations, including project management and control, project engineering, manufacturing, production engineering, maintenance, procurement, quality, continuous improvement, logistics, and planning and fulfillment, or a part of that. Each day, you will be responsible for developing business action plans for the units, aligned with business area/division/product group strategy and targets. You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring strict adherence within the Operations with respect to policies and required health, safety, and integrity standards.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Strategy: Responsible for developing business action plans for the unit(s) aligned with Division/Business line/Product Group strategy and targets. Monitors implementation and tracks any deviations for corrective action

• Budget: Prepares annual budget, oversees progress, and determines actions to cost issues as necessary in order to manage operations within the budget and resources.

• Operations improvement: Develops programs, projects, goals, and metrics to lead the organization to the highest level of operational performance while optimizing working capital throughout Operations. Ensures that the organization take an overall value chain perspective to meet customer expectations on quality, service levels, lead time and delivery, has a full understanding of culture of continuous improvement behaviors, methodology and processes.

• Health, safety and environment: Maintains compliance with health, safety and environmental regulations while monitoring and reporting progress and results. Assesses risks and safety hazards and implements plans to ensure people and equipment safety.

• Customer relations: Provides support to Sales staff to improve understanding of customer requirements in order to identify both potential constraints and solutions to these requirements from an operational point of view.

• People leadership and development: Creates and maintains a positive work environment for the Company. Ensures (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies.

• Quality: Build up high quality culture and drive process quality, product quality and people competency improvement to meet customer and business need.

• Guides the team in building engineering capability through people development. Ensure production process align with operation target, continuously improve production efficiency and quality.

• Improve factory digitalization and intelligence, have robust process to improve operation efficiency.

Qualifications for the role
  • Work experience
  • 10+ years manufacturing managerial experience in multinational companies.
  • Multiple years of related instrumentation industry professional, prefer engineering background.
  • Proven record in achieve key performance metrics and drive for continuous improvement, better to have project management experience.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing each functional and process, engineering experience needed.
  • Digitalization experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence the directions and attainment of objectives without having direct control over resources
  • Demonstrated strong leadership capability
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in strategy thinking, implementation, business process improvement, and operational excellence.
  • Strong problem solving skills and take responsibility to delivery result as committed.
  • Qualification
  • University Degree with major in Engineering, Mechanical and related.
  • Fluent communication and presentation skill by English and Chinese
  • Fostering teamwork and diversity, ability to work in groups
  • Able to coach and mentor team member
  • Able to manage change effectively
  • Have strong sense of ownership to delivery results
  • Customer focus, meets expectations, internally and externally forms partnership
  • Strong communication skills providing timely and concise information to others
  • Good in planning and organizing
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