Lead- PPC

Job Title: Lead- PPC Company: IMI SAP Module: SAP PP Roles & Responsibilities: Process Automation is a world leading provider of flow control solutions for critical applications across the Energy, Marine and Pharmaceutical markets. Role Overview The Project Planning & Production Control Lead is responsible for developing and managing project and production schedules to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders. The role works closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, and other cross-functional teams to align material availability, manufacturing capacity, and project milestones.The position plays a critical role in capacity planning, resource optimization and production scheduling. Key Responsibilities * Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in close coordination with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production teams. * Monitor project milestones and overall progress, and provide timely weekly status reports to management * Collaborate with production teams to understand capacity, resource availability and production capacity to create accurate schedule * Sound knowledge in capacity planning and identify the bottleneck resources/process * Ensure sufficient loading of machines. Monitor daily output in terms of quantity as well as time. * Coordinate with supply chain to ensure materials available on time to start production activities * Communicate production plans, schedule changes, priorities, and risks to relevant stakeholders. * Proactively identify project execution risks and develop mitigation plans to minimize schedule impacts. * Monitor engineering changes and assess their impact on project schedules, inventory, and production activities * Hands on experience in identifying and maintaining safety stock and Kanban. * Review with concerned stakeholders to ensure manufacturing completes on time. * Revise production schedules as required to accommodate changing priorities, material availability, capacity constraints, and customer requirements. * Track project-wise material shortages and develop assembly kitting release plans to support smooth production flow. * Monitor Key performance indicators on daily, weekly, and monthly and apply problem solving for continuous improvement. * Foresee the risks in project execution and escalate to management. * Prepare and present project status reports, performance metrics, and recovery plans to management. * Co-ordinate with other functions and pull materials for uniform loading in machining, welding, and assembly. Improve utilisation of plant capacity. Work Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Availability: Full time

* Good communication skills with the ability to form and maintain good relationships with internal & external stakeholders. * Basic knowledge in ERP function * Good interpersonal, negotiation and analytical skills. * Strong technical mindset and able to read and interpret technical data and translate to others. * Assertive, optimistic, resilient and welcomes changes. * Good proficiency in excel. * Knowledge of overall manufacturing process * Result orientated and organised with the ability to deliver against deadlines. * Basic knowledge in Power BI added advantage * BE (Mechanical Engineering) with 10-12 years post qualification experience with valve industry(Preferably). Key Skills: Capacity Planning Salary: Not disclosed