Manufacturing Unit Manager/ Company Manager

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As a Manufacturing Unit Manager/ Company Manager for Electrification Business Area in Jiangmen, China, you will manage all aspects related to operations of a local manufacturing unit including the full scope of Production, Engineering, Procurements, Quality & Operational Excellence and Logistics, will also take legal responsibility of the plant.

This position reports to

ELSP Hub Asia Manager

Your responsibilities

• Implementing the global/ hub division manufacturing strategy in the country within the area of responsibility. Providing inputs to global/ hub division strategy. Developing proactive strategies to increase business profits, customer satisfaction and operational effectiveness
• Ensuring achievement of established targets, through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed. Focuses on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on-cost, requested on-time delivery (ROTD) and cost reduction
• Leading and managing manufacturing function and operation teams and processes. Implement localization plan. Improving manufacturing technology and competence in line with global/ hub division strategy
• Executing global/ hub division Quality strategy. Driving quality improvement through target setting, monitoring and benchmarking to continuously improve processes. Executing quality management for monitoring and validating day to day control of processes
• Delivering operational/project targets (e.g. ROTD, lead time, quality, etc.). Ensure that manufacturing resources implement improvements that address issues identified through Customer Complaint Resolution Process (CCRP), Top 5 Quality Initiatives (T5QI) and other voice of the customer initiatives
• Implementing Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) and business compliance standards and regulations within the units. Ensuring a safe working environment, and continuous improvement in HSE process and integrity performance. Personally, lives the ABB values and Group standards
• Implementing and ensuring compliance with global and local standards, rules, tools, policies and processes related to operations/project execution and shares functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization
• Ensuring that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed. Builds an effective, capable and high performing organization. Develop talent, appoints managers and reviews effectiveness

Your background

• Bachelor's Degree or above with major in Engineering, Business or related
• Minimum of 10 years of experience including operations, quality management and P&L management, working experience in JV will be a plus
• Good knowledge of the various continuous improvement systems and processes
• Ability to make decisions in critical and urgent situations
• Excellent leadership skills and ability to attract, motivate, develop and retain a dynamic and talented team
• Leadership abilities to encourage commitment rather than obedience
• Agent of change and strong ability to manage change
• Excellent communication skills with a continuous improvement and results-oriented approach

Benefits

• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Sick pay
• Meal allowance

More about us

ABB Smart Power is a global technology leader, with products and solutions that make power supplies smart, connected and protected. Its intelligent products and solutions make power more competitive by improving the energy efficiency, productivity and reliability of almost any operation. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website. Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid