Manager - Production

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Description

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add Manager - Production position will be based in Chennai.

What a typical day looks like:

• Guides department activities to hold up design of new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and helps on test procedures.

• Explores technology trends and market demand to plan projects.

• Contributes with management, production, and marketing staff to resolve manufacturing feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products.

• Forecasts operating costs of department and directs preparation of budget requests.

• Partners with team and management in the development of the strategic plan and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for the function.

• Reviews and establishes material, equipment, and manpower resource requirements.

• Prioritizes production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, and materials supply in order to meet customer requirements.

• Coordinates production activities with other functional groups such as planning and distribution.

• Selects and develops personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the production function.

• Accountable for controlling manufacturing operation and ensuring that production quality and cost targets are met.

• Working in extremely complex problems where the research of situations or data from an evaluation of intangible factors.

• Reviews budgets and schedules required by management

• Regulate relations with the executives and/or major customers to maintain relationships with them.

• Resolve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading management levels for the achievements of the plant .

• Typically requires a bachelor degree or equivalent experience in addition to 3 years of operations experience.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas; understands the strategic impact of the function across sites.
• Demonstrates advanced people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
• Demonstrates knowledge of multiple functional technologies/processes, industries or functions and understanding of interdependencies of such processes at the site .
• To perform the major job responsibilities the use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: telephones, word processing, spreadsheet (PC), presentation and database software.

• Life Insurance
• PTO