Having responsibilities nationwide and reporting directly to the National Sales Manager, you will manage a dedicated operation team nationwide in charge of providing site services for our rebar coupler activity in Thailand. Your mission statement is to ensure safe and efficient operations at the right quality and quantity to ensure stakeholders satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational Management
- Manage thread operations team, select, recruit and retain newcomers, develop induction and training plans with support from HR.
- Manage customers’ thread production orders, requests and possible complaints in agreement with your hierarchy.
- Review and consolidate monthly production forecast by coordinating with each customer and site teams.
- Review and approve monthly expenses and ensure adequation with budgeted resources & customer planning.
- Participate to site/projects meetings as and when necessary and required by the customer. Share MoM with your management.
- Organize internal thread operation meetings when required to ensure teams alignment on objectives and proper coordination with concerned operations team members, get feedback from site activities, suggest continuous improvement and corrective actions as needed.
- Provide regular feedback to team members (top/bottom) to promote a culture of transparency and continuous improvement.
- Manage and control eventual Overtime (O/Ts) and additional shifts with approval from your management.
Reporting and data analysis
- Understand and analyze the P&L of each site operations.
- Monitor site expenses weekly, compare with standard budgeted costs, analyze variances, and take prompt corrective actions when necessary.
- Provide a monthly written report on threading operations within m+8 days, for the previous month.
Quality & Safety
- Maintain strict compliance with threads quality requirements as specified in the Bar-end Quality Manual (BEPQM)
- Ensure that quantity of threads manufactured at site does not exceed the quantity stated in work orders as well as two times the quantity of couplers supplied, in coordination with Sales Operation Department.
- Ensure strict adherence to customer’s safety rules and corporate safety policy.
- Continuously and strictly promote safety awareness across at all sites.
Production
- Supervise the coordination of threading activities nationwide and ensure optimum production and utilization/allocation of manpower and equipment.
- Control overall tools and consumables consumption in line with standard budgeted tool life.
- Ensure that production and quality control standards as well as delivery commitment dates are respected whilst remaining within standard production costs.
- Analyze variances between actual and standard costs, highlight major variances and suggest corrective actions for approval.
- Review and analyze operations related reports and interact with concerned departments such as Sales Operation, maintenance (After Sales Services) and Quality Assurance to ensure timely resolution of production and QC problems as well as maintenance problems.
Inventories
- Monitor inventories of tools and consumables at all stores and project sites in line with defined min/max stock levels.
Based on actual inventories and short-term demand at each partner sites and project sites, review and approve stock transfer requests received from each site, communicate to planning and ensure timely dispatch of required tools from central store to partner sites and project sites. - Follow up tools consumption report to ensure best usage of tools and propose improvement plan.
- Participate in monthly stock taking process following accounting department procedure.
Maintenance
- Ensure strict application of the preventive maintenance program for all site equipment.
- Support close coordination between operations and maintenance teams (AFS) for the planning of equipment servicing as well as major preventive maintenance actions.
- Propose equipment and tools improvements.
Coordination with other departments
- Keep regular and friendly communication as well as sharing of information with other departments of the company and ensure such principle is supported across the team.
- Approve reconcilement of invoices monthly considering actual quantity of threads manufactured and deductions towards outside threading and customer storage usage.
- Propose and coordinate with After Sales Service team the machine relocation and machine set up at the new sites.
- Ensure at all times that each set of equipment is producing enough threads to cover at least its depreciation cost. Initiate machine relocation and/or labor relocation if the targets are not met
- Initiate and foster a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
Qualifications Requirement:
- Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering
- At least 10 years of experience in the construction industry with 5 years working at a managerial/supervision level. Good knowledge of project planning and/or project management, quality assurance systems and maintenance are required
- Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to be effective both strategically and at a hands-on, operational level
- Able to travel in Thailand when required
- Written and verbal proficiency in English a must
- Computer literate
- Good command of English communication
- Experience in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and ERP
- Ability to understand technical drawings
- Understanding of common manufacturing techniques