About this role
Ensuring Chart’s Success…
We are inviting you to join Howden, a Chart Industries Company become a trusted and valued member of our Business Intelligence Team. AS part of this vital team, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining business intelligence solutions that drive data-driven decision-making across the organization.Howden was acquired by Chart Industries in 2023. Chart Industries is a leader in innovation focused on our transition to a greener energy environment. We are a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment and solutions serving multiple applications in the Energy, Industrial gas end sectors. We supply cryogenic systems and have a global presence in 40 countries, and more than 11,000 employees. Howden's long heritage and technology enable this transition on a more efficient level. Our vision is to enable the vital processes of our customers and thereby promote a more sustainable world via our Nexus of Clean Strategy.
What Will You Do?
The Assembly In Charge oversees the daily assembly operations of the assigned projects.
This role involves:
- Planning and directing assembly and testing activities.
- Identifying &communicating material shortages to relevant stakeholders, ensuring project timelines are met.
- Monitoring and optimizing assembly and testing processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensuring on-time delivery of completed projects to meet customer deadlines (CDD).
The Assembly in Charge is responsible for:
- Manpower management: Ensuring adequate staffing levels and continuously developing employee competencies through training and development programs to meet safety and quality standards as per company policy.
- Operational efficiency : Implementing lean manufacturing principles and best practices to optimize operational costs and improve overall efficiency.
- Employee engagement: Fostering a highly motivated workforce through training programs, motivational events, and a positive work environment."
Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…
Safety & Quality:
- Conduct Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) and frequent safety audits to identify and eliminate unsafe conditions and acts.
- Identify and mitigate assembly defects.
- Conduct Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to prevent future failures.
- Communicate part-level rejections to buyers/vendors prior to assembly.
- Validate final assembly with GAD checks.
- Prepare dimensional reports and submit them to Quality Control (QC).
- Review and reinforce fan part aesthetics in coordination with QC.
Operational Efficiency:
- Arrange necessary equipment (ducts, motors, cables, test beds) in advance.
- Support QC in resolving performance deviations during fan testing.
- Prepare assembly micro-plans based on expected material receipt dates.
- Ensure timely highlighting of material issues and record in COPQ.
- Communicate material shortages to planning/buyer/ production to meet customer deadlines (CDD).
- Optimize operational costs by minimizing manufacturing costs (labor, welding, power).
- Ensure effective usage and maintain records of production consumables.
- Follow FIFO (First In, First Out) for assembly and PDI to align with vehicle loading plans.
Your Experience Should Be...
Education:
Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with 7 -11 years of experience.
Customer Focus:
- Ensure on-time delivery as per CDD.
- Coordinate with customers during fan dimension, mechanical run, and performance tests.
- Respond professionally to customer complaints and concerns.
Process Improvement & Communication:
- Conduct initial analysis reports for assembly and testing failures.
- Effectively facilitate problem-solving methods (like Daily work management - DWM) with stakeholder input.
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for new change implementations.
- Monitor the effectiveness of action plans by reviewing control charts.
- Conduct Team Building (TBT) sessions to improve communication.
- Stringently follow up with all stakeholders to achieve assembly plans.
- Keenly monitor and record assembled parts dispatch to customers.
General Responsibilities:
- Prepare detailed monthly performance reports and present to HOD.
- Lead 5S and Kaizen activities across assembly and testing.