Assistant General Manager - Manufacturing

Role Summary

Join the team that powers the future at Orel Group. As a global innovation-driven manufacturing ecosystem, we are on a mission to energize lives by delivering sustainable solutions across power, data, and water. We are looking for forward-thinking individuals to join our journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Production & Delivery: Achieve monthly production plans, OTIF/customer requirements, capacity targets, and effective utilization of machines and manpower.
• Productivity & Cost: Improve output per employee/machine, control conversion cost, overtime, scrap, rework, energy consumption, and other manufacturing overheads.
• OEE & Capacity: Drive improvement in Availability × Performance × Quality; identify bottlenecks and maximize existing capacity before requesting additional CAPEX.
• Quality: Improve FPY, reduce rejection/rework/customer complaints, and work closely with QA/QC and R&D on permanent corrective actions.
• Planning & Inventory: Work closely with SCM and Sales through ERP/MRP-based production planning, control WIP, and prevent unnecessary RM/FG inventory.
• Maintenance & Reliability: Ensure preventive/predictive maintenance, reduce breakdowns and MTTR, and improve machine reliability development.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead Lean, Kaizen, 5S, SMED, line balancing, waste elimination, process optimization, and automation projects.
• People Management: Develop Production Managers, Engineers, Supervisors, and Operators; establish clear KPIs and accountability to improve skill levels and workforce productivity.
• Safety & Housekeeping: Maintain high standards of EHS, PPE compliance, 5S, material storage, scrap handling, and factory discipline.
• CAPEX & Automation: Prepare business cases based on ROI/payback and lead implementation of automation, material-handling, and capacity-expansion projects.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Experience around 10–15 years in manufacturing, including 4–5+ years in a senior plant/operations leadership role.
• A bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Production Engineering, or a related field would be preferred.
• An MBA/MSc in Operations, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing Management is an advantage.
• Lean/Six Sigma, TPM, or similar continuous-improvement qualifications are also valuable.

Location

76 Orel Park, Panaluwa-Watareka, Padukka, Sri Lanka