Job Description

Job Title
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Company
Visiontek Group
Location
Pimpri / Pune / Maharashtra (or as per plant locations) - multiple plants
Reporting To
Promoters / Board of Directors
About the Company
This company is a Indian automotive firm specializing in heavy fabrication, steel and sheet-metal processes, serving OEMs and Tier-1s in automotive and allied sectors. With several plants and a growing footprint, we are committed to excellence in manufacturing, innovation, quality, people, and operational efficiency.
Role Purpose
The COO will be responsible for the end-to-end operations of the manufacturing footprint, across all plants, ensuring efficient, scalable, safe, cost-effective, and high-quality production. This role ensures that operational strategy is aligned with the promoter's vision, industry best practices, and customer requirements. Key objectives include improving productivity, optimizing costs, ensuring quality & safety, and enabling growth / expansion.
Key Responsibilities * Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Develop and implement operational strategies to ensure plant capacity utilisation, throughput, and operational excellence.
• Translate business goals from promoters / board into actionable operational plans.
• Drive continuous improvement (lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, kaizen, etc.) initiatives across plants.
• Manufacturing & Heavy Fabrication

• Oversee steel & sheet-metal fabrication processes: cutting, pressing, welding, folding, stamping, finishing, etc.
• Ensure equipment adequacy, maintenance, and technology upgrades.
• Ensure scalability: manage bottlenecks, ensure production flow, minimize downtime.
• Multi-Plant Coordination & Standardization

• Harmonize processes, standards, best practices across plants.
• Implement consistent quality, safety, and environmental norms.
• Centralize or streamline shared services (logistics, procurement, HR, maintenance) where beneficial.
• Quality, Safety, Compliance

• Maintain high quality standards (both internal QC and customer-driven).
• Ensure safety in operations: compliance with workplace safety, environmental regulations.
• Champion certifications: ISO, TS (if applicable), etc.
• Cost Management & Productivity

• Control operational costs: raw materials, energy, labour, overheads.
• Improve productivity metrics (yield, scrap reduction, cycle time, throughput, utilization).
• Monitor KPIs and take data-driven corrective actions.
• People & Leadership

• Build and lead operations leadership team (plant heads, production, quality, maintenance etc.).
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, continuous improvement.
• Training, talent development and retention, succession planning.
• Supply Chain, Procurement & Logistics

• Ensure reliable supply of raw materials (steel, sheet metal, etc.), timely procurement, vendor development.
• Manage inbound & outbound logistics for parts/products.
• Inventory management: raw materials, WIP, finished goods.
• Budgeting, Forecasting, & Performance Tracking

• Prepare operational budgets, forecasts, capital expenditure proposals.
• Track performance (costs, output, quality, safety) against targets.
• Regular reporting to promoters / board, with insights and action plans.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Industry Experience: Minimum 15-20 years in manufacturing / heavy fabrication / automotive components, especially steel & sheet metal processes.
• Multi-Plant Exposure: Must have managed operations across at least 2-3 plants, ideally in automotive / OEM / Tier-1 supply chain.
• Functional Depth: Strong in operations (production, maintenance, quality, safety), process engineering, supply chain & procurement.
• Leadership in Indian Promoter-Driven Culture: Comfortable with direct reporting to promoters, ability to work in dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, strong decision-making.
• Academic: Engineering graduate (Mechanical / Metallurgy / Production / Industrial), preferably with advanced degree / diploma / certification (MBA / Masters / Six Sigma / Lean etc.).
• Certifications & Tools: Familiarity with Lean / Six Sigma / TPM / Kaizen etc.; exposure to quality standards like ISO / TS / IATF etc.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong strategic thinking + tactical execution capability.
• Analytical mindset, data-driven decision making.
• Strong financial acumen: cost control, margin improvement.
• Change management skills; ability to lead transformation.
• Good communication & stakeholder management (board, customers, suppliers).
• High integrity, safety & quality orientation.
• Ability to drive culture and value-based leadership.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Plant capacity utilisation (%)
• Production yield / scrap rates
• On-time delivery to customers
• Cost per unit / reduction in cost of manufacturing
• Downtime & Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Quality rejection rates (internal / external)
• Safety incident rate / compliance metrics
• Employee engagement / attrition in operations

What We Offer

• A leadership role with wide operational responsibility and authority.
• Opportunity to shape the future of the group, influence policy and growth.
• Competitive compensation & long-term incentives.
• A promoter driven environment with agility, scope for innovation, and growth.
• Exposure to cutting edge fabrication and manufacturing technologies.

Benefits

• Performance bonus
• Reimbursement of transportation costs

Skills Required