Production Planning Manager

<p>You will be part of the <strong>Process Engineering </strong>team. </p><p>This team runs on coffee and the challenge of figuring out how to produce and validate batteries, chargers, and connectors at scale.<br/></p><p>Our philosophy: <strong>Break. Believe. Build</strong><br/>Break stuff. Break assumptions. Break the thumb rule.<br/>Believe in the team. Believe in the process. Believe through failures.<br/>Build fast. Build passionately. Build to simplify.<br/><br/></p><p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p><p>Manage production on a day to day basis, plan for availability of machines, manpower and material as per production plan, achieve production quality, meet delivery timelines and plan accordingly. Coordinate with all stakeholders/ team. Hiring, development and training of talent. Daily, weekly and monthly communications to all stakeholders. Manage dispatches to customers.</p><ul> <li>Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products</li> <li>Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay with coordinating with multiple stakeholders</li> <li>Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand</li> <li>Assign workers and other staff to particular production operations</li> <li>Schedule shift according to production needs</li> <li>Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget</li> <li>Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption</li> <li>Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)</li> <li>Prepare and submit status and performance reports</li> <li>Keep paperwork organised</li> </ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>The ideal candidate requires:</strong></p><ul> <li>Proven experience as production planner</li> <li>Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles</li> <li>Experience in Manufacturing resource planning</li> <li>Working knowledge of MS Office and ERP systems</li> <li>Good at math and statistics</li> <li>Strong organizational and problem-solving skills</li> <li>Excellent communication abilities and stakeholder management</li> <li>Graduation – engineering preferred </li> </ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>What matters less:</strong></p><ul> <li>Years of experience</li> <li>Formal qualification</li> </ul><p><strong>What matters more:</strong></p><ul> <li>Quality of work</li> <li>Approach towards problem-solving</li> <li>Dissatisfaction with mediocre work</li> <li>Resilient attitude to bounce back after failing</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>About Us</strong><br/></p><p>Exponent simplifies energy for EVs.</p><p>Co-founded by Arun Vinayak (Ather Energy's Founding Partner &amp; Former Chief Product Officer) and Sanjay Byalal (Former hardware strategic sourcing and cell strategy lead, Ather and Former Supply Chain Lead, HUL), Exponent focuses on solving two sides of the energy problem by building the <strong>e^pump</strong> (charging station) and <strong>e^pack</strong> (battery pack) which together unlock 15-min rapid charging.</p><p>The 150+ strong team of passionate builders has a ton of EV experience and is currently looking for more builders to join one of the best EV teams in India to build &amp; scale Exponent.</p>