Job Title: Operation Head - Lead Metal (Battery Recycling)

Base Location: Dubai

Department: Operations

Reporting to: CEO

Reported by:

Chief Manager / Senior Manager (Operations)

Manager / Deputy Manager / Assistant Manager (Operations)

Key Responsibilities: Shall be responsible for:

• Understanding business and ensuring that the entire operation of the plant operates safely and efficiently to provide high quality work at all times.
• Formulation and achievement of goals (vertical based) in line with corporate vision, mission and objectives of the company.
• Ensuring strategy, structure, staffing, skills, style and processes are synergetic with the business objectives.
• Analyzing and acting according to the business needs.
• Scheduling and making regular visits to overseas centers; reviewing quality and services – for one month at least at each center.
• Ensuring that employees are result oriented and able to operate as a team.
• Achieving operational and financial performance of all the overseas centers under charge.
• Deriving business plan and get approval from the management.
• Ensuring compliance with productivity, quality and service delivery metrics for all assigned points.
• Develop and implement operational policies and procedures to maintain best practices.
• To liaison with the Government authorities / local political leaders / nearby community centre heads.
• Ensuring all safety parameters are complied with.
• Annual resource planning – forecasting resource requirements and managing the source of availability.
• Carrying out continuous analysis of production, recoveries, expenses and funds utilization to optimize revenues.
• Making efforts to maximize procurement of raw material and minimize overheads.
• Keeping daily update of activities of Foreign centers and discuss with Operations Head.
• To set targets for the centers per month and pursue them.

Focus Areas:

• Plant Operations (Manufacturing / Maintenance / Stores / Accounts)
• Administration
• Local Liaising
• Local Procurement
• Purchase
• Shipping / Logistics
• Manpower Management

Other Responsibilities:

• Based on the business plan, to fix KRA’s for the next level of managers / deputy managers / executives and other staff.
• Requires frequent traveling to multiple overseas locations.

Qualification:

• BE / B Tech or equivalent
• MBA (Operations) or equivalent

Experience:

• Minimum 15 – 20 years relevant experience (preferably in Africa)

Additional Skills:

• Excellent man-management skills
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team-development skills
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as business unit / profit center head of an SSI or engineering section head in a mid-sized company

Age Group: 40 – 48 years