Group Chief Operating Officer

Job Opening for Group Chief Operating Officer (COO)- Ahmedabad Location

Job Location- Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Group COO will serve as the principal architect of enterprise operations and performance governance across:

Manufacturing & Production

Strategic Procurement & SCM

Quality & ISO Governance

Engineering Execution

Project Delivery

After-Sales & Lifecycle Service

ERP & Performance Reporting Systems

This role carries full operational P&L influence and board-level visibility.

Production:

Achieving production by managing team and making sure to satisfy all India branch offices for timely

delivery.

Handling Operation Heads, team of engineers, production supervisors

Experience of work study, motivating workers & engineers, applying new techniques and working towards

Improving productivity by planning effectively.

Communicate customer issues with operations team and devise ways of improving the customer

experience, including resolving problems and complaints in the shortest possible time.

Procurement:

Experience of hard-core purchase & vendor development is required.

Knowledge of costing of machining & fabrication is must.

Vendor development by global sourcing & enhancing existing vendor quality.

Maintaining stock and controlling it by establishing a system of EOQ, min stock, max stock etc. strong

knowledge of Excel or ERP is required.

Manufacturing Excellence:

Upgrading quality standards to the highest level so that entire machines can be exported back to our

European Partners.

Creating excellence by implementing 5S, KAIZEN, LEAN Manufacturing amongst the group.

Leadership:

Develop systems, implement processes amongst team and inspire team to perform.

Customer support:

responsible for driving superior customer support to business clients through policies, procedures, and setting

of goals.

Project Erection & Commissioning : about 200 projects per year under timeline with the help of team,

Complain Solving : Solving customer complains in shortest possible time by service department, Taking design inputs and finding root cause analysis.

Against every complain take necessary corrective and preventive actions to avoid this complain in future.

Design & Quality Enhancer: Base on service engineers & customer feedback, give regular inputs to design

department and make necessary changes for better quality, zero complains and adding new features.

Experience

20+ years in engineered manufacturing or capital equipment

Led multi-plant operations

Driven & implemented Engineering Excellence like KIZEN, 5S etc.

Experience serving international customers

Proven history of operational turnaround or scale transformation

Exposure Preferred

Automation / machinery / industrial equipment manufacturing

Global export operations

Industry 4.0 or digital manufacturing exposure

Leadership DNA

We are looking for:

A disciplined operator with board-level maturity

A systems architect, not a firefighter

A firm but respected cross-functional driver

Financially sharp with deep margin sensitivity

Comfortable leading in a promoter-led organization while building institutional structure