Title: Specialist I, Production Management (Investment)
Reports to: Manager, Production Planning
Location: Lansing, MI
LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. (LGESMI) develops and manufactures large lithium ion polymer batteries and modules for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications. Come join the leader in advanced EV batteries! www.lgenergymi.com
Summary
As a Specialist I, you will be involved in the project budget management, managing timeline and business planning. You will serve as an investment manager who reviews the whole investment items of specific project, guides the investment process to engineers and staffs and planning the annual business plan of factory.
Responsibilities:
- Set the project budgets from HQ and monitor the progress via project schedule
- Review the budget items list and actual investment items
- Communicate with HQ to control the investment issues.
- Plan the factory annual business plan
- Manage the factory investment through business plan
- Set up meetings between the relevant departments to managing the project budgets
- Analyze the gap between performance and goals and dig up improvement plan
- Synchronize information flow between multiple IT systems (IMS, SAP, ERS, etc.)
- Manage Production Life Cycle (Product order - Development - Mass Production - EOP)
- Work closely with production strategy to align production KPIs and company's goals
- Promptly address and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production
- Recommend viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality
- Promptly discuss the relevant departments regarding changes to current production schedules
- Maintain cleanliness at work-site in accordance with 5S3R Standards:
- Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
- Right Location, Right Quantity, Right Container
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or MS preferred, or equivalent, relevant experience
- Language: (Requirement) Korean (Communicate with Korean HQ)
Experience:
- 1 to 3+ years of related experience
- Accounting experience preferred
- Manufacturing experience preferred
Skills:
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Leadership and interpersonal skills
- High attention to detail and understanding of multiple metrics
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally
- Data Analysis
- Problem Solving
- MS Office suite
