Assistant General Manager - Global Raw Material Blending & Analytics

This newly created role within the Calcination Business Unit will assume global accountability for production planning and control within the Rain Carbon organization. The primary objective is to maximize Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC) margins by minimizing Green Petroleum Coke (GPC) input costs while meeting CPC quality requirements. The role will focus on integrating USA and India - GPC procurement and CPC production and blending operations. The role is integral to Rain Carbon production operations, ensuring that raw material blends meet rigorous customer specifications for each shipment while optimizing efficiency and maintaining cost-effectiveness. This position requires a deep understanding of production control, supply chain management, and quality assurance. Key Responsibilities:

• Establish a global production planning function at Hyderabad, India, which integrates and controls raw material blend plans across the USA and India calcining operations.
• Evaluate Green Pet Coke(GPC) sourcing options and provide recommendations to the Procurement team and Production teams to minimize raw material costs whilst still achieving all CPC quality requirements and specifications.
• Develop long-term production blend plans which identify the timeline for procurement and delivery of GPC raw material shipments to enable production of in-specification CPC product to meet agreed customer CPC delivery schedules.
• Develop and produce optimal blend schedules and recipes for petcoke blending feed to calcination plants
• Monitor GPC inventories to ensure that the optimum set of raw materials are available for use to meet production blend plans. Maintain advance LP modules for planning, economic evaluation and predictive calculation
• Monitor calcination unit production rates and manage petcoke inventory to align with pipeline schedules
• Consider logistics costs for raw material and finished product handling as an input to determining optimum (lowest cost) outcomes.
• Integrate CPC movements and CPC blending between Rain Carbon’s USA and India operations.
• Regularly interact with senior-level Commercial, Production, and Technical Service Departments within Rain Carbon’s global organization.
• Work closely with plant managers and the operations team to align production control with daily and long-term production goals.
• Participate in the development of tools to improve petcoke blending capabilities and support long-term strategies
• Centralize production planning functions in India to leverage the lower-cost business environment, including daily SAP transaction activity.
• Develop and maintain Key Performance Indicators to track the effectiveness and efficiency of the Production Blend Planning process in the US and India.
• Provide leadership to the Global Production Planning team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 10-15 years of similar planning/blending experience with proficiency in Linear Programming modeling. Strong understanding of calcination/metallurgical plant flow and key unit interactions
• Candidate preferably should have work experience in carbon/metallurgical industries.
• Strong finance and analytical skills with a strong intuition for numbers
• Proficiency in SAP and MS Excel.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to work in a global, cross-functional team environment with an ability to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India. About the Company Headquartered in India, Rain Industries Limited is a multinational, Fortune India 103 manufacturing company. We are among the top 10 publicly listed companies in Hyderabad. We are a leading vertically integrated producer of carbon, cement, and advanced materials with 15 manufacturing facilities in eight countries across three continents. We have production capacity of 2.4 million tons of calcined petroleum coke, 4.0 million tons of cement and 1.5 million tons of tar distillation. We have over 2400 professions. We are headquartered in Hyderabad, India, RAIN’s subsidiary companies, Rain Carbon Inc. and Rain Cements Limited, are industry leaders in their respective sectors. RAIN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.