Implementation Facilitator - Global Energy & Materials

McKinsey & Company is seeking an Implementation Facilitator for its Global Energy & Materials practice, based in one of their India offices. The role involves working closely with clients to tackle complex operational challenges in manufacturing and supply chain, with a focus on sustainability and impact. Candidates should have a relevant degree and strong analytical skills, with experience in lean manufacturing and automation technologies.
Your Growth You will be based in one of our India offices - Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Kolkata or Mumbai - as a part of McKinsey Implementation in the Operations practice.

McKinsey Implementation is a rapidly growing capability for our firm. It provides continuous, distinctive support to our clients to ensure they achieve and sustain the full benefits of McKinsey’s recommended changes. Our implementation consultants are involved from strategy to execution with a disciplined eye on impact and sustainability at every stage of a project life cycle.

Our Operations practice sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation to deliver sustainable and inclusive growth. It assists our clients in solving complex operational challenges.

Our Global Energy & Metals (GEM) practice is committed to helping clients outperform and innovate across Oil & Gas, Metals & Mining, Electric Power/Natural Gas and Chemicals & Agriculture industries.

You will work with some of the leading senior advisors and experts in the industry to solve our clients' most important and complex problems.

Your ImpactYou will spend about 80% of your time working at client location as part of consulting teams helping solve complex client problems in manufacturing and supply chain domains.

This work includes but is not limited to: shop floor transformations, yield and throughput enhancements; unlocking workforce productivity; unlocking capacity in manufacturing plants; reducing cost and defects from poor quality production; ensuring reliable, flexible and safe production, as well as maximizing asset returns in production, developing optimal network configuration models for global supply chains of clients, simulating inventory levels with the objective of creating a sound inventory policy etc.

You will build your expertise in GEM across industries and will be mentored by our implementation experts who bring decades of industry experience and a track record driving change in complex organizations.

Your qualifications and skills
• Bachelor's or master's degree in industrial or mechanical engineering, physics, chemistry, manufacturing or operations management (supplemented by technical training), with a strong quantitative underpinning and an outstanding academic record
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership ability in a team environment
• Skills in lean manufacturing principles and Six Sigma methodologies
• Experience with product ionization (process flow diagram, process automation, line automation)
• Experience with line automation/hardware e.g. PLCs, Robots, SCADA, VFDs etc.
• Experience in IoT, Industry 4.0, digital use cases, dashboards
• Expertise in root cause analysis for scrap and rework rejection; fish bone analysis, PFMEA etc.