PR/110817 | Manager- Store

Position Overview

The Manager – Store Engineering will be responsible for planning, optimizing, and developing material flow, warehouse infrastructure, and logistics processes within a manufacturing environment. The role will focus on improving existing warehouse operations while supporting new model launches, production requirements, facility planning, and future capacity expansion.

The position requires a strong understanding of industrial warehouse operations, material movement, facility/layout planning, production planning, and ERP/SAP systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and develop material flow, storage systems, warehouse processes, and infrastructure for new models and production requirements.

• Analyze existing material movement and warehouse operations to improve material flow, truck turnaround time, manpower utilization, and overall productivity.

• Conduct change-point studies and establish effective process flows for new model implementation and operational changes.

• Plan and optimize warehouse areas, facilities, dock layouts, resources, and material handling requirements.

• Coordinate material flow with production requirements to ensure smooth and synchronized operations.

• Identify opportunities to prevent material accumulation, bottlenecks, and unnecessary movement within warehouse and production areas.

• Support capacity and future expansion planning through volume studies, space assessment, and operational visualization.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance warehouse efficiency, resource utilization, and logistics productivity.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of industrial warehouse and stores operations

• Experience in warehouse area and facility layout/design

• Knowledge of material flow and storage system planning

• Experience in production planning and coordination with production lines

• Exposure to new model/new product implementation

• Knowledge of capacity planning, volume studies, and resource planning

• Understanding of truck movement, dock planning, and turnaround-time optimization

• Experience with ERP/SAP or similar enterprise systems

• Strong analytical and process improvement capabilities

Preferred Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should have 15–20 years of experience in stores, warehouse engineering, material planning, logistics, or material flow functions within a manufacturing environment. The candidate should have hands-on exposure to warehouse layout and facility planning, production-line material supply, new model implementation, process optimization, and capacity expansion projects.

Experience in a high-volume automotive or automotive component manufacturing environment would be particularly relevant considering the nature of material flow and new-model planning involved in the position