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Managing Director – Aviation & Aerospace Thailand

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Category: Jobs. Tags: Aviation & Aerospace, Jobs in Thailand, Managing Director.

PROBIZ SOLUTIONS CO., Ltd. was established in 2003 as an independent Thai / British joint venture company. We are proud to serve the needs of local and multinational companies wishing to recruit high quality employees. Probiz deliver companies an exclusive service concept and customized solutions regarding every aspect in human resources. We strive to commit and provide the best to our clients with the final goal of exceeding expectation from our clients and candidates. Our team of leading professionals counts with more than 20 years of experience providing unique performances.

Truly believing you are supported by the best company, we look forward to assist you.

Serving our clients’ needs, we would like to encourage high potential professionals like you to apply for the following position.

Managing Director – Aviation & Aerospace Thailand

Total package: 13,000 US Dollar – 16,000 US Dollar per month or Negotiable

Client brief :
Our client is US Gas Turbine Corporation subsidiary was established in Thailand in 1989 as the first facilities component repair facility in Asia, serving the needs of the rapidly expanding airline industry in the region. Applying advanced technology available within the corporation, In Facility in Thailand has been continuously expanding its jet engine component repair capability. Component repair capability now comprises General Electric, CFM International and Pratt and Whitney jet engine parts.
Nowadays, The facility in Thailand is still a leader in the jet engine component repair, but has expanded its activities towards the field of industrial turbine component repair. A dedicated engineering and production team is ready to develop and apply repairs on an ever growing range of industrial turbine components.

POSITION SUMMARY:

To manage and control Company’s Thailand business/operations in order to achieve the committed business growth, revenue and profit, while ensuring the business’s compliance to all regulations set forth by various Aviations Authorities, e.g., Thailand, USA, Europe, Pakistan.

Key Roles Responsible :

1. Establishes next year’s expected business growth and profit based on Head Office given guidelines of minimum percentage growth of profit in relation to revenue through reviewing existing customers’ basic work loads, preparing forecast of next year’s business-in-flow, and establishing all operational resources requirements to support such required growth; provides the established expected business growth and profit to respective Directors for their preparation of “Division’s Budget” and “5 Years Business Plan”; reviews each Director’s draft Operational and Capital Expenditure Budget as compiled by the Finance and Human Resources Director for validity and practicality; discusses with each respective Director on the corrections required to ensure ultimate target is obtained and committed by the respective Director; submits the final “Budget” and “5 Year Business Plan” to the Managing Director of Head Office for approval; accompanies the Managing Director and Controller of the Head Office to co-present and co-defense the “Budget” and “5 Year Business Plan” of Thailand operation to the Board of Directors at the Corporate Office until final approval is obtained for implementation.

2. Manages and controls the implementation of the approved “Budget” and “5 Years Business Plan” of Thailand operations through:

reviewing and approving periodical Accounting and Financial reports as submitted by the Finance and Human Resources Director,
reviewing and approving unexpected Capital Expenditure Budget Request as submitted by respective Director to ensure that there are enough justification in terms of revenue versus expenses in the event of new business opportunities,
reviewing and approving “Input and Sales Report” as submitted by the Finance and Human Resources Director to ensure steady inflow of sales and parts are in line with each other, and to push Marketing Organizations in the event of any customer’s slack inflow of sales,
reviewing and approving Manpower and Equipment Request as submitted by Operations Director and Operations Support Director in order to verify with other Central Marketing Organizations whether such business is of temporary nature or long term relationship,
reviewing and approving “Finance Report” as submitted by the Finance and Human Resources Director to ensure adequate financial resources are available for the Thailand operation; deals directly with difficult or hopeless customers in ensuring that collections can be carried out by deciding whether future shipment should be continued with this customer,
reviewing and approving periodical “Head Count Report” to ensure that indirect personnel are in line with the revenue and overhead costs are under proper control,
reviewing periodical “Marketing and Sales Report” sent from Marketing Organizations to update self on specific project progress, and customers’ high light business opportunities; provides comments on own marketing leads on such Report before sending back to the sender,
reviewing and approving “Quality Report” as submitted by Quality Director, and “Customers’ Complaints Report” as submitted by the Customer Service Manager via Quality Director, in order to ensure that customers’ complaints have been properly and timely dealt with, and to detect if any real quality problem exists and that related permanent solutions have been found,
reviewing and approving “Audit Report” as submitted by the Quality Director which reports on all cell’s operations/procedures, in order to ensure that major findings on faculty operations/ procedures have been correctly and permanently corrected,
preparing “Monthly Managing Director’s Report” based on “Monthly Report” as submitted by all Directors, IT Manager and Customer Service Manager, to report on customers’ performance and major issues, new development in engineering, specific issues operations which should be of attention, and general company’s overall performance; submits such report to the Managing Director at Head Office.

3. Manages, controls, and provides guidelines to direct subordinates on their daily operations; solves their daily operational problems as deemed appropriate; conducts performance appraisals with direct subordinates based on pre-filled “Assessment Form”; recommends individual direct subordinate’s annual salary percentage of increments to the Managing Director at Head Office for approval based on the guidelines of annual percentage of salary increment given by the Head Office; reviews and approves overall annual salary percentage of increment for the whole company as submitted by the Finance and Human Resources Director and based on the approved Budget; reviews and approves individual salary percentage of increment of indirect subordinates as proposed by the Finance and Human Resources Director based on each Director’s given performance rating score of each Director’s individual subordinate to ensure internal equity and consistency in evaluation standard across the organization.

4. Attends the following meetings:

“Directors Meeting”, chaired by self, and attended by all Directors, and M.D. Secretary who takes Minutes of the Meeting to review company’s past month performance, to establish next month expected performance, to discuss on-going projects progress to ensure streamline of work, to review quality issues in order to jointly finds solutions, to tend to employees feed backs/comments obtained through company’s sponsored lunch activity, and to discuss on any other major issues as they may occur,
“Ad-hoc Meetings”, chaired by self, attends by respective operation unit, to discuss any operational issues as it occurs and to find respective solutions in a timely and correct manner,
“Customers’ Meeting”:
externally – visits respective customer’s site, to build good relationship, to present business and quality issues, to explore future business opportunities,
internally:

quality audit visits to Thailand operation – greets auditors, either from customer, Aviation Authority, or Corporate Office, and delegates to Quality Director to conduct the plant tour(s); attends “de-briefing” sessions on their audit findings and to ensure that such findings can be resolved quickly and permanently,
customers’ commercial visits to Thailand operation – discusses about business expansion or continuation of business expansions; conducts the plant tour visit by self or delegates to Operations Director or Customer Service Manager to conduct the plant tour visit, depending on the size of the customer.

“Regional Marketing Meeting”, chaired by the Regional Marketing Vice President, attended by all Marketing and Sales Director of each country in the Asia Region, to be briefed on their latest marketing development, and to request for their assistance in some potential marketing opportunities/leads,
“Head Office Managing Director’s Visit”, chaired by the Managing Director of Head Office, attended by the Managing Director of Thailand operation, to discuss about local operational issues, and any significant business development areas,
“General Managers’ Meeting”, chaired by the Chairman of the Corporation, attended by each business unit head (General Manager or Managing Director) globally, to be briefed on corporate view on future business directions, and to exchange ideas and experience among participants,
“Team Leader/Cell Leader Meeting”, chaired by the Managing Director or the Operations Support Director, attended by all Company’s Directors, Team Leaders, and Cell Leaders, to discuss about each Team’s and Cell’s performance, quality issues, and any major operational issues, and to provide guidelines to the Team Leaders and Cell Leaders for them to find the appropriate solutions to the problems encountered.

5. Handles communications either verbally or in writings, i.e., e-mail, facsimile, letters, with external parties, e.g., Marketing Organization, customers, Operations Director from other business units, to discuss on-going matters, transfer of work, new projects, customer’s issues which require personal attention; reviews all company’s incoming fax and adds comments as may be required on the fax before distributing to concerned personnel for further action or information.

6. Prepares quotation(s) for major customer(s) or new customer(s), e.g., set price, payment terms, turnaround time, in close liaison with Marketing units, based on guidelines of previous quotations given to other customers, internal cost, and input from Marketing Organization on the customer’s available budget, in order to ensure winning the bid for company as a corporate organization, not only for Thailand operation; provides guidelines for Customer Service Manager on price quotations, and on selected price range; reviews and approves Customer Service Manager’s quotation proposal for existing customers, in order to ensure that they are in line with respective customer’s purchasing power.

7. Creates and prepares presentation materials and presents personally the company’s profile and existing business to major customers and BOI based on company’s internal statistical data available on the information system.

8. Conducts inspection tour throughout the plant and the Receiving area to detect/inspect any major issue(s) and to update self on the daily input of parts from customers; delegates the findings during the tour or after the tour to respective concerned party/personnel for immediate correction/ action.

9. Signs company’s documents as a Director and a Managing Director:

banks’ authorized signatory – co-signs with the Finance and Human Resources Director,
Custom Clearance Card Holder for the Company,
“Personnel Requisition” for new hires,
IT Department’s Purchase Requisitions,

10. Performs other related duties of a similar type at a similar level.

Qualification & Key Traits:

10 years experience within Aviation Industry, within component repair is a preference, although engine overhaul would also be acceptable.
Effective Management skills and strategies/ strong communicator – active listener
People – People – Personality ,Tolerance for working in chaos
Action Oriented, high degree of drive in achieving results/ proven track record/ability to produce results
Multi- task / Balance numerous priorities / white board – brown paper pragmatist
Personal fit to unique characteristics of business, personal characteristics match organizations strategies
Decisive, assertive, leadership qualities
Maintain ‘big picture’ perspective while constantly evaluating/re-directing resources to balance every aspect of the business
Ability to balance drive, aggression, & action orientation with empathy, tact, & effective communication skills

Please submit you full resume with achievement record in the past and send to the contact address below.

Interested applicants are invited to submit the resume in MS. Word Only and contact address, telephone number together with photograph by e-mail to:

Probiz Solutions Co., Ltd.

889, 7th Floor, 72RM, Thai CC Tower
South Sathorn Road, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120 Thailand
Fax: (662)-673-9287

E-mail : thomas@probizs.com
Website : www.probizs.com