Senior Engineer/Assistant Manager - Installation

About the role

KONE is seeking a Senior Engineer/Assistant Manager to lead installation projects in Indore. The role ensures safety, quality, and productivity on site while managing handovers and customer satisfaction.

Key responsibilities

• Accountable for safety, quality, and productivity during installation and handovers, and for raising corrective actions.
• Ensure correct KONE installation methods, tools, and risk assessments are applied.
• Plan and organise installation activities, site storage, logistics, and required resources.
• Manage material requests, receipts, and verification of site execution plans.
• Lead continuous huddles with the installation team to prevent interruptions and improve efficiency.
• Achieve variation sales targets, manage change orders, and claim costs attributable to others.
• Verify installation quality, conduct final testing, and complete handover to maintenance.
• Maintain environmental aspects of installation, including waste and hazardous material handling.
• Act as primary customer contact for site management, ensuring proactive communication and satisfaction.
• Develop and motivate site operatives, ensuring training, certification, and wellbeing.
• Drive continual improvement using LEAN principles, coaching the team to identify waste and implement improvements.

Required profile

• Proven experience in supervising installation projects with a focus on safety, quality, and productivity.
• Strong ability to plan, organise, and manage site logistics and resources.
• Excellent communication skills to act as the primary customer liaison.
• Leadership capability to train, motivate, and ensure the wellbeing of site operatives and subcontractors.