Location: GIDC Sachin, Surat

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 20+ Years

Reporting To: Promoter – Technical

Role Overview The Head – Operations will lead end-to-end manufacturing operations across multiple production sites, ensuring world-class standards in production, safety, quality, compliance, cost optimization, and people management. This role requires strong expertise in specialty chemical manufacturing, batch processing, process improvement, and large-scale plant operations.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Utilities, EHS, Quality Control, and Warehousing.
- Manage multi-product batch manufacturing while maximizing productivity, quality, and operational efficiency.
- Improve plant performance through yield enhancement, cycle-time reduction, solvent recovery, and utility optimization.
- Ensure equipment reliability through preventive maintenance and asset management.
- Troubleshoot production issues, process deviations, and yield losses using root cause analysis.
- Lead pilot-to-commercial scale-up activities with R&D; and Technology Transfer teams.
- Ensure compliance with ISO, GMP, Responsible Care, REACH, statutory regulations, and customer requirements.
- Drive a strong safety culture through process safety, risk assessments, emergency preparedness, and EHS compliance.
- Oversee batch records, SOPs, audits, documentation, CAPA, and regulatory inspections.
- Implement Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Kaizen, 5S, OEE improvement, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
- Develop production KPIs,



monitor plant performance, and present operational reviews to leadership.
- Lead, mentor, and develop managers, engineers, supervisors, and plant teams across multiple sites.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, R&D;, HR, and Commercial teams to achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

- B.E./B.Tech in Chemical Engineering (Mandatory).
- M.E./M.Tech or MBA preferred.
- Minimum 15 years of manufacturing experience with at least 8 years in senior plant leadership within specialty chemicals or intermediates.
- Proven experience managing multi-site operations and large cross-functional teams.

Technical Skills

- Multi-product batch manufacturing
- Process safety and reaction engineering
- Solvent recovery and utility systems
- Process optimization and scale-up
- SAP (PP/PM/MM/QM), MES, OEE
- Preventive maintenance and asset management
- Root Cause Analysis and CAPA

Preferred Certifications

- Six Sigma Green/Black Belt
- ISO 9001/14001/45001 Lead Auditor
- Responsible Care/EHS Certification
- SAP HANA or MES Training

Key Competencies Strong leadership, strategic planning, operational excellence, analytical thinking, decision-making, stakeholder management, communication skills, and a solid commitment to safety, quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

The selected candidate will lead operations across five manufacturing sites with responsibility for 600+ employees , driving operational excellence and sustainable business growth.

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