Role Purpose
The Plant Manager is responsible for end-to-end plant operations, ensuring safe, compliant, productive, and cost-effective manufacturing of chemical products. The role leads production, maintenance, quality, EHS, and logistics teams to deliver production targets, regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, and workforce capability development.

Key Responsibilities
1. Operations & Production
Lead day-to-day plant operations to meet production, quality, cost, and delivery targets.
Ensure optimal utilization of manpower, equipment, utilities, and raw materials.
Develop and track production plans, KPIs, and dashboards (OEE/OPE, yield, downtime, losses, MPSA).
Drive process stability, batch consistency, and throughput improvement.
Manage complex reaction (Latex/Solution Polymers) operation

2. Safety, Health & Environment (SHE)
Ensure strict compliance with statutory, environmental, and safety regulations (Factories Act, PESO, PCB, IMS certification, NSF, etc.).
Promote a zero-incident safety culture through training, audits, and leadership engagement.
Lead HAZOP,



risk assessments, incident investigations, and corrective actions.
Ensure proper handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous chemicals and waste.

3. Quality & Compliance
Ensure compliance with IMS standards / customer quality standards.
Oversee process control, batch documentation, deviations, and CAPA.
Coordinate customer audits, internal audits / compliances, regulatory inspections, and certifications.

4. Maintenance & Reliability
Oversee preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance programs.
Improve equipment reliability, MTBF, and uptime.
Ensure availability of critical spares and effective shutdown planning.

5. Cost, Budget & Productivity
Prepare and manage plant budgets, operating costs, and capex proposals.
Drive cost reduction initiatives without compromising safety or quality.
Monitor energy, utilities, yield losses, and consumables usage.

6. People Leadership & Capability Bui

📌 Plant Manager (Konnagar)
🏢 Ecolab
📍 Konnagar