Our client, a large, well-established manufacturing plant near Visakhapatnam, is hiring an AGM – Industrial Relations to lead union relations, settlements, and workforce management across a large blended on-roll and contract workforce.

This is a senior, IR-first mandate -the successful candidate will own union negotiations and settlements, not just generalist HR administration.

- Grade/Level: Senior Manager / AGM
- Location: Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
- Reports to: Senior GM, with a further line into the site HR Head
- Experience: 12+ years, with substantive Industrial Relations exposure
- Qualification: MHRM (or equivalent postgraduate HR qualification)

What the role owns

- Leading union relations at a unionised manufacturing site - wage settlements, contract-workmen agreements, and day-to-day IR issue resolution.
- Managing IR/HR operations across a large blended workforce (600+ permanent employees, 1,500+ contract workforce) - coordination with time office, payroll inputs, and employee lifecycle processes at that scale.
- Contract labour management - compliance, vendor coordination, and workforce planning for a large contract-labour population.
- Manpower planning and recruitment across the site.
- Performance management and competency mapping for both management and non-management staff.
- Statutory payroll-input coordination (VDA, PLI-type incentive processing) with the corporate payroll function.




- Employee lifecycle ownership - joining formalities, induction, and related onboarding processes.
- Employee engagement and society/HR survey-driven initiatives.
- Succession planning and second-line development for critical positions.

What we're looking for

- 12+ years of progressive HR experience, with genuine, hands-on Industrial Relations depth -not a pure recruitment/HRBP background. Candidates should have led or closely supported union negotiations and settlement processes, ideally in a unionised manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing a large blended workforce (permanent + contract), comparable in scale to 600+ on-roll and 1500+ contract employees.
- Independent ownership of contract labour compliance and vendor coordination at scale.
- Comfort operating in a plant/manufacturing environment (vs. a purely corporate-office HR function).
- MHRM or equivalent postgraduate HR qualification.

Why this is a strong chance

- Senior, IR-first seat with real ownership of union relations at an established, large-scale manufacturing site - not a support role.
- Immediate settlement pressure is currently manageable (recent wage and contract-workmen agreements have just been concluded), giving a new incumbent room to establish the seat before the next negotiation cycle.

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