Role & responsibilities

- Production Planning: Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly production plans to achieve targets for coir blocks while considering raw-material availability, machine capacity, customer orders, and dispatch schedules.
- Raw Material Management: Monitor the availability and quality of coir pith/coir fibre, ensure proper storage, and coordinate with procurement to maintain uninterrupted production.
- Coir Pith Processing: Supervise screening, sieving, drying, cleaning, buffering/washing, and other processing activities required to produce consistent-quality coir blocks.
- Block Manufacturing: Oversee block compression, hydraulic/automatic press operations, block formation, cutting, weighing, and packing to ensure production specifications are met.
- Moisture & Quality Control: Maintain required moisture levels, EC, pH, particle size, expansion, density, weight, and other customer specifications. Ensure samples are tested and approved before dispatch.
- Production Cost & Budget Control: Monitor labour, electricity, water, packaging, maintenance, and other production costs. Identify opportunities to reduce wastage and improve cost efficiency.
- Manpower Management: Supervise production workers, allocate duties, prepare shift schedules, monitor attendance and productivity, and provide on-the-job training.
- Machine & Equipment Management:



Ensure proper operation and routine maintenance of dryers, sieving machines, conveyors, hydraulic presses, compressors, packing equipment, and other production machinery.
- Breakdown Management: Respond quickly to machine breakdowns, coordinate with the maintenance team, identify recurring problems, and minimize production downtime.
- Quality Assurance: Establish and maintain production standards for different block types and sizes, such as 5 kg blocks, 650 g blocks, briquettes, grow bags, and customized products.
- Safety & Compliance: Enforce workplace safety procedures, PPE usage, fire-safety practices, machine guarding, housekeeping, and applicable environmental and labour regulations.
- Waste Management: Monitor coir pith losses, rejected blocks, spillage, packaging waste, and other production losses, and implement measures to reduce waste.
- Inventory Coordination
- Dispatch Coordination
- Production Documentation: Maintain production reports, raw-material consumption records, machine downtime reports, quality records, labour productivity reports, rejection reports, and daily performance data.
- Continuous Improvement
- Customer-Specific Production

Preferred candidate profile 3 to 7 Years experience in Production.

Willing to Relocate

Perks and perks

As per company Standards

📌 Production Manager (Thanjavur)
🏢 Hort Bio Technologies
📍 Thanjavur