The role requires strong experience in manufacturing operations, preferably in temperature-controlled packaging, cold-chain solutions, pharmaceutical packaging, insulation products, PCM-based systems, thermal packaging, or allied industries.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

1. Overall Plant Operations

- Lead and manage the complete plant operations to achieve production, quality, delivery, cost, and safety targets.
- Ensure smooth and efficient functioning of all departments.
- Develop and implement annual plant operating plans and manufacturing strategies.
- Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly plant performance against agreed KPIs.
- Ensure optimum utilization of plant capacity, manpower, machinery, and resources.
- Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across the plant.

2. Production Management

- Plan, organize, and control production activities as per customer requirements and production schedules.
- Ensure timely production and dispatch of temperature-controlled packaging products.
- Improve productivity, line efficiency, OEE, yield, and throughput.
- Reduce production losses, rejection, rework, downtime, and material wastage.
- Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and process controls.
- Establish and monitor production KPIs for all manufacturing areas.

3. Temperature-Controlled Packaging Operations

- Ensure consistent manufacturing quality and performance of thermal packaging systems.
- Manage manufacturing processes related to insulated boxes, thermal liners, PCM packs, gel packs, EPS/EPP/PU insulation, vacuum insulation solutions, and other cold-chain packaging components, as applicable.
- Ensure correct assembly and configuration of packaging systems according to approved specifications.
- Work closely with R&D;/Engineering and Quality teams for product improvement and process validation.
- Ensure thermal performance requirements are consistently achieved through controlled manufacturing processes.

4. Quality Management

- Ensure strict compliance with quality standards and customer specifications.
- Work closely with the QA/QC team to reduce rejection, complaints, and process deviations.
- Establish effective quality control at incoming, in-process, and final inspection stages.
- Support investigation and closure of customer complaints, CAPA, NCRs,



and root-cause analysis.
- Promote a strong Right First Time (RFT) and zero-defect culture.
- Ensure proper documentation, traceability, and control of manufacturing records.

5. Planning & Supply Chain

- Coordinate with Production Planning, Purchase, Stores, Sales, and Dispatch teams to ensure uninterrupted production.
- Ensure availability of critical raw materials, packaging materials, components, and consumables.
- Optimize inventory levels and reduce excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.
- Ensure production plans are aligned with customer delivery commitments.
- Monitor supplier performance and coordinate with Procurement for critical materials.

6. Maintenance & Engineering

- Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance of plant machinery, equipment, utilities, and infrastructure.
- Minimize machine breakdowns and production downtime.
- Ensure availability and reliability of critical production equipment.
- Plan machine upgrades, automation, tooling, and capacity expansion.
- Maintain proper maintenance records and spare-parts inventory.

7. Cost Control & Productivity

- Prepare and monitor the plant operating budget.
- Control manufacturing costs without compromising quality or delivery.
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction through process improvement, automation, material optimization, and productivity enhancement.
- Monitor manpower cost, energy consumption, material consumption, scrap, and overhead expenses.
- Drive Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, Six Sigma, and other continuous-improvement initiatives.

8. Manpower & Team Management

- Lead, develop, and motivate production and support teams.
- Plan manpower requirements according to production volumes and shifts.
- Ensure proper training, skill development, and competency assessment of employees.
- Establish clear responsibilities and performance KPIs for departmental heads.
- Promote discipline, teamwork, accountability, and a positive work culture.




- Ensure effective shift management and workforce utilization.

9. EHS & Statutory Compliance

- Ensure compliance with all applicable health, safety, environmental, labour, and statutory requirements.
- Maintain a protected working environment throughout the plant.
- Conduct regular safety inspections, risk assessments, and emergency preparedness activities.
- Ensure proper handling, storage, and disposal of materials and production waste.
- Coordinate with relevant authorities and internal teams for statutory compliance and inspections.

10. Warehouse & Inventory Control

- Ensure proper receipt, storage, identification, preservation, and issue of raw materials and finished goods.
- Maintain accurate inventory records and stock reconciliation.
- Implement FIFO/FEFO wherever applicable.
- Ensure proper storage conditions for temperature-sensitive materials and components.
- Reduce inventory discrepancies, damage, and material losses.

11. Customer & Cross-Functional Coordination

- Coordinate with Sales, Business Development, Quality, R&D;, and Customer Service teams to meet customer requirements.
- Support technical discussions related to manufacturing feasibility and product customization.
- Ensure timely resolution of production-related customer issues.
- Participate in customer audits and technical/operational discussions when required.

12. Current Product Introduction & Process Development

- Support new product development and commercialization activities.
- Review manufacturing feasibility, capacity, tooling, manpower, and process requirements for new products.
- Coordinate with R&D;/Engineering for trials, pilot production, validation, and process stabilization.
- Ensure successful transition from development to commercial production.

13. Systems, Documentation & Reporting

- Establish effective production and operational reporting systems.
- Review daily MIS, production reports, rejection reports, downtime reports, inventory reports, and plant KPIs.
- Present monthly operational performance to senior management.
- Ensure proper implementation and compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Maintain accurate operational records and documentation.Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile

📌 Plant Head (Hyderabad)
🏢 Coldadge India
📍 Hyderabad