To spearhead Dahej manufacturing operations and drive innovative strategic thinking, manage Company resources productively, direct the people development and deployment process, maintain quality & planned capacity utilization and oversee day to day operations. Drive overall operational efficiency and ensure optimal returns on investments. Plan and undertake initiatives for high machine uptime & lead process improvement initiatives. To contribute in planning for production, maintenance, dispatch and raw material. Drive cost savings through improvement projects and support new product development initiatives.

Process Excellence & Customer Centricity
Support Quality Control & Assurance
Assure reliability and consistency of production; Ensure monitoring of manufacturing processes and output
Participate in quality audits and customer inspections; Support resolution of all complaints and findings related to Quality issues in collaboration with quality assurance

Process & Engineering Improvements
Ensure implementation and adherence to process improvement initiatives across the plant
Oversee execution of OEE improvement initiatives in coordination with Engineering & Maintenance head
Monitor consumption of general consumables, scrap production across products in plant; Develop and drive initiatives to reduce additional costs incurred in plant
Customer fulfilment
Ensure maximum market servicing basis demand projections - Ensure OTIF; Drive production in line with outlined production plan
Maintain high level of quality control in production to minimize defects
Strategy and planning
Direct and lead planning of Capex and Opex for the plant (e.g., machinery, raw materials) in coordination with respective leads.
Support development of plant manufacturing budget in coordination respective leads; Plan and allocate production budget and capacity in coordination with production planning department
Oversee manpower planning, deployment and mobilization across production lines and shifts
Oversee implementation of people strategy at plant.
Prepare an annual manufacturing plan and policy guidelines to drive the performance of key result areas on production activities and continuous implementation monitoring.
Implements, drives, and sustains key initiatives that support plant strategic goals.
Manufacturing Operations
Plan and supervise manufacturing
Support Production head in managing manufacturing operations
Liaise with procurement head to ensure availability of required raw materials
Ensure adherence to dispatch plan outlined in coordination with logistics manager
Ensure regular maintenance of equipment as per outlined schedule across plant
Ensure compliance with safety, quality and regulatory standards for the plant
Liaise with engineering & maintenance head to ensure maintenance and availability of utilities e.g., electricity; Drive civil and mechanical projects at plant
Oversee management of stores and spares at plant across products

Oversee planning and implementation of maintenance schedules and shutdowns to enhance machine uptime, reduction in mean time between repetitive failures and contingency planning while ensuring production continuity
Monitors the facility’s equipments needs and ensures that the technical team is working to keep the Company’s equipment and physical facility are properly maintained.
Optimally make sure that manufacturing units improvise on the standard efficiencies in terms of Machine efficiencies, material yields, labor and overhead costs versus budget.
Performance monitoring and reporting
Monitor performance and plant costs along key production metrics outlined by management; Drive correction of negative deviation vs budgeted if any
Identify and highlight key deviations from plan; Suggest initiatives to resolve issues




Perform operational audit in conjunction with process excellence head to determine manufacturing efficiency
Work with plant finance controller to measure and track financial performance of plant
Works to ensure that the facility’s OEE, OTIF, production targets; monitor target achievements are met through periodic reviews.
Review daily, weekly and monthly production MIS reports to match actual performance vis-à-vis the targets and provide action steps to minimize variance
Provides information to Corporate with SLA, including daily/weekly/monthly reporting requirements and other ad hoc information requests.
Procurement
Monitor management and coordination of procurement related to plant including preparation of procurement budget for plant, evaluation of suppliers, contract negotiation, delivery and quality of raw materials
Ensure adherence to inventory norms and minimize cost of inventory for all material types (RM, Consumables, etc.)
Logistics
Oversee planning and coordination of timely movement of goods from plant including preparation of budget, managing inventory levels, tracking shipments, evaluation of vendors and contract negotiation
Strategic:
Directs all aspects of the business operations, including purchasing, scheduling, manufacturing, warehousing, dispatch, quality assurance, customer service etc.
Accountable for plant costs, throughput, utilization, manpower productivity & production costs
Lead creation of the plant budget by consolidating inputs from various departments; ensure adherence to the approved budget
Control of all operational aspects including cost & operations, production, quality, plant production improvement, health & safety and compliance.
Ensure implementation of process improvements across products at plant to ensure improvement in key metrics
Oversee the cost-effective management of all outsourced transportation service in consistence with budgeted levels of costs.
Enforces all Company policies, including safety, production, quality, sales, human resources, customer service and accounting policies.
Understands the technical aspects of the manufacturing facility so as to provide support to departmental personnel.
Well versed with processes like IMS, QMS, ISO Audit & Compliance
Constantly assesses the facility’s operational efficiencies and seeks out opportunities to improve processes in an economic manner.
Ensure that all legal and statutory compliances for the plant are complied as per the required timelines
Drive lean in every aspect of business practices and operations.
Any assignment which needs to be done for addressing the Company needs/ objectives / emergencies / criticalities as directed by the Management time to time.
People: Staff + Manpower
Guide and monitor performance of direct reports, providing timely feedbacks
Support the identification of training and development to facilitate technical learning and growth of production staff and manpower
Ensure adequate safety training for production staff and manpower
Determine and communicate staffing needs to HR, interview candidates as necessary
Manage and maintain labor and operating costs in accordance with budgets and strategic goals including cost due to rejections and rework etc.
Ensure smooth coordination between production, quality control and maintenance functions in order to maintain parity/ explicit understanding of targets/ expectations at all levels.




Develop and nurture a dynamic and competent workforce through a robust performance driven culture.

Learning & Development
Coach and develop staff to build high performing teams. Assigns stretch assignments to further train and enhance staff development.
Promotes cross training to optimize workforce, ensures functional coverage, reduce labor costs, and supports succession planning.
Oversees the hiring and training of facility personnel. Works with Human Resources to drive performance management of employees and seek out ways to motivate and develop employees.
Industrial Relations
Manage the overall IR climate at the plant and ensure timely awareness and action for managing any labor issues
Support interactions with unions, labor bodies in coordination with Plant HR + IR Head
Oversee management of complaints and manage grievance redressal with the labor unions
Build constructive relationships with all stakeholders both internally and externally (Govt. bodies, other industries bodies and external parties/ vendors.)
Liaison
Coordinate with external stakeholders e.g., regional administrative bodies, industry bodies, and labor unions; Ensure prompt issue resolution
Meeting all statutory, regulatory & admin at plant site
Oversee environmental health and safety - Ensure compliance with health and safety standards and industry codes
Oversee and extend full support for compliance to all statutory government regulations.
Employee health & safety
Oversees all employee management, while being a champion for safety at the facility.
Support development of employee health and safety procedures and policies
Ensure regular safety inspections, and training of employees on safety procedures
Drive reporting and investigation of accidents and incidents pertaining to employee safety and health
Ensure compliance with employee health and safety standards, and regulations
Drive Kaizen and other improvement initiatives.
Monitor and ensure strict adherence to all safety & environment norms and drive safety as a culture in the plant Digital First
Employ digital tools to ensure accurate scheduling and tracking of production operations
Leverage digital tools to maintain quality standards in production and manufacturing
Develop and report monthly performance reports on production, including updated forecasts for the rest of the year to support production and logistics planning

Key Performance Indicators

Financial Performance
Plant operating expenditure vs budgeted
LPL production expenditure vs budgeted
Plant Capex RoI
Fixed expenses vs Budgeted
Operational Performance
Quality (customer returns and complaints)
OTIF
Overall equipment effectiveness
Throughput
Manufacturing process cycle time
Capacity utilization (%)
Worker productivity - Output per plant worker FTE
Inventory days (# of days inventory held in warehouse)
Scrap rate (% of raw material lost in production)

Compliance
# Reported compliance (Safety, Quality, Regulatory) violations
Cost of compliance violations
Average compliance violations closure time
Industrial Relations - # of grievances reported, average complaint closure time

Desired Position Qualification
20+ years of total working experience, ideally in production and manufacturing in Tyre/Rubber/Polymer/Chemicals, Consumer electronics /Electrical ( industrial /Automotive Components Parts
Deep understanding of manufacturing and operations, with ability to make decisions
Strong leadership, management and interpersonal skills
Strong analytical skills
Technical certification required, if any or soft skills needed to be mentioned here.

Desired Education Qualification
Bachelor’s in Engineering (Mechanical/ Electrical/ Production/Chemical) preferably MTech.
MBA/ degree in business administration will be an added advantage.

📌 Plant Head -Dahej (Bharuch)
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