Position: Production Manager (Unit Head)

Location: Hosur

Reporting To: Director – Head of furniture & Head of Factory operations

Category - Furniture: Engineering Wood, Solid Wood, Fabrication, Sofa

Key Responsibilities
Productivity:

● Utilization targets per the year, 70% across all applicable shifts
Quality:

● 99% quality rate

● Act as the voice of the customer within manufacturing operations.

● Ensure product quality standards consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.

● Utilise customer feedback, field failures, warranty trends and operational insights to

continuously improve manufacturing processes
Cost:

● Identifying recent projects to reduce fixed and variable costs and execution till closure and

hereby achieving AOP targets

● Own plant profitability through productivity improvement, waste elimination,material

optimisation and process excellence.

● Challenge existing assumptions and identify cutting-edge ways to improve operational

efficiency while maintaining quality and safety standards.
Delivery:

● OTIF 98%+, conducting daily cadence, solutioning and sustenance




Safety:

● Ensuring and guiding best safety practises and driving related projects

● Champion a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with all statutory, environmental

and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest standards of workplace

safety.
Morale:

● Identifying best practises and gaps in Wakefit

● Foster a culture of operational excellence through Lean Manufacturing,

● Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen, Six Sigma and structured problem solving.

Essential Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial, Production or Manufacturing

Engineering.
12+ years of manufacturing experience.
5+ years leading a manufacturing facility.
Experience managing large production teams.

Preferred Qualifications
MBA Operations or equivalent.
Lean Manufacturing Certification.
TPM Certification.
Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt.
Experience in Mattress, Foam, Consumer Durables, FMCG or Automotive industries.

📌 Production Manager Hosur (India)
🏢 Wakefit
📍 India