PLANT HEAD

VIP Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.

Location: Village Manpura, Tehsil Nalagarh, District Solan, Himachal Pradesh – Baddi Plant

Department: Plant Operations

Reporting to: Director / Management

Employment: Full-time, plant-based

Role Purpose To take overall responsibility for the plant’s manufacturing, packing, engineering, utilities, warehouse and day-to-day operational activities. The Plant Head will ensure timely production and dispatch, efficient utilisation of resources, consistent product quality, safe working conditions and continuous readiness for regulatory inspections and customer audits.

The role requires a hands-on leader who maintains effective shop-floor control, develops accountable teams and ensures that approved procedures are followed every day.

Key Responsibilities

1. Overall Plant Management

- Lead and coordinate Production, Packing, Engineering, Utilities, Warehouse and other plant support functions, working closely with QA, QC, HR and Purchase.
- Convert management objectives and customer commitments into monthly, weekly and daily operational plans.
- Conduct daily plant rounds and review meetings to identify delays, quality concerns, equipment issues and manpower shortages.
- Assign clear responsibilities and deadlines, follow up on execution and escalate unresolved matters promptly.
- Maintain plant cleanliness, orderly material movement, personnel discipline and adherence to approved procedures.

2. Production Planning and Execution

- Oversee tablet and capsule manufacturing, including dispensing, granulation, blending, compression, capsule filling and coating, as applicable.
- Ensure production follows approved manufacturing instructions, batch records and process parameters.
- Plan machine capacity, manpower, materials, tooling and changeovers to meet committed delivery schedules.
- Monitor batch progress, yields, process losses, rejection, rework and equipment utilisation.
- Ensure correct identification, storage, reconciliation and traceability of bulk and semi-finished products.
- Control the mother-batch system and subsequent allocation to different brands and packing orders, maintaining complete batch traceability.
- Ensure timely transfer of samples, documents and completed batches to the relevant departments.

3. Packing and Dispatch Coordination

- Oversee primary and secondary packing, including blister, Alu-Alu and strip packing, inspection, cartoning and final reconciliation.
- Ensure correct product, batch details, coding, artwork version, foil, cartons and other packing materials are used.
- Enforce line clearance, segregation, in-process checks and controls against mix-ups, missing tablets and defective packs.




- Monitor packing output, material consumption, wastage, rejection and accountability of printed packing materials.
- Coordinate dispatch readiness with Warehouse, QA and the commercial team, ensuring dispatch takes place only after authorised release.

4. Continuous Audit Readiness and GMP Compliance

- Keep the plant ready at all times for regulatory inspections, customer audits, certification audits and internal audits.
- Ensure facilities, equipment, practices and records consistently meet approved procedures and applicable GMP requirements.
- Coordinate audit preparation with QA, including departmental reviews, document availability, shop-floor readiness and employee preparedness.
- Participate in internal inspections and ensure identified gaps receive documented corrective action.
- Take ownership of operational actions arising from deviations, audit observations, complaints and CAPA, ensuring timely implementation and evidence of completion.
- Ensure records are accurate, legible and completed at the time of activity; prevent backdated entries, undocumented operations and unauthorised process changes.
- Support qualification, validation, cleaning validation, change control and periodic reviews by providing operational resources and execution support.
- Respect QA/QC independence and authorised quality decisions, including batch disposition and release.

5. Engineering, Utilities and Facility Maintenance

- Ensure manufacturing equipment, packing machines, HVAC, water systems, compressed air and other utilities remain fit for use.
- Coordinate preventive maintenance, calibration and qualification schedules with Engineering and QA.
- Reduce breakdowns and recurring equipment problems through root-cause analysis and effective corrective action.
- Maintain availability of critical spares, tooling and change parts.
- Oversee facility repairs, capacity expansion, equipment installation and commissioning through approved plans and change controls.

6. Materials, Inventory and Cost Control

- Coordinate timely availability of raw materials, packing materials and consumables.
- Monitor inventory accuracy, material status, storage conditions and stock rotation.
- Control work-in-progress, excess issuance, material losses and avoidable inventory accumulation.




- Track manufacturing and packing costs, overtime, energy consumption and wastage.
- Improve productivity and cost efficiency while maintaining approved quality and safety requirements.

7. People, Safety and Accountability

- Assess manpower requirements and deploy employees according to workload, competence and training status.
- Set departmental objectives and review individual and team performance.
- Ensure induction, job-specific training, SOP training and practical competency assessments.
- Develop department heads and supervisors, with clear responsibility for output, compliance and team discipline.
- Enforce protected working practices, appropriate PPE, machine safety, housekeeping and emergency preparedness.
- Investigate operational incidents and implement measures to prevent recurrence.

8. Management Reporting

- Submit daily production and packing status, major downtime, shortages and dispatch readiness.
- Present weekly and monthly performance reviews covering output, delivery commitments, yields, wastage, costs, manpower and compliance actions.
- Highlight risks early and present practical corrective plans with owners and completion dates.

Qualifications and Experience

- B.Pharm / M.Pharm or a relevant technical qualification.
- Preferably 12–15 years of pharmaceutical formulation experience, including at least 3–5 years in a senior plant leadership role.
- Strong hands-on experience in tablet and capsule manufacturing and packing.
- Demonstrated experience handling regulatory inspections, customer audits and GMP compliance.
- Experience in third-party manufacturing, multiple-brand packing and production planning is preferred.
- Working knowledge of ERP systems, batch documentation, capacity planning and operational performance reporting.

Key Performance Indicators

- Achievement of approved production and packing plans.
- On-time completion of batches and dispatch readiness.
- Yield improvement and reduction in wastage, rejection and downtime.
- Timely closure and effectiveness of operational CAPA and audit actions.
- Reduction in repeat deviations and documentation errors.
- Preventive maintenance and training completion.
- Inventory accuracy, manpower productivity and cost control.
- Safe operations and sustained audit readiness.

Authority and Accountability The Plant Head is accountable for overall operational performance and has authority to stop any activity involving a quality, safety or compliance concern, initiate containment and escalate the matter to QA and Management. Production targets must be achieved within approved quality systems and operating procedures.

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