Job Responsibilities 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 Job Responsibilities (Continued) - 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/ clear 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 & setting 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

📌 Plant Head-Rohad (Panchkula)
🏢 Merino Industreis
📍 Panchkula