Job Context: The role operates in a continuous, energy?intensive, and hazardous manufacturing setting, requiring high asset availability, strict statutory compliance, and operational resilience. The incumbent manages complex interfaces between production, maintenance, utilities, and power export while responding to volatile energy costs, changing customer requirements, and evolving regulatory expectations.

The role interacts extensively with Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Corporate Engineering, regulators, statutory authorities, vendors, contractors, and the local community, and is key to positioning the unit as a benchmark manufacturing location within the Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning, Budgeting and Manufacturing Strategy: Develop three-year rolling operational and capex plans aligned to business strategy, review historical performance, asset health and industry benchmarks to identify improvement opportunities, prioritise capex across asset lifecycle management, debottlenecking, energy efficiency and digitalisation, and monitor execution against timelines,



cost and benefits through daily, monthly, quarterly and annual MIS
• Manufacturing Cost and Energy Management: Monitor and control fixed and variable manufacturing costs within budgeted norms, drive energy efficiency across process, utilities and power plant operations, benchmark costs against internal and external best practices, and identify and mitigate cost risks from fuel price volatility and operational inefficiency through monthly performance and variance analysis
• Operational Excellence and Reliability: Deliver production volume, product mix and customer quality targets, drive down process variability, yield losses and off-grade generation, sustain high availability of plant, utilities and power infrastructure, review availability, MTBF and MTTR with corrective action, and sponsor continuous improvement through WCM, TPM and operational excellence forums
• Asset Reliability and Cap

📌 Functional Head (India)
🏢 Birla Carbon
📍 India