About Maan Aluminium Limited: Maan Aluminium Limited is an established manufacturer and exporter of aluminium extrusion profiles, serving domestic and international markets. The organization focuses on manufacturing excellence, customer satisfaction, quality, and continuous improvement.

Company: Maan Aluminium Limited

Designation: Deputy General Manager – Operations (Plant Head)

Department: Plant Operations / Manufacturing

Location: Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh

Reporting To: COO / Director

Experience: 15+ Years

Industry Preference: Aluminium Extrusion / Non-Ferrous Metal Manufacturing

Employment Type: Full-Time

- Job Purpose To lead and manage overall plant operations, ensuring production efficiency, product quality, cost optimization, safety, and timely delivery. The role will be responsible for end-to-end plant performance, including aluminium extrusion, finishing operations, maintenance coordination, production planning, manpower management, and continuous improvement, while aligning plant operations with the company's business objectives.
- Key Responsibilities

A. Overall Plant Operations

- Lead end-to-end manufacturing operations of the aluminium extrusion plant, ensuring smooth and efficient functioning of all production processes.
- Develop and implement production strategies to achieve monthly and annual production targets.
- Monitor plant performance against KPIs such as production output, productivity, rejection, downtime, and on-time delivery.
- Ensure optimal utilization of plant capacity, machinery, manpower, and other resources.
- Establish standard operating procedures and ensure adherence to operational standards.

B. Aluminium Extrusion Process Management

- Manage aluminium extrusion operations, including billet heating, extrusion press operations, quenching, stretching, cutting, ageing, and profile handling.
- Ensure effective coordination of die management, die trials, process parameters, and profile development.
- Monitor extrusion productivity, press utilization, cycle time, and production yield.
- Ensure proper coordination between extrusion, ageing, fabrication, machining, surface treatment, and packing, wherever applicable.
- Troubleshoot extrusion-related process issues and implement corrective and preventive actions.

C. Production Planning and Delivery

- Coordinate with PPC, Sales, Dispatch, and Quality teams to ensure production plans align with customer requirements.
- Ensure timely completion of customer orders and adherence to delivery schedules.
- Monitor work-in-progress, bottlenecks, capacity utilization, and production losses.
- Drive improvements in throughput, lead time, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

D.



Quality and Process Improvement

- Ensure adherence to customer specifications, dimensional tolerances, mechanical properties, and applicable quality standards.
- Reduce rejection, scrap, rework, and customer complaints through structured root-cause analysis.
- Implement Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, TPM, and other continuous improvement initiatives.
- Work closely with the Quality team to ensure process control, corrective actions, and sustainable quality improvement.

E. Cost Control and Productivity

- Drive cost reduction through optimization of aluminium metal yield, scrap recovery, energy consumption, consumables, and manpower productivity.
- Monitor manufacturing conversion costs and production variances.
- Improve material utilization and minimize process losses.
- Review operational budgets and implement cost-saving initiatives without compromising safety or quality.

F. Maintenance and Equipment Reliability

- Coordinate with Maintenance to ensure preventive and predictive maintenance of extrusion presses, furnaces, handling systems, and auxiliary equipment.
- Minimize machine breakdowns and unplanned downtime.
- Ensure availability of critical spares and timely maintenance interventions.
- Drive equipment reliability and improvement in machine availability.

G. Manpower and Leadership

- Lead and develop production managers, shift in-charges, engineers, supervisors, and shop-floor teams.
- Ensure effective shift planning, manpower deployment, and workforce productivity.
- Build a performance-driven culture focused on accountability, discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Identify skill gaps and facilitate technical and behavioural training.
- Coordinate with HR and Industrial Relations teams on workforce planning, employee engagement, and shop-floor discipline.

H. Safety, Compliance and Systems

- Ensure compliance with EHS requirements, statutory provisions, and company policies.
- Promote safe operating practices, accident prevention, and housekeeping standards.
- Ensure adherence to applicable ISO and quality management systems.
- Participate in internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of observations.
- Drive a zero-accident mindset across plant operations.

I. MIS and Management Reporting

- Prepare and review daily, weekly,



and monthly plant performance reports.
- Track production, productivity, OEE, rejection, scrap, downtime, energy consumption, and delivery performance.
- Conduct periodic performance reviews with departmental heads.
- Present improvement plans and operational performance updates to senior management.

3. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

- Achievement of monthly and annual production targets.
- Improvement in extrusion press productivity and capacity utilization.
- Reduction in rejection, scrap, and rework percentages.
- Improvement in OEE and reduction in machine downtime.
- Adherence to customer delivery schedules.
- Reduction in manufacturing conversion cost and energy consumption.
- Improvement in metal yield and material utilization.
- Compliance with safety, quality, and statutory requirements.
- Implementation of Kaizen and continuous improvement projects.
- Manpower productivity and departmental performance.

4. Educational Qualifications

- B.E./B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Metallurgy, or a related discipline.
- Additional qualifications in operations management, Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or quality systems will be an advantage.

5. Experience and Technical Competencies

- Minimum 15 years of experience in manufacturing, preferably in aluminium extrusion or a closely related non-ferrous metals industry.
- Demonstrated experience in managing end-to-end plant operations, preferably in a Plant Head or senior operations leadership role.
- Strong understanding of aluminium extrusion presses, dies, billet heating, ageing, finishing, and downstream processes.
- Experience in production planning, quality management, maintenance coordination, cost control, and manpower management.
- Knowledge of OEE, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, TPM, 5S, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and leadership skills.
- Ability to work closely with senior management and drive operational excellence.

6. Preferred Candidate Profile The ideal candidate should be a hands-on manufacturing leader with strong technical expertise in aluminium extrusion and proven capability in managing large-scale plant operations. The candidate must be result-oriented, commercially aware, and capable of improving productivity, quality, delivery performance, and profitability while building a disciplined and accountable workforce.

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Pay: From ₹1,800,000.00 per year

Advantages

- Food provided
- Health insurance
- Leave encashment
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

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