Role & responsibilities

A. Production & Manufacturing

- Plan, organize, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly production activities to achieve agreed production targets.
- Ensure optimum utilization of production lines, machinery, manpower, and raw materials.
- Improve production efficiency, reduce downtime, and minimize wastage and rejection.
- Ensure adherence to production plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and manufacturing standards.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, lean manufacturing, and productivity enhancement.

B. Quality Assurance & Food/Product Safety

- Ensure compliance with quality standards, product specifications, and approved manufacturing processes.
- Coordinate with the Quality Assurance and Quality Control teams to reduce defects, customer complaints, and product rejections.
- Ensure implementation of GMP, hygiene standards, and applicable quality management systems.
- Maintain batch traceability, proper documentation, and effective control of non-conforming products.
- Ensure compliance with applicable statutory and industry-specific requirements, including FSSAI requirements wherever applicable.

C. Cost Control & Operational Excellence

- Monitor manufacturing costs, conversion costs, material consumption, and production losses.
- Identify opportunities to reduce wastage, energy consumption, overtime, and operating expenses.
- Drive initiatives to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), yield, and labor productivity.
- Prepare and manage the factory operating budget in coordination with management and finance.

D. Maintenance & Engineering

- Ensure effective preventive and predictive maintenance of plant and machinery.
- Minimize machine breakdowns and unplanned production stoppages.
- Coordinate with the engineering team for equipment reliability, utilities, and infrastructure upkeep.




- Ensure availability of critical spares and timely execution of maintenance schedules.

E. Supply Chain, Inventory & Dispatch

- Coordinate with procurement, planning, warehouse, and sales teams to ensure production as per demand.
- Ensure availability of raw materials, packaging materials, and other production inputs.
- Maintain appropriate inventory levels and minimize obsolete, excess, or slow-moving stock.
- Ensure timely completion of production, packing, and dispatch schedules.
- Ensure proper storage, handling, and traceability of raw materials and finished goods.

F. People Management & Leadership

- Lead production, maintenance, quality, warehouse, utilities, and other factory functions, as applicable.
- Set performance targets for departmental heads and monitor individual and team performance.
- Develop a culture of accountability, discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Identify training needs and develop the capabilities of supervisors, operators, and other employees.
- Manage manpower planning, attendance, shift arrangements, and labor relations.

G. Safety, Compliance & Statutory Requirements

- Ensure compliance with applicable factory, labor, environmental, fire, health, and safety regulations.
- Implement workplace safety procedures, risk assessments, and emergency preparedness plans.
- Ensure proper handling and disposal of waste and compliance with environmental requirements.
- Maintain statutory registers, licenses, inspections, and records in coordination with relevant departments.

H. Reporting & Management Review

- Review daily production reports, downtime, wastage, quality performance, and dispatch status.
- Prepare monthly factory performance reports and present them to senior management.
- Analyze deviations against production plans, budgets, and KPIs and implement corrective actions.
- Support recent product launches, capacity expansion, process improvement, and capital expenditure projects

📌 Factory Head For Purnia Plant (Bihar)
🏢 Chaudhary Group
📍 Purnia