Role & responsibilities

1. Ensure monthly / weekly production plan compliance of plant in order to ensure that products are available to sales team as per agreed norms.
2. To ensure customer service level compliance to sales and contemporary trade & exports as per the agreed norms.

Productivity Reliability-
- Effective man power & Machine utilization to achieve pre-set production targets
- Inspecting the actual production Vs plan, reviewing of compliance to various schedules, resolve issues with supply chain and quality related issues with team functions, handle issues and implement identified action plans, implement through put/cycle time improvement.

Manufacturing Excellence-
- Planning and implementing predictive / preventive maintenance schedules for machinery to increase machine up-time / equipment reliability
- Drive KAIZEN & IDEA factory
- TPM activities drive & implementation

System Excellence-
- CAPA for Production down times, Quality Holds, Rejects and Customer complaints
- Drive Shift Review meetings and Proactively identifying the abnormalities and closure of the same on priority basis in coordination with cross functional team members.
- Preparing the inputs for the Weekly review of all FPR Production lines
- Quality Process compliance
- PPS/LTS implementation
- Adhering to SOPs, Manuals & work instructions for production operations




- Undertaking regular inspections to prevent accidents and adhere to safety norms.
- Controlling CCPs as per HACCP standards
- Production MIS

GMP Score Improvement & audit point closure
- GMP and GHK adherence across all areas
- Daily GMP walk and taking immediate actions and ensuring GMP across all areas and initiating actions to sustain the same.
- Closure of respective FPR line/area GMP Gaps and initiate CAPA to avoid the recurrence of Gaps.

Cost Saving Initiatives
- Executing energy saving & other cost saving measures with suitable modifications in process.
- Reject (Rework+scrap) reduction initiatives in respective FPR lines

- Drive Sparkle projects
- Ability to develop the shop floor members on different machines(Multiskilling) in shift.

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications / Certifications

Essential

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Desirable

Graduation in Food/ Food Technology Engineering

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge on Pumps, Gear, Relays, Starters, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, motors, Troubleshooting, TPM, Lean, KAIZEN, POKAYOKE, SPC, Thermodynamics and Material Science

Desirable

Type of Ingredients and flavours

Experience

Essential

03 to 06 years of experience in FMCG or automobile industries

Desirable

Core exposure in Confectionery

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