Job Type: Full-time

Overview: Plant Head — World's Largest Eyewear Manufacturing FacilityLenskart | Bhiwadi, India | On-site | Full-timeMission Brief: Build the Factory That the World Hasn't Seen YetWe didn't just build India's largest eyewear factory. We built a living, intelligent manufacturing system — and now we're looking for the leader who will take it to a level no one in this industry has reached.At Lenskart, manufacturing is not a support function. It is a core strategic weapon. Every lens ground, every frame assembled, every order shipped on time — these are competitive advantages that compound at scale. We produce millions of units annually across a facility powered by robotics, AI-driven quality systems, real-time digital intelligence, and one of the most advanced smart warehouse ecosystems in Indian manufacturing.This is not a plant management role. This is a platform leadership role — where the platform is a 3,000+ person, fully automated, AI-integrated factory that serves tens of millions of customers globally.? Core Mandate: Own, Build, Transform1. AI-First Factory Operations (The Builder's Focus)Intelligent Systems Ownership: Lead the deployment and continuous improvement of AI/ML systems across the factory — including computer vision-based quality inspection, predictive maintenance models, AI-driven production scheduling, and real-time yield optimization engines. You won't just use these systems — you will define their roadmap, partner with data science and engineering teams to build them, and ensure they are embedded in every critical decision on the shop floor.Digital Manufacturing Architecture: Own the end-to-end smart manufacturing stack — MES, IIoT sensor networks, PLC/SCADA integration, AMRs/AGVs, AS/RS systems, and the WES↔WMS↔MES integration layer. Ensure this architecture evolves continuously and stays 3–5 years ahead of industry standard.Data-Driven Decision Culture: Drive the transition from supervisor instinct to system intelligence. Every throughput decision, quality gate, preventive maintenance call, and capacity allocation should be driven by real-time data. Your job is to make that the default, not the exception.2. Manufacturing Performance & P&L; Impact (The Business Focus)Factory KPIs: Own total manufacturing performance across safety, quality, cost, throughput, yield, delivery, and uptime — for a facility producing millions of units annually with 3,000+ team members across multiple production lines.P&L; Ownership: Every automation investment, headcount decision,



and process change must tie back to a measurable business outcome. You will own the manufacturing P&L; levers with the same rigour as a business unit head.Capacity & Scale-Up: Lead capacity planning and factory scale-up to support aggressive growth across Lenskart's global retail and e-commerce network — anticipating demand surges, managing peak capacity, and designing for future product lines.Zero-Compromise Quality & Compliance: Maintain world-class EHS standards, statutory compliance, and quality systems — with AI-assisted defect detection and traceability built into every production stage.3. People, Culture & Cross-Functional Leadership (The Leadership Focus)Shop-Floor Leadership at Scale: Build and lead a high-accountability, high-performance culture across 3,000+ blue-collar and technical team members. Create leaders at every level — not just managers.Cross-Functional Partnership: Work directly with central product, tech, data science, supply chain, and merchandising teams to co-build manufacturing capabilities. You are not a downstream recipient of technology — you are a co-creator of it.Institutionalise Excellence: Embed Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, and Kaizen not as periodic exercises but as the operating system of the factory — deeply integrated with AI tools and digital workflows.? What Winning Looks Like — Year 1OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) improvement of 5–10 percentage points through AI-driven scheduling and predictive maintenance deploymentDefect escape rate reduced by 30%+ through AI-powered vision inspection systems integrated into production linesMES and real-time IIoT data coverage across 90%+ of production operations — eliminating manual tracking as the defaultCapacity scaled by 20–30% without proportional headcount increase, through automation and intelligent line balancingA leadership pipeline: at least 2 levels of shop-floor management operating with full accountability and data literacy? Why This Role Is Genuinely DifferentThe world's largest eyewear factory — unmatched scale, complexity, and ambition in one of the fastest-growing consumer categories globallyA factory already running robotics, cobots, AI vision systems,



and a deeply integrated smart warehousing ecosystem — and a mandate to go much furtherFreedom to place bold technology bets and rewrite the manufacturing playbook — backed by leadership that views factory innovation as a company-level priorityDirect accountability for a product that reaches tens of millions of customers globally, every single dayA company growing at a pace where your impact doesn't wait — it compounds? The EssentialsExperience: 8-10 years of progressive leadership in large-scale, complex manufacturing operations, with explicit evidence of building or significantly transforming a facility — not just running one.Technical Depth: Hands-on understanding of automation systems (robotics, cobots, PLCs, SCADA), digital manufacturing (MES, IIoT), and practical exposure to AI/ML deployment in manufacturing contexts (quality vision systems, predictive maintenance, scheduling optimisation). You can hold a technical conversation with a data scientist and a controls engineer on the same day.Business Acumen: You think in P&L; terms. Every capital investment and process decision has an ROI case you can defend.Education: Engineering degree (Mechanical, Industrial, Electronics, or related). From top tier 1 Institutes.? The MindsetSystems & AI Thinking: You see the factory as a product — not a fixed asset. You design systems, instrument them with data, and improve them continuously. You understand that AI is not a project to deliver — it is a capability to build into the operating fabric.Extreme Ownership: "If it breaks, I own it. If it wins, I scale it." Not a slogan — your actual operating mode.Builder Over Operator: You are energised by building what doesn't exist yet, not maintaining what does. You are comfortable with ambiguity, fast-moving constraints, and bold bets.Learning Agility: The technology landscape of advanced manufacturing is changing faster than any individual's experience base. You actively close that gap — every single quarter.? Growth & Impact at LenskartDeliver results here, and your charter grows fast. This role is a natural launchpad toward multi-site manufacturing leadership, global operations ownership, or enterprise manufacturing strategy — for someone who earns it.At Lenskart, impact compounds. The factory you build in Year 1 is the foundation someone else will scale in Year 3. Make it worthy of that.If you believe a manufacturing operation can be faster, smarter, more human, and more audacious than what the world has seen — and you're ready to fully own that responsibility — this role was built for you.

📌 Plant Head/Manufacturing Lead (Bhiwadi)
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📍 Bhiwadi