ole & responsibilities

Production Planning & Scheduling: Develop and execute production schedules to meet customer demands, including managing batch sizes, color changes, and scheduling different paint types (e.g., water-based (mainly) and solvent-based).

Process Optimization & Technical Control: Specialize in specialized paint manufacturing processes like grinding, thinning, mixing, and dispersion to improve efficiency.

Quality Control & Assurance: Oversee quality control processes to ensure paint products meet specifications regarding colour matching, viscosity, gloss, and coverage.

Raw Material & Inventory Management: Collaborate with purchasing departments to ensure timely availability of raw materials (pigments, solvents, resins, and additives etc).

Equipment Maintenance & Safety: Ensure preventive maintenance of machinery like sand mills, dispersers, and reactors, and adhere to strict safety regulations for handling hazardous materials.

Staff Management & Training: Supervise, train, and schedule production personnel to create a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety (EHS) standards, particularly regarding hazardous waste disposal and emissions in paint production.

Other production, process, and related activities:

Coordinate and manage the production on a day-to-day basis. Ensuring the best utilization of production capacity, deployment of manpower, and other resources.

- Ensuring all safety protocols are followed.
- Ensuring proper maintenance of all the norms as per the departmental operating procedures and guidelines.




- Ensure that the discharge parameters of all the equipment in the plant are within the statutory limits and the health and hygiene of the plant personnel are well maintained.
- Adherence to PPE usage of the plant personnel and the work permit system is properly followed.
- Process development, closely coordinating with quality control
- Cost control in operations by controlling the use of utility items and implementation of the same in the cost sheet of products, ensuring better profitability.
- Control of the outflow of effluent from the process block.
- Preparation of MIS every month and preparing and executing an action plan as per the need.
- Facing audits & corrective actions
- Six Sigma approach & completion of improvement projects as per the target.

Preferred candidate profile

- Knowledge of Paint Formulation: Understanding of the ingredients and chemical processes involved in making paint.
- Technical Expertise: Familiarity with manufacturing machinery such as high-speed dispersers, TSD, ball mills, IEC, basket mills, and other mills.
- Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze production data and troubleshoot quality or machine issues.
- Safety Consciousness: In-depth knowledge of safety protocols, specifically for hazardous material handling. Review of the safety, health, and environment system of the plant concerning people and equipment.
- Leadership: Strong team management abilities to lead staff efficiently.
- Bring in recent ideas in your work area and implement kaizens.
- Identify the training needs and co-ordinate with HR for training.

📌 Water Based Production Manager (Hindupuram)
🏢 berger paints
📍 Hindupuram