Job Purpose The Plant Manager holds complete operational accountability for all manufacturing and production activities across the companys plants. The primary mandate is to achieve top-line and bottom-line targets by ensuring the timely, cost-effective, and defect-free supply of heavy fabricated engineering components. This role focuses heavily on cost containment, resource utilization, and maintaining zero-defect quality systems.

Core Responsibilities

1. Manufacturing Excellence & Cost Management

Direct all daily plant operations across core areas including welding, machining, assembly, finishing, plant maintenance, and outside processing. Formulate and execute strategies to tightly control manufacturing budgets, raw material consumption, and input costs.

Establish a continuous improvement culture using lean manufacturing techniques to optimize throughput times and minimize waste.

1. Production Scheduling & Quality Compliance

Develop and manage the master production schedule to support top-line targets, adjusting flexibly to accommodate dynamic customer requirements. Ensure absolute compliance with Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) guidelines and Quality Management Systems (QMS).

Analyze First Pass Yield (FPY) reports and customer complaints to isolate root causes, execute corrective actions (CAPA), and permanently reduce SLR value.

1. Supply Chain & Sub-Contractor Management

Collaborate with the Procurement department to synchronize raw material arrivals with the active production plan. Evaluate and audit new and existing suppliers/sub-contractors to verify adherence to strict quality delivery timelines.





Coordinate quality inspections directly at sub-contractor facilities prior to dispatch to trim procurement lead times.

1. Engineering, NPD & Cross-Functional Synergy

Partner with Marketing and New Product Development (NPD) teams on new product enquiries to complete rigorous manufacturing feasibility studies. Collaborate with Industrial Engineering to verify the manufacturability of revised component designs while sustaining cost and safety standards.

Monitor Work-in-Progress (WIP) stock levels and coordinate with Marketing to rapid-track final component conversions for pending client pipelines.

1. Leadership & Performance Reporting

Provide regular operational data feeds for accurate management information system (MIS) corporate reporting. Upskill and mentor second-line supervisory staff to foster independent decision-making capabilities.

Design and lead training programs for shop-floor employees centered on defect elimination, cost reduction, and process parameter controls.

Job Requirements & Competencies

Education & Experience

B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (Required).

Post-Graduation in Operations Management (Highly Preferred).

Proven leadership experience managing plant operations within heavy steel fabrication, CNC machining, or industrial manufacturing sectors

Technical Skills & Plant Competencies

Deep technical mastery of heavy welding parameters, precision machining sequences, and heavy fabrication capacities.

Proficiency in manufacturing cost structures, cost-reduction methods, and calculating highly accurate production lead times.

Strong commercial understanding of raw materials, outsourced component pricing, and external market rates

📌 Plant Manager - Operations | Nelamangala - Bangalore (Bengaluru)
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