Vacancy Location Manager

Location: Lucknow, India

Lead safe, efficient and consistent food production

Tempeh today is looking for an experienced Location Manager to plan, manage and optimize production activities at our food manufacturing facility in Lucknow.

In this role, you ensure that production runs safely, efficiently and consistently, while meeting quality standards, food-safety regulations and customer requirements. You combine solid operational knowledge with leadership skills to manage production teams and drive continuous improvement.

Your role

As Location Manager, you oversee daily production operations, coordinate people and resources, and monitor production performance. You work closely with different departments to achieve production targets, maintain quality standards and improve operational efficiency.

You play a key role in ensuring smooth production processes, effective teamwork and compliance with food-safety and workplace-safety requirements.

Your responsibilities

As Location Manager, you:

- Manage production operations: Plan and supervise daily, weekly and monthly production activities, ensuring production targets, quality standards and delivery schedules are met.
- Lead and develop your team: Manage production staff, shift supervisors, operators and contract workers. Allocate manpower, machinery, materials and other resources effectively, while supporting employee training, performance monitoring and development.
- Monitor production performance: Track production output, productivity, yield, wastage, downtime and efficiency. Monitor raw-material and packaging-material consumption to minimize waste.
- Ensure food safety and compliance: Maintain compliance with GMP, HACCP, food-safety, hygiene and workplace-safety requirements,



as well as applicable food-manufacturing laws and company policies.
- Maintain operational standards: Oversee cleaning, sanitation, line clearance and changeover procedures. Ensure machines and production areas are operated and maintained according to SOPs.
- Coordinate across departments: Work closely with Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Stores, Procurement and Dispatch teams to ensure smooth production operations.
- Resolve production challenges: Investigate production issues, deviations, breakdowns and process losses, and implement corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement: Support new product trials, process improvements and production scale-up, while identifying opportunities to reduce costs and increase productivity.
- Maintain documentation and reporting: Keep accurate production records, batch documentation, SOPs and required reports. Prepare regular production reports and communicate operational performance to senior management.

Who we are looking for You are an experienced production professional with strong leadership skills and a hands-on approach to managing food manufacturing operations. You understand the importance of quality, safety and efficiency, and know how to translate production plans into daily operations.

You Bring

- A Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Food Technology, Food Science, Production, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.




- Typically 10 years of experience in food manufacturing, including relevant supervisory or management experience.
- Strong knowledge of food production processes and manufacturing operations.
- Working knowledge of GMP, HACCP, food safety, hygiene and quality systems.
- Experience in production planning, manpower management and KPI monitoring.
- Good problem-solving, leadership, communication and organizational skills.

What We Offer

- The opportunity to build a new B2B food category in India
- A key role in developing and optimizing our production operations in India
- An entrepreneurial and international working environment
- Close collaboration with production, R&D;, quality and supply chain
- A market-competitive salary package
- Room for initiative, ownership and professional growth

What success looks like

Your focus is on maintaining reliable production operations while continuously improving performance. Key areas include:

- Achieving production targets and delivery schedules.
- Maintaining consistent product quality and food-safety standards.
- Improving productivity, yield and operational efficiency.
- Reducing wastage, downtime and process losses.
- Developing production teams and maintaining effective operational coordination.

About Tempeh Today Tempeh today produces tempeh in India and works with food companies to develop nutritious, plant-based products for Indian and international markets. We combine expertise in tempeh with local partnerships to support scalable food solutions. Interested?

Do you want to lead food production operations and contribute to the growth of Tempeh today in India? Send your CV and motivation to [email protected].

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