Company Description Gallantt Group is a diversified conglomerate recognized for its leadership in primary-route steel manufacturing, supported by in-house power generation capabilities. The group produces high-quality TMT rebars and operates two major steel plants in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. It also runs a modern cement plant in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, reinforcing its presence in the manufacturing sector. Gallantt Group is known for driving innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth while setting benchmarks in quality and operational excellence.

Role Description The Plant Head role is a full-time, in office position based at the Steel plant in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Plant Head will oversee end-to-end plant operations, including production planning, execution, and coordination across departments to ensure safe, efficient, and continuous operations.

Responsibilities include monitoring production targets, implementing quality control standards, optimizing resource utilization, and managing budgets and cost control measures. The role also involves leading and developing plant teams, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements, and driving process improvements and operational excellence initiatives. The Plant Head will collaborate with senior leadership to align plant performance with organizational goals and support long-term growth plans.

Operational & Business Performance

- Translate Management objectives into annual operating plans and budgets covering production, cost, manpower, maintenance and capex; deliver approved targets.
- Synchronize pellet, DRI, steel melt shop, rolling mill and captive power operations to optimize throughput, yield, quality, inventory and delivery commitments.
- Review production, capacity utilization, downtime, process losses and conversion cost; drive corrective action and continuous improvement.
- Control raw-material and consumable consumption, power and fuel, refractory,



maintenance and manpower costs; improve productivity and return on assets.

Maintenance, Quality & Projects

- Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment reliability, critical-spares availability, planned shutdowns and root-cause elimination of repeat breakdowns.
- Ensure product quality meets applicable BIS and customer specifications; reduce rejection, rework and customer complaints.
- Lead approved expansion, modernization, debottlenecking and new-product projects within approved scope, cost, schedule, safety and quality.

EHS, Compliance & Risk

- Drive a visible zero-harm culture and control process safety, occupational health, fire, contractor and emergency risks.
- Ensure compliance with applicable factory, labour, electrical, boiler, fire and environmental requirements, valid consent/authorisations and environmental clearance conditions.
- Monitor statutory filings, inspections, emissions, waste, water and environmental parameters; close audit findings and corrective actions on time.
- Identify and mitigate operational, safety, statutory and supply-continuity risks; escalate material issues promptly to the Director.

People & Stakeholder Management

- Build an accountable plant leadership team; set functional KRAs, review performance and strengthen cross-functional coordination.
- Drive succession planning, technical and supervisory capability, multi-skilling, employee engagement, discipline and healthy industrial relations.
- Maintain effective working relationships with government authorities, utilities, contractors, suppliers and local stakeholders.





Brown Field Project Implementation & Execution

- Lead all project implementation and execution, including capacity expansion, plant modernization, technology upgrades and infrastructure expansion, ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
- Drive end-to-end project delivery covering planning, engineering, procurement, contractor management, commissioning and stabilization, ensuring adherence to approved timelines, budgets, quality and safety standards.

Qualifications

- Engineering degree in Metallurgical, Mechanical or Electrical discipline; postgraduate qualification/MBA in Operations preferred.
- Typically 20–25 years experience in manufacturing, preferably integrated steel operations covering DRI, induction-furnace steelmaking, rolling, pellet plant and captive power.
- Typically 5–10 years in a Plant Head/Unit Head or equivalent senior operations leadership role.
- Demonstrated results in plant operations, cost reduction, reliability improvement, project commissioning, EHS and people leadership.
- Demonstrated proficiency in plant operations and production management, with experience managing large-scale manufacturing facilities.
- Strong skills in production planning and scheduling to meet output, quality, and cost targets efficiently.
- Solid understanding of quality control processes and standards, with the ability to implement and maintain robust quality systems.
- Experience in budgeting, cost monitoring, and resource optimization to achieve financial and operational targets.
- Knowledge of safety regulations, environmental norms, and compliance requirements relevant to cement or heavy manufacturing industries.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to handle complex operational challenges.
- Prior experience as a Plant Head or in a senior plant operations role within steel, or DRI process is highly preferred.

📌 Plant Head (Gorakhpur)
🏢 Gallantt Group
📍 Gorakhpur