Position Title:

Business Unit:

Advanced Materials

Work Location:

Jhagadia, Bharuch

Reporting to:

Head - Production

Reported by:

Packing Officers / Executives

Purpose of the Position (Job Summary)

To provide overall leadership and accountability for the Small Pack Section, ensuring safe, reliable, efficient and cost-effective packing operations. The role will be responsible for production planning and execution, quality, productivity, manpower deployment, equipment reliability, cost control, compliance, continuous improvement and development of the team. The position will establish clear ownership and accountability for the Small Pack operations in line with plant and business objectives.

Key Individual Accountabilities

Strategy

• Develop and implement the operational strategy for the Small Pack Section aligned with plant/business objectives.

•Drive capacity enhancement, productivity improvement and operational excellence

• Identify future requirements for equipment, technology, automation and infrastructure.

• Develop annual operating plans, improvement roadmaps and manpower plans.•

- Establish appropriate KPIs and performance management systems for the section.

Financial

• Own and control the operating cost of the Small Pack Section.

• Drive reduction in packing material consumption, product losses, rework and operational wastage.

• Prepare and manage the section's operating and CAPEX requirements.

• Improve asset utilization and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

• Evaluate and implement cost-saving and productivity improvement initiatives.

• Ensure effective utilization of manpower, utilities and other resources.

Customer/ External Orientation

• Ensure timely and consistent availability of packed products as per customer and dispatch requirements.

• Ensure adherence to agreed packaging specifications and quality requirements.

• Coordinate with Logistics, Sales/Customer Service and other stakeholders to address packing-related requirements.

• Interact with equipment suppliers,



packaging-material suppliers and technical service providers as required.

• Ensure compliance with applicable statutory, customer and industry requirements.

People Orientation

• Lead, coach and develop the Small Pack team to build a high-performance culture.

• Define roles, responsibilities and performance expectations for team members.

• Develop competency, training and succession plans for critical positions.

• Promote safe working practices, employee engagement and accountability.

• Identify skill gaps and ensure appropriate technical and behavioral training.

• Encourage cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.

Core operational accountabilities

• Overall responsibility for protected and efficient operation of the Small Pack Section.
• Ensure achievement of production, packing and dispatch plans within defined quality and cost parameters.
• Ensure compliance with SOPs, work instructions, safety standards and quality systems.
• Monitor line productivity, OEE, downtime, changeover time, packing losses and rejection/rework.
• Ensure optimum utilization and reliability of packing machines, equipment and utilities.
• Coordinate preventive and breakdown maintenance with the Engineering/Maintenance team.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions for operational issues.
• Ensure availability and optimum utilization of packaging materials.
• Maintain proper housekeeping, 5S and workplace discipline.
• Drive automation, digitalization and process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to EHS, process safety and statutory requirements.
• Monitor quality deviations, customer complaints and implementation of corrective actions.
• Establish daily/weekly/monthly performance reviews and action tracking.
• Ensure proper documentation, data integrity and operational reporting.
• Lead shutdown/start-up and major maintenance activities related to the section.
• Benchmark performance and implement best practices across relevant operations.

Key Interactions

Internal

External

Technical & Behavioral Skills & Knowledge

📌 Manager (India)
🏢 DCM Shriram
📍 India