Plant Head Manufacturing

Key Responsibilities:-

1. End-to-End Plant Operations

• Own overall plant performance and operational KPIs.
• Drive production planning and execution in line with customer demand.
• Ensure optimum utilization of plant capacity, manpower and equipment.
• Improve throughput, productivity and operational efficiency.

2. Production & Process Excellence

• Establish strong production discipline and adherence to SOPs.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Improve yield and reduce material losses, wastage and rework.
• Standardize processes and improve manufacturing consistency.

3. Quality

• Partner closely with Quality to maintain stringent product standards.
• Reduce rejection, rework and customer complaints.
• Ensure products meet applicable specifications, standards and customer requirements.
• Drive root-cause analysis and permanent corrective action.

4. Cost & Productivity

• Own manufacturing cost and productivity improvement.
• Identify opportunities for material, energy, manpower and process optimization.
• Establish meaningful plant-level productivity metrics.
• Drive lean/continuous improvement initiatives wherever relevant.

5. Maintenance & Reliability

• Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance practices are followed.
• Improve equipment up-time and reliability.
• Reduce breakdowns and unplanned downtime.
• Work with Engineering/Maintenance teams on automation and technology upgrades.

6. People & Culture

• Lead and develop production, maintenance, quality and other plant teams.
• Build a strong second line of leadership.
• Improve manpower productivity and accountability.
• Establish a culture where problems are surfaced early and solved permanently.

7. Safety & Compliance

• Maintain high standards of workplace safety and statutory compliance.
• Ensure adherence to plant processes, SOPs and safety systems.
• Drive a zero-compromise approach to critical safety requirements.

What We Are Looking For:-

• BE/B.Tech in Mechanical / Production / Industrial Engineering preferred.
• 15+ years of manufacturing experience, with meaningful experience leading a plant or large manufacturing function.
• Experience in stainless steel, pipes & tubes, metal processing, engineering, auto components or similar manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong understanding of production planning, process improvement, quality, maintenance and manufacturing costs.
• Experience in managing large blue-collar and technical teams.
• Strong exposure to productivity improvement, lean manufacturing/TPM/continuous improvement.
• Comfortable working in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial manufacturing organisation.