Production Incharge

Role & responsibilities

• Plan and manage daily, weekly, and monthly production activities.
• Achieve production targets while maintaining quality standards.
• Manage the complete tyre recycling process, including shredding, granulation, steel/fibre separation, screening, and bagging.
• Optimize machinery, manpower, raw materials, utilities, and production capacity.
• Monitor production, yield, rejection, downtime, and OEE.
• Identify bottlenecks and implement corrective actions.
• Drive Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, RCA, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor product quality, granule size, and contamination levels.
• Coordinate with Maintenance to minimize breakdowns and ensure preventive maintenance.
• Lead production supervisors, operators, technicians, and helpers.
• Plan manpower and manage shift operations.
• Train and develop production personnel.
• Ensure compliance with EHS, PPE, safety, and 5S requirements.
• Monitor raw-material consumption, material balance, yield, and production losses.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly production reports and MIS.
• Control production costs and improve productivity.
• Implement initiatives to reduce downtime, scrap, energy consumption, and process losses.

Preferred candidate profile

Required Qualification

• Diploma / B.Tech in Mechanical, Production, Chemical, Rubber Technology, or related discipline.
• Additional manufacturing/process-management qualifications will be an advantage.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of manufacturing experience, preferably in:
• Tyre Recycling
• Crumb Rubber Manufacturing
• Rubber Recycling
• Rubber Processing
• Tyre Manufacturing
• Polymer/Plastic Manufacturing
• Process Manufacturing
• Strong experience in production leadership/management is preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of tyre recycling and crumb rubber manufacturing.
• Knowledge of shredding, granulation, screening, magnetic separation, fibre separation, and bagging.
• Production planning and execution.
• OEE and production KPI monitoring.
• Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Knowledge of RCA, CAPA, Kaizen, 5S, Lean Manufacturing, and continuous improvement.
• Quality and process-control knowledge.
• Manpower and shift management.
• Good MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to work under production pressure and meet targets.

Key Performance Areas

• Production achievement and efficiency
• Plant capacity utilization
• OEE and machine utilization
• Downtime reduction
• Yield improvement
• Raw-material utilization
• Rejection and contamination reduction
• Production cost reduction
• Manpower productivity
• Energy consumption
• Quality and safety performance
• 5S and continuous improvement