Production Manager

Role & responsibilities -

• Lead, guide and develop the plant production team of 50+ people.
• Ensure safety comes first on the shop floor. Enforce safety practices, PPE use and safe work procedures, and drive near-miss reporting and zero-accident targets.
• Align the production plan with customer orders and forecasts. Work with Purchasing and Customer Success on material and capacity.
• Track daily production progress with line supervisors, find bottlenecks and take corrective action quickly.
• Ensure 100% on-time delivery to customers, and escalate risks early.
• Ensure the shop floor follows the defined systems and processes, such as work instructions, quality checks, IATF 16949/ISO requirements and customer-specific requirements.
• Work with Quality to reduce rejections and rework, and support root cause analysis and corrective actions for customer complaints.
• Work with the Maintenance team to maximise machine uptime.
• Improve productivity and OEE using lean tools (5S, Kaizen, SMED, visual management).
• Lead the shop floor digital transformation with the leadership team, including digital production tracking, real-time dashboards, paperless records and wider ERP adoption.
• Manage manpower planning, shifts, skill matrix, training, and contract labour where applicable.
• Track and report plant KPIs, such as OTD, OEE, output, scrap/rework, safety incidents and productivity.
• Support new part introductions and PPAP runs with the Customer Success team.

Preferred candidate profile -

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Production or Industrial Engineering.
• 10+ years of production experience, ideally in sheet metal fabrication (laser cutting, CNC punching, press brake bending, MIG/TIG and robotic welding, powder coating, assembly).
• Experience supplying export or global OEM customers is a strong plus.
• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing, IATF 16949/ISO 9001 and ERP systems (training on our customised ERP will be provided).
• Interest and experience in shop floor digitisation is preferred.
• Good communication in English, Marathi and Hindi.
• Strong people leadership, problem solving and decision making.