Production Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Production Planning & Scheduling: Develop and execute production schedules to meet customer demands, including managing batch sizes, color changes, and scheduling different paint types (e.g., water-based (mainly) and solvent-based).
• Process Optimization & Technical Control: Specialize in specialized paint manufacturing processes like grinding, thinning, mixing, and dispersion to improve efficiency.
• Quality Control & Assurance: Oversee quality control processes to ensure paint products meet specifications regarding color matching, viscosity, gloss, and coverage.
• Raw Material & Inventory Management: Collaborate with purchasing departments to ensure timely availability of raw materials (pigments, solvents, resins, and additives etc).
• Equipment Maintenance & Safety: Ensure preventive maintenance of machinery like sand mills, dispersers, and reactors, and adhere to strict safety regulations for handling hazardous materials.
• Staff Management & Training: Supervise, train, and schedule production personnel to create a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety (EHS) standards, particularly regarding hazardous waste disposal and emissions in paint production.
• Other production, process, and related activities:
• Coordinate and manage the production on a day-to-day basis. Ensuring the best utilization of production capacity, deployment of manpower, and other resources.
• Ensuring all safety protocols are followed.
• Ensuring proper maintenance of all the norms as per the departmental operating procedures and guidelines.

Preferred candidate profile

• BE/BTech Chemical/MSc Chemistry/ MSc Polymer Science.

• Experience: 15-20yrs

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