Refinery Head

Job description
Job Title: Refinery Head / Production Head, Gold Refinery
Location: Navi Mumbai
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Gold Refinery / Precious Metals / Bullion / Jewellery Manufacturing
Role Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Refinery Head / Production Head to lead end-to-end operations for a gold refinery. The role requires strong experience in precious metal refining, production planning, process discipline, purity management, recovery, wastage control, compliance, and team leadership.
This is a full-time operating role, for someone who can own daily refinery execution, strengthen floor discipline, improve output quality, and bring sharper systems around production, documentation, safety, and process governance.
The larger mandate is to help upgrade refinery operations to match institutional expectations and internationally followed refining practices.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end refinery operations, including production planning, refining, melting, assay coordination, inventory movement, and dispatch readiness.
  
• Ensure strong control over recovery, wastage, process losses, purity, throughput, and overall operating efficiency.
  
• Drive daily production discipline across manpower planning, floor supervision, shift-level accountability, and SOP adherence.
  
• Strengthen quality systems, documentation standards, process checks, and reporting discipline across the refinery.
  
• Work closely with lab, quality, compliance, accounts, logistics, and management teams for smooth refinery operations.
  
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols, statutory requirements, internal controls, and operational risk standards.
  
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce losses, improve turnaround time, and enhance scalability.
  
• Monitor production metrics, recovery performance, inventory movement, process deviations, and operational exceptions.
  
• Build a high-accountability refinery team across supervisors, technicians, workers, and support functions.
  
• Work with management to steadily upgrade refinery practices in line with global precious metal refining benchmarks.
  

Ideal Candidate:

• Relevant experience in gold refining / precious metals / bullion / jewellery manufacturing / metal processing.
  
• Strong understanding of gold refining processes, recovery, purity, melting, assay coordination, inventory control, and production discipline.
  
• Prior experience in a refinery, bullion house, precious metals company, or large manufacturing setup preferred.
  
• Exposure to structured quality systems, audit processes, traceability norms, and international precious metal refining practices will be preferred.
  
• Must be execution-oriented, detail-driven, and comfortable working on the refinery floor.
  
• Should be able to manage workers, supervisors, technicians, lab coordination, and senior management expectations.
  
• Strong ability to create discipline around SOPs, documentation, reporting, and accountability.
  

Core Skills:
Gold Refining, Precious Metals, Bullion, Refinery Operations, Production Planning, Recovery Control, Wastage Control, Purity Management, Melting, Assay Coordination, Inventory Control, SOP Compliance, Audit Readiness, Traceability, Quality Systems, Process Improvement, Safety Compliance, Team Management, Production Head, Manufacturing Operations.
Education:

• Graduate / Diploma / Degree in Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production, or related field preferred.
  
• Strong practical refinery experience will be given priority over qualification alone.
  

Preferred Background:

• Gold refinery
  
• Bullion company
  
• Precious metals business
  
• Large jewellery manufacturing setup
  
• Metal processing / refining industry
  

Role: Plant / Factory Head
Industry Type: Gems & Jewellery
Department: Production, Manufacturing & Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Management
Education
UG: Any Graduate