Plant Head -Dahej

Location: Bharūch

To spearhead  Dahej manufacturing operations  and drive innovative strategic thinking, manage Company resources productively, direct the people development and deployment process, maintain quality & planned capacity utilization and oversee day to day operations. Drive overall operational efficiency and ensure optimal returns on investments. Plan and undertake initiatives for high machine uptime & lead process improvement initiatives. To contribute in planning for production, maintenance, dispatch and raw material.

Drive cost savings through improvement projects and support new product development initiatives.

Process Excellence & Customer Centricity
Support Quality Control & Assurance
Assure reliability and consistency of production;
Ensure monitoring of manufacturing processes and output
Participate in quality audits and customer inspections;
Support resolution of all complaints and findings related to Quality issues in collaboration with quality assurance

Process & Engineering Improvements
Ensure implementation and adherence to process improvement initiatives across the plant
Oversee execution of OEE improvement initiatives in coordination with Engineering & Maintenance head
Monitor consumption of general consumables, scrap production across products in plant;
Develop and drive initiatives to reduce additional costs incurred in plant
Customer fulfilment
Ensure maximum market servicing basis demand projections - Ensure OTIF;
Drive production in line with outlined production plan
Maintain high level of quality control in production to minimize defects
Strategy and planning
Direct and lead planning of Capex and Opex for the plant (e.g., machinery, raw materials) in coordination with respective leads.
Support development of plant manufacturing budget in coordination respective leads;
Plan and allocate production budget and capacity in coordination with production planning department
Oversee manpower planning, deployment and mobilization across production lines and shifts
Oversee implementation of people strategy pare an annual manufacturing plan and policy guidelines to drive the performance of key result areas on production activities and continuous implementation monitoring.
Implements, drives, and sustains key initiatives that support plant strategic goals.
Manufacturing Operations
Plan and supervise manufacturing
Support Production head in managing manufacturing operations
Liaise with procurement head to ensure availability of required raw materials
Ensure adherence to dispatch plan outlined in coordination with logistics manager
Ensure regular maintenance of equipment as per outlined schedule across plant
Ensure compliance with safety, quality and regulatory standards for the plant
Liaise with engineering & maintenance head to ensure maintenance and availability of utilities e.g., electricity;
Drive civil and mechanical projects at plant
Oversee management of stores and spares at plant across products

Oversee planning and implementation of maintenance schedules and shutdowns to enhance machine uptime, reduction in mean time between repetitive failures and contingency planning while ensuring production continuity
Monitors the facility’s equipments needs and ensures that the technical team is working to keep the Company’s equipment and physical facility are properly maintained.
Optimally make sure that manufacturing units improvise on the standard efficiencies in terms of Machine efficiencies, material yields, labor and overhead costs versus budget.
Performance monitoring and reporting
Monitor performance and plant costs along key production metrics outlined by management;
Drive correction of negative deviation vs budgeted if any
Identify and highlight key deviations from plan;
Suggest initiatives to resolve…