Chief Operating Officer / GM Operations

As an operations genius, you will take full operational command of Jai Ganesh Ispat & Ferro Alloys Pvt. Ltd."s Sri City plant and lead its evolution from a 2,500 MT/month processing unit to a 20,000 MT/month high-efficiency, quality-driven, service-oriented steel service hub. You will work closely with the BD Head, Group Management, and JSW teams to align production with business goals. This boss-level seat requires someone who blends shop-floor mastery, strategic foresight, team leadership, vendor management, and ruthless execution. - Manage and optimize all aspects of slitting, decoiling, levelling, profiling, shearing, nesting, and packaging. - Monitor and improve daily production, OEE, uptime, capacity utilization, and quality yields. - Ensure output matches business targets in both sales and job work. - Drive Lean practices, TPM, 5S, and other continuous improvement methodologies. - Implement stringent quality control across every process, from raw material to dispatch. - Develop a scaling roadmap to achieve 20,000 MT/month throughput in 12-18 months. - Create & implement short, medium, and long-term production plans aligned with the sales pipeline. - Identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and idle capacities and fix them with speed. - Plan and prioritize production dynamically based on customer urgency, capacity, and cost. - Build, train, and manage a high-performance plant team including supervisors, technicians, QA/QC, and operators. - Instill discipline, safety, quality, and ownership culture on the shop floor. - Resolve conflicts, increase coordination across shifts, and maintain team morale and performance. - Be a mentor and enforcer, not just a manager. - Collaborate with machinery suppliers, service vendors, and logistics partners to ensure seamless operations. - Ensure machine maintenance schedules are followed with zero compromise on uptime. - Manage relationships with steel suppliers regarding raw material specs and supply planning. - Select and commission new machines/equipment as required during the scaling phase. - Own product quality end-to-end, ensuring real-time updates and responsiveness to job work and contract clients. - Coordinate closely with the Business Development Head and SCM Team to synchronize demand & timely delivery. - Manage inventory levels, stock accuracy, rejection handling, and end-customer delivery timelines. - Continuously monitor and optimize energy consumption, scrap rate, and material wastage. - Drive down cost per tonne across each operation line while preserving quality. - Ensure regulatory and statutory compliances, factory licensing, EHS protocols, and ISO procedures are maintained.,