Head Production -Plant

Synopsis of the Role/JD of the role:

• Production Planning

• Understand the targets set for sales, variable cost, fixed cost, etc. set for Business Development
• Draw own functional priorities and participate in the cross functional team to convert these targets to relevant targets for production; Propose PPM targets, PQCD cost, etc. at the beginning of year to ensure EBITDA objectives are met
• Develop plans to ensure plant profitability in line with the business plan to achieve the PQCD targets spanning across production, ME, purchase and maintenance
• Conduct discussions with the key customer - Purchase, to finalize material planning for the coming month, identify and provide suggestions for resolution of issues

• Improvement Projects

• Define projects in line with the overall improvement targets for production, maintenance, etc.;
• Provide inputs to ME team on project planning and execution; Analyze and identify lines with opportunities to improve/ reduce cycle time, etc. Provide ideas and brainstorm with the improvement ME team on opportunities and scope for improvements in manufacturing processes through process elimination, process merging, changes in layout etc.
• Raise monthly capex requirements for projects, share input on manpower savings with HR and other factors impacting PnL (fixed/variable cost) for review by Plant Head

• Review and execution

• Coordinate and seek alignment across functions/ departments such as maintenance, purchase, store, HR, etc. to achieve the set targets
• Anticipate and resolve escalated issues, remove roadblocks synergies and ensure overall targets are achieved
• Analyze, consolidate and put up manpower requirements to the HR department
• Closely monitor early failure report (IFR), inhouse rejection cost (IHR), scrap cost to achieve set targets

• Stakeholder management

• Manage stakeholders such as maintenance, quality and improvement to achieve common objectives e.g. with maintenance to ensure maximum uptime of machines
• Engage with maintenance and improvement department on the lines to be run 24*6, maximize uptime, improvements with minimal cost, etc.
• Work with quality team on smooth customer audits, monitor house rejection against set targets and reduce rejection trends, maintain customer PPM, etc.

• Team development

• Participate in recruitment process to identify the right talent across positions within the team
• Establish individual performance expectations and regularly review individual performance of the team
• Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance functional knowledge

Plan for second line development and scale up, provide additional responsibilities for team

Desired Criteria:

Qualification-

Minimum Qualification required: Bachelors degree in engineering.