Manufacturing Lead

As a Manufacturing Lead - Scrap Recycling at NowPurchase, you will play a crucial role in leading and scaling our processing units in Pune and West Bengal. Your main responsibility will be to oversee the daily production operations across multiple units, ensuring timely output with consistent quality. You will be managing teams across shifts and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability within the organization. Additionally, you will work closely with procurement and logistics teams to maintain an uninterrupted material flow and ensure timely dispatches while adhering to SOPs and controlling operational costs. Your role will also involve monitoring key production metrics, driving improvements in uptime, productivity, and quality, and implementing inventory best practices to optimize work-in-progress and finished goods storage. You will be expected to analyze issues, lead root cause resolutions, drive continuous process improvements, and maintain production dashboards to share actionable insights with leadership. Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors for smooth operations, supporting expansion initiatives, and contributing to tech-enabled scale-up plans will also be part of your responsibilities. To qualify for this role, you should hold a Diploma/B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical, Production, or Industrial Engineering with at least 5-8 years of experience in mid-sized manufacturing, preferably in scrap processing, automotive, or heavy engineering sectors. Strong leadership and people management skills, a hands-on approach to data and on-ground execution, a clear understanding of production costs, planning, and continuous improvement, as well as a drive to grow fast, take ownership, and build something impactful are the key attributes we are looking for. This position offers a growth path where you will start by overseeing two units and 2,000 tons/month of production and have the opportunity to grow into a national lead role as we expand to processing 20,000+ tons/month across India. Join us at NowPurchase and be part of building and leading a scalable, high-impact production engine in the scrap recycling space.,