Plant Head Manufacturing

Position:

Department:

Reporting to:

Purpose:

Key Responsibilities:

Knowledge & Legal Compliance

• Ensure clarity on legal permissions and NOCs.
• Consult experts to avoid legal penalties.
• Maintain product issue logs and industry trend awareness.

Customer Requirements

• Collaborate with Business Development and NPD to define product deliverables.

Conceptualization & Planning

• Oversee site layout, machinery, utilities, and consultant engagement.
• Guide SOPs, budgets, safety policies, and operating plans for all departments.

Execution & Monitoring

• Ensure clarity and compliance on SOPs, budgets, reports, safety norms, and plans.
• Monitor deliverables and guide corrective actions.

New Product Development

• Understand customer-specific requirements.
• Conduct feasibility analysis and guide NPD through all development stages.
• Manage NPD budgets and communication.

Project Execution

• Adhere to project roles, timelines, budgets, and SOPs.
• Report progress and seek support as needed.

Organizational Culture

• Promote performance, quality, cost consciousness, and safety.
• Empower employees to report lapses and uphold standards.

Continuous Improvement

• Update SOPs post-issue resolution.
• Train teams regularly and ensure succession planning.
• Maintain harmonious industrial relations.

Relationship Building

• Cultivate relations with legal bodies and customer representatives.

Business Planning & Budgeting

• Propose annual operational plans.
• Contribute to budgeting, monitor variances, and control costs.

SOPs & MIS

• Ensure SOP documentation and compliance.
• Optimize SAP usage and MIS design.
• Analyze data and communicate insights.

Communication

• Ensure timely, role-appropriate communication of goals and updates.

Quality & Safety

• Define and monitor quality systems.
• Enforce safety policies and review regularly.

Housekeeping

• Ensure compliance in equipment, data, and infrastructure maintenance.

Key Result Areas (KRA) & KPIs:

Plant Profitability: Ensure PBT target

Revenue Generation: Minimize deviation in customer delivery plans

Revenue Assurance: Budget variances (Operations, NPD, Admin, Wastage %)

Efficiency: Revenue per person

Compliance: Statutory/legal/taxation deviation

Industrial Relations: Work disruptions due to IR issues

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience

  : 15+ years in manufacturing, 3+ years as Plant Head

• Education

  : BE Mechanical or DME (with 5 extra years), MBA/DBM in Operations Management

Skills & Knowledge:

Managerial

• Budgeting, decision-making, cost control, planning, problem-solving, delegation

Technical & Industry Knowledge

• Automotive systems, manufacturing processes, Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, Kaizen, 5-S
• SAP, Microsoft Office, technology appreciation