Production Manager

Greetings to you from HARVAS!

A leading Nuts and Spices Processing Company is now hiring..

Job Title:

Experience

Reporting To:

Role:

Leading the Production function to achieve the functional KPIs in the following:

• Safety
• Quality
• Delivery
• Cost
• Morale
• Environment

Key Responsibilities:

Safety

• Facilitate Supervisors to prepare JHA (Job Hazard Analysis)
• Plan and allocate employees for safety training
• Ensure training is given to all employees in the Production department
• Encourage/ motivate employees to identify near miss / unsafe behavior / unsafe act and to report
• Prepare an action plan to fix the above-given points along with HSE manager
• Work with HSE manager to prepare an incident report if so, initiate actions to avoid incidents in the future
• Do a periodical audit and report

Quality

• Review ISP yield, total yield and ISP yield gap with supervisors, do gap analysis and ensure to achieve the targets.
• Prepare an action plan and implement the same to the issues raised in the GMP audit
• Plan and allocate employees for GMP/Food safety / Hygiene policy etc., training
• Prepare an action plan and implement the same to address customer complaints to avoid in the future
• Prepare work instructions for all activities and train the workers on the same

Delivery

• Prepare monthly Warehouse & Factory production plan, based on that prepare a shipment plan as per supply chain demand.
• Monitor and achieve 100 % service level
• Review productivity levels with supervisors, do gap analysis and ensure to achieve the targets
• Identify bottleneck process/issues for tonnage increase
• Work with plant manager/maintenance and other team to implement the actions to increase the tonnage

Cost

• Monitor the usage of consumables and maintain control.
• Monitor and control OT and holiday work

Environment

• Ensure compliance to all legal and other statutory requirements.
• Ensure operations of Treatment plants to meet the stipulated norms

Morale

• Identify training needs for supervisors and team leaders.
• Discuss and Finalise with Plant manager
• Assign KPIs to Supervisors
• Monitor and Facilitate them to achieve the KPI's
• Bring ownership and involve them in gap analysis, action plan finalisation and implementation

Follow Up Activities:

• Co-ordinating with the Supply chain department for the preparation of daily, weekly and monthly production plans
• Co-ordinating with stores to maintain the receipts of storage and dispatches
• Working closely with the Warehouse department to ensure timely availability of raw materials and maintain plant inventories at their optimal
• Conducting meetings with subordinates to improve the product quality and achieve maximum productivity
• Maximizing line efficiency and minimizing downtime by putting in place strong systems for preventive maintenance and root cause analysis
• Finalizing the product mix in the case any processing problems
• Co-ordinating with QC/QA to take appropriate corrections, corrective and preventive actions on non-conforming products, manufacturing methods and process.
• Ensuring preventive maintenance as per plan for Pressure equipment
• Monitoring and reducing of wastes in packaging
• Reporting to Factory Manager on Weekly or daily report of scrap, re-work, consumption and action taken report for correction, corrective and preventive action.
• Responsible for handling on daily review meeting with Quality and Maintenance department.
• Maintaining high standards of quality, safety and hygiene
• Establishing new products production and trails if required.
• Continuously improving efficiency of the production process, improving productivity and minimizing wastages.
• Conduct periodic review appraisal for the production team in fair method.

Profile:

Hard Skills

Qualification

• Graduate in any discipline with min 10 years of experience
• Competent in using MS Office applications

Technical Competencies

• Should be familiar with the food manufacturing process, food quality and safety
• Exposure to international certificate requirements

Soft Skills

• Integrity, Respect & Responsibility
• Good communication skills and fluency in English
• Presentable& courteous
• Proactive
• Team player

Interested Contact: +91 98403 46894 / 91 96000 23400