Senior Manager Manufacturing

Overview

This position is responsible to lead production team of the concentrate manufacturing to produce safe & defect free concentrates. Position is responsible to ensure uninterrupted supply of Concentrates & to ensure all KPI's are established, met & improved continuously. This position is responsible to implement an improvement based culture on the line. Position is also responsible for ensuring both the resources i.e. People & Equipment are utilized to the best of their capacities & capability building of new resources are in place whenever the need arises. The position is responsible for implementation of all the Documentations which are essential for producing a defect free concentrate & the health & Safety of People

Responsibilities

Manufacturing

• As a position leading bulk of manpower in Channo, driving safety mindset at all levels to deliver Safe operations
• Driving a culture of Zero safety incident mindset. Utilizing tools like Risk assessment for various operations activities to proactively address any impeding human / environmental risk
• Driving operations in strict adherence to Manufacturing Instruction issued by R&D
• Driving a Zero Quality Defect Mindset within the manufacturing team.
• Adherence to Minimum Mandates and maintaining AIB readiness on regular basis by imbibing GMP as core operational value.
• Creating & implementing action plans on Customer Complaints received from Various Bottlers to ensure Zero Repeat.
• Driving Flexibility both in People & assets to meet high surging volumes in South East Asia market.
• Champion the ramp up of new assets to deliver capex commitment
• Initiate plans and processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital.
• Timely review the installed capacities & draft the Infrastructural additions or modifications thus improving process efficiencies & Capacity additions in time.
• Driving loss reduction initiatives through structured Yield Improvement processes and Productivity improvement initiatives
• Co-ordinate with supply chain innovation team for the launch and manufacturing of new products as per timelines.
• Raising Infrastructure requirements on 3 year rolling strat plan & execution of same to improve the productivities, efficiencies & meeting supply chain demands with surging volumes.
• Coordinate maintenance including Predictive & break down to ensure smooth operations of manufacturing & no loss of time.
• Coordinate & implement plant resource conservation activities ensuring lower usage of water, fuel & electricity hence serving the generations ahead.
  

Raw Material Stores

• Managing the Raw Material stores, external raw material warehouse and Engineering stores
• Conducting month end stock taking of Raw materials and OGS stock and drive recocillation process for any deviation
• Maintain documents related to all inbound materials
• Liase and maintain healthy relationship with third party partner for External warehouse
• Strategically plan the storage requirement for Raw Materials for site and manage investment plan in advance
• Manage cost of external warehouse as per AOP
  

Systems

• Good SAP knowledge
• Pivotal in driving all quality management, safety management and material management system for site .
• Keeping live the inventory of Plant documentations, which includes MI's, SOPs, Risk Assessments, Quality records etc.
• Understanding process Capability of key equipment and plan for structured intervention
• Driving Cycle count and Ware House Management module in SAP
• Capability to converge on decision making on restricted and block stock along with stakeholders.
  

Qualifications

Education:

Graduate in Engineering - Chemical/Mechanical/Production EnggMBA with major in Operations will be an added advantage

Experience:

7 to 10 years of experience in the related field is desirableAn experience of Food industry is preferable.