Plant Director

Health Safety & Environment

•Ensuring that health, safety and environment policy and guidelines are followed and that Safety targets are set up annually, measured and improved continuously, thus creating a safe environment where employees can work safely in all areas.

Human Resource

• People Management and Development; manage the performance of production teams and develop them through regular reviews and appropriate training.

• Through appropriate management style, foster a culture of engagement, commitment and continuous improvement within the plant, coaching and developing a leadership style amongst the workforce that will support this culture.

• To ensure maximum Employee Engagement across the employees.

• Develop the skill level of the plant employees and support them to achieve their targets. To maintain a cohesive & harmonious relationship in the plant team.

• Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations and meeting production targets.

Audit & Statutory Compliance

• Liaison with local Govt. / Statutory bodies (i.e. Pollution Control Board, Fire, Factory Inspector, PF & Labor dept, etc) and ensure that the plant is complying with all statutory norms as applicable.

• Conduct & and comply with all Audit requirements (i.e. internal and External.

Production and Operation:

• Lead the monthly/weekly/daily production planning activities as per customer forecasts.

• To ensure manpower optimization based on plans.

• To improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing product variation.

• Develop and lead the continuous improvement activities within the team.

• To ensure that safety and quality are key elements of the manufacturing culture.

• Build and develop relationships at all levels across the manufacturing function to spark ideas for continuous improvement.

• Implement KAIZEN and 5S, Hazard Analysis Critical Control point (HACCP) and Total Quality Management (TQM) at the plant.

• Responsible for the product quality of the plant.

• Employee engagement and employee motivation on the shop floor.

• To improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation by LEAN deployment, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) culture thereby reducing cost on Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).

• Communicating with all the relevant people/departments and coordinating for all relevant inputs (people, plant and processes) to ensure production output and on-time delivery targets are achieved.

• Ensuring that goods are manufactured as per the production plan, quality standards and targeted schedule, to achieve delivery targets and annual budget as agreed. Manage customer order /schedule requirements.

• Responsible for Key Performance Indicators for the plant.

Quality

• Responsible for delivery FG as per pre-approved specifications.

• Ensure DPMU (defective pieces per million units) is within the prescribed standards.

• Ensure that no defective material leaves the factory premises.

• To ensure on Quality - No recall or product hold, GMP compliance.

• Build a Quality culture across the plant.

• Coordination with R&D on technology transfer/R&D scale up batches.

• Following the guidelines and coordination with QA and QC to establish effective quality control/assurance systems.

• Ensure Product deviation and quality complaints are minimal.

• Ensure timely closure of the market complaints and ensure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) 

• Formulating standard operating procedures 

Maintenance

• Preventative Maintenance (PM) – Prepare & execute a robust PM plan to ensure zero machine downtime.

• Ensure that the PM schedule is shared with the supply chain & requisite spares, and consumables are available as per PM schedules.

Supply Chain Management

• To Maintain and follow the inventory norms for RM/PM, Engineering & Finished goods.

• Ensure zero production downtime for want of material or spares.

Financial Cost

• Responsible for overall plant cost & Profitability.

• Cost Budgeting 

• Conversion Cost 

• Cost Optimization Initiatives 

Projects

• Technical up-gradation and validation process – Prepare business case along with the budgeted cost of upgradation / new installations & ensure the projects are delivered within the budgeted costs.

• Handle all projects within the plant.