Plant Head - Manufacturing Firm

Position: Plant Head-Hyderabad & Chennai (Leading MNC Manufacturing Co)

Role:

- To provide leadership for day-to-day operations for the plant

- To increase production, asset capacity and flexibility while minimising unnecessary costs

- Monitor day-to-day production yield, energy efficiency and EHS compliance & controls

- Responsible for monitoring the production output, product quality, etc.

- To ensure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible

- Use Plant Assets and Resources effectively to produce optimal results. Ensure effective return on assets

- Monitor operational expenses, reduce costs where possible while optimising production and reduce wastages

- Stay up-to-date with latest production management best practices and concepts

- Well versed with TPM / similar concepts environment, ensure good standards as per global guidelines.

- Well versed with managing external environment, represent Sr. Management in dispute resolution with Union, government agencies & labour relation authorities

- Ensure hiring and development of all plant personnel.

- Reportees would include Production, Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Instrumentation), Commercial (Purchase, Accounts, Logistics), HR/IR and Admin, Quality, EHS

Requirements:

- BE/BTech (Chemical, Mechanical). Additional MTech/ MBA (Operations) will be an added advantage

- 17+ yrs of experience in Production, with experience in Plant Management

- Experienced in a continuous process industry specifically Ceramics/ Glass/ Fibre/ Fertilizers industry of min of 4-5 yrs

- Should be technically very sound. If from a Mechanical background should have good prior experience in Maintenance, if from a Chemical background should have good prior experience in Process Engineering

- Should have served as Plant Head of a decent sized Plant for 4-5 years

- Added experience of commissioning of Plant (greenfield) will be highly desirable

- Good Team Leading Experience

- Experience in managing a unionised workforce

- Good communication skills

Location: Hyderabad & Chennai (Will be based at Hyderabad for 1-1.5 yrs and then be located long term in Chennai)

This position is for a Client of Vertex Corporate Services which is a Leading MNC Manufacturing Company