Plant Head - Automotive Industry

Plant Head

- Direct and manage all plant operations with overall responsibilities for production, maintenance, quality, and other production-related activities.

- Coordinate plant activities through planning with departments' managers to ensure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.

- Develop and control profits, plans, and budget.

- Implement cost effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages, and salaries.

- Manage capital asset maintenance.

- Establish and monitor overall plant performance for production and quality standards.

- Control and minimize labor overtime, premium freight, and repair expenses. Ensure RM consumption as per approved bill of material.

- Maintain existing plant facilities and equipment, replacing, or adjusting plant facilities and equipment when necessary.

- Provide leadership and training for relevant staff to accomplish the company goals and objectives.

- Implement and maintain preventative maintenance programs.

- Incorporate shop floor organization and plant cleanliness among plant personnel.

- Provide direction, development, and leadership to production supervisor.

- Demonstrate leadership, communication proficiency, decision making, problem solving and analysis, financial management, business acumen.

- Manage all employees and being responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that plant.

Supply chain and Inventory Management:

- Job Work network optimization and relationship management.

- To review all production consumptions, material receipts and transfers to ensure no shortage of materials.

- To approve indents and schedules of plant related production and non-production items.

Quality, Safety and Statutory Compliances:

- To review and close all corrective and preventive action plans in coordination with relevant departments for NC's/ customer's complaints.

- Ensure compliances for ISO 9001 & 14001 Guidelines in plant.

- To undertake suitable proactive and sustainable measures to ensure an accident-free workplace through effective implementation of lead indicator reporting (Near Miss) and management, Hazard identification and mitigation actions, regular training, and third-party certification of incident management readiness at repeated intervals.

Perform any other duties that maybe assigned by the CEO as per organizational requirement.

Department: Production

Location: Binola (Gurgaon)

Reports to: CEO

Reporting into: Plant Team

Workplace Type: Plant

Prohibited except by Authorized Personnel Only.

3. Key relationships:

Internal: CEO, Production, HR, Accounts, Supply chain, Quality, Maintenance, Customer care,

External: Customers, Auditors. Job workers, local, state and central agencies.

4. Key responsibilities / accountabilities Key Performance Indicators:

- On time delivery of material

- As per SLA

- ISO Audit performance

- On Time and without nonconformities

- Inventory Control and Cost saving Undertaking of Projects

- As per plan

- Plant 5'S execution

- As per audit plan

- Foster a well-trained and motivated staff & worI- er team

- Safety

- Training as per plan

- Zero Accidents

5. Technical knowledge/skills:

- Strong PPC knowledge.

- Strong negotiating skills.

- Sound commercial knowledge and related analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Effective Verbal and written communication skills.

- Proficient levels of software knowledge (MS office, ERP etc.)

6. Languages:

- Good level of English /Hindi/Local Language.

7. Attitude:

- Leadership and positivity. (Assertiveness, decisiveness and emphatic).

- Goal orientation

- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity.

- Hardworking & flexible, demonstrate sound work ethics.

- Entrepreneurial approach

- Compliance mindset (laws of the land & company policy) 8. Qualification

- BE Mech/Prod. or Chemical. 9. Experience

- Minimum 15 years and 3 years as HOD in a chemical or automotive industry of repute