Plant Head - Soap Manufacturing

Role Purpose :

Ensure sustainable, safe & statutory compliant integrated operations focussed on the customer OTIF (@100%) at the contracted quality levels and within budgeted cost.

Key Responsibilities

Planning and Strategising

• Plan, develop and implement strategy for operations (including Manpower, maintenance, production, quality, safety & complainces) so as to meet agreed organisational performance plans within agreed budgets and timescales. Set operations budgets with function wise allocations.
• Build and assess innovative strategies to meet product demand more effectively (Eg- Appointing contractors for non-core processes, allocation of production plan across production lines)

Coordination, Interface, Imparting Training to Internal and External entities

• Make key capacity utilisation decisions to ensure that consolidated local production is at lowest cost and within planned schedule.
• Oversee development of and sign of on well-integrated functional plans and budgets (production, supply chain, procurement, quality, HSE etc) to ensure that objectives are achieved through collaboration and support from other departments
• Create and drive cross-functional teams for process improvements and new product development

Policy and Process Design, Implementation and Review

• Formulate common operations policies for the plant that are aligned to global operations policies, incorporating best practices both from the industry and ensure that minimum service level standards are implemented and standardised processes are followed rigorously

Liaison with other functions and external agencies

• Liaise regularly with other functional/departmental managers so as to ensure that the Plant plans are capable of meeting product demands, and aligned to business unit plans
• Liaise with R&D Head to implement best practices, tools and techniques and support implementation of new and updated technology
• Build relations with various external agencies, such as vendors, customers, industry bodies, contractors, government bodies etc

Management of performance, capability and morale

• Manage, measure and review performance, capability and morale of the manufacturing, supply chain and procurement, quality, HSE and projects departments as well as the support function business partners (HR, R&D, IT and finance)
• Sanction with approval from Operations Head PCP India, new infrastructure, technology, resources, capital etc to support performance improvements from time to time
• Ensure that required training and other capability development opportunities are available to the team; provide continuous feedback to subordinates
• Give appropriate direction and provide expertise to the operations team from time to time, continuously building one's functional and leadership skills

Infrastructure and Technology Investment and Management

• Evaluate, seek approval from PCP Operations Head India and sign off major capital expenditure decisions and projects to enhance performance of PCP operations (India) departments
• Assess project proposals received from the business, support and provide insight to projects team into evaluation of project feasibility, prioritise and sanction projects for various operational and business unit needs