National Head - Operations - Manufacturing

Job Responsibilities:

- Manage daily plant operations across all sites ensuring adherence to production schedules, output, and quality benchmarks.

- Drive standardization of operational processes and best practices across locations.

- Oversee ink formulation process efficiencies and plant-specific challenges

- To improve profitability by yield improvement, energy conservation, process time cycle reduction.

- Maintain existing plant facilities and equipment; replace, or make adjustments to plant facilities and equipment when necessary.

- Plan, lead, and execute key capital expenditure (CapEx) and cost-saving projects.

- Collaborate with R&D, engineering, and supply chain teams on plant expansions, automation, energy optimization, or technology upgradation.

Key Skills & Competencies:

- Strong leadership, decision-making skills and analytical thinking

- Certification in Six Sigma ( Black Belt)

- Effective interpersonal skills to resolve conflict, develop employees, and facilitate corrective action while fostering an environment that supports our values and philosophy

- Expertise in lean manufacturing and supply chain optimization

Key Performance Indicators' (KPI):

- Production throughput vs plan

- Manufacturing cost per unit

- Yield, rework, and rejection rate

- Lean implementation milestones (e.g., % OEE, downtime reduction)

- OTIF (On-Time In-Full) delivery

- Project completion vs timeline and ROI

- Safety incident rate and compliance score