Factory Head - Foods/Beverages

Company : FMCG

Max Budget - 40-42

The incumbent will be responsible (along with a team) for leading the following departments:

- Purchase (PM and Raw Materials)

- Quality (in coming and FG)

- Production

- Labour / Factory HR(in conjunction with HO team)

- Factor Accounts (in conjunction with HO team)

- Warehouse Management

- Shipping and logistics

- Technical Maintenance

Job Expectations :

- Demonstrable experience of leading a manufacturing function with a proven track record in strategic manufacturing leadership delivering effective manufacturing strategies, policies, processes and systems.

- Proactively work with product line management, engineering, service and other departments to incorporate best practices into the manufacturing environment.

- Report on Manufacturing activities on a regular basis to the Senior Management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant Key Performance Indicators

- Ensure that manufacturing strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets and which enables the company to function and compete effectively in the market.

- Coordinate team activities to optimise cost performance of the plant through capital investment programmes, optimising operating working capital usage and minimising waste through the development of a continuous improvement culture encompassing lean principles and clear strategic development.

- Develop and manage master production schedule and operations budgets for products to directly support and ensure that the product is delivered to agreed cost, quality and timelines.

- Forecast requirements; prepare an annual budget; schedule expenditures; analyse variances; initiating corrective actions.

- Develop operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements; develop, implement, enforce and evaluate policies and procedures; develop processes for receiving product, equipment utilization, inventory management and shipping-

- Drive improvements in reliability for key aspects of machinery by completing reliability studies and identifying best planned maintenance strategy

- Proven project management experience

- Ability to foresee problems in a dynamically changing environment

- Analyse process workflow, employee and space requirements and equipment layout; implement changes-

- Ability to handle and manage a large multi-disciplinary work force.