Position Title: Factory Manager

Function: Manufacturing

Key Stakeholders:

Internal:

- Replenishment and planning

- Purchase (to coordinate availability of RM)

- Center Quality team

- Corporate Eng. and excellence teams

- Corp. safety head

- Center for technology and excellence

- Manufacturing Excellence

- HR/ ER

- Factory union

- Commercial (in case of deviations in budget with the finance manager in the factory)

External:

- Auditors

- Statutory bodies (pollution control board, factory inspector, local administration)

- Consultant

- Local industry associations

- Neighboring factory peers

- Vendors/service providers (for Eng. services, labor contractors)

- (Sr. Production Manager in a midsized factory; in Manufacturing and Maintenance function with 2-3 years as the Head of Factory Role Industry Preference: FMCG/Beverages/Food Processing Industry)

Desired Competencies:

- Competencies - Mfg. excellence tools like TQM, Kaizen,

- Maintenance system on Fixed Assets, IR Skills, Commercial Orientation

Key Responsibilities:

- Responsible for managing the operations of the entire factory

- Review cost, quality and performance of the plant on an everyday basis

- Ensuring adherence to the Production Plan (PVA)

- Review production reports and variances; plan corrective actions and ensure implementation to ensure production costs and variances are minimized.

- Verify production plan, Communicate change in plan, if any, to Central Planning.

- On an ongoing basis, agree on schedule changes, if required with the Central Planning Team and Regional Replenishment Team.

- Review safety and food safety practices and ensure adherence to SOPs on a daily basis

- Drive improvements on practices (safety, cost controls, maintenance) from a long term perspective

- Initiate capex expenditure proposals (get approvals and execute)

- Check assumptions for various CERs (capex expense request) and accuracy of bills (execute validation of the bills submitted by vendors);

- Statutory compliance and licenses: Applying for and managing renewal of licenses, adherence to compliances (environment, factory license, FSS, pollution control, etc.)

- Review shop floor operations daily for checking adherence to Quality systems norms

- Work out improvement plans for Quality and Hygiene TO ensure requisite quality and safety standards and certifications are being adhered to Support Innovation

- Coordinate Plant Scale trials (Eg.1) , stabilization of commercial production of new SKU Lines along with Central Planning, Replenishment and Engineering

- Interact with R&D and marketing to understand the new product or SKU to be introduced; Determine specific equipment's, needs of up gradation for the unit and ensure procurement of machinery accordingly

Budgets:

- To aid with timely and accurate budgeting for the factory, confirm capacities on SKUs, number of working days/shifts available, and plant capabilities; Confirm direct costs, manpower requirement, M&R, other overheads and expansion budgets

- Responsible for managing and monitoring the production and conversion budgets of the unit

- Manage Labor Relations

- Participate in IR committee discussions; negotiation with Union; Signing & Implement the settlement, helping resolve any labor issues to maintain harmonious labor relations within the plant

- Managing Talent: Monitoring & reviewing performance levels; provide developmental plans for people, recommend increments & promotions