Role Summary:

We are seeking a General Manager - Production & Plant Operations to serve as the strategic and operational lead for a Precious Group Metals (PGM) refining facility in Mumbai. This role bridges technical hydrometallurgy with shop-floor execution, overseeing the end-to-end recovery of platinum group metals (Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir) from spent catalysts and high-value feeds while optimizing yield, safety, and P&L.

Key Responsibilities:

- Plant Operations & Batch Execution: Lead daily PGM refining processes (leaching, filtration, precipitation, solvent extraction, reduction, and purification) at full commercial scale, converting R&D process sheets into SOP-driven production workflows.

- Metal Accountability & Yield Control: Maintain strict metal balances and loss control to fractional percentages. Drive continuous improvements to optimize recovery yields, purity levels, and batch cycle times.

- Process & Continuous Improvement: Drive root-cause analysis (RCA) on shop-floor bottlenecks, filtration issues, or impurity carryover to optimize reactor usage and plant capacity.

- Safety & Regulatory Compliance (SHE): Enforce strict safety protocols for hazardous reagents. Ensure 100% compliance with environmental norms, zero-liquid discharge (ZLD), and effluent metal recovery.

- Financial & Operational Management: Manage plant P&L, multi-crore operating budgets, reagent consumption, energy efficiency, cost per unit of recovered metal, and manpower planning.

- Strategic Reporting & Supply Chain: Partner with supply chain teams for raw material procurement and present KPIs, technical data, and operational plans to the executive board.

Candidate Qualifications & Requirements:

- Education: B.E. / B.Tech in Chemical Engineering or Metallurgy (preferably from a premier engineering institute) OR M.Sc. in Chemistry / Industrial Chemistry.

- Experience: 15 - 20+ years of progressive hands-on experience in precious metal refining, PGM recovery, or spent catalyst recycling operations.

- Technical Expertise: Proven mastery in hydrometallurgy, chloride chemistry systems, solvent extraction circuits, precipitation, reduction, and campaign mass balancing.

- Leadership & Financial Acumen: Strong track record as a Plant Head / Refining Head managing large workforces, safety compliance, and P&L accountability.

- Work Environment: Full-time, on-site presence in Navi Mumbai.