General Manager/Vice President - Plant Operations - Polymers Business

One of our Clients, one of the pioneers in their Field is looking out for a GM/VP - Plant Head

- The ideal incumbent should be a BE - Rubber / Chemical / Polymer from a Premium Engineering College with over 20 years experience of which substantial experience in the Rubber or Footwear or Polymer Industry.

- The incumbent should be a Techno-Commercial person with hands on experience in Operations as well as P&L Management.

- The person would lead the production, planning and maintenance at plant, operate as a profit center Head, achieve the production targets and ensure on time delivery of finished goods to the customers.

- The individual would manage optimum utilization of men, machinery & utilities. He would drive savings plan & productivity improvements through Lean Manufacturing and Manufacturing Excellence Tools.

- He would maintain inventory & timely procurement of material for production, implement and monitor Quality Management Systems.

- He would supervise the entire plant and ensure labour welfare activities in the plant. Implement and monitor Health, Safety and Environment at the Plant.

- Plant improvement plan, implement 5S & Kaizen and Facilitate project implementation

Key Result Areas :

- Capacity Utilization

- Overall equipment efficiency

- Labor cost per unit

- Ensure Down time and optimize plant availability factor

- Quality and timely delivery of products

Knowledge & Skills :

- In-depth technical knowledge of the Plant processes

- Leadership skills to motivate employees and keep operations running smoothly

- Problem-solving skills to quickly ascertain a situation and be decisive in solving it

- Time management to meet production deadlines and shipment to the customers

- Technical and Analytic skill

- Ability to exercise strict budgetary cost control system on the SAP platform

- Techno commercial skills

- Negotiation skills