Head - Human Resouces - Manufacturing

Industry : Manufacturing

Job Description : This role will be responsible for driving the end-to-end HR and Personnel Administration agenda across the manufacturing units, with a deep focus on labour compliance, contract workforce management, and factory HR governance. The incumbent will partner closely with business and plant leadership to ensure a compliant, efficient, and high-performing workplace environment.

Client Details:

Our client is a large industrial organization with a multi-plant presence in India. The company employs a significant on-roll and contractual workforce and is known for its scale of operations and focus on manufacturing excellence. The organization is now seeking to strengthen its HR and compliance framework through a seasoned professional who can lead personnel administration, factory HR, and statutory compliance across sites.

Description:

Job Description:

Core Purpose:

This role will be responsible for driving the end-to-end HR and Personnel Administration agenda across the manufacturing units, with a deep focus on labour compliance, contract workforce management, and factory HR governance. The incumbent will partner closely with business and plant leadership to ensure a compliant, efficient, and high-performing workplace environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead HR operations and statutory compliance across all manufacturing sites, ensuring adherence to labour laws and factory regulations.

- Oversee all statutory activities under the Factories Act, CLRA, Minimum Wages, Bonus, Gratuity, ESI, PF, and related legislations.

- Manage a large-scale workforce comprising on-roll and contractual employees through structured compliance frameworks and governance reviews.

- Drive vendor discipline and periodic audits for ~450+ contractors, ensuring consistency and accuracy in documentation, wage adherence, and legal filings.

- Build and manage a distributed HR administration team responsible for personnel data, records, and factory-level HR processes.

- Standardize employment governance - including offer formats, renewals, and performance-linked reviews - across all sites.

- Institutionalize a structured performance management process for the plant workforce, ensuring management visibility and timely renewals.

- Maintain a positive employee relations climate and proactively address grievances or compliance queries.

- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (legal, audit, labour departments, and consultants) to ensure full compliance readiness.

- Strong knowledge of statutory laws, contract workforce management, and factory HR operations.

- Proven experience managing a workforce of 2000+ on-roll and 4000+ contractual employees.

- Exposure to multi-plant or multi-location HR setups preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to lead compliance audits, labour inspections, and contractor governance reviews.

- Postgraduate degree in HR / Personnel Management / MSW / Industrial Relations from a reputed institute.

- Strategic role with visibility to top management and an ability to influence organization-wide

people governance.

- Platform to drive compliance excellence and process transformation in a legacy manufacturing environment.