Education: MBA/PGDM in HR

Team Size: 4-5

Role Purpose

The Head HR - Production will act as the strategic and operational people partner for the production and manufacturing unit, driving workforce planning, industrial relations, performance culture, compliance, capability building and employee experience. The role will ensure a future-ready talent pipeline, strong shop-floor engagement, leadership partnering and high discipline in HR systems and processes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Talent & Workforce Planning

- Leading HRBP partnering for all production units across locations including Blue Collar.

- Lead manpower planning, hiring, and deployment for production units including skilled, semi-skilled, technical and supervisory roles.

- Drive head-hunting and targeted talent mapping for niche production roles when required.

- Own vendor/recruitment partner management for factory hiring drives while ensuring candidate experience standards.

2. Shop-Floor & Employee Engagement

- Be a strong presence on the production floor to build trust and ensure proactive people support.

- Drive employee listening, grievance redressal, retention initiatives and engagement programs tailored to manufacturing workforce.

- Build communication channels to improve leadership-employee connect.

3. Industrial Relations & Labour Partnering

- Manage Industrial Relations, contract labour governance, shop-floor discipline, negotiations and dispute resolution.

- Ensure harmonious union/worker relations and fair people practices across permanent and contractual workforce.

4. HR Systems & Process Excellence

- Drive 100% HR system and process compliance on ATS, onboarding, attendance, payroll, performance, training and employee data.

- Lead process improvements for recruitment TAT, onboarding readiness, documentation discipline and audit preparedness.

5. Compliance, Safety & Governance

- Ensure adherence to factory, labour, statutory and industrial compliance norms.

- Partner with Safety/EHS teams to drive training compliance, shop-floor safety culture and sustainability awareness.

- Maintain zero tolerance for breaches in confidentiality, process non-compliance or HR data lapses.

6. Performance, Culture & Capability Building

- Drive performance culture through probation governance, performance reviews, feedback cycles and factory KPI alignment.

- Lead learning and development initiatives for supervisors, line managers and shop-floor leaders.

- Build capability frameworks for leadership, communication, productivity and people management excellence.

7. Leadership & Business Partnering

- Partner with Production, Quality, Sourcing, SCM and Technical leadership to drive people strategy aligned to business goals.

- Provide people insights, workforce risks, hiring trends, retention data and IR updates to leadership.

- Act as a decision-enabler for factory people planning and talent budgeting discussions.

Core Competencies

- Manufacturing HRBP experience with strong shop-floor and IR exposure

- Skilled in mass hiring, niche production hiring, workforce planning and vendor governance

- Strong compliance and audit mindset

- Ability to influence production leadership through data-driven people insights

- High process discipline and confidentiality ownership

- Experience managing permanent + contract workforce

- Comfort operating in fast-paced manufacturing environments