Licious - Plant Head/Production Manager

Licious is looking for an experienced, adaptive, creative & adventurous Plant Head, who's hyper excited about performance & has sense of deep ownership and responsibility. At Licious, the TEAM is building India's 1st consumer tech food brand and the category we- ve chosen to disrupt, to start with, is the Fresh Meats and Gourmet category. This category is one of the largest consumer categories in India's retail landscape & offers tremendous opportunities to create a world class brand in India.

- Position : Plant Head / Production Manager

- Location - Medchal, Hyderabad

- Meat Processing Experience Preferred

Job Description:-

- This position will have overall responsibility of supervising, planning, and directing the meat production of Chicken, Red Meat & Sea Food on various individual production lines/areas to produce products safely and consistently within quality specifications.

- This position will supervise and coordinate activities of production supervisors to meet production needs and ensure efficient operation of their assigned area of responsibility.

- Responsible for developing and maintaining positive supervisor's relations; training and developing skills and teamwork of supervisors; ensuring department operates within compliance of HACCP and ensuring all compliance with facility safety rules and company policies.

- Will oversee supervisor training and development to ensure a quality product is produced at a competitive cost.

Essential Functions, Duties & Responsibilities

- Lead production teams to meet short- and long-term goals.

- Understand Product Yield and should be able to devise the system to maintain the same.

- Ensure team member compliance with safety policies and procedures

- Enable teams to complete all required meetings on time; facilitate regular team meetings

- Collect, monitor, and report statistical data and an analysis of the data within specified time frames

- Good understanding of Packing material

- Good Understanding of RM - Sea Food, Chicken and Red Meat

- Should be able to handle RM & FG Stores and their receipt and dispatches.

- Should be able to coordinate with front end operations for FG timely dispatches.

- Identify maintenance challenges and able to get preventive maintenance done on time.

- Comprehend Customer feedback/complaint and should be able to resolve the same through proper channel and system.

- Identify opportunities for improvement, their root causes, and solutions to correct them within a team-based work environment

- Evaluate team member performance and assist team members- performance improvement, accountability, and advancement through effective goal-setting, feedback, and training.

- Assist with plant process improvement projects

- Support and contribute to the achievement of facility goals for safety, people, quality, cost-savings

- Knowledge of and ability to work with computer programs such as Good interpersonal and teambuilding skills.

- Excellent attendance, personnel and safety record.

- Good understanding of fundamental labor and waste control.

- Ability to delegate responsibility.

- Ability to absorb and manage increasing responsibilities and excel in a leadership position.

- Working knowledge of manufacturing methods, process improvements, problem-solving techniques and procedures.

Required Skiils :-

- Bachelor's degree or Food Technologist with an Experience of at least 6-8 year experience in a meat processing facility will be given preferences.

- Must be computer literate (Excel, PowerPoint & Word).

- Supervisory experience in a team-based environment.

Additional Skiils :-

- Familiar with HACCP, SSOP, GMPs. Must have the ability to write reports & business correspondence.

- Must have the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers.