Plant HR Head - Manufacturing

Position: Plant HR Head

Location: West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh.

Reporting To: Corporate Head - HR

Experience: 20 - 22 Years

Industry: Large-scale Manufacturing / Process Manufacturing

Role Purpose:

To lead the complete HR function for a large manufacturing plant, ensuring effective people management, employee engagement, HR operations and industrial relations while aligning plant HR practices with the corporate HR strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the complete HR function for the plant and act as the key HR partner to the Plant Leadership Team.

- Manage HR operations including manpower planning, recruitment, talent management, performance management, employee engagement and HR policies.

- Handle Industrial Relations (IR) and employee relations matters, with sound knowledge of applicable labour laws and statutory requirements.

- Maintain a positive employee-relations environment and proactively address employee grievances and workplace issues.

- Partner with business/plant leadership on workforce planning, productivity, organisation structure and people-related initiatives.

- Drive employee engagement, capability development, succession planning and retention initiatives.

- Ensure compliance with labour laws, statutory requirements and company HR policies.

- Work closely with corporate HR/CHRO on implementation of HR strategy and key people initiatives.

- Lead and mentor the plant HR team and ensure effective delivery of HR services.

- Support change-management and organisational-development initiatives within the plant.

Candidate Profile:

- 20 - 22 years of overall HR experience, preferably from a large manufacturing organisation/large-scale plant environment.

- Strong experience in Plant HR + HR Operations, with good exposure to Industrial Relations.

- Experience handling HR for a large employee base/large-scale manufacturing plant.

- Should have practical knowledge of labour laws, employee relations and statutory compliance.

- Union-management experience is not mandatory; however, the candidate should have sound IR knowledge and experience handling employee relations.

- Strong stakeholder-management and people-leadership skills.