Production Manager - FMCG

Position Title: Production Manager

Function: Manufacturing

Key Responsibilities:

- Execute the production plan for the factory.

- Liaise with other departments to ensure support to Production activities and adherence to Legal, Commercial and Quality norms within the Food Safety and Environment Management Standards with the objective of ensuring delivery of right quality and quantity of goods as per the plan.

Manage Production Activities:

- Schedule and allocate resources (people, material, number of shifts) to ensure achievement of production plan by week/month/SKU by line.

- Ensure adherence to the SOP (manufacturing process).

- Schedule maintenance windows in coordination with plant maintenance manager (trade off between machine down time and preventive maintenance).

- Monitor and analyze trends around production deficits as per plan (e.g., defect increasing specific to a line, down time, cost and root cause analyses of the same and suggest corrective actions).

- Review shop floor operations daily.

- Analyze rejections arising out of Quality Inspections.

Control Production Costs:

- Consolidate variances from budget, analyze and find out root causes, plan and execute corrective actions by having daily meetings with shop floor personnel.

Improve Business Processes:

- Coordinate audit of the premises with respect to Quality, Hygiene, Food Safety and ensure compliances to all standards.

- Identify opportunities for improvements which will help achieve cost savings and present recommendations to plant managers.

Manage Industrial Relations:

- Participate in IR committee discussions and negotiations with Union in order to maintain harmonious industrial relations.