Plant Head

Role Purpose

Lead the complete Ahmedabadsandwich-panel manufacturing plant from commissioning and stabilization throughfull-scale production, with ownership of safety, output, quality, cost, people and continuous improvement.

KeyResponsibilities

• Take end-to-end responsibility for plantoperations, including production, PPC, maintenance, quality,stores, dispatch, utilities and EHS coordination.
• Lead commissioning, trial production, SOP finalization and production ramp-upof the continuous PUR/PIR sandwich-panel line.
• Establish daily/weekly/monthly production plans in line with sales orders, raw-material availability and deliverycommitments.
• Drive OEE, productivity, yield,line speed, changeover control, scrap reduction, energy efficiency and manpower optimization.
• Ensure stablecontrol of foaming,profiling/forming, curing, cutting,packing and finished-panel handling processes.
• Build preventive and predictive maintenance discipline to minimizebreakdowns and production loss.
• Ensure incoming, in-process and finalquality systems for steel facings,chemicals, adhesives, insulation core, panel dimensions and finished performance.
• Develop plant SOPs, work instructions, skillmatrices, shift structures, training systems and accountability mechanisms.
• Coordinate with sales, purchase,finance and management on order priorities, inventory, cost, customercomplaints and capacity planning.
• Lead root-cause analysis, CAPA, 5S, safety practicesand continuous improvement across the plant.
• Recruit, mentorand evaluate key production and technical team members during the start-up phase.
• Present plant MIS coveringproduction, rejection, downtime,consumption, manpower, dispatchand key risks to management.

KeyPerformance Indicators (KPIs)

• Production plan adherence and OTIF dispatch
• OEE / line utilization / throughput
• Scrap, rejection and chemical/steel yield
• Breakdown hours and preventive-maintenance compliance
• Customer complaints and CAPA closure
• Conversion cost and energy consumption
• Safety, 5S and workforce discipline
• Successful commissioning and production ramp-up

Required Skills & Competencies

• Continuous sandwich-panel manufacturing
• PUR/PIR foamingprocess understanding
• Plant commissioning & stabilization
• Production planningand cost control
• Team leadership & cross-functional coordination
• Problem solving,RCA/CAPA and Lean/5S
• Strong MIS and management reporting