OverviewThis position is responsible to lead production team of the concentrate manufacturing to produce safe & defect free concentrates.
Position is responsible to ensure uninterrupted supply of Concentrates & to ensure all KPI's are established, met & improved continuously.
This position is responsible to implement an improvement based culture on the line.
Position is also responsible for ensuring both the resources i.e. People & Equipment are utilized to the best of their capacities & capability building of new resources are in place whenever the need arises.
ResponsibilitiesManufacturing
- Driving safety mindset to deliver Safe operations
- Driving a culture of Zero safety incident mindset. Utilizing tools like Risk assessment for various operations activities to proactively address any impeding human / environmental risk
- Driving operations in strict adherence to Manufacturing Instruction issued by R&D
- Driving a Zero Quality Defect Mindset to deliver.
- Adherence to Minimum Mandates and maintaining AIB readiness on regular basis by imbibing GMP as core operational value.
- Creating & implementing action plans on Customer Complaints received from Various Bottlers to ensure Zero Repeat.
- Driving Flexibility for manufacturing operations to meet high surging volumes in South East Asia market.
- Help ramp up of new assets to deliver capex commitment
- Initiate plans and processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital.
- Timely review the installed capacities & draft the Infrastructural additions or modifications thus improving process efficiencies & Capacity additions in time.
- Driving loss reduction initiatives through structured Yield Improvement processes and Productivity improvement initiatives
- Co-ordinate with supply chain innovation team for the launch and manufacturing of new products as per timelines.
- Raising Infrastructure requirements on 3 year rolling strat plan & execution of same to improve the productivities, efficiencies & meeting supply chain demands with surging volumes.
- Coordinate maintenance including Predictive & break down to ensure smooth operations of manufacturing & no loss of time.
- Coordinate & implement plant resource optimization activities ensuring lower usage of water, fuel & electricity hence serving the generations ahead.
Raw Material Stores
- Managing the Raw Material stores, external raw material warehouse and Engineering stores
- Conducting month end stock taking of Raw materials and OGS stock and drive recocillation process for any deviation
- Maintain documents related to all inbound materials
- Liase and maintain healthy relationship with third party partner for External warehouse
- Strategically plan the storage requirement for Raw Materials for site and manage investment plan in advance
- Manage cost of external warehouse as per AOP
Systems
- Good SAP knowledge
- Pivotal in driving all quality management, safety management and material management system for site .
- Keeping live the inventory of Plant documentations, which includes MI's, SOPs, Risk Assessments, Quality records etc.
- Understanding process Capability of key equipment and plan for structured intervention
- Driving Cycle count and Ware House Management module in SAP
- Capability to converge on decision making on restricted and block stock along with stakeholders.
Key KPIs to be driven-
- Production Plan Compliance
- Line True Efficiency & Net Efficiency
- Direct Labour Productivity
- Operations Yield & Usage
- Skill Matrix
- New Product Introduction Compliance
- WMS compliance
- Physical Verification gap on monthly basis
- Block Stock value and compliance to recovery plan
Controls
- MIM controls- Process Owner
- Quality Controls- Support
AIB & Food Safety
- Minimum Mandates
- AIB & Food Safety guidelines
People Management
- Driving skill upgradation of the direct reports as part Skill matrix
- Incorporating a high performance team culture within the team as part of W@POA
- Drive structured and proactive grievance redressal wthin the team
- Utilizing R&R tool to effectively engage the team
- Driving positive operations culture within team by proactively addressing genuine grievances
- Coaching the frontline supervisory team for driving high performance frontline team
QualificationsEducation:
Graduate in Engineering - Chemical/Mechanical/Production Engg
MBA with major in Operations will be an added advantage
Experience:
7 to 10 years of experience in the related field is desirable
An experience of Food industry is preferable.
