Assistant Manager - Production

Godrej Foods Limited; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Godrej Foods Limited in Mumbai seeks a Production Head to oversee daily plant operations, enforce safety, quality, and productivity, and drive team morale. You will plan, organize, and direct activities to maximize yields while maintaining high standards.

The role requires hands-on leadership, focus on asset utilization, cost control, and collaboration with regulatory bodies to ensure compliance and continuous improvement across the plant.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation and human resources.
• Familiarity with industry standard equipment and technical expertise.
• Hands-on knowledge of safety, quality, productivity, demand fulfillment, inventory.
• Strong capabilities of building and leading teams, logical decision-making, hands-on-ness and leading by example.
• Readiness to work in a poultry processing unit.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily plant operations, ensure safety, quality, productivity, and morale.
• Improve efficiencies, asset utilization, and capacity while controlling costs.
• Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations.
• Overall Engineering and Maintenance performance within budgeted costs.
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Implement strategies with clear sense of direction and focus, aligned with organisations objectives.
• Oversee day-to-day operations and take necessary corrective actions.
• Collaborate cross functionally and maintain healthy work culture.
• Ensure identification of means for improving yields and reducing losses.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Support necessary liaising with external stake holders and regulatory/statutory authorities.
• Implementation of policies and procedures in line with organisations commitment to People Safety, Product Safety and Environmental upkeep.
• Analyze varies issues and drive initiaitives for improvement in plant reliability, costs and operational efficiencies.
• Identify several technological advancements in the industry and explore implementation internally.

Skills

Budgeting & Strategic Planning

Team Leadership

Operational Excellence

Food Safety & Quality Awareness

Process Improvement

Job description

Position Summary

1. The Production Head will oversee all daily operations of the plant ensuring policies and procedures are followed, develop processes that will maximize stewardship, safety, quality, productivity and morale of Team.
2. Improving efficiencies, asset utilization, capacity assessment and flexibility while minimizing costs and maintaining quality standards.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Upkeep and ensure to plant safety procedures and enhance EHS culture.
2. Ensure food quality and food safety protocols in place
3. Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations
4. Overall Engineering and Maintenance performance management within budgeted costs
5. Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results
6. Implement strategies with clear sense of direction and focus, aligned with organisations objectives.
7. Oversee day-to-day operations and take necessary corrective actions
8. Collaborate cross functionally and maintain healthy work culture
9. Ensure identification of means for improving yields and reducing losses
10. Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
11. Support necessary liaising with external stake holders and regulatory/statutory authorities.
12. Implementation of policies and procedures in line with organisations commitment to People Safety, Product Safety and Environmental upkeep
13. Analyze varies issues and drive initiaitives for improvement in plant reliability, costs and operational efficiencies
14. Identify several technological advancements in the industry and explore implementation internally

Key knowledge & Skills

1. 1. Adequate knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation and human resources)
2. 2. Familiarity with industry standard equipment and technical expertise
3. 3. Having hands-on knowledge of safety, quality, productivity, demand fulfillment, inventory
4. 4. Strong capabilities of building and leading teams, logical decision-making, hands-on-ness and leading by example
5. 5. Readiness to work in a poultry processing unit