Deputy General Manager - Manufacturing Excellence
Godrej Industries Group
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Job summary
Godrej Industries Group seeks a senior leader to head Engineering & Maintenance across 4 factories and 9 plants, ensuring safe, reliable and efficient operations while building a high-performing team.
Role focuses on technical leadership across Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Instrumentation; standardising practices and driving cost efficiency and process safety across the network.
Qualifications
- Bachelor or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering from a reputed institution.
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in manufacturing excellence in FMCG/ Chemical sectors.
- Proven leadership in Manufacturing Excellence, CAPEX and transformation.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership to Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Instrumentation functions.
- Establish and drive common engineering, maintenance and reliability standards across all plants.
- Drive equipment reliability, preventive/predictive maintenance and KPI monitoring (MTBF, MTTR).
- Lead critical breakdowns, major shutdowns, CAPEX projects and debottlenecking initiatives.
- Drive cost optimisation, energy efficiency and asset lifecycle management.
Skills
Education
Job description
GIG is a holding company of the Godrej Group. We have significant interests in consumer goods, real estate, agriculture, chemicals, and financial services through our subsidiary and associate companies, across 18 countries.
www.godrejindustries.com
Godrej Agrovet, a food and agriculture conglomerate, we are dedicated to improving the productivity of Indian farmers by innovating products and services that sustainably increase crop and livestock yields.
https://www.godrejagrovet.com/
Provide overall leadership to Engineering & Maintenance across 4 factories and 9 plants, ensuring safe, reliable and efficient plant operations, while building a strong, competent and high-performing engineering team.
- Provide technical leadership to Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Instrumentation functions
- Establish and drive common engineering, maintenance and reliability standards across all 9 plants.
- Drive equipment reliability, preventive/predictive maintenance, plant availability and reduction of breakdowns and repeat failures; monitor MTBF, MTTR and maintenance KPIs.
- Provide technical leadership for critical breakdowns, major shutdowns, CAPEX projects, modifications, debottlenecking and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Drive maintenance cost optimisation, energy efficiency and effective asset life-cycle management.
- Ensure compliance with ISO systems, Responsible Care, statutory requirements, EHS and process safety standards across all plants.
- Independently lead / facilitate HAZOP, HIRA, MOC and Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) for new projects, modifications and plant changes, including effective closure of recommendations.
- Ensure engineering and maintenance activities are aligned with process safety and risk management requirements.
- Build a high-performing team through people development, coaching, competency building, performance management, succession planning and talent development.
- Establish competency standards and training plans for Engineering & Maintenance teams and promote knowledge sharing across factories.
- Drive a culture of safety, accountability, ownership, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
- Standardise and replicate engineering best practices across the 4 factories and 9 plants.
- Collaborate with Factory Heads, Production, EHS, Quality, Projects, Procurement and Corporate functions to deliver business priorities.
GIG is a holding company of the Godrej Group. We have significant interests in consumer goods, real estate, agriculture, chemicals, and financial services through our subsidiary and associate companies, across 18 countries.
www.godrejindustries.com
Godrej Agrovet, a food and agriculture conglomerate, we are dedicated to improving the productivity of Indian farmers by innovating products and services that sustainably increase crop and livestock yields.
https://www.godrejagrovet.com/
Provide overall leadership to Engineering & Maintenance across 4 factories and 9 plants, ensuring safe, reliable and efficient plant operations, while building a strong, competent and high-performing engineering team.
- Provide technical leadership to Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Instrumentation functions
- Establish and drive common engineering, maintenance and reliability standards across all 9 plants.
- Drive equipment reliability, preventive/predictive maintenance, plant availability and reduction of breakdowns and repeat failures; monitor MTBF, MTTR and maintenance KPIs.
- Provide technical leadership for critical breakdowns, major shutdowns, CAPEX projects, modifications, debottlenecking and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Drive maintenance cost optimisation, energy efficiency and effective asset life-cycle management.
- Ensure compliance with ISO systems, Responsible Care, statutory requirements, EHS and process safety standards across all plants.
- Independently lead / facilitate HAZOP, HIRA, MOC and Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) for new projects, modifications and plant changes, including effective closure of recommendations.
- Ensure engineering and maintenance activities are aligned with process safety and risk management requirements.
- Build a high-performing team through people development, coaching, competency building, performance management, succession planning and talent development.
- Establish competency standards and training plans for Engineering & Maintenance teams and promote knowledge sharing across factories.
- Drive a culture of safety, accountability, ownership, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
- Standardise and replicate engineering best practices across the 4 factories and 9 plants.
- Collaborate with Factory Heads, Production, EHS, Quality, Projects, Procurement and Corporate functions to deliver business priorities.
- BE / B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from a reputed institution.
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing excellence
- Experience in FMCG / Chemical manufacturing
- Proven leadership experience in Manufacturing Excellence, CAPEX, and transformation
Childcare benefits for the birthing parent, commissioning parent (in case of surrogacy) or adoptive parent, and their partners
- 6 months of paid leave for primary caregivers, flexible work options on return for primary caregivers
- 2 months paid leave for secondary caregivers
- Caregiver travel for primary caregivers to bring a caregiver and children under a year old, on work travel
Coverage for childbirth and fertility treatment
- Health insurance coverage – Accountable Care and matching partner coverage
- Coverage of pre-planned fertility treatment provisions
- Gender-neutral anti-harassment policy
- Same sex partner benefits at par with married spouses
- Coverage for gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy
- Community partnerships and advocacy
- Persons with Disability (PwD) care
- Comprehensive health insurance plans, as well as accident coverage for you and your family, with top-up options
- Elder care for those who might need to extend support to senior family members
- Preventative healthcare support
- Outpatient Department (OPD) coverage, including vaccinations, dental, vision, etc.
- Uncapped sick leave
- Flexible work options, including remote working and part-time work
- Mental wellness and self-care programmes, resources and counselling
- Structured recognition platforms for individual, team and business-level achievements
- Digital and offline instant recognition platforms
Before you go, there is something important we want to highlight. There is no place for discrimination at Godrej. Diversity is the philosophy of who we are as a company. And has been for over a century. It’s not just in our DNA and nice to do. Being more diverse - especially having our team members reflect the diversity of our businesses and communities - helps us innovate better and grow faster. We hope this resonates with you.
We take pride in being an equal opportunities employer. We recognize merit and encourage diversity. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination on the basis of nationality, race, colour, religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or marital status and ensure equal opportunities for all our team members.
We look forward to meeting you.
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