Dy. Plant Head

PI Industries Ltd; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

PI Industries Ltd invites applications for a Dy. Plant Head in the Fine Chemicals division. The role reports to the Plant Head and focuses on strict production monitoring, budget compliance, and environmental norms at the Panoli/Jambusar plant.

Responsibilities include optimizing facility use, managing manpower and materials, ensuring ISO-system compliance, and driving safety and yield improvements. B.E./B.Tech in Chemical Engineering and 8–13 years of supervisory experience required.

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech in Chemical Engineering required.
• 8–13 years of supervisory experience in a chemicals manufacturing plant preferred.
• Experience in production planning and process optimization helpful.

Responsibilities

• Plan optimal use of production facilities to ensure on-time delivery.
• Monitor batch times and productivity to meet targets.
• Maintain plant safety, ISO systems, and environmental measures.
• Oversee plant equipment, pipelines, and tank farm upkeep.
• Ensure proper loading/unloading and incident reporting to minimize risk.

Skills

Chemical plant operations

Team management

Process safety

Problem solving

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Chemical Engineering

Job description

Position Description

Position Description Business Division: Fine Chemicals - AgChem
Department: Operations
Location: Panoli/ Jambusar
Position Title: Dy.Plant Head
Level: Junior Management
Reporting To: Plant Head
Position Purpose The Dy.Plant Head is responsible for strict monitoring of targeted production as per business plan for plant, maintaining budgeted RMC, waste generation and various environmental norms.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Plan optimum use of available production facilities/circuits to ensure on time delivery of products
• Ensure effective utilization of manpower, utility, raw materials etc.
• Report to Plant Head on the status of Legal Compliance and apprise him of its implication on business

Operational Responsibilities

• Ensure fulfilment of market/customer requirement by producing right quality of material as per business plan
• Manage the productivity by ensuring batch time cycle within the targeted time
• Ensure proper upkeep of-
• Plant machineries and effective running of environmental measures
• Pipe rack and pipeline in the vicinity of the plant so that there is proper flow of chemicals
• Drive measures required for maintaining various ISO-systems are in place as per schedule
• Monitor consistency in mass balance to deliver right yield and waste generation
• Provide assistance to Plant head for maintenance safe and efficient operations with respect to-
• Unit operation of distillation, Filtration (ANF & CF), drying (RVD & Rotocone), screening, pulverizing, absorption and scrubbing
• Properties, hazards and control measures associated with hazardous substances in the plant
• Process safety and quality of respective products
• Impart proper knowledge about processes and hazards of unit process like chlorination, aminolysis, sulfonation, hydrogenation, catalytic reactions etc. to the team
• Manage and upkeep of Tank farm area
• Monitor the loading and unloading process for all the material related to plant
• Ensure proper recording and analysis of incident/accident/first-aid/near misses to minimize risk at shop floor
• Minimize off-spec generation and extra samples
• Optimize overtime generation by proper leave/shift planning
• Develop KPIs to measure the performance of Shift executives at Plant to ensure high productivity

Financial Responsibilities

• Manage the RMC and waste generation as per budget
• Ensure achievement of cost saving initiatives to achieve targeted savings in stipulated time frame

People Responsibilities

• Ensure safety & high productivity at the workplace
• Facilitate initiatives for training need identification and building requisite skills & competencies through systematic training & skill-upgradation initiatives for the team
• Actively drive, in conjunction with the Senior Management Team, the performance management process of the team
• Recognize & reward excellent performers & affirm key contributions of employees toward the achievement of goals & objectives of the team
• Inspire & motivate employees through demonstrated commitment to PI’s values, vision & mission and active participation in various team engagement activities

Education Qualification B.E/B.Tech in Chemical Engineering

Work Experience 8-13 years of supervisory experience preferably in a Chemicals Manufacturing Plant

Industry to be Hired from Agro-Pharma-Fine-Chemicals

Functional Competencies

• Ability to take responsibility to run chemical plant independently
• Ability to understand and solve the various kinds of production related problem
• Relevant experience and technical knowledge as per the role requirement
• Experience in managing Production at Chemical Plants

Interaction Complexity and Team Work

Interaction
Frequency
Purpose of Interaction
Internal:Manufacturing Head
As required for the business
Discuss Plant requirements and share progress report on batches produced
External:Suppliers, Vendors
As required for the business
Discuss production requirements, resolve queries and escalations