Factory Head For Purnia Plant (Bihar)

Chaudhary Group; Purnia; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Chaudhary Group in India seeks a senior Production and Operations Leader to drive end-to-end manufacturing across multiple functions, from production planning to maintenance and supply chain coordination.

You will oversee quality assurance, cost control, safety compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives while building capable teams and ensuring on-time production and dispatch.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly production activities to meet targets.
• Optimize production lines, machinery, manpower, and materials.
• Improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and minimize waste.
• Adhere to SOPs, plans, and manufacturing standards.
• Drive lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Meet quality standards and approved processes.
• Coordinate with QA/QC to reduce defects and complaints.
• Implement GMP, hygiene, and quality management systems.
• Maintain batch traceability and proper documentation.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements including FSSAI.
• Monitor costs, materials usage, and losses.
• Identify opportunities to reduce wastage and energy use.
• Improve OEE, yield, and productivity.
• Prepare and manage the factory operating budget.
• Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Minimize breakdowns and unplanned stoppages.
• Coordinate with engineering for reliability and upkeep.
• Ensure availability of critical spares and maintenance schedules.
• Coordinate procurement, planning, warehouse, and sales to meet demand.
• Ensure availability of raw and packaging materials.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels and minimize obsolete stock.
• Ensure timely production, packing, and dispatch schedules.
• Ensure proper storage and traceability of materials and finished goods.
• Lead production, maintenance, quality, warehouse, and utilities teams.
• Set performance targets and monitor teams.
• Foster accountability, discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Identify training needs and develop supervisors and operators.
• Manage manpower planning, attendance, shifts and labor relations.
• Ensure compliance with factory, labor, environmental, fire, and safety regulations.
• Implement safety procedures, risk assessments, and emergency plans.
• Handle waste disposal and environmental requirements.
• Maintain statutory registers and inspections.
• Review daily production reports, downtime, wastage, and dispatch status.
• Prepare monthly performance reports for senior management.
• Analyze deviations from plans and budgets and take corrective actions.
• Support new product launches, capacity expansion, and capital projects.

Job description

Role & responsibilities

A. Production & Manufacturing

• Plan, organize, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly production activities to achieve agreed production targets.
• Ensure optimum utilization of production lines, machinery, manpower, and raw materials.
• Improve production efficiency, reduce downtime, and minimize wastage and rejection.
• Ensure adherence to production plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and manufacturing standards.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, lean manufacturing, and productivity enhancement.

B. Quality Assurance & Food/Product Safety

• Ensure compliance with quality standards, product specifications, and approved manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with the Quality Assurance and Quality Control teams to reduce defects, customer complaints, and product rejections.
• Ensure implementation of GMP, hygiene standards, and applicable quality management systems.
• Maintain batch traceability, proper documentation, and effective control of non-conforming products.
• Ensure compliance with applicable statutory and industry-specific requirements, including FSSAI requirements wherever applicable.

C. Cost Control & Operational Excellence

• Monitor manufacturing costs, conversion costs, material consumption, and production losses.
• Identify opportunities to reduce wastage, energy consumption, overtime, and operating expenses.
• Drive initiatives to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), yield, and labor productivity.
• Prepare and manage the factory operating budget in coordination with management and finance.

D. Maintenance & Engineering

• Ensure effective preventive and predictive maintenance of plant and machinery.
• Minimize machine breakdowns and unplanned production stoppages.
• Coordinate with the engineering team for equipment reliability, utilities, and infrastructure upkeep.
• Ensure availability of critical spares and timely execution of maintenance schedules.

E. Supply Chain, Inventory & Dispatch

• Coordinate with procurement, planning, warehouse, and sales teams to ensure production as per demand.
• Ensure availability of raw materials, packaging materials, and other production inputs.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels and minimize obsolete, excess, or slow-moving stock.
• Ensure timely completion of production, packing, and dispatch schedules.
• Ensure proper storage, handling, and traceability of raw materials and finished goods.

F. People Management & Leadership

• Lead production, maintenance, quality, warehouse, utilities, and other factory functions, as applicable.
• Set performance targets for departmental heads and monitor individual and team performance.
• Develop a culture of accountability, discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Identify training needs and develop the capabilities of supervisors, operators, and other employees.
• Manage manpower planning, attendance, shift arrangements, and labor relations.

G. Safety, Compliance & Statutory Requirements

• Ensure compliance with applicable factory, labor, environmental, fire, health, and safety regulations.
• Implement workplace safety procedures, risk assessments, and emergency preparedness plans.
• Ensure proper handling and disposal of waste and compliance with environmental requirements.
• Maintain statutory registers, licenses, inspections, and records in coordination with relevant departments.

H. Reporting & Management Review

• Review daily production reports, downtime, wastage, quality performance, and dispatch status.
• Prepare monthly factory performance reports and present them to senior management.
• Analyze deviations against production plans, budgets, and KPIs and implement corrective actions.
• Support new product launches, capacity expansion, process improvement, and capital expenditure projects