Plant Head

Lathia Rubber Mfg Co; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Lathia Rubber Mfg Co in India requires a Production Manager to lead end-to-end manufacturing operations, ensuring targets, quality, and timely delivery while maintaining safety and efficiency.

The role involves coordinating with production staff, sales, QA, and maintenance to meet plant policies, schedules and budget commitments, and to drive continuous improvement across processes.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of machines such as Lathes, Grinders, Mixing Mills, Calendars and general shop-floor equipment.
• Experience in production planning, TPM and continuous improvement projects is desirable.
• Understanding of quality systems and cost reduction initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Plan and monitor production targets, schedules, and outputs.
• Coordinate with QA, Maintenance and HR for smooth operations.
• Lead shift teams and manage safety, housekeeping and compliance.

Skills

Machinery knowledge

Education

Diploma in Mechanical/Industrial Management

Job description

The role is responsible to achieve the Production/Sales target with minimum rejection / re-work/Delivery commitment and to maintain Quality standard by coordinating with Production staff, Sales team while considering the safety of workmen and machines.

Production Management Planning and Delivery

• Reviews the year plan and expansion plan and prepares the required budget for required manpower, machinery and development.
• Supervises the production line operation in accordance with plant policies and procedures. Draws up production schedule & adjusts them if problems occur, sets target & outputs to achieve operational plans.
• Anchor the daily production meeting, manages and oversees the production start-ups, shutdowns, and changeovers.
• Reviews and monitors delivery of urgent rolls, ensures vulcanizing of all re-coating rolls within the agreed timelines based on the facility.
• Responsible for meeting shift production goals (Quantity/ shift).
• Co-ordinates with all departments (QA, Maintenance, HR) for smooth running of Operations.
• Takes care of rollers at various stages of the production process and confirms the drawings are as per the client requirements.
• Regularly analyses the dispatches.
• Informs & take confirmation from the client about the additional charges if any repairing is required.
• Attends to customer complaints and provides service backup for troubleshooting.
• Runs a structured process for understanding customer complaints and take corrective actions reducing customer complaints rejection/ rework.
• Manages the inventory by verifying availability of the rubber compound material in store and plans for timely purchase.
• Plans and coordinates with the Purchase team for timely delivery of material requirements.
• 1. Achievement of product targets (Quantity, quality and time)

Facilities Maintenance and plant upkeep

• Regularly attends to any kind of disruption in machines or breakdowns
• Ensures timely lubrication of machines
• Oversees & ensures that the repair works & general maintenance is done within the budget
• Regularly checks the equipments, buildings, factory premises and other facilities to ensure that they remain neat and clean and in good working condition through good housekeeping practices
• Tracks utility consumption at the plant
• 1. Zero down time of machines
• 2. Adherence to utility comsuption limits

Quality Control and Reporting

• Responsible for quality control by ensuring that high standards of quality are consistently maintained throughout all the production process
• Analyses the areas of improving production & identifies cost effectiveness, proposes & evaluates on how to achieve production efficiencies and implements improvements in production process
• Monitor, Review and reduce the defects in job cards. Reduce NC and Rejections
• Drives TPM activities & Continuous improvement initiatives
• Conduct Root cause analysis, investigate corrective actions of Internally rejected rolls and modify the process if required by consulting with the Director
• Documentation as per ISO/TS 9001 2015 requirement.
• Report Generation of day-to-day shift information.
• Daily production meeting- Daily production reports.
• Operations monitoring and Report to the Director.
• Audit deployment of staff, workmen and resources.
• Audit and Review and improve unit performance measures.
• 1. Adherence to quality standards

Safety at workplace

• Ensures safety at work place is practiced and strictly followed and also meets all statutory needs
• Ensures a safe working environment through use of safety equipments, guarded moving of parts of machines, presence of adequate fire-fighting equipments in place, examination of pressure vessels, lifting ropes etc. from authorized agency
• 1. Zero reports on safety related issues

People Management

• Communicates daily, weekly schedules to the team and guides workmen to ensure that the deliverables are met.
• Conducts performance reviews, tracks key metrics and attendance of workers.
• Helps and guides the team to understand the process corrections which need to be brought in.
• Supervises & motivates the production team.
• Managing/ Instructing Shift Supervisors during shifts to meet production goals.
• Identifies the training needs whenever necessary and organizes for the same.
• Ensuring that policies and standard operating procedures are followed.
• Giving immediate feedback/ taking necessary action to ensure work output is met and discipline is maintained on the shop floor.
• 1. 100% availability of optimum workforce in the floor.
• 2. Achievement of team level targets.

Mechanical/Production Engineering

Mechanical/ Industrial Management - Diploma 15 years

• Knowledge of Machines like Lathes, Grinders, Mixing Mills, Calendars etc.
• P.P.C.., Handling workers,
• Production staff,
• Productivity improvement techniques are the essential skills for this job profile
• Analytical Skills Role & responsibilities