Production Manager - India

Sola Wood Flowers; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sola Wood Flowers is hiring a Production Manager to lead daily production at our Kolkata facility. You will be on the floor with your team, ensuring outputs, quality, staffing, and process improvements align with wedding timelines.

This hands-on leadership role requires experience in production operations, the ability to manage large hourly teams, and fluency in English. On-site daily in Kolkata and a focus on lean, Kaizen-driven throughput will define success.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing production or manufacturing operations.
• Experience leading large hourly teams.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily production across the Kolkata facility focusing on output and quality.
• Meet volume and lead-time targets to ensure on-time wedding orders.
• Build and develop floor team leads to ensure smooth operations in your absence.
• Identify constraints early to prevent shipping delays; drive kaizen and waste reduction.

Skills

Hands-on production management

Leading hourly teams

Excel/Sheets fluency

Fluent English

Tools

Excel

Job description

Sola Wood Flowers is hiring a Production Manager to lead daily production at our Kolkata facility.

Every order on our floor is a countdown to someone's wedding day. The date does not move. There is no second shipment. Our Production Manager is the person who makes sure the floor delivers, every single day.

About us

Sola Wood Flowers makes affordable, eco-friendly wooden flowers, all handcrafted. Our flowers now appear in more than 6% of American weddings each year, and we are building a modernized, vertically integrated platform north of $100M across DTC, owned retail, and wholesale. India is a growing part of how we make it.

The reality of the role

This is a hands-on production leadership job. You are on the floor, not behind a desk. You work beside your team leads while problems are happening, not after the weekly report lands. If you want a quiet 9-to-5, this is the wrong job.

What you will own

• Daily production across the Kolkata facility: output, quality, staffing, and process improvement.
• Volume and lead-time targets. On-time delivery on every wedding order, because a wedding date never moves.
• Building your team leads. Success is a floor that runs well when you are not there.
• Finding the constraint before it costs us a shipping day.
• Lean and kaizen discipline. Less waste, better throughput, better unit economics as we scale.

What we are looking for

• Hands-on experience managing production or manufacturing operations, ideally in handcrafted, labor-intensive environments.
• Experience leading large hourly teams.
• Comfort running the floor by the numbers. Excel/Sheets fluency will come up in the interview.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• On-site daily in Kolkata.
• Able to provide references.

Why this role is worth it

You are not a caretaker here. You build the operation. Smart people, low drama, real ownership. You win when we win, and we back that with a clearly defined compensation philosophy, not a title.

How we hire

A short intro conversation, then a longer technical interview focused on production operations. We will not waste your time or ours on a mishire. We agree your KPIs and targets together up front, so you always know where you stand. We run on EOS/Traction (Scaling Up and OKRs adjacent). Average time from first interview to decision: about 8 to 10 days.