Water Based Production Manager

Berger Paints; Hindupur; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Berger Paints in India is seeking a production planning and scheduling professional to manage day-to-day production activities, optimize processes, and lead a safety- and quality-focused team. The role involves coordinating with purchasing for raw materials, supervising staff, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of paint formulation, strong problem-solving abilities, and experience with dispersers, mills, and related equipment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of paint formulation and chemical processes involved in making paint.
• Hands-on familiarity with production machinery used in paint manufacturing such as high-speed dispersers, ball mills, and mills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to troubleshoot quality or machine issues.
• Rigorous safety awareness and adherence to hazardous materials handling norms.
• Proven leadership to supervise and train production staff.
• Ability to introduce kaizens and drive continuous improvement.
• Identify training needs and coordinate with HR for upskilling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute production schedules to meet customer demands, including batch sizes and color changes.
• Optimize processes in grinding, thinning, mixing, and dispersion to improve efficiency.
• Oversee quality control to ensure color matching, viscosity, gloss, and coverage meet specs.
• Coordinate with procurement to ensure timely raw material availability.
• Ensure preventive maintenance of plant machinery and compliance with safety regulations.
• Supervise and train production personnel to foster safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure EHS compliance, including waste disposal and emissions in paint production.
• Coordinate day-to-day production activities to maximize capacity utilization and resource deployment.
• Prepare MIS reports and implement action plans; support audits and corrective actions.
• Lead Six Sigma initiatives and drive improvement projects.

Skills

Paint formulation

Technical machinery

Problem solving

Safety awareness

Leadership

Kaizen

Training coordination

Tools

High-speed dispersers

TSD

Ball mills

IEC

Basket mills

Job description

ole & responsibilities

Production Planning & Scheduling: Develop and execute production schedules to meet customer demands, including managing batch sizes, color changes, and scheduling different paint types (e.g., water-based (mainly) and solvent-based).

Process Optimization & Technical Control:

Specialize in specialized paint manufacturing processes like grinding, thinning, mixing, and dispersion to improve efficiency.

Quality Control & Assurance:

Oversee quality control processes to ensure paint products meet specifications regarding colour matching, viscosity, gloss, and coverage.

Raw Material & Inventory Management

Collaborate with purchasing departments to ensure timely availability of raw materials (pigments, solvents, resins, and additives etc).

Equipment Maintenance & Safety

Ensure preventive maintenance of machinery like sand mills, dispersers, and reactors, and adhere to strict safety regulations for handling hazardous materials.

Staff Management & Training:

Supervise, train, and schedule production personnel to create a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Regulatory Compliance:

Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety (EHS) standards, particularly regarding hazardous waste disposal and emissions in paint production.

Other production, process, and related activities:

Coordinate and manage the production on a day-to-day basis. Ensuring the best utilization of production capacity, deployment of manpower, and other resources.

• Ensuring all safety protocols are followed.
• Ensuring proper maintenance of all the norms as per the departmental operating procedures and guidelines.
• Ensure that the discharge parameters of all the equipment in the plant are within the statutory limits and the health and hygiene of the plant personnel are well maintained.
• Adherence to PPE usage of the plant personnel and the work permit system is properly followed.
• Process development, closely coordinating with quality control
• Cost control in operations by controlling the use of utility items and implementation of the same in the cost sheet of products, ensuring better profitability.
• Control of the outflow of effluent from the process block.
• Preparation of MIS every month and preparing and executing an action plan as per the need.
• Facing audits & corrective actions
• Six Sigma approach & completion of improvement projects as per the target.

Preferred candidate profile

• Knowledge of Paint Formulation: Understanding of the ingredients and chemical processes involved in making paint.
• Technical Expertise: Familiarity with manufacturing machinery such as high-speed dispersers, TSD, ball mills, IEC, basket mills, and other mills.
• Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze production data and troubleshoot quality or machine issues.
• Safety Consciousness: In-depth knowledge of safety protocols, specifically for hazardous material handling. Review of the safety, health, and environment system of the plant concerning people and equipment.
• Leadership: Strong team management abilities to lead staff efficiently.
• Bring in new ideas in your work area and implement kaizens.
• Identify the training needs and co-ordinate with HR for training.