Mfg Process Ops Leader

Manufacturing Manager

To ensure that all processes related to manufacturing are carried out smoothly at the plant to consistently provide finished product that meets the business need (product availability, cost & quality) with applicable statutory requirements.

To drive operational excellence processes in manufacturing (M&W/TPM/QMS/EMS) for continual improvement to move operations standards towards world class performance.

Assisting HOD manufacturing in delivering productivity & driving a high-performance culture at shop floor.

Driving operatives' engagement on the shop floor including performance benchmark and appraisals.

Managing large team of 350 workmen including daily contractual pool of 800 nos.

Large span for managing RM PM inventory and warehouse operation.

Driving people engagement & performance driven culture for making this plant one of the best-in-class plants in the PepsiCo global.

Responsibilities

Assisting HOD Manufacturing in:

• People Management: Preparing multiskilling & detailed deployment plan of operatives through shift scheduling to drive operational discipline, cost & people capability. Driving the targets of Direct Labour cost & TPP, developing backups on redeployment matrix to impact on manpower productivity. Regular coordination with HR team on tracking unauthorized absenteeism and OT trend and ensuring effective communication to sustain good discipline.
• Production Deliverables: Ensuring compliance to weekly/ monthly production targets as per PepsiCo quality and hygiene standards, delivering SA over & above plan. Maximising TE/ NE, ensuring conversion efficiencies better than AOP and executing ideas on productivity – sharing views with sector SMEs for troubleshooting and capturing better productivity ideas implemented across other plants as a part of continuous improvement. Coordinating & planning with cross functional team members to ensure seamless production.
• Capacity Utilization: Maximizing NE/TE by effectively scheduling production with LD & T Manager to optimize change over, monitoring & reducing NE TE losses & utilizing manpower planning in line with actual plan a capacity.
• Waste Management: Ensuring minimal wastage, optimum manpower utilization and operating at maximum efficiencies. Driving for "ZERO Loss" mantra for the lines with the help of sector team and by utilizing TPM tools & ensuring cross functional involvement (focusing on JH culture on shop floor).
• Planning and Reporting: Ensuring integrity of data entry across lines, monitoring the data on shift-to-shift basis and reporting of the all the numbers on daily basis in DW as per MNW guidance.
• IR management: Ensuring line discipline during production – OT, Absenteeism control, motivating the teams for the positive environment at the shop floor. Conducting 1-1 with the operatives, implementation of "Each one teach one" etc on the shop floor for the better engagement and building inclusive culture & keeping the operation disruption free.
• Key Control: Ensuring KCs of manufacturing are maintained in letter & spirit.
• AIB: Ensuring compliance to food safety as per AIB guidance.
• Support to Cross function: Enabling effective coordination with support functions & implementation of a quality, hygiene, safety & TPM culture that promotes company growth.
• Cross functional coordination with Agro, LD & T, quality, Engineering, HR & Finance to smoothly run day to day production.
• Ensuring the "Why-Why Analysis" of b/d on timely manner & implement actions; practice JH to reduce breakdown. Ensure control on consumable cost.
• SAP management: Batch closing and stock verification in Day store, taking care of GCS, Corporate audit and KC compliances. Ensuring inventory management by proper transferring of FG and taking RM by proper hand shaking between the cross functional departments.
• NPD handling: Ensuring compliance to all NPD production, reference and Gold sample production on timely manner with AOP efficiency numbers. Ensuring proper feedback to R&D to build upon the current standards.
• Cost Management: controlling the consumables, parts change management and developing new vendors for the reduction in consumables, better quality of parts at the engineering stores with close coordination with engineering team and engineering store person and also sensitizing the shop floor team.
• Working in shift: Relieving Shift In-charges in regular shift as per shift schedule.
• M&W & Other audit: Acting as a manufacturing control owner/ representative of MNW data; quality & safety audit.
• New projects: Acting as manufacturing representative for upcoming new projects.

Qualifications

• BE / B Tech / Food/ Dairy Technologist with 8-10 years of experience in large scale operation FMCG
• Team player & ability to handle large pool of workmen
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal
• Negotiation skills & influencing ability
• Interpersonal & coordination skill
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong focus on delivery and results with high drive and energy level