Director, Manufacturing Operations

About the role

The role leads production, warehouse operations, maintenance and production planning as one integrated system, and builds an organization where decisions sit with the people closest to the work. The plant, systems and team are new. The incumbent will take operations from ramp-up to stable, benchmark performance, and will shape the standards, routines and culture the site runs on for years.

What you'll do

• Lead a safety culture where everyone stops unsafe work and owns their risk: LOTO, permit to work, pre-task risk assessment and behaviour-based safety as daily routine
• Ensure operational compliance with labour, factory safety, food safety, environmental and equipment regulations, with clear owners and evidence for every obligation
• Production delivery and ramp-up
• Deliver the ramp-up plan for each line and product family, including qualification and verification of new lines
• Drive OEE, right-first-time quality and conversion cost through structured loss analysis

What you need

• 10–12 yrs of experience
• Maintenance
• Production planning
• Warehouse operations
• SAP
• Food safety
• Demand planning
• MBA or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• SCADA
• Lean
• Instrumentation