Functional Head - Manufacturing

About the role

The role operates in a continuous, energy?intensive, and hazardous manufacturing environment , requiring high asset availability, strict statutory compliance, and operational resilience. The incumbent manages complex interfaces between production, maintenance, utilities, and power export while responding to volatile energy costs, changing customer requirements, and evolving regulatory expectations.

What you'll do

• Planning, Budgeting and Manufacturing Strategy: Develop three-year rolling operational and capex plans aligned to business strategy, review historical performance
• Manufacturing Cost and Energy Management: Monitor and control fixed and variable manufacturing costs within budgeted norms, drive energy efficiency across process
• Operational Excellence and Reliability: Deliver production volume, product mix and customer quality targets, drive down process variability
• Asset Reliability and Capital Project Governance: Approve and review preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance strategies
• Customer Satisfaction and Business Support: Ensure grade-wise product availability against market and dispatch plans

What you need

• Budgeting
• TPM
• SAP
• Kaizen
• Maintenance
• Statutory compliance
• B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• MIS reporting
• Variance analysis
• Complaint handling
• Internal controls
• SOP writing
• Instrumentation