Plant Head (200K) Rayong
Job Objective
- To be accountable for delivering on plan for production, assets capacity, manufacturing costs while maintaining quality standards
- To be responsible for adherence on the production plan, production output, product quality, and on-time delivery
Primary responsibilities/Strategic and planning
- Deliver on plan for production, assets capacity, manufacturing costs while maintaining quality standards
- Monitor operations as per production plan and trigger corrective actions
Functional/Operations Management
- Oversee all systems and processes around capsule manufacturing, packing and printing
- Track and optimize productivity of the plant. Support the Operations Head and CI&TT head in implementing improvements
- Ensure adherence to standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
- Ensure cost optimizations to the extent possible (gelatin wastage, power, water, and manpower) in operations
- Ensure adherence to quality standards for all products and processes
- Maintain budget volume of products as per plan and quality norms
- Propose opportunities for increase in productivity in machines
- Oversee inventory control of raw materials and finished good products
Resource Management
- Oversee the resource allocation at the plant for optimum day-to-day operations
- Ensure adherence to delivery on production plan, production output, product quality, and on-time delivery
- Fully utilize assets to produce optimal results
- Monitor machine running costs in the plant and ensure budgets are adhered to
Supply Chain Management
- Ensure adherence of quality standards of key processes of purchase, logistics, planning and stores
- Review and approve negotiated prices and terms with suppliers, vendors, or freight forwarders
- Ensure timely dispatch as per sales order
- Ensure appropriate follow up and escalation in case of delays in material delivery or in dispatch
EHS, Continuous Improvement, Maintenance and Engineering Services
- Ensure continued compliance with environmental and safety laws and regulations
- Review safety initiatives to promote and enhance safe workplace and the well-being of employees
- Identify needs relating to improvements in safety/ergonomics and developing and implementing solutions to these issues
- Review data and analyze the same to identify improvement opportunities
- Ensure routine calibration and maintenance requirements machines and systems are undertaken
- Ensure that plant and facilities are fit for purpose and to provide proactive support/solutions when required
Internal Processes
- Collect and analyze data to find cost saving opportunities
- Sign off on plant planning of resources and machines as required
- Liaison with EHS head to ensure adherence to plant safety procedures
- Liaison with Central SCM to understand the production requirements
- Ensure correct plant resource allocation
People development
- Take overall responsibility for people development initiatives and building up in-house capabilities for the employees in the department
- Drive a performance driven culture in the team by timely monitoring, review of performance parameters and feedback to the team members
- Contribute towards development of talent for the department by providing subordinates with adequate exposure and growth opportunities to enable readiness for higher roles
- Actively participate in HR initiatives to drive overall employee engagement and motivation
- Support capability development programs of ACPL and by identifying and recommending the training areas
Key Result Areas
- Production Plan vs actual
- Capacity utilization
- On-time delivery
- Costs (actual vs budget) reduction
- Number of quality issues
- Completion rate of continuous improvement initiatives
- On-time and on-plan operationalization of new products
- Compliance of environmental, health and safety laws and standards
Adherence to maintenance standard procedures
Key Interfaces/Internal Interfaces
- TT Team (Product operationalization requirements, product Manuals)
- Global Plant QAQC Head (Quality checks, validation, documentation support)
- EHS (Compliance adherence)
- Supply Chain (Raw material and order status adherence)
- Quality & Regulatory Affairs (Quality checks, validation, documentation support)
- HR (Trainings, capability development)
