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- Location:Sinnar, Maharashtra
- Date posted: 07/13/2025
Job Description:
- Job Title: Manufacturing Executive
- Work Level: 1B
- Work Location: Nashik Factory
Roles and responsibilities:
Production Management and Supervision
- Oversee daily production activities to ensure targets are met, monitoring machine operations and plant performance.
- Supervise shop-floor employees, union, and operators, coordinating with shift officers for smooth operations and addressing employee concerns.
- Ensure optimum utilization of resources and manpower.
- Maintain shift-wise reports on production, quality, and downtime, and review logs for machinery, maintenance, and RM, PM usage (tech-eff).
Process Improvement and Efficiency
- Identify and implement process improvements and efficiency opportunities under UMS pillars
- Evaluate productivity, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), OPE, tech-eff to identify gaps and initiate improvement projects or kaizens.
- Review shop floor production wastage (RM, PM, SFG) and rework inventory to enhance material handling and technical efficiency.
Quality
- Ensure adherence to quality standards (like GMP, HACCP, FSSAI, etc.).
- Coordinate with the Quality team to resolve issues quickly and conduct in-process checks and inspections.
- Implement Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) at the site along with the quality executive.
Stakeholder management-Projects & Supply Chain and Efficiency
- Coordinate with stakeholders such as R&D, CQA, SUIT & Planning, Engineering teams, FSSAI and suppliers to effectively manage and achieve overall business KPIs and comply to statutory requirements
- Execute the material savings initiatives & projects along with stakeholders.
- Execute short-term and long-term capacity projects at the site with stakeholders to meet volume commitments.
- Coordinate with the Engineering team to deliver plant reliability and capacity enhancement projects.
- Support the implementation of innovation and new product launches within the factory in collaboration with SUIT and R&D teams.
- Assist the Supply Chain team in resolving RM and PM supply issues by initiating strategic actions such as new vendor development and reviewing vendor performance.
- Identify opportunities for savings in production setup by improving efficiencies and securing finance team approvals for these projects.
Digital Initiatives
- Engage in the deployment of the digital agenda for production setup by working on initiatives such as DFOS, Build app, and Auto-manning.
Safety and Environmental Programs
- Collaborate with the SHE team in planning and implementing safety and environmental programs and ensure nil incidents on shopfloor.
Employee Engagement and Development
- Connect with blue-collar workers to address their wellbeing, enhance productivity, and facilitate upskilling opportunities.
- Optimize manpower and handle union-related matters effectively.
- Lead Kaizen and continuous improvement initiatives through employee engagement and encourage autonomous maintenance practices.
- Serve as a core team member in LTS discussions, leading initiatives alongside HR and Manufacturing Manager.
Qualification: Instrumentation/Mechanical Engineer/Food Technology (Ice Cream) with a prior experience of working in a process plant or a food/Ice cream plant
Experience:Minimum of 5 years
Skills Required: MS Office-Excel, PPT (Must have), Power BI (Good to have)
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