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Job ID: 80023
Job Title – Production Head, PE
City, Country – Daman, India
At dsm-firmenich, being a force for good is not optional. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is a shared responsibility woven into our daily work to not only benefit our People, Customers & Communities but also drive business value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.
Your key responsibilities:
Leadership
- Lead and direct all plant operations including production, maintenance, quality, logistics, and safety.
- Lead, motivate and develop the plant team
- Identify, train and develop key talents
- Nurture division culture, foster necessary changes and act as role model
- Develops budgets and approves expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.
Strategic
- Participate to the definition of the site master plan to align site capabilities with strategic objectives.
- Identify all opportunities to improve manufacturing efficiency, increase automation rate and/or productivity.
- Participate to production transfers between sites in order to reduce overall manufacturing costs
- Liaise with peers from other sites and Global Manufacturing excellence head to ensure sharing of best practices
- Lead the Site Continuous Improvement projects across manufacturing facilities; identify improvement projects and lead the chartered multi-discipline teams.
🎖️Join Food Safety training programs: Internal auditor training [HACCP, FSMS (ISO 22000:2018), FSSC 22000v7]
Operational
- Develop and execute operational plans to meet production targets and delivery schedules.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement corrective actions when targets are not met.
- Work with Planning & Customer Support Team to produce Right product at Right time & with Right Quality.
- Always keep an eye to increase efficiency & effectiveness of plant processes and system.
- Prepares and maintains plant reports and personnel records
- Reviews processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints
- Hires, trains, evaluates, and discharges staff, and resolves personnel grievances
- Develops and implements production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems
- Reviews plans and work with Technical staff to develop new processes.
- Ensure effective implementation of global policies and processes affecting his department
We bring.
- Empowerment to make meaningful contributions while upholding ethical standards.
- Recognition and celebration of your efforts and accomplishments.
- Opportunities for growth and advancement for those who embrace innovation and take initiative.
- Opportunity to build a career making a significant impact on billions of lives, with the freedom to shape your own path.
- Responsibility and accountability in living company values and driving sustainable solutions.
- Supportive environment where individuals are empowered to progress and contribute to meaningful change.
🎖️Join Food Safety training programs: Internal auditor training [HACCP, FSMS (ISO 22000:2018), FSSC 22000v7]
You bring.
- 15 years of experience in similar industry.
- 5-8 years’ experience in similar position.
- Qualification of B.E. Chemical Engineering or equivallent
- Knowledge of SAP
- Knowledge of Food Safety, GMP,
- Lean/Six Sigma and continuous Improvement
Equal opportunities commitment
dsm-firmenich is fully dedicated to inclusion because when people feel engaged and empowered, their creativity and innovation drives unprecedented progress. We aim to build a workplace where opportunity really is equal, so everyone can thrive. We do not discriminate if there’s a place for everyone at dsm-firmenich.
As a committed equal opportunity employer, we ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and fair. We encourage the recruitment of a diverse workforce, representative of the communities in which we work, by using inclusive language, diverse interview panels, and diversified sourcing strategies. Selection is based on qualifications, competency, experience, performance history and fit with the team to advance fair and equitable opportunity.
Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant’s race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, backgrounds, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
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