Plant Head – Manufacturing (m/w/d)

PLANT HEAD – MANUFACTURING
LOCATION: BOISAR, MAHARASHTRA
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Plant Head is responsible for end-to-end management of manufacturing operations at the specialty chemicals plant, ensuring safe, compliant, cost-effective, and high-quality production while driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and team development.

Essential Functions:
• Strong understanding of chemical processes and reaction chemistry
• Leadership and people management
• Process safety and risk management
• Cost control and operational excellence
• Regulatory and audit readiness
• Data-driven decision making

Operations &
Production:
• Lead and manage all plant operations including production, maintenance, utilities, and warehousing.
• Ensure achievement of production targets with optimal utilization of manpower, materials, and equipment.
• Implement batch process controls and optimize yields for specialty chemical products.
• Drive reduction in cycle time, losses, and reprocessing.
• Safety, Health &
Environment (SHE)
• Ensure strict adherence to EHS policies, statutory regulations, and best practices.
• Promote a strong safety culture; lead HAZOP, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
• Ensure compliance with local environmental norms, effluent treatment, waste handling, and audits.

Quality &
Compliance:
• Ensure compliance with ISO, GMP, Responsible Care, REACH, or customer-specific standards as applicable.
• Work closely with QA/QC to ensure right-first-time production and minimal deviations.
• Lead internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of observations.

Cost &
Productivity Management:
• Control manufacturing costs including RM consumption, utilities, maintenance, and manpower.
• Drive process optimization, debottlenecking, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Prepare and manage plant budgets and CAPEX/OPEX plans.

Maintenance &
Engineering:
• Ensure high equipment reliability and uptime through preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Lead CAPEX projects including new reactors, process scale-up, and plant expansions.
• Coordinate with engineering teams on technology transfer and scale-up from R&
D.

People Management:
• Lead, mentor, and develop production, maintenance, and EHS teams.
• Build a performance-driven culture with clear KPIs, training, and succession planning.
• Maintain healthy industrial relations and compliance with labor laws.
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Interface with R&
D, Supply Chain, QA, Regulatory, and Commercial teams.
• Support customer audits, technical discussions, and trial production when required.