Vacancies

Role and Responsibilities:

Management

• Prepare the annual budget for the plant operation.
• Maintaining the facilities in conformance to Food processing regulatory requirements & to keep them in validated state & in compliance with QESH (Quality Environment Health Safety).
• Issue resolution and communication at various levels of the organization
• To identify cost reduction, Quality enhancement projects across the unit
• Monitoring the entire production process to identify the negative variance and minimize the negative variance
• Provide leadership to the team and debate on present efficiencies and endeavour to increase efficiency

Production & Planning

• Coordinating, monitoring and controlling of production activities, Trouble shooting. Planning day-to-day production schedules, setting up the weekly & monthly production targets.
• Develop systems and standard protocols in production to improve the Overall Equipment Efficiency
• Prepare production budget, seek approval of the budget and monitor volumes of production, maintain all the utility norms i.e. steam, power and productivity norms i.e. yield and efficiency
• Executing cost saving techniques / measures to achieve substantial reduction in O&M expenditures and work within the budget.
• Collaborative planning with supplier to decrease  Inventory level  & improve productivity
• Closely monitoring Logistics planning for raw material & packing Materials.
• Manage the inventory turn ratio of materials as per budgeted levels.

Quality Management

• Implementation & documentation of quality systems like GMP, ISO as per the set standards.
• Making regular inspection of all production activities and regulating these activities so that all GMP and ISO procedures are followed
• Coordinating the TPM activities of the plant to improve machine management.
• Identifying assignable and chronic causes by the use of latest analysis techniques.
• Reviewing the operational practices, identifying the areas of obstruction/ quality failures and advising on system and process changes for qualitative improvement and energy conservation.
• Handling activities pertaining to change management to ensure seamless operations.
• Reporting, evaluation and investigation of critical deviations. 
• Evaluating proposed changes in product, process or equipment.

Maintenance Operations

• Planning and effecting preventive maintenance schedules to increase machine up time / equipment reliability; thereby accomplishing planned production targets within budget
• Tracking daily breakdowns, implementing preventive maintenance programmes to improve the efficiency of the system or the equipment undergoing maintenance.
• Directing & instructing maintenance team; monitoring expenses with optimum utilization of resources.
• Preparing costs reports on spare parts, inventory, labor and machines for resources planning, budgeting, scheduling and executing preventive/ predictive maintenance activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master in Engineering, oversea educated is a plus
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in manufacturing environment from various functions such as Production, Quality Assurance, R&D etc.
• At least 8 years’ experience in Plant Manager role
• Experience from Food Manufacturing is highly desirable
• Strong commercial sense
• Experience in establishing a new plant will definitely be an advantage
• Good leadership skills
• Fluent English