Head Manufacturing Operations

Head of Manufacturing Operations

Reports to	Managing Director
Direct reports	Plant leadership, production planning, stores and logistics, manufacturing quality, maintenance
Processes owned	Injection moulding; PCB assembly; wire harness and sub-assembly; final assembly; packaging and finished goods
Key interfaces	Purchase, Product Development, Sales and Dispatch, Finance
Location	Gujarat — on-site across both plants

Key responsibilities

Manufacturing execution

• Own daily output, quality, cost and safety across both plants.
• Establish structured daily management and performance review at line, plant and operations level.
• Build and hold a reliable production schedule, with clear escalation for exceptions.
• Ensure material readiness and line-side availability so production runs to plan.

Planning and systems

• Strengthen production planning and control, moving the business towards fully ERP-driven planning and execution.
• Improve data integrity across bills of material, item masters and inventory records.
• Build inventory accuracy through disciplined cycle counting and transaction hygiene.
• Improve visibility and planning of long-lead and minimum-order-quantity materials.

Improvement and capability

• Drive a continuous improvement programme covering changeover reduction, layout and flow, and preventive maintenance of critical assets.
• Build capability in supervisors and area owners through skill matrices, structured training and succession planning.
• Embed safety and 5S as everyday practice with measurable standards.
• Partner with Product Development to make new product introduction a controlled, well-gated ramp.
• Develop supplier performance management in partnership with Purchase.

What success looks like

Within the first year, we expect this role to deliver measurable improvement in:

• Schedule adherence and on-time-in-full delivery
• Inventory and master-data accuracy
• Manufacturing cost per unit
• Changeover and line efficiency
• Team stability, capability and safety performance

Specific baselines and targets will be agreed jointly in the first 90 days.

Who we are looking for

Essential

• 12–18 years in electronics or electro-mechanical manufacturing, including at least 4 years as Plant Head, Works Manager or Operations Head with full cost ownership.
• Experience across both PCB assembly and plastics or mechanical assembly operations.
• Demonstrated success in building planning discipline — MRP, kanban or pull-based execution — with results you can evidence.
• Hands-on lean and TPM practice: kaizen, changeover reduction, daily management systems.
• Strong ERP working knowledge, ideally SAP, in a production environment.
• Proven leadership of a large shop-floor workforce; fluency in Gujarati and Hindi in addition to English.
• Experience in high-mix, multi-variant manufacturing.

Preferred

• Experience improving ERP master data and BOM structures in a live manufacturing setting.
• Exposure to new product introduction and ramp management in a consumer-facing category.
• Comfort operating in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment where process is still being built.

What we offer

• End-to-end ownership of manufacturing for a growing, vertically integrated business.
• Direct reporting to and close working relationship with the Managing Director.
• Compensation commensurate with experience, with a performance-linked component and long-term incentive.
• The scope to build an operating system, a team and a culture — not simply to maintain one.