Head – Human Resources & Administration

About the Company

Zunax Energy Products LLP, part of the Massimo Batteries group, is a leading manufacturer of lead-acid batteries with over 15 years of operational excellence and 46+ years of industry expertise.

With three advanced manufacturing facilities in Hyderabad and a strong focus on innovation, we specialize in energy storage solutions including tubular, solar, and 2-wheeler batteries. We are also expanding into lithium-ion technology to meet growing market demands.

Position Summary

We are looking for a dynamic, street-smart, and hands-on HR & Administration leader to take complete ownership of HR and Administration across the organisation. This is not a conventional HR operations role focused only on recruitment, onboarding, payroll and exits. The person must build practical systems that improve manpower availability, reduce attrition, create a fair promotion and increment process, and improve employee happiness and engagement.

Key Responsibilities

HR Strategy & Organisation Development

• Develop and implement an HR strategy aligned with business growth.
• Build scalable HR systems, processes, organisation structures and HR dashboards.
• Act as a strategic HR partner to the MD and business leadership.

Manpower Planning & Availability

• Own manpower availability across plants, Head Office and field teams.
• Create daily/weekly manpower availability and shortage tracking.
• Build recruitment pipelines, local hiring networks, employee referral programmes and backup manpower pools.
• Identify root causes of manpower shortages and implement practical corrective actions.

Attrition & Retention

• Monitor attrition by location, department, manager, tenure and employee category.
• Conduct structured exit and stay interviews and identify root causes.
• Design and implement retention initiatives, especially for critical roles and high-attrition functions.
• Track new-joiner attrition separately and drive corrective action.

Performance, Promotion & Increment System

• Create transparent, merit-based appraisal, increment and promotion systems.
• Define career progression and skill-based growth paths for employees
• Use performance, skills, attendance, experience, role criticality and market benchmarks in decision-making.

Employee Happiness & Engagement

• Introduce an Employee Happiness / Engagement Index.
• Conduct periodic employee surveys and identify location/department-wise concerns.
• Build recognition, reward, communication and grievance-resolution mechanisms.
• Improve employee facilities and overall workplace experience.

Factory HR & Industrial Relations

• Maintain strong HR presence at the shop floor through regular plant visits.
• Work closely with Plant Heads, Production and supervisors.
• Handle worker relations, contract labour, grievances and disciplinary matters proactively.
• Ensure healthy employee-management relations and statutory labour compliance.

Recruitment & Talent Acquisition

• Improve quality and speed of hiring across functions.
• Build talent pipelines for critical positions.
• Develop relationships with consultants, institutes, technical colleges and local recruitment networks.
• Develop succession plans for critical positions.

HR Systems & Digitalisation

• Lead implementation/improvement of HRMS, attendance, payroll, recruitment tracking, performance management and employee self-service systems.
• Create reliable HR MIS and management dashboards.
• Ensure systems are adopted and actually used by managers and employees.

Administration

• Overall responsibility for hostel, security, housekeeping, visitor management, office/plant administration, employee facilities and related vendors.
• Drive administrative efficiency, service quality and cost control.

HR Team Leadership

• Lead and develop the distributed HR & Admin team.
• Delegate effectively, set measurable goals and create accountability.
• Build a strong HR team capable of handling routine operations while the HR Head focuses on systems and improvement

Experience & Background

• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, preferably in a manufacturing/industrial environment.
• Experience handling large blue-collar and white-collar workforces and multiple locations.
• Strong exposure to Industrial Relations, manpower planning, recruitment, retention and performance management.
• Proven ability to implement HR systems/processes and deliver measurable improvements.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and people-management skills.
• Street-smart, practical, decisive and comfortable interacting directly with workers, supervisors, managers and senior leadership.
• Should be willing to travel regularly to manufacturing plants.

Key Success Metrics

• Manpower availability and reduction in critical manpower shortages.
• Reduction in employee attrition and new-joiner attrition.
• Recruitment turnaround time and quality of hiring.
• Implementation of transparent appraisal, promotion and increment systems.
• Employee Happiness / Engagement Index improvement.
• HRMS and HR process implementation/adoption.
• Manpower productivity and optimization.
• Employee grievance resolution and Industrial Relations.
• Development and effectiveness of the HR & Admin team.
• Administrative efficiency and cost control.

Language Requirements

• Fluent English (mandatory)
• Hindi/ Telugu (preferred/ strong advantage)

Pay: From ₹130,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person