Production Manager

Key Responsibilities:

1. Production Planning & Management

• Lead and manage overall injection moulding production operations to achieve production, quality, and delivery targets.
• Plan daily and monthly production based on customer requirements and business priorities.
• Ensure optimum utilization of machines, manpower, moulds, materials, and other resources.
• Monitor production output, cycle time, machine utilization, rejection, scrap, and OEE.
• Review production performance and take corrective actions to achieve targets.
• Ensure effective machine changeover, mould change, setup, start-up, and shutdown activities.

2. Team Leadership & Manpower Management

• Lead and supervise Production Supervisors, Engineers, Operators, and Technicians.
• Plan manpower deployment across shifts and ensure optimum workforce utilization.
• Set performance expectations, monitor team performance, and develop team capabilities.
• Conduct regular production reviews and ensure effective communication across shifts.
• Build a culture of accountability, discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

3. Quality Management

• Ensure production processes consistently meet quality standards and customer specifications.
• Work closely with Quality, Process Engineering, and Tool Room teams to identify and eliminate recurring defects.
• Monitor rejection, rework, customer complaints, and process deviations.
• Ensure effective implementation of process controls, SOPs, and quality standards.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions for quality issues.

4. Machine, Mould & Maintenance Coordination

• Coordinate with Maintenance and Tool Room teams to ensure maximum machine and mould availability.
• Monitor machine breakdowns, downtime, preventive maintenance, and equipment performance.
• Ensure proper condition and availability of moulds, auxiliary equipment, and production tools.
• Support troubleshooting of injection moulding machines and process-related issues.
• Drive actions to reduce breakdowns and improve machine uptime.

5. Productivity & Cost Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, reduce rejection, scrap, material consumption, and production losses.
• Monitor manufacturing costs and implement measures to improve cost efficiency.
• Drive improvement in OEE, cycle time, machine utilization, and overall production efficiency.
• Implement Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, and other continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead projects to improve process capability and reduce operational losses.

6. Safety & Compliance

• Ensure strict adherence to company safety policies and statutory requirements.
• Ensure safe operation of injection moulding machines, moulds, material handling systems, and auxiliary equipment.
• Review safety incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions and ensure corrective actions.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping and workplace discipline.

7. Cross-Functional Coordination & Reporting

• Coordinate with Planning, Quality, Maintenance, Stores, Tool Room, Engineering, and HR teams for smooth production operations.
• Review daily, weekly, and monthly production performance against targets.
• Prepare and present production MIS, OEE, downtime, rejection, productivity, and other performance reports to management.
• Escalate critical production, manpower, quality, or maintenance issues with suitable action plans.
• Support new product development, process trials, machine installation, and production scale-up activities.