Plant Manager - Changodar(Ahmedabad)

Key Responsibilities Plant operations & production

• Own daily and monthly production plans for raised access floor panels, understructure, and associated sheet-metal components; meet volume, mix, and delivery commitments.
• Run the factory as a single integrated unit — cutting, forming, welding/assembly, finishing and packing — with clear shift targets and bottleneck control.
• Ensure drawing-to-shop-floor accuracy: interpret production drawings, control revisions, and prevent fabrication errors.
• Drive productivity, yield, scrap reduction and on-time dispatch without compromising quality or safety. Sheet metal fabrication & tooling
• Hands-on understanding of sheet-metal processes: shearing/laser/punch, bending/press- brake, forming, welding/spot welding, and assembly of floor panels and pedestals/stringers.
• Oversee major drawing tools and dies used in raised-floor and sheet-metal production; plan tool life, maintenance, changeovers and new-tool introduction.
• Coordinate with Product Development on new profiles, panel types, understructure variants and process capability. Powder coating plant
• Manage the powder coating line including pre-treatment, booth/oven parameters, film thickness, colour control, adhesion and finish quality.
• Ensure coating plant uptime, consumable planning, environmental compliance and operator competence. Maintenance
• Own preventive and breakdown maintenance of fabrication machines, drawing/press tools and the powder coating plant.
• Reduce unplanned downtime; maintain critical-spares discipline and machine history. Quality, product development & compliance
• Work with the Quality Head on in-process checks, incoming material control, finished-goods standards for raised flooring (dimensional, load, finish) and customer complaints.
• Support Product Development on proto-to-production handoff, first-article approval and process standardisation.
• Ensure statutory compliance: factory licence, labour, safety, pollution control for coating/pretreatment effluent, and good housekeeping. People & HR
• Lead and review heads of Production, Quality, Product Development and HR; set KPIs and hold weekly operations reviews.
• Oversee manpower planning, shift rostering, training, industrial relations, discipline and a safe work culture.
• Partner with HR on recruitment of shop-floor and supervisory staff, performance issues and statutory HR compliance. Systems & engineering exposure
• Use AutoCAD and SolidWorks outputs for production planning, fixture/tool discussion and drawing control (working knowledge required; expert designer not mandatory).
• Maintain production records, MIS for the MD, and cost awareness on material, labour and Technical skills
• Strong shop-floor command of sheet-metal processes and finishing (powder coating).
• Working exposure to AutoCAD and SolidWorks (read, review and discuss drawings with Product Development and vendors).
• Comfortable with production planning, maintenance systems and basic industrial engineering (cycle time, layout, line balancing). Leadership & personal attributes
• Able to deal simultaneously with Production, Maintenance and HR — firm, fair and present on the shop floor.
• Hands-on, structured communicator who can report cleanly to the MD and cascade decisions to department heads.
• Safety-first mindset; comfortable in a Gujarat industrial estate environment (Changodar).
• Gujarati and/or Hindi shop-floor communication; working English for reports and drawings.