Production Manager Multan Plant

Overview
The purpose of this job is to ensure delivery of planned PC and NPC volume across all portfolio by ensuring Safety, Quality and Food Safety standards, maximizing productivity as well as minimizing operating cost. To improve business profitability and support market growth by development and implementation of strategies to maximize line throughput from available installed capacities. This role will be responsible for driving 80 % of the COGS which includes Potato basic/oil / corn / film /energy efficiency and manpower productivity. This role will be leading employee engagement portfolio for 416 associates along with driving OHS agenda. This role will be responsible for delivering in these domains while ensuring complete industrial peace in liaison with ER Manager as this is a very important part of this portfolio.

Responsibilities
Plant Production Operations

• Drive manufacturing culture and ensure employees' safety.
• Responsible for achieving and/or exceeding critical manufacturing operations metrics (e.g. PC Basic & Net Efficiency, Oil Efficiency, Seasoning Efficiency, Corn Efficiency, Film Efficiency) while ensuring inventory coverage and tactical execution of business objectives with cross-functional teams
• Manage plant operations including execution of build plans and maintaining adequate line capacity with ability to resolve and prevent diverse issues while meeting cost and quality targets
• Ensure compliance to all Quality & Food Safety System in place including PepsiCo, AIB, IPS, & FSSC 22000 standards requirements & all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Negotiate solutions with cross-functional groups (e.g., Quality, Sustainability, and Engineering) for continuous improvement
• Manage manufacturing project activities (e.g., initiatives and plant projects) with the accountability for successful completion of all deliverables to the business within established schedule, scope and quality objectives.
• Identify risk, develop mitigation strategies, alternative solutions, resolve issues, action item follow up, etc. in collaboration with cross functional groups

Core processes

• Ensure compliance to PepsiCo Control process of Inventory to cost.
• Lead & execute PepsiCo snacks IPS standard.

Recruitment & Induction:

• Identify the needs and develop a strategy in partnership with Plant HR team for competency-based recruitment and selection of right candidates.

Capability & Talent Development:

• Identification and collaboration with Sector & BU SC Capability team with the planning and execution of the department training strategy at all levels.
• Strengthen the bench quality and depth in the functions and prepare a strong talent feeder pipeline
• Robust People Planning at all levels
• Focus on the leadership development of Front-Line team within the department and prepare leaders for tomorrow through PepsiCo leadership growth model philosophy
• Leveraging SWAP to grow and other tools for continuous people development

Communication:

• Manage communication plan ensuring optimal engagement and two-way communication
• Ensuring effective change management down the line

Engagement:

• Custodian of the Production (Largest Population) Org health of Multan Plant.
• Develop and maintain positive employee relations and develop innovative solutions to create strong employee engagement.
• Acts as a credible advocate for PepsiCo values & new ways of working.

IR/ER:

• Responsible for implementing ER Strategy in close coordination with National ER/IR manager while maintaining sound Employee Relations across organization and especially Industrial peace at Plant.
• Work closely with the HR Operations team to monitor trends in employment practices, recommend ER interventions.

Other:

• SAFETY: Development of conducive environment to deliver safety agenda on production floor through proper trainings, stringent audits and field audits. Ensure compliance of safety procedure as per PepsiCo safety policy
• QUALITY: Ensure management of quality product through continual monitoring of all line operations.
• VOLUME DELIVERY: Production targets are met in order to meet service to sales objectives.
• PRODUCTIVITY: Deliver stringent productivity targets through different productivity initiatives on production floor
• SUSTAINABILITY: Support to deliver sustainability agenda by implementing global best practices on production floor
• CAPABILITY BUILDING: ensure 100% compliance on training and capability building of production team.
• COST OF PROD: Minimize coat of production by improving KPI's, minimizing operation losses, maximizing efficiencies
• TPP: Effective utilization of Labour hours to maximize product yields and minimize waste and breakage.
• AOP: Deliver AOP plans for Performance, productivity, Quality, Food Safety and Safety.
• MOH: Achieve plant Rupees/kg cost targets.
• Budgeting and budget control, i.e. either direct or indirect cost.
• Performance management in order to drive performance improvement.
• Gain acceptance for the organization's vision, values and objectives.

Qualifications
Bachelor of Engineering

Experience
Preferably 8-10 years in similar capacity/operating organization with ER/IR exposure.