Head of Manufacturing

Workplace Type

Full-time

Job ID: IJOB202662295

• Drive manufacturing excellence across all seven woven factories by developing, embedding, and continuously improving production floor processes, lean practices, and best-practice frameworks to ensure consistent efficiency, quality, and cost performance across the division.
• Provide functional direction and technical leadership to Heads of Production through the dotted-line relationship to set clear manufacturing standards, align practices across all sites, and support issue resolution, ensuring all factories operate to agreed divisional benchmarks.
• Identify and lead cross-factory efficiency improvement initiatives by analyzing production data, benchmarking SMV accuracy and takt time adherence, and implementing targeted interventions that reduce waste, improve line efficiency, and lower cost per minute (CPM) across the factory network.
• Build the manufacturing capability of Heads of Production and their production teams through structured on-floor coaching, skills-transfer programs, and operator skill development initiatives, embedding a culture of continuous improvement and operational accountability at every level of the production floor.
• Drive systematic operator skills improvement across all factories by assessing current skill levels, designing structured multi-skilling and up-skilling programs, and monitoring skill matrix progression to improve operator efficiency, flexibility, and quality output.
• Establish and maintain a robust manufacturing performance management framework by defining KPIs, including factory efficiency, SMV achievement, takt time adherence, and operator skill indices, monitoring factory-level results, and reporting performance to the CEO-SBU to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Standardize production floor processes, work methods, and operating procedures across all seven factories by designing and implementing consistent SOPs, ensuring adherence through regular audits and structured floor-level visits.
• Collaborate with Plant Heads, IE, Planning, and Quality teams to align manufacturing capacity, SMV standards, takt time targets, and process standards with production schedules, customer requirements, and business objectives to support on-time delivery.