Manager - Production

Execute daily production plans across sweet corn, pineapple, and mango processing lines, ensuring smooth production flow and achievement of output targets.

Translate production plans into line-wise and shift-wise schedules, ensuring effective deployment of manpower, machines, materials, and production time.

Supervise sweet corn receiving, preparation, processing, filling, sealing, sterilization, cooling, and canning activities according to approved process requirements.

Supervise pineapple and mango operations including receiving, washing, grading, cutting, preparation, drying where applicable, filling, sealing, retorting/sterilization, cooling, and canning.

Maintain export-grade product quality by ensuring strict adherence to approved SOPs, hygiene standards, process parameters, recipes, and safe canning practices.

Coordinate with QA/QC teams for in-process inspection, product safety, batch release, traceability, deviation handling, compliance documentation, and audit readiness.

Monitor yield, production loss, raw material consumption, rejection, rework, line efficiency, and cost-related production indicators; take corrective action where required.

Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance of processing and canning equipment to minimize breakdowns, downtime, and production interruption.

Coordinate with Engineering and Utility teams to ensure availability of steam, refrigeration, water treatment, compressed air, and other production utilities.

Coordinate with Store and Supply Chain to maintain required availability of cans, lids, packaging materials, ingredients, chemicals, additives, consumables, and production supplies.

Lead production supervisors, line leaders, machine operators, and workers; provide clear instructions and training on productivity, hygiene, equipment handling, quality, and safety.

Maintain a disciplined, safe, hygienic, and productivity-focused working environment across production areas and shifts.

Ensure production activities comply with applicable labor requirements, workplace policies, food safety requirements, safety procedures, and company rules.

Prepare and submit daily, weekly, and monthly production reports covering plan versus actual output, downtime, yield, wastage, rejection, manpower, overtime, and KPI performance.

Identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities, implement corrective actions, and report major production risks, deviations, and improvement recommendations to the Head of Plant.