Plant Head (PSS08141)

About the Company

An established manufacturer specializing in electrical contact materials and finished electrical contacts for a diverse range of industries. The company operates at scale with a focus on quality and technical precision in manufacturing.

Position Overview

The Plant Head role provides overall leadership for a manufacturing plant, owning production, quality, maintenance, materials, safety, people, and cost performance. This position ensures the plant meets production volumes, quality standards, and delivery timelines aligned with sales demand and capacity, reporting directly to senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day plant operations to achieve production plans, capacity utilisation, productivity, output, and on-time dispatch targets.
• Increase production in line with sales demand and plant capacity by identifying and resolving bottlenecks across processes, manpower, machines, and materials.
• Prepare and monitor production schedules in coordination with sales, planning, procurement, quality, and dispatch teams.
• Drive overall equipment effectiveness, machine utilisation, cycle-time reduction, yield improvement, and reduction in rework and rejection.
• Ensure timely completion of maintenance plans, breakdown prevention, spare-parts availability, and continuous machine reliability.
• Ensure products meet customer specifications, quality standards, and regulatory requirements through robust quality systems and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure on-time-in-full dispatch performance and timely resolution of customer quality or delivery escalations.
• Coordinate materials and supply chain activities to ensure timely availability of raw materials, consumables, packaging, and spares, avoiding production delays.
• Own plant budgets, manufacturing costs, conversion costs, yield, scrap, energy consumption, and implement cost-control initiatives.
• Drive lean manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, TPM, waste reduction, and structured problem-solving across the plant.
• Establish and review operational KPIs, conduct daily production reviews, monthly performance reviews, and implement improvement action plans.
• Ensure a strong safety culture with compliance to factory, environmental, fire, and statutory requirements, aiming for zero-harm performance.
• Lead, coach, and develop multi-functional plant teams, managing manpower planning, training, performance reviews, and grievance resolution.
• Partner with HR on recruitment, retention, employee engagement, and capability development at the plant.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Education: Engineering degree in Mechanical, Production, Electrical, Metallurgy, or related discipline; postgraduate qualification in operations or management is advantageous.
• Experience: Typically 15+ years in manufacturing operations with at least 5–8 years in senior plant leadership managing production, quality, maintenance, materials, safety, and people.
• Leadership: Proven experience leading large multi-functional plant teams, driving performance culture, discipline, training, and employee engagement; reporting to senior executives.
• Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, quality systems, maintenance, plant utilities, inventory management, cost control, lean manufacturing, TPM, and quality certifications.
• Soft Skills: Operational excellence, safety and compliance focus, quality orientation, cost and productivity mindset, problem-solving and root-cause analysis, cross-functional coordination, team leadership, change management, and data-driven decision-making.

Why Consider this Opportunity?

• Lead a critical manufacturing plant with full ownership of production, quality, safety, and cost performance.
• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement in a technically sophisticated industrial environment.
• Influence cross-functional teams and collaborate closely with sales, procurement, quality, and HR to deliver business growth.
• Shape a strong safety culture and build a disciplined, engaged workforce.
• Opportunity to apply lean manufacturing and advanced operational practices in a precision manufacturing setting.
• Work in a leadership role with significant visibility and impact within the manufacturing sector.

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