Talent Acquisition – Manufacturing & Operations
About the Job
Own the hiring engine that builds Biotastic's manufacturing and operations backbone — fast, right, every time.
Biotastic builds and sells premium wellness equipment — ice baths, cold plunges, saunas, red light therapy and HBOT — trusted by JW Marriott, Shangri-La, FC Goa and 200+ HNI homes. As we scale production, every open technician, assembly and backend manufacturing role needs a hiring partner who understands the shop floor, not just a job portal.
We're looking for someone who has actually hired for operations before — technicians, assembly-line staff, QC and production roles — and knows how to source, vet and close this kind of talent fast, while running the broader TA function end to end and handing hiring managers a ranked shortlist they can trust.
Why Biotastic over Daikin, Carrier or Voltas? Because here you won't be one recruiter among fifty — you'll own the TA function outright from day one, at a company early enough that every hire you make shapes how we build, in a category growing faster than legacy HVAC and appliances.
What You'll Own
- Own end-to-end hiring for Biotastic's manufacturing, assembly and technical operations roles — technicians, assembly staff, QC, production supervisors — alongside corporate roles across the company
- Build and continuously refill candidate pools for hard-to-fill operations and technical roles, using channels beyond LinkedIn/Naukri — ITIs, polytechnics, industrial job boards, shop-floor referrals and local hiring drives
- Design role scorecards and structured, weighted screening rubrics specific to technical and manufacturing competencies, not just soft-skill interviews
- Own the TA function's full rhythm — job ad drafting and posting, CV screening, ranked shortlist delivery, interview scheduling and pipeline hygiene — and set the SLAs the rest of the team works to
- Publish and own the weekly funnel report across all open roles — pool size, drop-off by stage, time-to-fill — and flag bottlenecks before being asked
- Build and lead a small team — direct, mentor and quality-check TA executives and HR interns, delegating sourcing and screening and ensuring their output meets your bar before it reaches a hiring manager
- Partner directly with plant and operations leadership to translate manufacturing and production needs into hiring plans and forecasts
You're a Fit If You Have
- 5-8 years in Talent Acquisition, with meaningful experience hiring for operations, manufacturing or technical roles — technicians, assembly/production staff, QC or similar backend manufacturing functions
- A track record of building hiring pipelines beyond the obvious channels — ITI/polytechnic tie-ups, industrial recruiters, referrals, local drives — not just LinkedIn and Naukri
- Comfort assessing technical and vocational skill sets, not just resumes — you know what a good technician or assembly hire looks like on paper and in person
- Strong written English and stakeholder communication — you can discuss hiring plans with plant leadership as easily as you can write a candidate message
- Experience managing or mentoring a small team — TA executives, recruiters or interns — and holding their output to a real bar
- High organization — you can run multiple hiring pipelines, corporate and shop-floor, at once without dropping a candidate
- Genuine fluency with AI tools to speed up sourcing, screening and drafting
Bonus
- Prior experience at an HVAC, cooling or consumer durables/appliance company — think Daikin, Carrier, Voltas, Blue Star, Hitachi, Eureka Forbes, Godrej Appliances, Whirlpool, Havells, Crompton or Bajaj Electricals — or a D2C hardware/industrial products company
- Hands-on with an ATS and structured interview scorecards
- Experience setting up or scaling a TA function from a small base
- LinkedIn Recruiter or Boolean search experience
- A background that blends HR with operations or manufacturing exposure
Fit Check
You'll thrive here if you know how to source and vet operations and technical talent as well as corporate hires, treat every requisition like it's urgent, and want to build and own a hiring function rather than just execute one.
You'll struggle here if you've only ever hired for desk roles, need heavy supervision, or think recruiting is just forwarding resumes.
Talent Acquisition, Senior TA, Recruitment Manager, Manufacturing hiring, Operations hiring, Plant hiring, Blue-collar recruitment, Technician recruitment, Service & Installation hiring, Cross-functional hiring, Niche/specialized hiring, Individual contributor to managerial hiring, Pan-India recruitment, Vendor/agency management, Manpower planning, Attrition management, Stakeholder management, ATS (Naukri/LinkedIn/Indeed), Offer negotiation, Onboarding, Workforce planning, Multi-location hiring.
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Chennai District): Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)
Application Question(s):
- Have you independently hired and staffed a complete assembly line (all roles, start to finish) in a manufacturing environment?
- Have you hired for Operations, Technician, and Service & Installation Executive roles on a pan-India basis?
Work Location: In person
