Company: Protein Pantry
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Industry: Food / Nutrition / Consumer Products
Position: Plant Head
Reporting To: Founder / CEO
Key Responsibilities
- Plant Operations: Own end-to-end production, processing, packing, utilities, maintenance, and daily plant operations.
- Production Planning: Develop production plans aligned with demand, inventory, and dispatch requirements while ensuring timely order fulfilment.
- Quality & Food Safety: Ensure compliance with FSSAI, GMP, HACCP, hygiene, food-safety, and internal quality standards.
- Cost & Productivity: Drive productivity, yield improvement, waste reduction, OEE improvement, and manufacturing cost optimisation.
- People Management: Build, lead, and develop production, quality, maintenance, warehouse, and plant-support teams.
- Maintenance & Reliability: Ensure preventive maintenance, equipment reliability, minimum downtime, and effective breakdown management.
- Supply Chain Coordination: Coordinate closely with procurement, warehouse, quality, sales, and logistics teams to maintain smooth material flow.
- Inventory & Materials: Ensure appropriate control of raw materials, packaging materials, finished goods, and production losses.
- Process Improvement: Establish SOPs, systems, KPIs, and continuous-improvement initiatives to create scalable manufacturing processes.
- Compliance & Safety: Maintain statutory compliance, occupational safety, fire safety, environmental standards, and plant documentation.
- New Product / Scale-up: Support product trials, process validation, capacity expansion, and commercialisation of new products.
- Startup Ownership: Work closely with the founders and take hands-on ownership of solving operational, quality, people, and capacity challenges.
Ideal Candidate
- 8–15 years of experience in food, FMCG, nutrition, dairy, nutraceutical, or related manufacturing.
- Experience managing a complete manufacturing plant, preferably in a high-growth or startup environment.
- Strong understanding of food manufacturing, quality systems, production planning, and plant KPIs.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, analytical, and execution skills.
- Experience in setting up or scaling manufacturing operations would be an advantage.
Key Success Measures
Production efficiency | Quality & food safety | OEE | Yield & wastage | Manufacturing cost | On-time production | Plant safety | Team productivity | Compliance | Capacity utilisation
Pay: ₹80,000.00 - ₹125,000.00 per month
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh (Noida): Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- Do you have experience in compliance with FSSAI, GMP, HACCP, hygiene, food-safety, and internal quality standards?
Education:
Experience:
- Food processing plant: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
