Rama Phosphates Limited
Website:
ramaphosphates.com
Job details:
General Job Information
Job title : Plant Head
Company / Unit : Rama Phosphates Limited
Department : Operations
Location : Udaipur
Objective Of Job
- The Plant Head will be responsible for the overall leadership, management, and operational performance of the Single Super Phosphate (SSP) Fertilizer Plant.
- The role ensures safe, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective production while meeting quality standards, statutory requirements, and organizational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Production & Operations Management:
- Plan, direct, and control day-to-day operations of the SSP fertilizer plant.
- Ensure uninterrupted production as per approved capacity, production plans, and schedules.
- Monitor plant parameters to ensure stable, safe, and efficient operations.
- Optimize plant performance, raw material utilization, and energy consumption.
- Review production data, analyse deviations, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Coordinate with technical teams for process optimization and debottlenecking.
- Process Improvement & Efficiency:
- Implement process improvements to enhance productivity, yield, and cost efficiency.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to productivity and sustainability.
- Implement best practices, new technologies, and updated SOPs.
- Support modernization, expansion, and capacity enhancement projects.
- Quality Management:
- Ensure production of SSP as per internal quality specifications and regulatory norms.
- Coordinate with quality control teams for testing, inspections, and documentation.
- Address customer complaints and quality deviations through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Ensure strict adherence to product quality standards.
- Safety, Health & Environment (SHE):
- Ensure strict compliance with safety standards, SOPs, and statutory regulations.
- Promote a strong safety culture and conduct regular safety audits and reviews.
- Ensure compliance with environmental norms (emissions, effluents, waste disposal, and hazardous chemicals).
- Lead emergency preparedness, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
- Maintenance & Asset Management
- Oversee preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance of plant equipment and utilities.
- Ensure high plant availability and reliability through effective maintenance planning.
- Approve maintenance schedules, shutdown plans, and major repair activities.
- Ensure proper upkeep of plant assets, utilities, and infrastructure.
- Regulatory & Statutory Compliance:
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws related to fertilizers, chemicals, factories, environment, and safety.
- Liaise with government authorities, inspectors, and regulatory bodies.
- Ensure timely submission of statutory reports, returns, and documentation.
- Support audits, inspections, and management reviews.
- Financial & Cost Control:
- Prepare and manage annual operating budgets for the unit.
- Monitor operating costs and implement cost-reduction initiatives without compromising safety or quality.
- Control consumption of raw materials, utilities, spares, and consumables.
- Recommend capital expenditure and process improvements to management.
- People Management & Leadership:
- Lead, motivate, and develop plant personnel across production, maintenance, safety, and support functions.
- Ensure manpower planning, training, skill development, and performance evaluation.
- Foster teamwork, discipline, and accountability across departments.
- Coordination & Reporting:
- Coordinate with procurement, logistics, quality, marketing, and corporate teams.
- Provide regular reports to senior management on production, safety, costs, and KPIs.
- Authority:
- Authority to take operational decisions related to production, maintenance, safety, and manpower within approved limits.
- Recommend capital expenditure, process changes, and manpower requirements to management.
Educational Qualification
Degree in Chemical / Mechanical / Production Engineering/M.Sc./ B.Sc. or experience of +15 years in Fertilizer plant operations as a Plant Manager/Factory Manager/Unit Head with leadership exposure
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