Head Production Operations

Location: Lahore

Role Purpose

Lead and manage production operations across manufacturing plants to achieve safety quality delivery cost and service objectives. The role is accountable for shop-floor execution manpower performance production stability and management of major operational risks while driving sustained improvements in productivity capacity and plant performance.

Key Responsibilities

Production Execution & Operational Risk Management

• Own end-to-end production performance across plants ensuring achievement of volume mix and service level targets.
• Lead disciplined execution of daily production plans shift management and adherence to SOPs.
• Proactively manage major operational risks including:
• Production disruptions and line instability
• Quality incidents and deviations
• Safety incidents and near misses
• Equipment and bottling linelevel issues
• Lead structured escalation containment and recovery during critical production incidents.
• Ensure full compliance with food safety quality EHS and statutory requirements.

Plant & Team Performance Improvement

• Lead plant and team performance improvement initiatives including:
• Productivity improvement
• Capacity ramp-up and debottlenecking
• Waste yield and rework reduction
• Drive adherence to standard cycle times changeover norms and operating efficiencies.
• Lead daily weekly and monthly production reviews with fact-based decision-making.

People & Performance Management

• Own production manpower planning shift structures skill deployment and productivity discipline.
• Lead performance evaluations goal setting coaching and capability development for production teams.
• Partner with HR & ER on hiring onboarding engagement succession planning and industrial relations.
• Ensure critical role backups and strong frontline leadership bench strength.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment availability and fast resolution of line issues.
• Partner with Manufacturing Excellence on TPM execution standardization and continuous improvement rollout.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain to align production plans with S&OP and inventory norms.
• Interface with Quality to ensure right-first-time execution and audit readiness.

Candidate Profile

• Engineering degree (Production / Mechanical / Electrical preferred)
• 1520 years of experience in FMCG / Beverage production operations
• Proven experience managing major operational risks and plant-level incidents
• Strong track record in productivity improvement and capacity enhancement
• Experience in high-speed high-volume manufacturing environments
• Strong people leadership execution rigor and cross-functional coordination skills