Plant Head

The Plant Head is responsible for end-to-end operations of the solar panel manufacturing facility including production, quality, maintenance, supply chain coordination, cost optimization, manpower productivity, EHS compliance, and manufacturing excellence.

The role ensures:

• Safe plant operations
  
• Production target achievement
  
• Quality compliance
  
• Cost reduction
  
• OEE improvement
  
• On-time dispatch
  
• Process standardization
  
• Continuous improvement
  

• Lead overall manufacturing operations of solar module plant
  
• Ensure achievement of daily, monthly, and annual production targets
  
• Monitor line utilization and production efficiency
  
• Drive capacity utilization improvements
  
• Ensure smooth coordination across production shifts
  
• Minimize downtime and bottlenecks
  

• Coordinate with PPC team for production scheduling
  
• Ensure adherence to production plans
  
• Balance manpower, machine, and material availability
  
• Monitor WIP and finished goods inventory
  
• Improve production cycle time
  

• Implement Lean Manufacturing practices
  
• Drive Kaizen and continuous improvement initiatives
  
• Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  
• Reduce rejection, rework, and wastage
  
• Improve plant productivity and throughput
  

• Ensure adherence to module manufacturing quality standards
  
• Monitor EL test, flash test, hi-pot test, and QC checkpoints
  
• Reduce customer complaints and field failures
  
• Ensure compliance with BIS, IEC, and ISO standards
  
• Coordinate with QA/QC teams for audits
  

• Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance implementation
  
• Reduce machine breakdowns and downtime
  
• Coordinate with engineering team for machine upgrades
  
• Improve equipment reliability
  
• Ensure spare parts availability
  

• Coordinate with procurement and warehouse teams
  
• Ensure availability of:
  
• Solar cells
  
• Glass
  
• EVA
  
• Backsheet
  
• Junction boxes
  
• Frames
  
• Control inventory carrying cost
  
• Reduce material losses
  

• Ensure plant safety standards are followed
  
• Implement EHS policies and SOPs
  
• Conduct safety audits and trainings
  
• Ensure statutory compliance
  
• Maintain clean and disciplined shop floor
  

• Lead production managers, engineers, supervisors, and operators
  
• Build high-performance manufacturing culture
  
• Conduct manpower planning
  
• Drive employee productivity and discipline
  
• Train teams on SOPs and quality standards
  

• Optimize manufacturing cost per watt
  
• Monitor power consumption and utility efficiency
  
• Reduce scrap and rejection cost
  
• Improve labor productivity
  
• Control operational expenses
  

• Prepare daily and monthly MIS reports
  
• Present production and efficiency dashboards
  
• Review KPI performance with leadership
  
• Drive corrective and preventive actions
  

KPI

Target

Production Achievement

95%+

OEE

80%+

Line Efficiency

85%+

Module Rejection Rate

<1%

Breakdown Time

<3%

On-Time Dispatch

98%+

Cost per Watt

Continuous reduction

Safety Incidents

Zero major incidents

Customer Complaints

Minimal

Candidate should have experience in:

• Solar module manufacturing
  
• Electronics manufacturing
  
• Semiconductor manufacturing
  
• Battery manufacturing
  
• High-volume automated manufacturing plants
  

Preferred experience in:

• Mono PERC
  
• TOPCon
  
• Half-cut module manufacturing
  
• Automated stringer lines
  

• B.Tech / BE in:
  
• Electrical
  
• Mechanical
  
• Electronics
  
• Production Engineering
  

Preferred:

• MBA Operations
  
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
  

Plant Capacity

Experience Required

100 MW–300 MW

10–15 years

500 MW–1 GW

15–20 years

2 GW+

18–25 years

Minimum:

• 5+ years in leadership role
  
• Experience handling large manufacturing teams
  

• Solar module manufacturing process
  
• Production planning
  
• Lean manufacturing
  
• TPM
  
• OEE management
  
• Automation systems
  
• Quality systems
  
• Cost optimization
  

• Team leadership
  
• Problem-solving
  
• Decision-making
  
• Crisis management
  
• Process discipline
  
• Cross-functional coordination
  

The ideal Plant Head should:

• Be highly execution-oriented
  
• Have strong shop-floor control
  
• Understand automated manufacturing
  
• Drive productivity aggressively
  
• Build manufacturing discipline
  
• Focus on quality and cost simultaneously
  
• Handle high-growth manufacturing scale-up
  

• Solar module manufacturing process
  
• Production planning
  
• Lean manufacturing
  
• TPM
  
• OEE management
  
• Automation systems
  
• Quality systems
  
• Cost optimization
  

1.     Freedom : We allow you freedom to “follow your passion”

2.     Opportunity to work with India’s fastest growing SMB Company

3.     Regular Training of Professional Skills such as Leadership, Problem Solving and Product offerings.

4.     Multifold chances increase to build the career in Solar Energy Sector

5.     Exponential Growth in Salary and other remuneration

6.     Great learning curve and hand on experience with leadership team about solar in future