Plant Head (Bhopal)

Job Description:

Position:        Plant Head (Bhopal)

Location:       Bhopal

Experience:   20 - 25 Years

Industries:    Pharma

Responsibilities:

• Lead complete plant operations including Upstream, Downstream, Fill-Finish, QA, QC, Engineering, Utilities, Warehouse, and Supply Chain.
• Ensure compliance with cGMP, GLP, GDP, WHO, USFDA, MHRA, EMA, and other international regulatory standards.
• Drive operational excellence through Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage commercial manufacturing of biosimilar products including monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, vaccines, or injectables.
• Oversee process validation, cleaning validation, equipment qualification, and technology transfer activities.
• Ensure successful handling of regulatory inspections, customer audits, and compliance audits.
• Monitor plant KPIs including OEE, batch success rate, yield improvement, deviations, CAPA closure, and cost optimization.
• Develop annual operating plans, budgets, manpower planning, and capacity expansion strategies.
• Ensure adherence to EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) standards and biosafety requirements.
• Lead investigation and resolution of deviations, OOS, change controls, and quality events.
• Collaborate with R&D and Regulatory Affairs for new product introduction and lifecycle management.
• Drive digitalization, automation, and data integrity initiatives across manufacturing operations.
• Ensure uninterrupted utility and engineering support including HVAC, WFI, clean steam, BMS, and EMS systems.
• Maintain high employee engagement, training compliance, succession planning, and performance management.
• Support business continuity planning and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure timely production scheduling and inventory management to meet market demand.
• Build a culture of quality, compliance, accountability, and continuous learning.

Required Skills:

• Expertise in biopharmaceutical or biosimilar manufacturing operations.
• Hands-on experience with regulatory audits by USFDA, EMA, MHRA, WHO, etc.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic planning skills.
• Knowledge of SAP/ERP systems and manufacturing automation preferred.
• Strong analytical and decision-making capabilities.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Ability to manage large teams and multi-department operations.
• High focus on compliance, productivity, and operational efficiency.

Required Qualification: - B.Pharm/M.Pharm/B.SC/M.Sc/B.E/B.Tech - Chemical

Salary :- 60.00 LPA

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