Assistant Plant Manager

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Position overview:

The Assistant Plant Manager supports the overall performance and operational excellence of a continuous operation manufacturing environment across 2 plants in India, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability targets are met. This role is part of a succession pipeline toward a future Plant Manager position, supporting the growth and expansion of the company’s plant footprint in India.

They assist in developing, engaging, and empowering teams, fostering a positive, high-performance culture and promoting continuous improvement across operations. This role supports compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards, coordinates with cross-functional teams, and helps drive plant efficiency to achieve organizational objectives.

Your key responsibilities include:

Support overall plant performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability targets, ensuring alignment with operational and business objectives

Drive a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with EHS programs, procedures, and KPIs

Provide cross-functional support and oversight across production, engineering, maintenance, quality, and continuous improvement, collaborating closely with supply chain, finance, procurement, and HR

Contribute to optimizing plant efficiency, productivity, and cost performance through continuous improvement initiatives and effective resource planning

Ensure plant operations meet customer requirements, product specifications, and quality standards

Support compliance with environmental regulations and internal policies

Partner with Finance and Cost Control to support budget management, cost optimization, and operating plans

Collaborate with other plants to drive benchmarking, standardization, and best practice sharing

Initially operate as an individual contributor, with progression into people leadership responsibilities, including developing, coaching, and empowering teams

Foster a high-performance, positive work culture, supporting employee engagement and strong working relationships

Support employee relations, including collaboration with union representatives where applicable

Contribute to cross-functional projects and initiatives to ensure high levels of internal and external customer service

Maintain effective collaboration within a matrixed organization, ensuring strong communication and alignment across stakeholders

What are we looking for?

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (additional business or supply chain education is a plus

Minimum 5+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial environments (FMCG preferred)

Proven experience in manufacturing operations, production, engineering, or continuous improvement

Strong people management and leadership capabilities across diverse teams

Exposure to high-speed manufacturing or packaging environments is preferred

Experience with Lean manufacturing tools and methodologies (SMED, Kaizen, 5S, Kanban, TPM/OEE, SPC, Six Sigma, etc.)

Union experience is an advantage

Fluent in English (Hindi is a plus)

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

Job Grade: Global Grade 13