- Develop and implement manpower planning strategies aligned with production schedules, plant capacity, and business goals.
- Forecast workforce requirements in coordination with Production, Operations, and Planning teams, ensuring optimal staffing across shifts and seasons.
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for staff, workmen, and contract workforce, including sourcing, screening, selection, onboarding, and induction.
- Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for critical foundry and engineering roles such as molding, melting, fettling, CNC, maintenance, and quality.
- Manage contract labor lifecycle including vendor selection, deployment, compliance under CLRA, attendance tracking, billing validation, and performance monitoring.
- Ensure availability of skilled manpower to support uninterrupted plant operations and meet delivery timelines.
- Handle complete industrial relations, including union coordination, negotiations, grievance redressal, disciplinary actions, and conflict resolution.
- Maintain a positive IR climate with zero disruption to operations and minimal man-days loss.
- Ensure full compliance with all applicable labor laws such as Factories Act, CLRA, PF, ESI, Bonus, Gratuity, Minimum Wages, and Standing Orders.
- Liaise with government authorities including labor department, factory inspector, PF and ESI offices.
- Maintain statutory records, registers, licenses, and returns, ensuring audit readiness at all times.
- Lead internal, statutory, and customer compliance audits with proper documentation and corrective actions.
- Drive employee engagement initiatives including shop-floor connect programs, reward and recognition, communication forums, and welfare activities.
- Monitor and control attrition, absenteeism, and workforce stability through data analysis and proactive retention strategies.
- Foster a disciplined, safe, and high-performance work culture aligned with plant requirements.
- Implement grievance handling mechanisms to ensure timely resolution and improved employee satisfaction.
- Oversee attendance management systems, shift planning, leave management, and overtime control for all employee categories.
- Coordinate payroll inputs with corporate or finance teams, ensuring accurate wage, salary, overtime, and contractor billing processing.
- Maintain HRIS, employee records, and documentation including onboarding, exits, and personal files.
- Generate and analyze HR MIS reports covering manpower, productivity, absenteeism, attrition, and cost metrics.
- Identify skill gaps and lead training and development initiatives including technical, safety, quality, and behavioral programs.
- Collaborate with production teams to enhance workforce capability in areas like 5S, TPM, and defect reduction.
- Support performance management systems and link workforce productivity with business outcomes.
- Partner with EHS and Safety teams to ensure PPE compliance, safety induction, medical checks, and statutory welfare measures.
- Promote a safe, clean, and compliant work environment across the plant.
- Act as a strategic HR partner to the Plant Head and leadership team, aligning HR initiatives with plant goals on quality, cost, delivery, and safety.
- Support change management initiatives such as expansion, automation, restructuring, and workforce redeployment.
- Drive implementation of corporate HR policies, compensation structures, and performance frameworks at the plant level.
- Monitor key KPIs including manpower productivity, attrition rate, absenteeism, compliance score, and manpower cost to drive continuous improvement.
- Strong expertise in manpower planning, workforce forecasting, and high-volume recruitment for manufacturing and foundry environments.
- Proven capability in end-to-end talent acquisition for technical, staff, and shop-floor roles including specialized foundry skills.
- Deep knowledge of industrial relations, union management, collective bargaining, and grievance handling.
- In-depth understanding of Indian labor laws and statutory compliance including Factories Act, CLRA, PF, ESI, Bonus, Gratuity, Minimum Wages, and Industrial Disputes Act.
- Expertise in contract labor management including vendor handling, compliance monitoring, and workforce optimization.
- Strong HR operations knowledge including attendance management, shift planning, payroll coordination, and employee lifecycle management.
- Experience in handling statutory audits, compliance documentation, inspections, and regulatory liaison.
- Ability to align HR strategies with production targets, operational efficiency, and business goals.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in HR MIS, dashboards, and tracking KPIs such as attrition, absenteeism, productivity, and manpower cost.
- Expertise in employee engagement, retention strategies, and building a positive shop-floor work culture.
- Capability to design and implement training, skill development, and performance management systems.
- Good understanding of manufacturing/foundry processes, shop-floor challenges, and EHS (safety and welfare) practices.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination with production, operations, quality, and leadership teams.
- Leadership and team management skills to handle HR teams and large blue-collar workforce effectively.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills across all organizational levels.
- High integrity, resilience, problem-solving ability, and decision-making skills to handle high-pressure plant environments.
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