Production Manager (Perfume Industry)

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Production Manager with a minimum of 8+ years within the perfume industry. Must be familiar with the production processes for EDP/EDT Perfumes, CPO attars, Roll-ons, Deodorants, Cosmetics, Bakhoor, and Oud muattars. - Plan, organize, and supervise daily perfume production activities. - Ensure production targets are achieved within the planned timelines and resources. - Plan, organize, and supervise quality control activities for incoming raw materials, packaging materials, bulk products, and finished products. - Coordinate with R&D, Warehouse, Procurement, and Sales/Planning teams to ensure smooth production flow. - Monitor and control raw material and packaging inventory, coordinating with the procurement to prevent any shortages or excess stocks. - Ensure correct implementation of batch sheets, formulas, production orders, and SOPs. - Monitor raw material and packaging material consumption and minimize wastage. - Ensure complete batch traceability and documentation from raw material receipt through production, QC inspection, filling, packing, and finished product release. - Identify production bottlenecks and implement corrective measures to improve productivity. - Ensure machines, equipment, and production areas are properly maintained and hygienic. - Lead train and develop the production, QC, Maintenance & Warehouse teams. - Ensure compliance with quality, safety, GMP, hygiene, and company procedures across Production and QC activities. - To provide production inputs for product Costing - Monitor manpower requirements, attendance, productivity, and discipline. - Prepare and submit daily/weekly/monthly production reports. - Support implementation and effective use of ERP for production-related activities. - Ability to identify production and quality issues and implement practical, corrective and preventive measures. - Continuously improve manufacturing process, exploring automation, layout changes or SOP update to boost efficiency. - Engineering, Maintenance & Automation: Manage the Engineering/Maintenance team and oversee machinery maintenance, troubleshooting, automation, and process improvements and reduce downtime.