Deputy General Manager

**Job Title:** Deputy General Manager (Dpty. GM)

**Company:** Ferrum Tubes Ltd.
**Location:** Tilda, Raipur
**Industry:** Seamless Steel Tube Manufacturing
**Reports To:** CEO / Promoters

To apply: Please send your application with resume to [email protected]

**Position Overview**

Ferrum Tubes Ltd. is a dynamic and entrepreneurial company on a strong growth trajectory due to its market focus, location, and the drive of its people to add value to its customers and their own lives!

The Dpty. GM will lead the overall operations of Ferrum Tubes Ltd.’s seamless steel pipe manufacturing – with the main facility located in Raipur. This role is responsible for delivering industry leading manufacturing performance across cost, quality, safety, and on\-time delivery. The Dpty. GM will drive operational excellence, lead plant turnaround initiatives where necessary, and ensure the facility operates to global standards in seamless tube manufacturing, including piercing, rolling, heat treatment, finishing, and inspection, meeting customer requirements.

The role requires a strong leader with deep experience in seamless steel pipes and tubes manufacturing in India and the ability to work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial and growth environment.

It’s a senior management role with significant responsibility of the company operations and thus requires a candidate who can build and maintain trust with the executive management and algin with the overall goals of the company – while at the same time challenges the executive management for improving the overall company performance.

**Key Responsibilities**

**1\. Plant Operations Leadership**

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for plant performance including production, maintenance, quality, supply chain and safety
• Manage end\-to\-end seamless pipe manufacturing operations including input material inspection, billet preparation, piercing, rolling, pilgering/sizing, heat treatment, finishing, testing, and dispatch.
• Ensure production targets, yield, and operational KPIs are consistently achieved.
• Advise executive management on optimal plant layout and future expansion
• Partner with the CEO and executive management for company’s strategic initiatives

**2\. People Leadership**

· Create an optimal organizational chart for processes to implement with skilled manpower and identify gaps to be filled

• Hire to fill those gaps and create a talent pipeline strategy (along with executive management)

o Skilled manpower deputation at hot rolling \& cold rolling mill.

· Ensure teamwork and coordination among workers (both in\-house employees and contractors) for smooth production.

• Build strong shop\-floor culture emphasizing accountability, safety, and performance.
• Develop future operator talent for continued operations

· Provide a leadership for resolving personnel conflicts

**3\. Operational Excellence**

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across productivity, yield, downtime reduction, and cost optimization.
• Prioritize initiatives based on financial results and/or risk mitigation to production and dispatch capabilities
• Lead plant turnaround and transformation initiatives like:

o Additional industrial seamless tube machineries to implement for ss \& carbon steel to improve process/plant productivity or throughput at optimum cost

o Implement processes for tracking work\-in\-progress inventory from start to finish

o Optimize furnace operations:

Regularize furnace monitoring and control procedures to avoid manual errors in operations \- including data acquisition and monitoring

Systematically look for and implement projects to improve furnace throughput and quality of heat treatment processes for downstream processing of materials

Coordinate with furnace manufacturers to ensure furnace optimization ideas are feasible and viable

o Optimize piercing mill operations:

Lower mill downtime by systematically looking for and implementing the highest benefit and lowest cost ideas – e.g. improving alignment

o Optimize Pilgering Operations

For pilgers liners check required at work stand chamber side liners \& bottom liners. Centre line alignments.

Mandrel \& die tooling machinery to implement

o Optimize ancillary processes like end cutting, degreasing, VID, pickling and STP

Prioritize immediately required vs. aspirational ideas

· Documentation focus: Direct staff for creation and maintenance of SOPs and adhering to the same

**4\. Maintenance \& Asset Reliability**

• Oversee plant maintenance strategy including preventive, predictive, and reliability\-centered maintenance.
• Ensure optimal uptime of critical equipment such as piercing mills, pilgering machines, heat treatment furnaces, straightening machines, and finishing lines – track and improve upon KPIs like MTTR, MTBF, Yield etc.

· Plan and create a specific mechanical maintenance area to make with hydraulic jacks and spare parts racks.

· Documentation: Instit