Plant Manager/Director - บริษัท แร่เบฟเวอเรจ จำกัด

Key Responsibilities

1. Production and Operations Management

• Lead PET and glass bottling and packaging operations for mineral water and sparkling beverages to meet volume, quality, cost, and delivery targets.

• Improve OEE, productivity, and yield; reduce downtime and waste while optimizing manpower, equipment, shifts, and utilities.

1. Production Planning and Control

• Lead monthly, weekly, and daily production plans by SKU based on demand, orders, stock, capacity, and delivery requirements.

• Translate demand into MPS and MRP; align materials, manpower, changeovers, and maintenance with Procurement and SCM.

• Monitor output against plan, resolve bottlenecks, and adjust schedules to protect deliveries and control overtime.

• Participate in S&OP to align demand, supply, inventory, and capacity.

1. Inventory Planning and Optimization

• Set inventory policies, safety stock, reorder points, and target levels for raw materials, packaging, work in process, and finished goods.

• Plan replenishment quantities and timing based on demand, lead times, shelf life, service targets, and working capital.

• Analyze turnover, aging, and shortage or excess risks; agree purchasing, production, and stock reduction actions with relevant teams.

• Use Warehouse and QA data to update plans, excluding held or rejected stock from available supply.

1. Supply Chain and Cross Functional Coordination

• Align Procurement, SCM, Warehouse, and Logistics to ensure material availability and reliable supply flows.

• Manage contingency plans for supplier disruptions, capacity constraints, and demand surges.

• Agree supply priorities and achievable delivery dates with Commercial and SCM.

1. Quality Food Safety and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, company standards, GMP, HACCP, and FSSC 22000 / ISO 22000.

• Lead audit readiness and timely CAPA closure; oversee QA/QC, sanitation, traceability, and recall readiness with QA.

1. Maintenance and Engineering

• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance to improve reliability, MTTR, and MTBF.

• Align maintenance with production schedules and ensure critical equipment and spare parts readiness.

• Manage engineering and CAPEX projects within approved scope, budget, and timelines.

• Support NPD trials, packaging validation, scale-up, and commercial launch readiness.

1. Warehouse Operations

• Oversee receiving, storage, material issues, finished goods receipt, picking, and dispatch against approved plans.

• Ensure safe handling, efficient space use, FIFO/FEFO, batch traceability, and segregation of held or rejected stock under QA guidance.

• Maintain timely ERP movement records, cycle counts, physical counts, and discrepancy reconciliation with Finance.

• Provide stock, expiry, and space data to Inventory Planning; execute approved stock actions and coordinate loading and dispatch with Logistics.

1. Safety Health and Environment

• Ensure safety and environmental compliance, risk assessments, and emergency preparedness.

• Promote a zero-accident culture through training, safe practices, incident investigation, and corrective action.

1. People Management and Leadership

• Lead and develop department heads and supervisors with clear responsibilities and performance goals.

• Manage workforce planning, training, performance reviews, and succession.

• Build teamwork, accountability, and a continuous improvement culture.

1. Cost Control and Continuous Improvement

• Control manufacturing and plant supply chain costs, including labor, utilities, waste, storage, and inventory losses.

• Drive Lean, Kaizen, and productivity projects to improve cost, quality, service, and working capital.

1. Reporting and Performance Review

• Report plant performance, risks, and action plans to management; coordinate reviews and improvements with Commercial, SCM, Finance, HR, and QA.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Food Science, or a related field.
• 8–10 years of experience in beverage manufacturing, including 3–5 years in a management role.
• Hands-on experience managing production planning, inventory control, and coordination across production, quality, maintenance, warehouse, and supply chain functions.
• Working knowledge of food safety systems, manufacturing cost control, and continuous improvement.

•  Strong leadership, analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Ability to translate demand forecasts into feasible production and material plans and resolve demand and capacity trade-offs.
• Knowledge of mineral water production, bottling and packaging operations, inventory management, and supply chain processes.
• Ability to use ERP / MRP systems and spreadsheets to analyze production, capacity, inventory, and performance data.
• Effective communication, cross-functional coordination, and team development.

Preferred Qualifications and Advantages

Candidates with one or more of the following will be given additional consideration.

• Leadership experience in mineral water, bottled water, or sparkling beverage manufacturing, including PET and glass bottling lines.

• Experience in S&OP, production and inventory planning, with proven improvements in delivery, stock levels, and waste reduction.

• Experience implementing or improving ERP/MRP, WMS, or operational dashboards.

• Technical knowledge of PET bottle blowing, glass bottle handling, carbonation, filling, capping, labeling, and packing.

• Experience supporting new product development (NPD), including production trials, packaging validation, scale-up, and commercial launch readiness.

• Experience leading food safety audits, traceability, and recall readiness under GMP, HACCP, or FSSC 22000 / ISO 22000.

• Proven results in Lean/Six Sigma, plant start-up, line expansion, or CAPEX projects.

• Effective English communication skills.

• แหล่งน้ำแร่ธรรมชาติจากเชียงดาว ซึ่งเป็นเขตพื้นที่สงวนชีวมณฑลที่ขึ้นทะเบียนโดย UNESCO
• เทคโนโลยีการผลิตทันสมัยจากเยอรมนีและอิตาลี
• กำลังการผลิตสูงถึง 850,000 ขวดต่อวัน
• มุ่งเน้นการสร้างแบรนด์น้ำแร่ระดับพรีเมียมและต่อยอดสู่ธุรกิจ Wellness