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Position: GM Plant (Ethanol)

Company: KIJALK STARCH AGRO PRIVATE LIMITED

Location:   JAMSHEDPUR

Reporting To: Director

Job Purpose:

To lead and optimize the ethanol production process, ensuring safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations while achieving production targets, quality standards, energy optimization, and statutory compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

Process & Production Management

• Oversee end-to-end ethanol production processes including milling, liquefaction, saccharification, fermentation, distillation, dehydration, and DDGS.
• Ensure achievement of daily/monthly production targets with optimal yield and minimal losses.
• Monitor and improve process efficiency, conversion ratios, steam & power consumption.
• Analyse process deviations and implement corrective & preventive actions (CAPA).
• Operational Excellence & Optimization
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance throughput, yield, and energy efficiency.
• Implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) and best industry practices.
• Coordinate with maintenance for planned shutdowns, breakdown analysis, and process reliability.

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with BIS, OMC, Excise, Pollution Control Board (PCB), and other statutory norms.
• Maintain product quality as per ethanol specifications for blending (EBP).
• Support audits (internal, statutory, excise, and customer audits).
• Safety, Health & Environment (SHE)
• Ensure strict adherence to process safety, ethanol handling, LOTO, PTW, HAZOP, and emergency response systems.
• Promote a strong safety culture across operations.
• Ensure environmental compliance for effluent treatment, spent wash management, ZLD systems.

People & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop process engineers, chemists, shift in-charges, and operators.
• Plan manpower, training, and skill development for operational excellence.
• Foster cross-functional coordination with maintenance, utilities, quality, and commercial teams.

Cost & Performance Management

• Monitor process KPIs, operating costs, consumables, chemicals, and yield parameters.
• Support budgeting, cost control, and techno-economic analysis.
• Contribute to capacity expansion, debottlenecking, and new technology implementation.

Educational Qualification:

• B.E./B.Tech – Chemical / Mechanical / Production Engineering
• MTech (Process / Chemical)

Experience Requirements

·        10–15 years of experience in Ethanol / Distillery / Sugar / Bio-fuel plants

·        Minimum 5+ years in a senior process leadership role (AGM / DGM / Sr. Manager)

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of ethanol process technology
• Process optimization & troubleshooting
• Energy & yield improvement
• Safety & statutory compliance
• Leadership & team management
• Data analysis & process KPIs
• Familiarity with DCS/PLC systems

Preferred Exposure:

• Grain-based / Maize-based / Molasses-based ethanol plants
• Ethanol Blending Program (EBP)
• Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system

Skills Required

• Leadership Skills