Jan 2020
Present
HR Manager - Group Head HR
SAVERA GROUP (Engineering Division)
Aurangabad & Pune, IN
Manufacturing company having 5 units in Aurangabad & 2 in Pune. Annual turnover of 500+ cr with total manpower strength of ~4200+ employees.
Talent Acquisition:
- Responsible for end to end recruitments within agreed TAT for all positions and Fill rate of 95%. Implemented recruitment and On-boarding module in HRIS and educated line managers on the same.
- Designed interview panel and interview assessment structure for identifying right talent.
- Leading review with plant leadership team for forecasting manpower requirement for a quarter and a year.
- Revisited Job Descriptions and competencies required for each position and incorporated in candidate Interview Evaluation Form.
- Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. social platforms and professional networks).
- Giving candidates excellent pre-joining & post-joining experience. Introduced 90 Days feedback, Joining Kit, Family shifting assistance.
- Induction & On-Boarding: Designed and developed structured on-boarding plan for new joiners. Initiated structured induction plan and standardised minimum requirement of information in standardized PPTs of each function.
- HR & Employee Cost Management: Worked with finance team for budgeting HR & Manpower for current financial year. Setup a mechanism to monitor expenses against budget.
Organizational Design:
- Responsible for developing effective organizational processes, aligned structures and sharply defined roles & responsibilities with clear accountabilities using tools such as manpower productivity norms, work force planning, role clarification.
- Undertook manpower rationalization project in which studied shift wise manpower requirement and realigned existing workforce. Enhanced roles of existing Managers.
- Absorption of ITI candidates as a replacement of technical staff and to inculcate of performance. Also saved cost of hiring.
- Project taken on productivity enhancement and further unskilled manpower reduction.
Employee Life-cycle Management:
- Ensure effective administration of various employee processes like 90 days feedback, confirmation, transfers, promotion, HRIS updation, exit process etc.
- Introduced and successfully implemented exit interview through HRIS.
L&D (Capability Building):
- Responsible for identifying and developing critical technical, managerial & behavioral capabilities at the site, in line with the strategic business plans.
- Determine training needs basis performance management and talent feedback sessions; collaborate with line managers and L&D Team and external experts to develop & deploy developmental programs in order to achieve developmental goals; facilitate workmen related training; collaborate with site head to develop capability of the second line leadership through structured Individual Development Plan execution.
- In process of implementing an eLearning platform for employees as a corporate initiative where employee can login from their login credentials and acquire knowledge on various trending topics.
- Designed a Skill Matrix Process for Jr. Manager & below positions for developing their functional skills and generic skills. Designed a Skill dictionary, educated employees on process and kicked off for implementation.
Performance Enablement:
- Responsible for execution of performance enabling process, i.e. Goal Setting, managing performance appraisal & feedback, Grievance Redressal etc. in collaboration with site head and leadership team.
Industrial Relations and Statutory Compliances:
- Being a front face of the organization dealing with various Unions and external stake holders for ensuring uninterrupted factory operations.
- Managing union environment at 2 plants. Signed 1 LTS for Unit 1 at Ranjangaon immediately after joining which was pending from last one year.
- Worked on and submitted Long Term Settlement proposal for Unit 2 basis past trend, Industry Wage Survey, Inflation Rate study, Variable DA Analysis, current practices and service conditions. Analysed charter of demand and prepared counter demand in consultation with Business Head and top management.
- Represented organization as authorised officer and handled court matters in Industrial Tribunal, Labour Courts at Pune, Maharashtra and amicably closed 04 Cases in Industrial Tribunal against Contract Labour for permanency, closure of one criminal case against plant head and purchase head in Gangapur Court.
- Included productivity enhancement plan per person per day for every financial year of agreement, Implementation of 5S, Suggestion Scheme, Improvement in ETP Effectiveness.
- Collective bargaining: in a process of collective bargaining basis COD and LTS strategy.
- Effectively engaging Unions through various communication initiatives and engagement activities like Tea with Union. Conducting monthly meeting with Union for effective engagement and grievance resolution.
- Developing sense of Business partnering in Unionized workers through continuous dialogues, on-time grievance resolution, buy in in various initiatives, involvement in engagement activities, counselling, hygiene in basis infra.
- Conducting meetings of Works Committee, Canteen Committee, Welfare Committee, ICC (POSH), Safety Committee.
- Ensuring compliance w.r.t. Consent to Operate and Environment, Safety as per Factories Act.
- Handled issue of sexual harassment at workplace and political interference in the matter.
- Handled Land Matters and liaison with District Collector, Forest Officer, MPCB, Tehsildar, Gram panchayat for land clearances of factory.
- External Wiring & Public Relations: Designed an external wiring plan to develop harmonious relationship with external stakeholders like Ruling party MLA, Ex-MLA, Govt. offices, Local bodies and Local Villagers, etc.
- Compliance management system: Developed a compliance tracker for ensuring 100% compliant factory. Categorised compliances in two categories namely factory compliance management system and contract labor regulation act. Achieved 85% compliance except infra gaps. Identified and proposed for basic infra projects like Canteen, Medical centre etc. Setup full-fledged Occupational Health Centre & introduced crèche facility at 2 plants in Aurangabad and complied with all the requirements.
- Setup an online grievance redressal mechanism for building a healthy environment. Tracking category wise grievances and implemented TAT and communication to employees on actions.
- Monitoring abnormal behaviors of employees and initiating disciplinary actions on abnormalities.
- Liaisoning with various Govt. authorities and local bodies.
- Contract Labour Management: Working on contractor engagement agenda. Developing sense of Business partnering. Managing local contractors and associated since long time. Tactfully handling their engagement and compliances applicable under Contract Labor Regulation Act.
Business Linked Employee Engagement:
- Designed & executed a structured engagement program for employee engagement at site.
- Execution of Reward & Recognition program in collaboration with site leadership and central SPoCs.
- Initiated Business Linked Engagement Program consists of Coffee with HR, Safety Culture Cultivation Committee, Chakachak Divas, PQCDSM Culture, Kaizen Mela.
- Designed & implemented engagement calendar for two sites to improve employee retention and engagement.
- Leading 5S Implementation for 4 Units. Designed a structure for 5S Implementation. Identified and recognized champions and trained employees on 5S program and audits.
- Implemented R&R program which helped in boosting employee’s morale.
Employee Connect:
- Helping employees in the situation of Covid outbreak in Aurangabad district.
- Ensuring social distancing at workplace and other precautionary measures at workplace to ensure employees health. Sanitization of entire manufacturing facility and offices at frequent intervals.
- In consultation with doctor provided immunity boosters to employees to protect them from Corona.
- First time in Savera we took mediclaim and term insurance plan for employees to protect employer from liability of compensation in case of mishaps and support to their family in difficult situation.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Administer payroll execution in payroll system for staff and workers and analyses various MIS to control over employee cost.
- Monitoring monthly, YTD, annual employee cost.
- Conducting survey in & around region to define compensation benchmarks.
- Ensuring timely remittances of legal dues like EPF, PT, TDS, ESIC etc.
- Ensuring the periodic audit of salary, benefits, legal aspects are done internally.
- Forecasting and on-time payments of annual perks like LTA, Bonus etc.
- Ensuring hassle-free medi-claim settlement and on time renewal with all employees coverage and family members as per policy.
Administration:
- Oversee factory administration. Planning and providing good housekeeping at factory and ensuring hygiene.
- Ensure strict and vigilant security system for factory and employees.
- Successfully handled audits like ISO Audits, Customers Audits (I-Way Audit - IKEA) based on pillars like People Practices, Social & Ethical Practices, Legal Compliances, Internal Audits, Environment, Health & Safety.
Achievements:
- Implemented eight hours working model for Contract Labour and complied with Factories Act. Reduced Over Time expenses.
- Meticulously negotiated and reduced service charges of Labour Contractors from 8% to 6% at Aurangabad Unit, saved Rs. 14 Lakhs per annum.
- Designed a structured program on building an engineering competent organization and hiring Diploma Trainees as machine operators.
- Achieved 10% reduction in Contract Labour cost through structured interventions. Introduced NAPS & NEEM Scheme for cost reduction.
- Slashed the manpower cost by restructuring manpower requirement Leads to reduction in manufacturing cost. Reduced 200 nos. manpower across all locations based on trend analysis, productivity analysis, manpower cost, Study & elimination of non value adding activities and internal benchmarking.
- Improved Plant Performance through Steering Change management initiatives under the guidance of Top Management. Facilitating learnings on Lean Mgmt., JIT, Kaizen, TPM, Analytical Tools, SMED, OEE, Trainings on Automations etc.
- Suggested and designed HR strategies and established Pune plant as a Benchmark Unit for HR practices.
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