HOD - Frame Plant

Date: 2 Mar 2026

Location: Vadodara, GJ, IN, 389350

Company: Hero Motocorp

Function

Operations

Pay Band

M3 to M5

Role

HOD - Frame Plant

A purpose driven role for you

Your key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
1. KPI & KAI Compliance: Ensure rigorous adherence to departmental Key Performance Indicators to meet strategic targets.
2. Lean Integration: Drive operational excellence by implementing Lean Manufacturing methodologies to eliminate waste and optimize workflows.
3. Culture Building: Cultivate a high-standard "Safety First" and "First Time Right" quality culture to ensure zero accidents and defect-free production.
4. Strategic Cost Reduction: Spearhead initiatives to reduce overall manufacturing costs and enhance the bottom line.
5. ESG Compliance: Improve ESG parameters to meet sustainability and corporate responsibility goals.
6. Financial Aspect: Manage resource allocation through precise Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) to ensure fiscal discipline.
7. Value Engineering: Execute Value Creation (VC) and Value Enhancement (VE) projects to drive significant cost savings.
8. OEE Optimization: Maximize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by optimizing the Availability, Performance, and Quality of production lines

A Day in the life

You will be responsible for Production, Quality, Cost, TPM and ESG parameters for the frame plant sections. Also responsible for team development.

Academic Qualification & Experience

B.Tech / MBA

Technical Skills/Knowledge

Deep understanding of:
1. Strategic Orientation
2. Innovative thinking
3. Leveraging Technology
4. Manufacturing processes and supply chain dynamics.
2. Lean Manufacturing & VSM
3. Capacity Planning
4. Root Cause Analysis
5. Statistical Process Control (SPC)
6. TPM & IMS

Behavioural Skills

1. Developing people
2. Build Relationships
3. Customer Focus
4. Deliver Results
5. Passion @ Work
6. Solution focus with Collaboration

What will it be like to work for Hero

As the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters for the last 22 years, Hero is where you will get to work with the brightest innovators, passionate about being the best in what they do. You will become a part of India’s proudest legacy, a brand that is celebrated by 110 million Indians and is now taking over the world with its manufacturing superpower. If you are someone who dreams big and goes after their dreams with absolute conviction, Hero is your place to be. At Hero, we are building a cutting-edge future of mobility, pushing frontiers of innovation and aiming for the very best. Choose to be with the best, choose to be your best.

About Hero

Headquartered in New Delhi (India), Hero MotoCorp is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters for 22 consecutive years. We are at the forefront of developing modern, technologically superior and eco-friendly mobility solutions for its millions of customers around the world.

Hero MotoCorp has rapidly transformed into a true multinational organization with a presence in 47 countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

We have achieved the coveted milestone of 110 million cumulative production and sales since inception. Aligned with its Vision “Be the Future of Mobility”, Hero MotoCorp plans to achieve its next 100 million sales by 2030.

We have a globally benchmarked manufacturing and Research & Development (R&D) ecosystem that is spread across global geographies. Its R&D facilities are located in India and Germany - the Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) at Jaipur, India, and the Tech Centre Germany (TCG), near Munich. Hero MotoCorp’s eight ‘green’ manufacturing facilities are spread across India (6), Colombia (1) and Bangladesh (1).

Hero MotoCorp is the pre-eminent leader in the Indian two-wheeler market. It is the only motorcycle manufacturing company listed in Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

In 2022, Hero MotoCorp launched a separate brand for emerging mobility solutions, including Electric Vehicles (EV) - VIDA, Powered by Hero. VIDA has commenced sales of VIDA V1 – its first EV – in India and plans to launch the product in global markets.

We are one of the largest global corporate promoters of multiple sporting disciplines. Hero is globally associated with golf, football, field hockey, cricket and motorsports. Hero MotoSports Team Rally is one of India’s flag-bearers in global rally racing. The iconic golfer Tiger Woods is Hero MotoCorp’s Global Corporate Partner.

Read more about us.

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