About the Role
Celestix Industries is establishing a large-scale manufacturing campus in Falna, Rajasthan, comprising multiple factories and manufacturing operations.
We are looking for a hands-on HR Manager / Plant HR Manager who can establish the HR function from the ground up and subsequently manage HR operations across the manufacturing campus.
Unlike an established factory HR role, this position initially requires significant involvement in greenfield plant HR setup, mass recruitment, manpower planning, HR systems implementation, industrial relations and labour law compliance.
The candidate must be comfortable working directly with factory heads, department managers, workers, labour contractors, local recruitment agencies, training institutions and government authorities.
We are looking for someone who can build a scalable HR system while remaining actively involved in day-to-day factory workforce management.
Key Responsibilities
1. Greenfield HR Setup
- Establish the HR department and processes for the new manufacturing campus.
- Prepare a phased HR implementation plan aligned with factory commissioning schedules.
- Develop employee documentation, appointment letters, onboarding procedures and HR records.
- Establish HR policies and standard operating procedures.
- Implement employee attendance, leave and payroll coordination systems.
- Coordinate HRMS / ERP implementation.
- Develop HR reporting formats and employee databases.
- Establish consistent HR processes across multiple factories.
- Recruit and develop additional HR team members as the campus expands.
2. Mass Recruitment & Manpower Planning
- Prepare factory-wise and department-wise manpower requirements.
- Develop recruitment plans for operators, helpers, technicians, supervisors, engineers and management staff.
- Establish local recruitment networks in Falna and surrounding regions.
- Build relationships with ITIs, polytechnic colleges, engineering colleges, training institutes and employment agencies.
- Conduct recruitment drives, walk-in interviews and campus hiring activities.
- Identify and coordinate with manpower consultants and labour contractors.
- Source skilled and semi-skilled workers from other regions where necessary.
- Track recruitment progress, candidate selection and joining.
- Ensure manpower is available before production commissioning and ramp-up.
- Monitor manpower costs and recruitment effectiveness.
3. Multi-Factory HR Operations
- Manage centralized HR operations across the manufacturing campus.
- Coordinate with individual Factory Heads regarding manpower requirements and employee issues.
- Maintain factory-wise employee records and workforce information.
- Monitor attendance, absenteeism, attrition and manpower availability.
- Establish common HR policies and reporting standards.
- Support factory-specific shift patterns and workforce requirements.
- Maintain consistent HR practices across all manufacturing units.
- Provide regular HR performance and manpower reports to management.
4. Employee Relations & Industrial Relations
- Maintain positive employee relations and industrial relations across factories.
- Establish grievance-handling procedures.
- Resolve employee complaints and workplace concerns.
- Coordinate with production supervisors and factory management on workforce discipline.
- Handle counselling, warnings and disciplinary documentation.
- Monitor absenteeism and employee turnover.
- Develop employee retention initiatives.
- Prevent workforce disputes through proactive communication.
- Support a professional, safe and disciplined manufacturing culture.
5. Labour Law & Statutory Compliance
- Establish HR statutory compliance procedures applicable to manufacturing operations in Rajasthan.
- Coordinate employee-related statutory registrations and documentation.
- Manage or coordinate PF / EPF and ESIC administration.
- Monitor minimum wage, overtime, leave and working-hour compliance.
- Coordinate statutory bonus, gratuity and other applicable employee benefits.
- Maintain required HR and labour compliance registers.
- Coordinate contract labour compliance.
- Support labour inspections, government visits and customer audits.
- Work with legal or compliance consultants where required.
- Keep HR processes aligned with applicable central and Rajasthan labour regulations.
6. Contract Labour Management
- Identify and evaluate labour contractors and manpower agencies.
- Coordinate labour supply contracts and required documentation.
- Monitor contract worker deployment and attendance.
- Ensure contractor manpower requirements are met.
- Coordinate compliance verification with relevant teams.
- Address contract workforce shortages and employee-related issues.
- Monitor contractor performance and workforce reliability.
7. Attendance, Payroll Coordination & HRMS
- Implement employee master records and biometric attendance systems.
- Manage attendance, leave, shift records and overtime information.
- Prepare and verify payroll inputs.
- Coordinate salary processing with Accounts or central payroll.
- Resolve payroll-related employee concerns.
- Maintain accurate workforce information in HRMS / ERP.
- Develop monthly HR MIS reports.
8. Employee Induction & Skill Development Coordination
- Establish new employee induction and orientation programs.
- Coordinate with Production, Quality and Training teams on employee skill requirements.
- Support worker training and competency development.
- Develop relationships with local vocational training institutions.
- Maintain employee training records.
- Support workforce skill development as production capacity increases.
9. Employee Engagement & Retention
- Develop employee communication and engagement activities.
- Establish employee feedback and grievance-resolution channels.
- Monitor employee satisfaction and retention.
- Identify reasons for absenteeism and attrition.
- Support employee welfare initiatives in coordination with the separate Administration team.
- Develop practical measures to improve workforce stability.
- Prepare regular reports covering planned versus actual manpower.
- Monitor recruitment progress and open positions.
- Track absenteeism, attrition, overtime and workforce availability.
- Monitor factory-wise manpower costs.
- Coordinate performance reviews and probation confirmations.
- Support performance improvement and corrective action processes.
- Report HR compliance issues and workforce risks to management.
Required Experience
- 7–12 years of practical manufacturing HR experience.
- Experience handling HR operations in a factory or industrial manufacturing environment.
- Strong experience with blue-collar recruitment, manpower planning and employee relations.
- Experience with labour law compliance, contractor workforce management and payroll coordination.
- Prior experience in greenfield plant setup, factory expansion or establishing a new HR department is strongly preferred.
- Experience coordinating HR operations across multiple factories or production units is an advantage.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Commerce or a related discipline.
- MBA / PGDM in Human Resources or Personnel Management preferred.
- Practical manufacturing HR experience and execution capability are more important than the exact educational qualification.
Required Skills
- Manufacturing HR & Plant HR
- Greenfield HR Setup
- Mass Recruitment & Blue-Collar Hiring
- Manpower Planning
- Employee Relations & Industrial Relations
- Contract Labour Management
- Labour Law Compliance
- HR Operations
- Attendance & Payroll Coordination
- HRMS / ERP
- HR MIS Reporting
- Performance Management
Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who can join before the factories become operational and independently establish the HR infrastructure required to support manufacturing.
The right candidate should be capable of:
- Planning recruitment for hundreds of workers across multiple factories.
- Developing a reliable local hiring network.
- Establishing recruitment, joining and employee documentation procedures.
- Implementing scalable attendance and HR reporting systems.
- Coordinating statutory compliance requirements.
- Handling workforce concerns directly on the shop floor.
- Working with individual factory managers to ensure manpower readiness.
- Developing a stable workforce as the manufacturing campus expands.
We prefer candidates who have personally managed practical factory HR operations rather than those whose experience is limited to corporate recruitment, office HR or policy development.
The person should be proactive, approachable, firm when necessary, highly organized and capable of building an HR function that can grow with the campus.
