Factory Manager - India
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What you'll do
- Run day-to-day production across our Kolkata operation: output, quality, labor management, and continuous improvement.
- Hit volume and lead-time targets. Protect on-time delivery on every wedding order. Fixed date. No do-over.
- Develop your supervisors. The best thing you can leave behind is a floor that runs without you.
- Spot the bottleneck before it costs a ship day.
- Live lean and kaizen. Cut waste. Steadily improve throughput and unit economics as we grow.
What they're looking for
- Real experience running manufacturing or production operations, ideally in handcrafted, labor-intensive settings.
- Comfort managing large teams.
- A data-driven habit with KPIs. Excel/Sheets fluency will come up in the interview.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- On-site daily in Kolkata.
- Able to provide references.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
Sola Wood Flowers is hiring a Factory Manager to run and scale our production floor in Kolkata.
This Saturday, a bride you will never meet walks down an aisle holding a bouquet your floor built by hand. It cannot be late. It cannot be wrong. Monday is her honeymoon, not your reship window. That is the job.
What Sola Wood Flowers is
We make better flowers for less: affordable, eco-friendly wooden flowers that now show up in more than 6% of American weddings every year. Everything is handcrafted, and India is a growing part of how we make it. We are building a modernized, vertically integrated platform north of $100M across DTC, owned retail, and wholesale.
Who this is not for
If you want to run a factory from a cabin with reports, this is not it. This is a floor job. You will spend your day on the line, next to your supervisors, while the problem is still happening. If you are looking for a stress-free 9-to-5, we are upfront: this isn't one.
What you own
- Run day-to-day production across our Kolkata operation: output, quality, labor management, and continuous improvement.
- Hit volume and lead-time targets. Protect on-time delivery on every wedding order. Fixed date. No do-over.
- Develop your supervisors. The best thing you can leave behind is a floor that runs without you.
- Spot the bottleneck before it costs a ship day.
- Live lean and kaizen. Cut waste. Steadily improve throughput and unit economics as we grow.
What you need
- Real experience running manufacturing or production operations, ideally in handcrafted, labor-intensive settings.
- Comfort managing large teams.
- A data-driven habit with KPIs. Excel/Sheets fluency will come up in the interview.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- On-site daily in Kolkata.
- Able to provide references.
Why you would want it
You build the operation. You do not warm a seat. Smart people, low drama, real ownership. You win when we win, and we back that with a clearly defined compensation philosophy, not a title.
How hiring works
A short intro conversation, then a longer technical interview focused on production operations, because we will not waste your time or ours on a mishire. We set your KPIs and targets together, up front, so you never have to guess whether you are doing well. We run on EOS/Traction (Scaling Up and OKRs adjacent). Average time from first interview to decision: about 8 to 10 days.
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