Operations Manager

Job Description

Operations Manager

Based in Nagpur, you will oversee day-to-day coordination between coal mines, transportation networks, and industrial clients (like power plants and cement factories). Your goal is to ensure timely delivery, reduce logistics costs, and maintain seamless operational efficiency.

Core Responsibilities \& Duties

• Logistics \& Transportation Fleet Management: Overlook continuous movement of coal via road and rail. Coordinate with contracted transport partners to minimize delays in coal movement (Sizing, Slack, Steam, ROM).
• Supply Chain \& Inventory Supervision: Track coal supply allocations from sources to loading plots and customer destination points. Ensure right sizing and grading parameters match client specifications.
• Mines Liaisoning Support: Work closely with the liaisoning team to manage paperwork, permissions, and compliance at loading points and railway sidings.
• Client Delivery Coordination: Maintain close communication with industrial buyers (captive power plants, textile mills, cement plants) regarding dispatch schedules, delivery timelines, and transit updates.
• Cost Optimization \& Billing Tracking: Monitor operational expenses, analyze freight costs, and assist the accounts team in validating transport bills, challans, and weighbridge slips.
• Team Leadership: Manage ground supervisors, field coordinators, and weighing executives at active operational sites and sidings.

Required Qualifications \& Skills

• Experience: 3 to 7 years of operational or logistics management experience, ideally within the coal trading, minerals, mining, or heavy bulk logistics sector.
• Education: Graduate degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
• Industry Knowledge: Solid understanding of coal varieties (Steam Coal, ROM, Slack Coal) and standard Indian logistics operations (rake loading, road transport regulations).
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in MS Excel for daily dispatch tracking, reporting, and inventory monitoring.
• Language Proficiency: Strong communication skills in Hindi and English. Ability to understand Marathi is highly beneficial for local ground vendor coordination in Nagpur.
• Key Traits: High problem-solving capability under pressure, strong negotiation skills with transporters, and sharp attention to weight and quality data variations.

Job Overview \& Compensation

• Job Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra (Central Avenue / Operational Base) with occasional visits to nearby sidings/plots.
• Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.
• Salary Range: Competitive industry standards, based on experience and previous CTC.

Pay

₹15,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Provident Fund

Work Location

In person