Smelter Blend Planner

About Business:

Adani Group: Adani Group is a diversified organisation in India comprising 10 publicly traded companies. It has created a world class logistics and utility infrastructure portfolio that has a pan-India presence. Adani Group is headquartered in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, India. Over the years, Adani Group has positioned itself to be the market leader in its logistics and energy businesses focusing on large scale infrastructure development in India with O & M practices benchmarked to global standards. With four IG rated businesses, it is the only Infrastructure Investment Grade issuer in India.

Job Purpose:

The Section In-Charge is responsible for leading and overseeing all production activities within their section across three shifts, ensuring smooth operations, material availability, and adherence to the production plan. This role is pivotal in driving process optimization, improving equipment efficiency, and ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards. The Section In-Charge is tasked with managing resources, controlling costs, and implementing digital tools to streamline operations. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement and safety, they ensure alignment with organizational goals, while leveraging data analytics to inform decision-making and enhance operational performance.

A. Concentrate Material Planning & Availability

• Prepare rolling concentrate material plans by using Blend optimization model aligned with smelter, SAP, Refinery, PMR feed requirements( in line with TOR ), production targets, stock norms, and shipment schedules.
• Monitor concentrate inventory across port, plant, yards, warehouses, and in-transit positions to ensure uninterrupted availability.
• Coordinate with commercial and procurement teams for shipment visibility, arrival schedules, allocation plans, and supply continuity.
• Track daily consumption, receipts, stock ageing, inventory coverage, and deviations against plan.
• Support proactive risk mitigation for feed shortages, shipment delays, quality variations, demurrage exposure, and operational constraints.

B. Concentrate Quality, Blending & Consumption Coordination

• Coordinate with operations, laboratory, quality, and process teams for concentrate grade, moisture, impurity levels, assay results, and blend suitability.
• Support development of concentrate blend plans considering copper grade, impurities, process constraints, availability, and plant performance requirements.
• Track planned versus actual feed consumption, blend deviations, quality impact, and corrective actions.
• Maintain material master data, quality records, stock reconciliation inputs, and planning assumptions for accurate decision-making.
• Provide planning inputs for feed optimization, process stability, and raw material utilization improvement.
• Optimize secondary materials, internal by products etc consumption plan basis concentrate blend for best utilization of resources and guide operation team.

C. Logistics, Port Coordination & Material Movement

• Coordinate with port, logistics, supply chain, and operations teams for vessel berthing, unloading, evacuation, storage, and internal material movement.
• Track vessel ETA, discharge status, rake / truck movement, yard capacity, handling constraints, and dispatch priorities.
• Support timely movement of concentrate from port to plant based on production priorities and inventory cover requirements.
• Monitor logistics-related risks including congestion, delays, demurrage, detention, handling losses, and storage limitations.
• Prepare daily and weekly material movement updates for planning reviews and leadership visibility.

D. Inventory Control, Reconciliation & Reporting

• Drive structured monitoring of opening stock, receipts, consumption, closing stock, in-transit material, and inventory cover days.
• Coordinate periodic stock reconciliation with finance, stores, operations, port, commercial, and weighbridge teams.
• Maintain planning dashboards, MIS reports, stock ageing analysis, shipment tracker, and concentrate availability summaries.
• Identify variances in book stock versus physical stock and support root-cause analysis with concerned stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting for daily production meetings, monthly reviews, and raw material governance forums.

E. Planning Governance, Risk Management & Continuous Improvement

• Establish planning discipline through daily reviews, exception reporting, escalation mechanisms, and corrective action tracking.
• Develop scenario plans for shipment delays, quality deviations, high / low stock situations, production changes, and logistics disruptions.
• Support digitalization of raw material planning through dashboards, automated trackers, SAP / system reports, and analytics-based decision support.
• Drive continuous improvement in inventory accuracy, planning reliability, stock visibility, and cross-functional coordination.
• Develop strong functional depth across concentrate planning, commercial interfaces, logistics operations, plant consumption, and inventory governance to provide reliable planning support and business continuity.

• B.E./B.Tech in Metallurgy, Chemical, Mechanical, Mining, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline.
• MBA / PG Diploma in Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, Materials Management, or Business Analytics will be preferred.
• 10–15 years of experience in raw material planning, concentrate planning, supply chain, logistics, inventory control, production planning, commercial coordination, or operations planning in metals, mining, smelting, refinery, port-linked, or heavy manufacturing industries.
• Minimum 4–6 years of exposure to copper concentrate / bulk raw material planning, shipment tracking, inventory reconciliation, stock governance, plant consumption planning, and cross-functional coordination.