Plant Admin & HR Manager

About Origin

Origin (formerly 10xConstruction) is building general-purpose autonomous robots for US construction, taking on rising costs, safety risks and labour shortages. Our modular, multi-trade platform pairs purpose-built hardware with real-time site intelligence to work in complex environments and execute tasks precisely. Trained in high-fidelity simulation and already deployed on live sites, our robots deliver 5x faster execution, 250%+ margin expansion and significant cost savings. Join India's most talent-dense robotics team, with people from IITs, Stanford, UCLA and more.

About the Role

Origin is moving V3 robot assembly in-house in Bengaluru, growing to a 19-person plant team building 3 to 5 robots a month and scaling to 20. You will be the person who gets both sites open and legal, hires and onboards the technicians and engineers who run them, and keeps the plant compliant, staffed and running day to day. You report to the Supply Chain Lead & Plant Head and work alongside the Plant Supervisor and the Manufacturing Engineer. This is a founding, hands-on role: on day one there is a bare shed and a plan.

Key Responsibilities

Facility set-up and administration

• Run the lease search and sign-off for the interim unit and the SEZ factory with brokers, landlords and legal: term sheet, fire NOC, electrical load, fit-out permissions, exit terms.
• Own the fit-out schedule with the Manufacturing Engineer: contractors, racking, partitions, test rooms, mezzanine, power, internet, water and sanitation, delivered on the plan dates.
• Run the plant day to day: security, housekeeping, canteen, transport, utilities, AMCs, consumables, visitor and vendor access, and the move from the interim unit to the SEZ factory.

Statutory compliance and licensing

• Obtain and maintain every registration the plant needs: GST additional place of business, Shops & Establishments, trade license, Factories Act license, KSPCB consent, fire NOC, BESCOM sanction, and the SEZ/EOU or MOOWR filings with the liaison and customs consultants.
• Own the statutory calendar: PF, ESI, professional tax, labour-welfare, contract-labour and factory returns, registers, inspections and renewals, with zero lapses.
• Set and enforce plant safety and security routines: battery charging and storage SOPs, lifting, PPE, fire drills, incident log and first-aid readiness.

Hiring and onboarding the plant team

• Hire the plant team to the needed-by dates on the org chart: technicians (mechanical, embedded, IQC), stores, QA, logistics and sourcing roles, through ITIs, diploma colleges, staffing agencies and referrals.
• Run the pipeline in Workable end to end: sourcing, screening, trade tests with the Plant Supervisor, offers, background checks and joining.
• Onboard every joiner with documentation, induction, safety briefing, uniforms and tools, and a 30-day check-in.

People operations

• Run monthly payroll inputs, attendance, shifts, leave and overtime for the plant with Finance; keep personnel files and HRMS records accurate.
• Handle contract-labour and agency compliance, grievances, discipline and exits with fairness and documentation.
• Build the plant's people rhythm: skill matrix, training records, retention actions for technicians, and the engagement that keeps a 19-person floor working as one team.

Costs, vendors and records

• Manage the plant admin budget, vendor contracts and purchase requests for admin and facilities spend; track actuals against the approved plan.
• Keep the plant's compliance and facility documentation audit-ready for customers, auditors, customs and SEZ authorities.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• MUST HAVE: Has set up or run plant administration and HR at a manufacturing unit in Karnataka, including the licences and registrations a factory needs to open.
• MUST HAVE: Has hired blue-collar technicians at volume through ITIs, agencies or walk-ins, and run their onboarding and payroll compliance.
• 4 to 8 years in plant administration, factory HR or a combined admin-HR role in an electronics, automotive, EMS or machinery plant.
• Working knowledge of the Factories Act, Shops & Establishments Act, Contract Labour Act, PF, ESI, professional tax and KSPCB categories, and comfort dealing with inspectors and government offices in person.
• Fluent in Kannada and English; Hindi or Tamil a plus for the technician pool.
• Organized and documented by habit: registers, trackers and calendars that someone else could pick up tomorrow.
• Comfortable in a bare industrial space, on your feet, solving the problem in front of you.

Preferred Experience

• Opening a greenfield unit, or moving a plant from one site to another, on a fixed date.
• Export-oriented or bonded premises: SEZ, EOU or MOOWR filings, customs bonding inspections, Development Commissioner liaison.
• Workable or a similar ATS, an HRMS, and payroll tools such as GreytHR or Keka.
• Startup or small-company environment where you were the only admin and HR person.
• ISO 9001 or similar audit preparation for a plant.