SH Legal (JB 9)

Designation: Manager

Location: India Gujarat Birla Cellulosic, Kharach

Organization: Cellulosic Fibre & Textiles

Job Description:

Job Purpose

Assist management from time to time in all legal matters pertaining to land, revenue, civil, labor and tribunal cases ad representing the company before the appropriate office. Also, handle court cases related to Consumer Forum and Industrial Tribunal.
Keep a track on company¿s cases in various courts on various stands and apprise management on the course of actions
Coordinate with the advocates on all legal matters, court cases in Session courts, High courts and Supreme Court

Job Context & Major Challenges

Birla Cellulosic is a Green Field Project of Grasim Industries Ltd. The project was conceptualised in the year 1994 and was fully commissioned in 1998.

The unit has an installed capacity of 350 TPD of Viscose Staple Fibre and is the most modern Viscose Staple Fibre producing unit of GrasimÂs pulp & Fibre business, with its four manufacturing streams of Viscose Staple Fibre of 90 TPD, 75 TPD Carbon di Sulphide (CS2), 200 TPD of Sulphuric Acid, 2 x 15 MW Thermal Power Plant and other auxiliary plants like Water Treatment, Demineralisation & Effluent Treatment Plant etc.GrasimÂs pulp & fibre business has grown over a period of last 50 years and has matured in terms of cost, quality & productivity. Today GrasimÂs Viscose fibre is branded as `Birla Viscose and is considered as most environment friendly textile grade viscose fibre known for its feel, comfort & Fashion.

Birla Cellulosic plant was put up to further strengthen the groupÂs market leadership in the fibre business and expand its share in the world market by producing best quality product.

With majority (80%) of the customers exporting yarn, managing their satisfaction level for them to meet stringent international quality norms is a formidable job.With the vision of making the plant a world reference point in terms of quality & cost the project was provided with most modern state of art machinery & Distributed Control System (DCS) & Programmable logic controllers (PLC).

Over last few years the market of Viscose Staple Fibre has been facing stiff competition from other textile grade fibres like Polyester, Nylon etc. The increasing cost of raw material has been consistently eating deeper in to profit margins of the viscose fibre and on the other hand other competing fibres are being made available at a much cheaper price year after year.

Key Result Areas


KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)
KRA1Correspondence with Government bodiesMaintain cordial relations with the government authorities. Timely submission of various legal documents required by the Government authorities and pursue results in favor of the management
KRA2Legal Matters pertaining to land / revenue / civil / labor / criminal and excise cases as well as consumer forumEnsure compliances in legal matters pertaining to land / revenue / civil cases / labor / criminal / excise and consumer forum. Understand the charges put by the legal authorities, seek advice from the advocates / necessary legal authorities and accordingly act upon the suggested actions.
Ensure smooth functioning of the unit and no work suffering due to the above legal hassles.
KRA3Liaison with Lawyers and keep a track on company¿s cases in various courts and apprise the management on the course of actionsRepresent on behalf of the management before the court of law for various jurisdiction. Keep a track of developments in each legal matter and apprise the management on the day to day happenings.
Ensure proper communication with the lawyers and keep them abreast of the situations and seek their guidance from time to time.
Apprise the management for various suggested actions and chalk out action plans in line with the management¿s decisions
KRA4Compliance at all levelsHandle compliance at all levels ¿ local, district, state and national level. Ensure cordial relations at all levels of jurisdiction and continuously track the progress at each level.

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