Profile summary:
Results-driven Food professional with 18+ years of experience managing production operations and leading teams to improve productivity, safety and quality in the Dairy Food production industry.
Work experience and good knowledge of processing, standardization, packaging and dispatch of the Milk & Milk products and Ice-cream products.
Demonstrated abilities in handling smooth functioning of large scale manufacturing unit and enhancing operational efficiency by making use of new techniques.
Experience in handling new product development, technical development and projects.
Posses’ good knowledge of Food safety & regulatory compliance and HACCP system & GMP implementation.
Experience in leading and working with diverse teams.
Proficient in Computer skills- Microsoft (MS) office and SAP-Production module (ERP)..
Work Experience :
Product Development Exec.
2006-04-17 - 2009-04-19
Production Mgr
2009-04-19 - 2012-10-25
Production Mgr
2013-03-29 - 2014-08-21
Production Mgr
2015-04-01 - 2018-01-21
Key Highlights-
As a Production Head, primarily responsible for ensuring Quality manufacturing and availability of products as per requirement of Sales team.
Accountable for Production planning, machine efficiency and material yield thereby maintaining Cost of production under budgeted norms.
Leads a Team of 110+ personnel & achieved preset targets for year 2015-16 and received the recognition “Certificate of Excellence” for achieving yearly KPI’s.
Involved in process improvement and system modification projects (SCADA, Check weigher) along with maintenance team for better controls and safe operations.
QA/QC Mgr
2019-01-15 - 2022-10-19
Key Highlights-
Lead and worked for streamlining the manufacturing operations for Dairy products (Ghee, Paneer, and Curd & Shrikhand), Liquid milk and Ice-cream production.
Played a key role in product development and involved in commercial product launch of 60+ Ice-cream products and Dairy products.
Supervised and coordinated project related work and installation & commissioning of plant & machinery and trials as per the company requirements.
Developed and set-up a system in factory by preparing SOP, records, formats.
Factory Head
2023-01-31 - Presently working
Key Results area-
Preparing production schedules & reports, monitoring the plant operations and taking care of current products and improvements.
Responsible for planning & implementation of preventive maintenance schedule and ensuring reliability of production line machineries as well as utility.
Cost control, technical development and projects.
Planning and coordination with purchase team for controlling inventory of raw materials & packaging materials as per requirement & budgeted plans.