PERSONAL SUMMARY:
§  Age:48 yrs., Male
§  Nationality: Indian
§  Current Location: Toronto, Canada.
§  Current Position: Plant Manager
§  Current Company: IMPERIO INTERN’L LTD.
§  Passport Details: Z2260355&Valid till 07/04/2021.

§  Current Salary Package:
§  Willingness to Relocate : YES

§  Expected Salary:  30% higher
PROFILE SUMMARY
23 years of multi-faceted experience in complete Manufacturing aspects, Production, Operation, Commercial, Sales & Marketing with International Exposure.

Expert in manufacturing in enhancing 3M (Man, Machine, Material) of organization, directing the operations of technically advanced, state of the art production systems and processes.

v  A dynamic professional with over 22 years of rich & indigenous experience in manufacturing & inside 12 years in soap (Medicated, toilet, laundry bar), detergent & Cosmetics manufacturing, soaps produced by finishing line and semi-boil process with key focus on top and bottom line profitability by ensuring optimal utilization of resources. Detergent produce by dry mix process and spray dryer process.

v  Responsible for company operations with an overall understanding of total business operations to including Production, packing, Maintenance, HR, Finance, Commercial, budget, Capex, SCM, Quality Management Systems, Lean Manufacturing, Process, Engineering, purchasing, inventory, Sales & marketing, training, safety, facilities and expansion plans (Projects) and all other duties related to the business operations.

v  Establishing work priorities & procedures to ensure that daily work flow requirements that the plant deadlines are meet. Leaded team of 400 production employees.

v  A strategic planner with proven ability to develop short & long term strategies, improve operations, impact business growth and maximize profits through achievement in resource allocation & performance.

v  Well organized with track record that demonstrates Self-motivation, creativity, and initiative to achieve corporate and organization goals.

v  Production & Operations Management; with experience in designing production plans, organize and direct the manufacturing and maintenance operations which ensure the most effective return on assets.Monitoring production operations and imparting training to the staff members for meeting the production targets.

v  Overall responsible for the Product Availability as per the market Demand and to meet the Budgeted volume.

v  Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities & assignments to provide total leadership.

v  Responsible for overall plant cost & Profitability, analysis and generation of reports.

v  Responsible for implementing systems, processes, Key Performance Indicators, the Safety of Employees & Assets of the organization. Wide experience in Consumer Packages Goods (CPG) environment.

v  Works with Purchasing and Sales to forecast and manage material planning and accurate warehouse/ inventory control systems for both procured end-items and factory-made items.

KEY SKILLS:
· Production Department, Dispensing, BOM. BPR. Third party management, Vendor Management.

· GMP, 5S, CIL, CIP, ISO, TPM, TQM, Kaizen, SOP, GHP.DWM.OSHA

· Technology Transfer, Maintenance, Packing.

· Team Handling, Training, Documentation.

· Operational Excellence, Safety.

· Process Quality & Improvement, Cold storage.

· Quality control & Assurance, CAPA, Validation, IQ,OQ,PQ, Standards &Specifications.

· SCM, Warehouse, OTDIF, FIFO, DOH Inventory, Dispatch.

PRODUCTS HANDLED – MANUFACTURING & PACKAGING

·         Fine chemicals (DCP, MCA, EDTA,NTA)

·         Food (Margarine, Baking powder, Sugar Vanillin)

·         Spices (Basic & Blended)

·         Confectionary (Chocolate & Toffee)

·         Detergent powder

·         Soap (Toilet soap, Medicated soap, multipurpose soap, Laundry bar soap, Soap Noodles.)

·         Edible oil (from CPO)

·         Liquid (Hand wash, Dish wash, Antiseptic) & Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly), Talcum powder

OVERSEAS WORK EXPERIENCE:

Feb 2018 to Continue IMPERIO INTERNATIONAL LTD, LAGOS, NIGERIA, W. Africa (Group of Aspira Nig Ltd.)

Soap Plant Manager (Production & Quality)
·         Responsible for soap plant (Finishing lines-6, Mazzoni Auto soap noodle plant-3T/H, SAS soap noodle plant-1T/H) operations including: safety, production, quality control, sanitation, maintenance, Inventory, shipping and receiving. Maintain facility up-keep and implement approved capital improvement projects.

·          Evaluate and train mentors and prepare direct and indirect reports. Lead and hold accountable direct and indirect reports on production goals, productivity, efficiencies and profitability.

·         Develop and maintain business relationships with Contract Manufacturers, responsible for manufacturing the contract company products Savlon & JBaby soap (J&J).

·          Lead teams to oversee all aspects of operational performance that meets the quality, safety standards, regulatory policies, customer service and cost requirements of the organization.

·         Promote continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles. Report to MD.
Jan 2017 to Jan 18 NILE AGRO INDUSTRIES LTD, JINJA, UGANDA. Africa

Soap Plant Manager (Production & Quality)
§  Responsible for multi plant, Saponification (96TPD), Laundry Soap from Mazzoni / Mil India / Fleckar Line (96TPD) & Detergent plant (48TPD), Edible oil (100TPD) from CPO.

§  Responsible for Production & maintenance Plans, reviews daily, weekly and monthly, organizes and implements the necessary controls and measurements to ensure the efficient, cost effective manufacturing operations that obtain objectives in the areas of Safety, Productivity, Cost, Quality and Customer Satisfaction (OTIF-On Time in Full).

§  Responsible for commercial, sales & marketing.

§  Responsible for Maintenance of all plants.

§  To minimize the losses / wastages of RM/PM and machine downtime.

§  To maintain the production & Process records and ensuring SAP entries on time

§   Quality control & assurance.

§  Follow GMP, Food Safety, Personnel hygiene and good housekeeping in the plant.

§   KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: “GHK, resolved process issues”.

Jan 2016 to Dec 2016 NOVA PRODUCTS SARL   Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa

Plant Manager (Production & Quality)-Soap & Edible oil.
§  Responsible for multi plant, PLC based Physical Refining Plant (100TPD) from Andreotti Impianti S.p.a, Saponification (120TPD), Laundry Soap from Mazzoni 2 Lines (120TPD), Toilet Soap from Mazzoni 2 Lines (72 TPD), Winterization/Fractionation Plant from Oiltek (36TPD), Cosmetic plant, Oil Pretreatment, Oil Storage, Steam Boilers

§  Responsible for complete Manufacturing aspects, commercial & sales.

§  Setting up targets, maintaining CTQ (Critical to Quality) / CTP (Critical to Process) targets and involved in planning for the process. Minimize the losses / wastages of RM/ PM and machine downtime.

§  Manage independently full process cycle in soap, packing, physical edible oil refinery process, and chemical edible oil refinery process including degumming. Bleaching & deodorization of oils & fats, Winterization of oils and fats, Fatty acid etherification of high FFA oils, Filtration, evaporation & crystallization

§  Maintenance of all refineries, soap plant and control spare parts inventory. Ensuring efficient and safe running of all machinery/equipments.

§   Quality control & assurance

§  Provide necessary training and counseling to employee as per requirement.

§  Follow GMP, Food Safety, Personnel hygiene and good housekeeping in the plant. Environment health & safety (EHS).

§  KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Reduced 20% the manpower cost without hampering productivity and quality, increased 30% the equipment efficiency in toilet plant and 14% in laundry bar plant by training staffs and closely monitoring daily basis productivity. Improve edible oil quality from 6R to 3R by changing refining process of CPO.

Nov 2010 to Dec 2015   NEW HOME PRODUCTS IND.LTD (FMCL, Chanarai group) Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa

Plant Manager-Soap, CPC

§  Responsible for handling 120 TPD toilet soap 2 lines from Nantong, contract manufacturing (CPC) for P&G “Safeguard& Camay”, PZ “Joy”, Himalaya “Herbal soap, Juliet soap.

§  Initiative plans and processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials and capital. Assure attainment of business objectives and productions schedules while insuring product standards that will exceed our customers’ expectations.

§  Establish section wise and individual accountabilities on a permanent and ad-hoc basis, depending on need.

§  Monitoring of all records like GMP, housekeeping, CIL for machines, BPR, CAPA, Non-conformance RM/PM, Expiry of RM/PM, worker over time, daily, weekly & monthly production & process record, implementation of SOPs and safety.

§  Ensured compliance to regulatory requirements, compliance to FDA, NAFDAC and customers norms.

§  KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Increases the overall Productivity up to 30% for all products by increasing the OEE through schedule Prev. Maintenance of machinery and proper planning of man, Material and machinery. Play key role in getting The Production Award in soap sector in 2013

Sep. 2008 to Aug. 2010       Shamantaka Industries Ltd. Kano, Nigeria, West Africa

Production Manager-Soap & Detergent

§  Responsible for 48TPD toilet line from Nantong, 72 TPD laundry tablet (Mil India Plant) and bar line & 24 TPD dry mix process detergent plant.

§  Assuring Production equipment is properly maintained by implementing and maintaining a Total Productive Maintenance Program (TPM). Also, continuously monitors equipment operating conditions and works with the Maintenance and electrical Department to minimize unexpected downtime.

§  Coordinating/maintaining a training program that will assure each production associates skill level meets minimum requirements to operate equipment, as well as, to provide opportunities for all associates to continuously improve their skill levels for their areas of responsibility and for cross functional training in other areas of production.

§  Report/monitor performance in the areas of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), change-over times, labor cost, quality, machine parts expenses, material loss, maintenance cost and cost reductions; develops corrective actions to assure all areas of responsibility meet budgetary/Forecasted expectations. Also, prepares all forecast/budget proposals for the above mentioned categories for monthly/six month periods and/or as requested by management.

§  Verify conformance to QMS and EMS (Quality & Environmental Management Systems) requirements, referring to the soap Units.

§  Documentation of Manuals and SOPs and their periodic revision and validation,

§  KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Increased manufacturing capacity from 3 tons to 4 ton per hour.

Nov 2006 July 2008       Castle soap Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria, W. Africa

Production Manager-Soap

§  Responsible for 48TPD toilet line from Mazzoni and packing line from Acma.

§  Maintaining, controlling and planning of raw & packaging material, inventory control and man power planning.

§  Preparing records like WIP, batch manufacturing, batch reconciliation, GMP – like housekeeping, equipment cleaning & batch production, daily production, worker over time & monthly production and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

§  Scheduling and planning predictive, preventive and breakdown maintenance jobs with key focus on spares availability and root cause analysis.

§  Organizing and controlling the shift performance, product wise yield and action to minimize wastage, deviation and preventive action plans, non-conformance and preventive action plan for further improvement.

§  Providing production as per SOP and GMP norms and produced the best quality products by providing training to semi-skilled workmen.

§  KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Reduced the wastage of RM from 5% to 1% and packing material from 15% to 5%.WR.

Occurrence 🙁 In India.)

VVF LTD,KUTCH, GUJARAT.

v  From April 2006 to Oct 2006 as Chemist-QC

v  Responsible for documentation, Reports & Analysis of Split Fatty Acid, Glycerin, PW, Soap.

v  Handled all kind of lab equipments.

JRJ FOODS PVT LTD,KADI, GUJARAT.

v  From Feb 2006 to April 2006 as Chemist

v  Product: Chocolate & Toffee

v  Responsible for Analysis of RM/PM, documentation, reports & lab equipments.

JP FOODS,KADI, GUJARAT.

v  From March 2000 to Feb 2006 as Chemist.

v  Product: Agmark grade Basic & Blended Spices.

v  Responsible for cleaning, grading, sorting, grinding, Blending and handling equipment for spices and cold storage.

v  Handled Agmark documentation, reports, Analysis & all kind of lab equipments.

DADA CHEMICALS LTD,BARODA, GUJARAT.

v  From Feb 1997 to Mar 2000 as Plant Supervisor

v  Mfg: MCA,NTA,EDTA

v  Responsible for handling Chlorine, HCL and Fractional Distillation plant.

v  Responsible for separation, Crystallization, washing, evaporation, Filtration and centrifugation.

v  Handled various type of reactor including glass reactor, glass assembly, centrifuge, boiler, Tray & vacuum driers and other plant machinery.

SUJAN FINE CHEMICALS,BARODA, GUJARAT.

v  From July 1996 to Jan 1997 as Plant Chemist.

v  Mfg: Dichloro Phenol.

v  Responsible for chlorination, HCl and Distillation plant.

EDUCATION
Passed in May 1996 from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India.

BSc. (Chemistry) with 56%.

Passed in May 1992 from  All India institute of local Self Government, Baroda, Gujarat, India.

Sanitary Inspectors’ Diploma with 61%.

§  Languages: English, French, Hindi and Gujarati