Head of Product Supply - MSF
Sunbulah Group
Total years of experience :20 years, 0 Months
Designation Chronology:
• Jul 2015 - Present: Plant Manufacturing Manager
• Dec 2013 - Jul 2015: Production Manager
Highlights:
• Successfully controlled and managed an annual budget of USD 5.00 million for plant operations.
• Achieved BRC quality certification for the plant.
• Achieved a cost of USD 0.45 million by successfully implementing lean manufacturing technique to design continuous product flow.
• Recorded zero inventory variance and 0.57% material utilization by adoption of principles of best warehousing management practices.
• Improved production yield by 18.00% and manpower productivity by 35.00%.
• Achieved 30.00% reduction in manpower by implementation of redesigned operational process and better staff training and utilization.
• Improved high performance organization practices by development of appropriate strategic plan.
• Achieved improvement in “On Time in Full” delivery targets to 99.00% and “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” to 79.00% by improving production and better management of plant and machinery.
• Reduced overall plant cost by 27.00% by identifying, negotiating and outsourcing service contractor.
• Achieved savings of USD 2.00 million by reduction in capital investment and through process improvements in food service section.
• Prepared, trained and developed the new employees, automated and set up machines to establish and maintain food service section.
Key Responsibilities:
Planning:
• Responsible for environment, health and safety of the plant and personnel to ensure maintenance of accident and incident free conditions.
• Develop total preventive maintenance and automation plan for the selected machines to improve production and ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Provide directions to department heads for preparation of annual plan for their respective departments to achieve the overall target production with year on year growth and cost.
• Coordinate with functional heads to provide guidance in preparation of annual plan, budget, strategies and action plans to meet the respective functional targets.
• Assimilate functional plans and improve functional parameters to achieve year on year improvement to prepare and finalize the overall plan with senior management.
• Share finalized plan with all department heads to seek buy in and commitment to achieve the final targets and for commencement of preparatory work.
• Participate in preparation of annual production plan, as a production manager, including production norms, productivity target and strategic plan to improve the performance.
Strategy Execution:
• Monitor actual performance for each functional area to ensure achievement of daily targets and in case of any deviation, to take necessary corrective action to make up the shortfall.
• Coordinate and direct the activities of all the plant activities to resolve any inter functional coordination issues and synchronize the plans of all the functions.
• Ensure full support of maintenance, quality control, procurement and warehousing, sales coordination and dispatch to maximize production without any unplanned interruption.
• As a production manager, prepare and monitor daily production plan and plan all resource requirements in advance to ensure achievement of targets.
• Develop and implement quality policies, procedures and quality improvement initiatives to ensure conformance and up-gradation of quality standards.
Human Resource Management:
• Finalize human resource development plan for every year in synchronization with other functional plans, including manpower strength, skills and knowledge requirements to achieve the targets.
• Recruit, train and develop manpower and adopt high performance organization practices to equip the manpower with required knowledge and skill requirements.
• Develop best safe work practices, plan training of personnel for adoption of safe work practices and administer proper implementation through appropriate administrative measures.
Designation Chronology:
• Nov 2012 - Dec 2013: Production Manager
• Nov 2011 - Nov 2012: Quality Control Manager
Highlights:
• Successfully demonstrated capability to manage manpower strength of 900 employees.
• Reduced operating cost by 11.00% and overhead expenses by 9.00%.
• Increased the plant capacity 1.60 times by development and full implementation of preventive maintenance and standard operating procedures.
Key Responsibilities:
• Was responsible for improvement of all production processes and human resource management practices to improve cost effectiveness.
• Based on annual production plan, identified gaps in machine and equipment availability to determine capital expenditure requirements for health and efficiency improvement and procurement plans to prepare CAPEX plan and budget.
• Reviewed actual daily production and initiated necessary actions to achieve target production meeting quality specifications.
• Monitored actual performance of quality control system to identify areas of improvement for better efficacy and cost effectiveness.
• Developed and implemented human resource management procedures for supervisors, inspectors and laboratory workers to improve their motivation and output.
• Developed and implemented quality control procedures and testing methods along with qualifying criterion of all testing parameters.
• Identified critical stages in the manufacturing process, for finalizing sampling plans including sample sizes and sampling frequency.
• Participated in new product development process to identify the critical aspects which were likely to impact mass production of new product.
• Collected detailed information and data and developed complete specifications of all products, including upper and lower value limits for all parameters.
Highlights:
• Achieved annual savings of 14 million USD by implementation of Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing process in the Lutetia Tumbler production capacity improvement.
• Improved DSI meat portioning machine capacity by 60.00%.
• Developed new products in DSI machine for retails and food services in KFC chains.
• Increased the capacity of Stein fully cooked line in JSO oven by 76.00%.
Key Responsibilities:
• Planned and coordinated the activities of the supervisors, operators and other employees involved in manufacturing process to achieve daily production targets.
• Coordinated with maintenance function to ensure that the machines are repaired with prior planning and in case of unforeseen failures, within the shortest possible time to minimize downtime and loss of production.
• Maintained daily production report for all machines, along with machine downtime, if any, with reasons thereof, summarized and issued daily, weekly and monthly reports to all concerned.
• Prepared production schedules and assigned targets to the operators to meet shift wise and daily production targets, maintaining proper quality.
• Closely monitored the readings of dial gauges, indicators and other instruments at specified intervals to ensure that the manufacturing process was under control.
• Provide machine operation training, including safe work procedures to ensure accident free operations and utilized experienced employees for imparting training to junior and new employees.
Courses for food technology and processing food industry.