Senior Production Manager
Globe Biscuits and Dairy Milk ltd
Total years of experience :38 years, 5 Months
Production planning, Scheduling, Execution, co ordinating with Purchase, Supply chain, Quality Control & Assurance, Maintenance and R & D of all cross functional teams to achieve company Production target within scheduled period.
Also New Product development work planning with R & D team, trials conducting, product evaluation sensory and analytical, lined up the required special RMs with supply chain team for Commercial production start up, stabilization and launching as per company planning schedule.
Assuring utilisation of Man, Machines and Materials to the optimum and factory cost control activities along with process development in existing production varities as per competitive market demands.
Overall responsible for Production, Process development, Quality control & Assurance, Inventry control, Effective Utilisation of Man, Machine & Material, Factory cost control, New Product development, trials, approval, launching & commercial production stabilisation and other R&D activities initiating and monitoring.
Coordinating with factory all cross functional areas of Predictive and Preventive Maintenance, Supply chain, Finance, HR Admin and logistics.
Production Planning, Scheduling, Lined up the RM/PM with replenishment team, Production & output Packing Execution, Quality control & Assurance, Preventive & Predictive Maintenance schedule forming of Plant & Machinery and follow up with the concerned team. Also New product development, co-ordinating with supply chain team and ERP/ SAP document updation.
Since Jun '04 Production Officer Grade-I, Franchisee Units in Hospet & Hyderabad
• Developing production schedule, lining the required RM/PM to the location by coordinating & close follow up with replenishment team, executing the production plan by coordinating & close follow up with the franchisee production & maintenance team.
• Adroitly implementing quality control systems and procedures to assure quality of incoming ingredients, in process materials, finished products, packing and dispatches.
• Accountable for entire production & operations control function as well as packing operations (from balancing the plan out put to stock & forwarding department)
• Instrumental in ensuring quality norms (as per HACCP & ISO 22000) of packing from materials to finished goods.
• Proactively interacting with the manufacturing team in regulating & operations parameters of critical process areas covering-oven settings, temperature control, mixing process, dough consistency and dough temperature maintenance aligned with quality norms.
• Dexterously carrying out various planned and predictive maintenance in plant & packing machineries to maximize machines out put in the end finished goods.. Entire Packing Operations with preventive maintenance tracking with the repective dept.
• Meticulously working over factory cost control team to the company in reducing the labour strength in various process/packing areas & reduce packing cost by increasing the machine out put & effective utilization of labourers.
• Underwent in-house training based on Biscuit Manufacturing Process.
1985-1990 with At BestNut Corporation (Roasted & Salted Cashewnuts Exporters), Chennai
• Looked after the production & packing of roasted & salted cashewnuts into vacuum tins & aluminum foil pouches; as per process control/ quality parameters to ensure right quality output.
Jun '98-May '04 Production Officer Grade-II, Franchisee Unit in Hospet, Karnataka
Jun '96-May '98 Production Officer Grade-III, Franchisees Units in Bangalore& Madurai
Growth Path: Sep '90-May '96 Production Supervisor, Chennai
• Successfully promoted the business by sending the samples to every International Trade fair, interact with the international traders being visited after submitting the samples and promote the business from 25 lacs to One crore/year in the period between 1985 and 1990.
• Played a pivotal role in contributing significantly in export documents right from letter of credit to the shipment. (Performa invoice, conducting FG inspection & analysis with government export inspection agency, necessary certificates obtaining from the State & Central government authorities as per letter of credit opened with other country vendors, coordinating with the commercial tax/duty free team till the shipment.)
• M.Sc. (Industrial Chemistry) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchy in 1985 with first division.
• B.Sc. (Chemistry) from Madras University, Tiruchy in 1983 with first division.
• 12th from St. Joseph's College & Hr. Sec. School, Tiruchy in 1980 with first division.
• 10th from St. Joseph's College & Hr. Sec. School, Tiruchy in 1978 with first division.