Sanjeewa Herath, Deputy General Manager

Sanjeewa Herath

Deputy General Manager

Amalgamated Building Systems

Location
Sri Lanka - Kelaniya
Education
Higher diploma, Business Administration
Experience
25 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 6 Months

Deputy General Manager at Amalgamated Building Systems
  • Sri Lanka - Pita Kotte
  • March 2022 to July 2022

Supervising and providing guidance to the factory Managers, Overlooking operations, providing engineering inputs and business development were the main responsibilities.

Head of Production at Electro Metal Pressings (Pvt) Limited
  • Sri Lanka - Homagama
  • March 2012 to March 2022

• Job Description: Implement strategic initiatives to increase the productivity, Maintaining optimum operation levels and plan activities to satisfy the clients, Cost controlling, maintaining and ensuring quality standards are followed and work collaboratively with the other core functional departments.
• Achievements: Increased the revenue by 300% in five years. (Factory layout changed, Introduced a second shift, Implemented training programs for the middle management and introduced an incentive scheme for all the factory employees).

Responsibilities & Duties
• Production planning and monitoring
• Coordination between the Sales and Marketing Division and the relevant sectional heads involved in production.
• Operations management.

Deputy General Manager at MTD Walkers PLC
  • Sri Lanka
  • May 2002 to February 2012

Positions held: Deputy General Manager
Chief Engineer
Chief Engineer - Mechanical
Senior Mechanical Engineer

Reported to : Director / Head of Operations
Type of Organization: Electro - Mechanical Contractor

Responsibilities & Duties

• Business administration and development with special attention to analyzing new business avenues and making recommendations to the board of directors on organizational preparedness to take up forthcoming challenges.
• Overlooking the estimation and tendering process.
• Monitoring, guiding and coordinating project managers and ensures operations are managed properly and cost effectively. Overlooked overall operations management including planning, scheduling and following up of several projects simultaneously.
• Managing the sub contractors.
• Preparation of sales budgets, cash flow forecasts and deploying the team of engineers to achieve the targets set.
• Setting up of profit targets for each project and overseeing the management of project with special attention to cost controlling.

Types of Projects Managed:

Petroleum Industry:
• Construction of floating roof type and fixed roof type Fuel Storage Tanks for Ceylon Petroleum Cooperation (CPC) and Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Limited (CPSTL)
Standards followed: API 650
• Repairs to the Fuel Storage Tanks for the above organizations.
Standards followed: API 653
Irrigation Sector
• Remedial Works of reservoirs under World Bank funded Dam Safety Project.
Scope of each project contains rehabilitation of irrigation structures such a radial gates, mechanical installations, civil works and Electrical works.
• Fabrication and Installation of 74 Nos. of sluice gates and 6 Nos. of radial gates for various anicuts under Hambanthota Irrigation Rehabilitation Project.
• Remedial works to the stop logs and the radial gates of Randenigala Reservoir.

Deputy Projetc Manager at Zeus Engineerig (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Sri Lanka
  • May 2000 to June 2002

Reported to : Project Manager

Type of Organization : M & E consultancy company.

Project Involved : Construction of HNB Tower (32 story buiding located at the heart of Colombo)

Responsibilities & Duties:

Detailing design drawings to the contractor and preperation of

fabrication drawings and installation drawings.

Monitoring the progress, quality of the workmanship and quality of the materials supplied by the contractor.

Checking the accuracy of the Progress Bill submitted by the contractor and making joint measurements with the contractor and recomending the bill for certifying.

Engineering Manager at Technomar Associates (Pvt.) Limited
  • Sri Lanka
  • June 1998 to April 2000

Reported to : Managing Director
Type of Organization : Contractor (Steel Fabrication)

Responsibilities & Duties

•Operations management including Labour, Materials, Consumables, Tools and Equipment.

•Suppervising the fabrication and erection of steel structures.

•Searching for new project opportunities, preparation of cost estimates and quotations.

Mechanical Engineer at Kelani Cables Limited
  • Sri Lanka
  • February 1997 to May 1998

Reported to : Engineering Manager
Type of Organization : Electrical cable (wire) manufacturing factory

Responsibilities & Duties

•Carrying out preventive maintenance of extruding and breading machines and preperation of maintenance schedules.

•Attending to breakdown repairs. Advising main stores on spare part stocks.

•Looking after the administrative works of the maintenance crew.

•Maintaining machine downtime due to breakdowns at the minimum levels.

Education

Higher diploma, Business Administration
  • at Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura.
  • September 2014

All the modules required for MBA covered and research not completed, hence I ended up having a POSTGRADUATED DIPLOMA. This is due to personal reasons.

Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. in the Discipline of Mechanical Engineering
  • at University of Moratuwa
  • December 1996

Research on forecasting the life span of rotating equipments using vibration analysis and past data. A detailed mathematical formulae were used in 1996

Specialties & Skills

Metal Fabrication
Production Planning
Cost Estimating
MS Project
Project Management
Preperation cost estimates for tank construction
Managing Tank Construction
MS Project
Planning Job Production

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka
  • Associate Member
  • May 1998

Training and Certifications

PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI - Colombo
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Pass (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 1993
Valid Until:
April 1993

Hobbies

  • Watch TV and Listening to Music