Group Head – Projects & General Manager – Plant Operations (Pizza plant)
HyFun Foods (ASANDAS & SONS GROUP)
Total years of experience :15 years, 5 Months
Design & Execution of Greenfield / Brownfield Food Processing Projects (above USD 5.00 millions)
Operations handling capacities above 150 staff / manpower per unit
Compliance of BRC / FSSC 22000 / IFS / Organic / Halal audits
Guiding Technical / QA dept on legal compliance of recipes and labelling added advantage
Scalable involvement in Sales & Marketing activities including strategy development & execution to achieve consumer acceptance.
Greenfield projects have been successfully executed within stipulated times with deft knowledge on Fruits & Vegetables, Bakery and Confectionery segments / lines.
Successfully reached customers incl. Reliance, ONGC, UPCL, Gujarat Metal Industries, have been developed for fresh Chapathis, frozen Parathas & Naans for the Industrial Canteens.
Conducting market research for Flatbreads at domestic and international destinations include, GCC, UK/EU, Australia, Japan, CANADA, USA.
Formulating products Chapatis (whole wheat, multi grain, etc), Naans, Parathas, Pizza bases, Tortillas of Frozen, chilled and ambient (Nitrogen flushed) and reviewing process and production plans.
Greenfield project of Rajhans Nutriments Pvt Ltd had been successfully executed within stipulated times (15 months) with deft knowledge on cocoa confectionery line.
Developed HACCP based Food Safety Management systems (BRC, FSSC 2200) for chocolate products lines. Guiding documents/records of BRC/GSFS (Global Standards for Food Safety).
Formulating products and reviewing process and production plans, computing requirement of raw materials /other inputs and deploying manpower, machines and material resources to achieve targeted production levels.
Hands-On experience of BUHLER Chocolate making line, AASTED moulding line, CHOCOTECH kitchen for bar line; SOLLICH line for sheeting, cutting, enrobing; LOESCH and BLG packing lines added advantage.
Developing comprehensive capacity plans for production department to achieve the business objectives based on sales forecast, planning and implementation processes and achieving targets on time.
Assuring entire legal requirement as per FPO, FSSAI standards, and EU/UK and FDA or relevant food standards (for duty free & export markets).
Performing effective management of laboratory and administrative tasks like inspection & testing (physical/ chemical/ microbiological) of Raw Materials, Packaging Materials & Finished Products, in process quality control and calibration of inspection/measuring/test equipments.
Administering hygiene & food safety audits to assure adherence to system and standard procedures.
Efficiently revising specifications as per FSSAI rules and carrying out store functions by administering raw materials scientifically (Storage/FIFO/Traceability)
Liaising with customers including Retailers, Distributors and end consumer for timely product, technical and supply chain information.
Through effective production management, planning and implementation and rationalization of processes to striving to minimize direct and indirect costs of the organization viz. material cost, labour cost, indirect expenses and overheads without compromising on the quality or efficiency and increasing the productivity.
Adroitly reviewing monthly reports of Internal Quality Audit and review the trends, incident investigation, training records of on the job provided by QA/Hygiene staff at the site and also review the client’s requirement for Food safety.
Closely monitoring operation and maintenance/calibration of latest sophisticated equipment.
Implementing preventive, planned and predictive maintenance to ensure optimum deployment of machineries to optimize operational efficiency minimizing incidences of breakdowns.
Developing plan for ensuring compliance to all HSE activities and practices.
Drawing plans for optimizing man & machine utilization, strict dispatch schedule and to reduce wastes for enhancing productivity & profitability.
Ensuring healthiness of Plant & Equipments and maintenance of 5S clean & green work ambience for hygiene and aesthetic appeals.
Ensuring timely service delivery as well as communicating with the clients within the stipulated period while managing the overall business of the company and maintaining smooth operations.
Accountable for managing professionals and their performance planning and review and mentor them to enhance their skill sets.
Strong credentials in making distinguished engineering contributions on new product development, testing, re-vamping and setting up engineering systems.
Performing a wide range of people management functions from recruiting through on-boarding, goal setting, performance appraisal, training, competency building, resource utilization & capacity planning, knowledge transfer, etc.
Systematizing entire warehouse & logistics operations including- materials movement, receiving, storage, issue, distribution of finished product- to ensure bottleneck free store operation & best utilization of store space.
Handling high-value global & domestic customers, consolidating international interests and products.
Efficient teams have been developed for production planning, purchasing, sales & distribution, quality/technical, engineering/maintenance and successfully led.
Hands-On experience of LAWRENCE EQUIPMENT, Automated NAAN/PIZZA Baking line, FROZEN FOOD line, FUJI Packing lines, is added advantage.
As formulation speciality, developed a business winning recipes of Indian whole wheat breads - chapattis, naans, tortillas/wraps, parathas and kulchas; and also developed customised recipes for DOMINO’s - thin crust and deep pan pizza bases
Introduced & designed legally approved QUID based labels with Nutritional info as required (using NutriCalc software), and labels & Art Work sign-offs for both domestic and international customer (from Emirates, South Korea, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, etc., )
Worked with Honeytop- UK, Paramount Packaging- UK, and Multivac- India for plant expansions and new plant installations.
As Technical Director, managed plant operations of Marasu’s Petits Fours Ltd, Treasure Chocolates, Artisan du Chocolat for qualitative-productivity and excellences.
As Food technologist cum NPD lead, developed conventional/organic recipes, including plain/flavoured bars, buttons, wafers, gnashes, fondant crèmes, fudges, truffles & fillings, baked products, etc., for top end customers.
Introduced & designed legally approved QUID based labels with Nutritional info as required (using NutriCalc software), and labels & Art Work sign-offs.
Recognized for effectively monitoring the risk of product/process cross contamination/contamination through scientific research and validation using several techni-innovative methods include Rapid Hygiene Testing and Allergens control through 3M-Swab system.
Develop and Reviewed Paper based Food Product Technical Specifications and Online Customer Food Product Specifications (e.g. Hamilton Grant, Traceall) as per the retail customers’ demand.
BUSINESS RESEARCH MARKETING MANAGEMENT MANAGING PEOPLE FINANCIAL & MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING MANAGING STRATEGY CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT INTL AGRIBUSINESS MARKETING GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS
FOOD CHEMISTRY FOOD MICROBIOLOGY FOOD PLANT SANITATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT FOOD ENGINEERING SENSORY ANALYSIS PROCESSING OF VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS IMPACT OF PROCESSING ON NUTRITIONAL QUALITY DAIRY AND MEAT PRODUCTS TECHNOLOGY POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY
AGRI FOOD MACHINERY POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY FOOD ENGINEERING FOOD PROCESSING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT MACHINE DESIGNING AND FABRICATION FOOD BI-PRODUCTS PROCESSING AND VALUE ADDITION
