Ref. No. : CA - 10822 - (Maintenance and Service - Mechanical – with 36.5 years in Plastic Industry)

Education

Diploma in Plastics Engineering from Shree Bhagubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic, Mumbai with First Class with Distinction in 1987
Diploma in Industrial Electronics from Pune University with First Class in 2001

Skill Sets

Installation and commissioning of Injection moulding machines
Servicing and troubleshooting of injection moulding machines at customer end
Production & maintenance in injection moulding shops
Sales & Marketing of Injection moulding machines and ancillaries

Work Experience

Technical Manager, Injection Moulding Shop
Mar. 2007 - Mar. 2012
Company Profile: A leading group across Africa with Lagos segment processing approx. 700T/month of injection mouldings.
Job Profile:
Handle Production shop-floor of 50 nos. injection moulding machines with all auxiliary equipments such as MTC, Chillers, Dryers, Hot runner systems, Robots etc.
Handle technical and supervisory work force-40 persons
New Mould Set-up
Monitor production process
Maintain process parameters
Control and spear-head the fault-findings and breakdowns regarding machinery and/or process
Maintain auxiliary equipments as mentioned above, in addition to basic moulding machines
Identify and resolve production problems in real time
Assure preventive/breakdown maintenance, safety awareness, new project implementation and high productivity while maintaining the quality standards

Marketing and technical Support to various Agencies
April 2004 - Mar. 2007
Company Profile: Engaged in sales and service of capital equipments.
Job Profile:
The major items include
LG injection moulding machines up to 1600T (South Korea)
Cinpres Gas Injection Equipment (UK)
Wetec robot (South Korea)
Shini Industrial chiller and Dryers (Taiwan)
Piovan Temperature controller (Italy)

Providing after sales technical support including installation and Commissioning, fault finding and troubleshooting for all the above.

Deputy Manager (Sales)
Aug. 2001 - Mar. 2004
Ferromatik Milacron India Ltd., Pune, India
Company Profile:
Leading Multinational Plastics Machinery manufacturer
Job Profile:
To develop marketing operations for injection moulding machines up to 910T in and around Pune territory
To assist in forecasting, planning and developing a strategy to increase market share.
To give Technical presentation to corporate customers
To understand customer requirement and sizing the machine
To follow the sales lead to negotiations and finalization
To keep close contact with potential customers to understand their future needs
Service management comprising of co-ordination with service engineers, execution and monitoring of spares

Technical Consultant
June 2000 - July 2001
Pittie Machines Pvt Ltd.
Company Profile: Medium Scale plastics processor
Job Profile:
To recondition the moulding machines (Windsor, India)
To improve the machine-hours
To increase production efficiency with engineering materials like Nylon, PC etc

Plant Engineer
May 1997 - Dec. 1999
OK Plast (Nig) Ltd.,
Job Profile:
To erect the moulding shop for Reynolds ball-pen project
To follow all the routine maintenance procedures as guided by the manufacturers
To maintain the toggle type Billion (France) Injection moulding machines
To maintain the utilities such as temperature controllers, chillers, compressors, generator sets, water cooling towers etc.
To produce & assemble REYNOLDS ball point pen with multi-cavity automatic moulds
To process plastic materials such as PP, PC, ABS etc
Screen Printing on the product
To develop methods in easy handling of plastic components in various stages to improve shop floor efficiency

Plant Engineer
July 1993 - April 1997
Mayfair Agro-Allied (Nig) Ltd.
Company Profile: A major group in Nigeria as a plastics processor.
Job Profile:
Production of Household plastics e.g. buckets, bowls, plates, basins, covers etc with processing of HDPE as raw materials
Production of Industrial products Paint Containers with tamperproof lids from 4 lit. to 20 lit. With stringent quality control methods such as drop test, stack test, leak test etc.
Maintenance & Trouble shooting of injection moulding machines (Windsor) & blow moulding machines (Central) and other ancillary units e.g. compressors, cooling towers etc.
Inspection & Quality Control of the plastic products
General factory administration

Service Engineer
June 1992 - July 1993
Klockner Windsor (India) Ltd.
Company Profile: A well known plastics machinery manufacturer in India
Job Profile:
Installation and Commissioning of Brand-New machines.
Trouble shooting and fault finding at customer’s site for the injection moulding machines ranging from 30T to 800T.
Hands-on experience on reassembling Clamp and Injection unit, leveling and nozzle concentricity adjustment with checking plate parallelism and tie bar stretch.
Experience on changing hydraulic seals, gaskets, pump cartridges etc on hydraulic equipment.
Fault finding on electrical, electronic PLC circuits

Testing Engineer
Aug. 1987 - June 1992
Klockner Windsor (India) Ltd.
Job Profile:
To test and approve the newly built injection moulding machine ranging from SP 30 DD to SP 800 DD.
To check & rectify the electrical circuits; hydraulic circuits & mechanical assemblies including seals, gaskets, valves etc.

Capital Machinery maintained:
Billion-France-Toggle and/or Hyd.-90T to 1000T (Stabilog, Visumat, Dixit)
Ferromatik Milacron-India-Toggle and/or Hyd.-100T to 775T (Omega, Magna Toggle)
LienFa-Taiwan-Hyd.-180T to 270T
Jon Wai-Taiwan-Toggle-250T
Windsor-India-30T to 800T (SP series)
LG-South Korea-550T to 1600T

Major strongholds:
Understanding, fault finding and resolving of hydraulic, electrical, electronic (PLC) and pneumatic circuitry for the breakdowns of all the above machinery
Auxiliary Equipment maintained:
Hopper dryers
Hot runner systems
Mould temp controllers
Chillers
Diesel Generators
Robots for part picking and in-mould labeling
Gas Injection equipment (Nitrogen gas)

Processes handled:
Conventional thermoplastic moulding
Two colour Moulding
Over moulding
Thin walled multi-cavity
In-mould labeling

Moulds handled:
Household containers, plates, bowls, mugs, cups etc.
Hot runner multi cavity, three plate
Paint containers
Plastic furniture Chairs, tables

Materials handled:
PP, HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, SAN, BS, PS etc

Managerial Skill Strengths :
Maintain and upkeep the machinery and equipment
Maintain and improve production efficiency
Streamline workflow, maintain technical inventory, train and motivate staff
Utilize the available resources effectively
Reach production targets of short term as well as long term basis

Future Goals

To obtain a challenging and rewarding upper-level position in a growth-oriented organization, which offers diverse job responsibility in plastics engineering field and will fully utilize both my technical and managerial abilities

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