• Gender: Male
• Age: 46
• Designation: Production Head / Manager
• Highest Education Level: Diploma
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Preferred Location: Mumbai
• Work Experience: 23.1 Year(s)

Education

Diploma in Printing Technology, Maharashtra State Board Technical Education 2001

Skill Sets

Computer savvy with proficiency in MS Office (MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint). Also worked on MIS systems like SAP, EFI (Hagen), Arrow and other ERP systems. Implemented SAP version 5.

Work Experience

Production Head / Manager
Since August 2018
Company Profile : Is one of the esteemed organizations in Packaging and Stationary. Working with pharma clients in packaging like Euro life, Luminous, Man care, Sun Pharma etc for their products like Labels, mono cartons leaflet etc.
Job Profile :
Prepare job execution plan according to job LSD’s / Dispatch dates
Preparation for Security, Welfare, WCA and Technical audits for all export clients.
Cost saving projects related to operations.
Vendor development for RM and Outsourcing of Jobs.
Technical advice to clients related to their products.
Shop Floor management and process standardization training to team.
Analysis report of each process
Technical development training to team.
Distribution and Guidance to team for inhouse projects

Production Manager
Jan 2016 to May 2018
Company Profile : Dealing majorly in News Inks, offset Inks, Blankets & Press Room Chemical.
Job Profile :
Giving technical support to sales team on PAN India Locations for News Inks, Blankets and Press Room Chemical application.
Interacting with the Central Technical team in US for handling customer complaints and other SCM related activities.
Responsible for implementing the 3Months Rolling demand plan for raw materials required for Inks, PRC and Blankets production to ensure availability of material on time.
Preparing monthly production schedule for regular moving items as per sales forecast and weekly adjustment planning for specific customer orders.
Helping sales team to promote products into market through supporting them by providing customer requested samples on time.
Responsible for conducting trials of PRC & Blankets at customer’s presses before product commercialization.
Responsible for sustaining with good quality product with zero rejection.
Supporting customer by suggesting best and suitable products as per their requirements.
Preparing MIS for global reporting on Operations and Customer Support and Services.
Analysis of Weekly & Monthly production and putting improvement actions to control productivity.
Responsible for managing work force as per production need.
Ensuring save and clean work environment at shop floor.

Works Manager
Oct 2012 to Dec 2015
Company Name : Magna Graphics India Ltd.
Company Profile : Magna is commercial printing press which has it s own magazines and other commercial jobs like educational books (Chetna, Jeevan deep, Seth Publications), calendars’, magazines, annual reports etc.
Job Profile :
Introduced cost saving projects in RM by replacing the existing products with parallel alternatives.
Planning of the jobs in such a way to reduce the production cost.
Coordination with Publishing House related to their innovative projects in all magazines.
Proactively interacted with the clients related to their job work & queries.
Provided technical Solutions to the clients.
Ensured smooth operation of the machines in terms of maintenance and recommending necessary solutions.

Senior Executive Production
Jan 2006 To Oct 2012
Company Name : Repro India Ltd
Job Profile :
Primarily accountable for looking after the entire web offset dept.
Entirely looking after the production, planning & scheduling as well as responsible for the quality of the printing products of all machines belonging to Repro which includes Harris N400B, Harris M120, Orient Super 546 & 560, Goss Community.
Handled the installation projects of Harris M120 & M1000BE, Orient Super 546 & 560.
Entrusted with the task of formulation of SOP for the new machines.
Implementation of PDCA cycles, planned & preventive maintenance for the press.
Organize training session for technical crew for the press.
Benchmarking the press for performance quality.
Hands on working experience on all the machines (Heat set & Cold set).
Analyzing technical aspects involved in the processes, evaluating design modifications & accordingly implementing amendments.
Formulating & implementing process plans &preparing process sheet/daily schedule sheet.
Foreseeing performance bottlenecks and taking corrective measures to avoid the same.
Incorporating various value engineering & application engineering initiatives with an aim of reducing wastage/rejections.
Aiding in Maintenance function & coordinating with maintenance team for providing proactive maintenance solutions for seamless operations at the plants.
Planning & preparing annul budgetary requirements of capacity to ensure optimum utilisation of capacity.
Interfacing with vendors and ensuring adherence to the set technical specification and quality standards.

Senior Executive Production
Jun 2005 to Dec 2005
Company Name : Hindustan Times Media Ltd
Job Profile :
Shouldered the onus of daily material planning and daily scheduling of folders as per job loading.
Instrumental in preparation of preventive maintenance schedules and effected the same for seamless operations.
Responsible for generation of Newsprint consumption and MIS reports.
Closely monitored the Scheduling of printing jobs for meeting committed deadlines and quality checks to ensure minimum rejections and top-quality output.

Executive-Production
Dec 2003 to May 2005
Company Name : Magna Publications
Job Profile :
Managed al activities pertaining to the printing & binding of magazines.
Specialized jobs undertaken on Zircon four col. narrow Web heat set web offset m/c.
Coordinated with the printing press & Publishing House.
Proactively interacted with the clients related to their job work & queries.
Provided technical Solutions to the clients.
Ensured smooth operation of the machines in terms of maintenance and recommending necessary solutions.

Supervisor-Production
Jul 2001 to Nov 2003
Company Name : Repro India Ltd
Job Profile :
Machine scheduling & job planning on Heidelberg Harris N 400B, Goss Community & Rotatek Machine.
Experience in operating Heidelberg Harris N 400B Heat-Set Web off-set Machine, 2-Colour Goss Community & six colour Rotatek RK 200 Narrow web machine.
Undertaking quality parameters at printing stages.
Record keeping in ISO formats.
Coordination between PPC & Press.
Responsible for day-to-day productivity & Machine Maintenance. (Roller Setting, Blanket Changing, Roller Servicing, Zero Setting, Folder Setting)
Solely responsible for handling like Magazines (Femina Girl, Gladrags, Cine Blitz, New Women etc.), Annual Reports, Calendars.

Projects:
Modification on Machine Added counter on LM ruling machine to reduce the counting cost.
Used cutting knives of cutting machines on Semi and Automatic Pinning Machine for final cutting of books.
Prepared SOP for Ink manufacturing process to achieve the FTR (Reduce additions).
3M demand Plan of RM (TMU)
Reduction in Make ready time
Lead SGA program / activity to minimize / resolve shopfloor issues.

Core Competencies:
Production Operations: Planning Monthly, Weekly, Day-to-Day activities, monitoring production, keeping control over activities thereby ensuring smooth operations. Working out various requirements with respect to utilities, machines, and manpower. Building teams in each function to have cost effective and energy efficient culture.
Planning and Execution of jobs.
Packaging development for pharmaceutical clients.
Production execution plan for export jobs.
Implemented cost saving projects through SGA tool.
Process Engineering: Developing new process concepts for production optimization, yield improvement and develop guidelines for the sequencing of manufacturing activities (SOP). Identifying areas for productivity and quality improvement through equipment technology up-gradation / process improvement and driving the implementation of suitable solutions.
Worked on Process standardization, initiated activities like SGA, Kaizen in Plant.Implemented cost saving projects through SGA tool.
Supply Chain Management: Managing the supply chain operations. Identifying and developing vendors. Implementing 3M RM planning module and looking after SCM for TMU unit. Introduced cost saving projects in company.
HR: Building the total team culture continually by assigning roles& responsibilities with support of each function’s skill matrix. Building a supportive type CFT culture focusing on company objectives through regular implementation of Kaizen Initiative.
Facing audits like Security, WCA, Technical for all export clients.
Team Building: Mapping role, responsibility of each & every direct, indirect individual to achieve each functional goal and objectives. Clarifying accountability on the grounds of as is versus should be through Value Stream Mapping.
MIS Reports: Preparing reports of consumption and machine utilization against the mfg. standards.
Quality Control/Assurance: Adherence to quality standards. Identifying areas of failures & take steps to rectify the system, planning for prevention of failures.
Training: Noting each member’s functional strengths and weaknesses. Evaluating requirements & coordinating with HR team to arrange in house & external training. Developing KPA based performance appraisal system for every function to synergies company goals.
Technical Support and Sales: Offered technical support on pan India level for PRC, TM and News Inks.
Offered technical support to commercial and educational publications clients according to quarries regarding the art works, printing related issues, RM related issues etc.