• Gender: Male
• Age: 61
• Designation: Senior Manager
• Highest Education Level: Graduate - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Work Experience: 36.4 Year(s)

Education

Executive Education Programme from S.P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai. in 1996
Bachelors Degree in Engineering (B.E) Mechanical from Regional Engineering College, Surat. in 1986

Skill Sets

Adept in managing the plant operations involving machining, assembly, fabrication, resource planning and in-process inspection in co-ordination with internal / external departments.
Proficient in managing a wide spectrum of tasks including purchase, procurement, vendor development and inventory management across the supply chain.
Significantly engaged in implementing various techniques & initiatives for improving the operational efficiency along with cost savings.
Possess excellent business acumen with the ability to remain on the cutting edge.
An effective communicator with good interpersonal & leadership skills- strong analytical, problem solving & organisational abilities.

IT Skills- Windows, MS Office & Internet Applications, SAP MM module (As User)

Work Experience

Head Planning - Operation
Apr. 2012 – Oct. 2012
Company Profile: Manufactures pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage
tanks and other proprietary solid-liquid separation equipments like filters, classifiers, thickeners, clarifiers etc.
Key Deliverables:
Responsible for Central Planning of both Product Group- PVHE & Proprietary
Based on Orders in hand for the Year, devise Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly plan
Co-ordinate resources: In-house, Out-source, Site activities
Client Interaction
Review continually and take corrective steps to adhere to Committed delivery dates

Factory Manager - Head of Impactors
Jan. 2011 – Feb. 2012
Company Profile: Is a global engineering and technology corporation serving customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing
Key Deliverables:
Accountable for developing (Protos) with fabrications from Indian mfr. & internal systems.
Instrumental in setting up facility for metal preparation using Plasma Cutting Machine, CNC Vertical Press 400 ton, CNC Horizontal Press, Fabrication Facility, Assembly, Shot-Blasting and Painting.
Instrumental: Putting in place- Equipment Testing facility before despatch.
Notable Achievements
Successfully delivered the prototypes from India within the stipulated time against all odds of rejections, short supply & delay.
Actively involved in ramping up the set-up for volume production with indigenising of components.

General Manager
Jan’ 2010 – Jan’ 2011
JSL Stainless Limited, Jajpur – Orissa
Key Deliverables:
Responsible for setting up the facility to support, repair & manufacture spares for Integral Stainless Steel Plant, wherein following facilities existed: HSM, CRM, SMS, Thermal Power Plant: 2X 125 Mw, Coke Oven Battery & furnaces for Si-Mn & Fe-Cr.
Looked after the layout, selection of manpower & machinery.
Managed a Heavy Mobile Equipment Repair Workshop.
Notable Achievement
Played a key role in stabilising the operations to a reasonable extent.

Deputy Manager to Deputy General Manager
Aug’ 1997 – Jan’ 2010
ESSAR Steel Limited (Central Growth Shop), Hazira
Key Deliverables:
Responsible for Annual Appraisals, new recruitments, General Administration & maintaining discipline in department.
Looking after machining related activities as per drg. using conventional & CNC machines.
Responsible for working with SKODA floor borer, 2 diff. sizes of VTLs (Chuck dia of 1.5 & 3 m), 2 ZAYER Plano-Millers (7 & 8m lengths, resp), (CNC), Lathes of range from 2 metre to 10 metre capacity, including Skoda Lathe, Std. Milling M/c, Surface & Cyl Grinding, Slotting M/c. Good control over CNC Lathe, capacity 2 m to 8 m including programming.
Preparing enquiry in terms of Request for Quotation (RFQ) and sending it to the vendors.
Collecting the quotations and negotiating & placing the purchase order.
Making arrangement for transport and monitoring job progress.
Accountable for making the Service Entry, Down Payment Request and Bill Regularising (in SAP).
Ensuring the availability of necessary items to all Departments of the plant (Planning, Machine Shop, Fabrication Assembly, Material Handling and Maintenance) on round the clock basis.
Handled functions relate to material codification, raising indents, putting items on MRP, material receipt & issue, posting against issues to user and month end reconciliation.

Notable Achievements:
Successfully reduced the insert cost by including new type of holder, enabling to utilize other 4 cutting edges. Overall Insert cost reduced by 6%.
Gained expertise in making ‘Toolings-to-suit’ the requirement.
Actively involved in training Pool of Engineer’s & Blue Collar on CNC-Lathes, which was being looked after by a single individual, who is now, no more associated with the company.
Received appreciation letters from Plant Head for completing Capital Shut Down well ahead of time.

Assistant Sales Manager
Nov’ 1996 – Aug’ 1997
INDICARB Tools, Thane, Mumbai
Key Deliverables:
Responsible for selling Indicarb Cutting Tools across Mumbai & Nasik region.
Interfaced with the major customers, identified their tooling requirements, conducted trials & provided optimum solution to the customers.
Developed dealer network and supporting him technically to achieve the projected targets.

Senior Production Executive – Dual Role- Machine Shop Supervisor Core Member of Aero Space Project - Feb’ 1987 to Nov’ 1996
General Engineer Trainee / Apprentice Engineer - Feb’ 1987 to Feb’ 1988
Godrej Tool Room, Vikhroli, Mumbai
Key Deliverables:-
As Machine Shop Supervisor:
Scheduled & decided upon the machining sequence and programming.
Accountable for making any special tooling required and monitored the progress & completion of the job.
Rendered guidance to the Section Supervisor and Operators.
Responsible for Quality Systems, Maintenance, Labour and Production regarding the Machine Shop.
Aero Space Engineering Project (ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle)
Reviewed the drawing and made process flow charts.
Received, stored and issued the material.
Coordinated with the allied Machine Shop sections.
Provided guidance to the Operators as well as Section Supervisors to get the job completed as per the drawing & schedule.
Responsible for getting the job inspected and cleared for final assembly.

Notable Achievements:
Effectively managed to deliver the project within the provided material despite complexities of ‘different’ kind of Aero-Space composition material along with ‘thin-section’ material.
Effectively maintained requisite geometry.
Actively involved in making dummy piece in standard material say-Aluminium, SS, Mild Steel, etc.
Pivotal in designing the fixtures & special tooling.

Future Goals

Aspiring to head SBU with key focus on Plant Operations / Precision Machining / fabrication, with a growth oriented organisation of repute