RAJESHKUMAR H PATEL

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Business Operations, Plant Operations and Operational Excellence Enterprising leader & planner with a strong record of contributions in streamlining operations, invigorating businesses, heightening productivity, systems & procedures Profile Summary

• Technically accomplished Project and Maintenance Professional with comprehensive experience of nearly 25 years in steering green field projects

• Developed and deployed quarterly and annual plans, programs and policies for company Managers; backed all cross-company sales objectives such as budgets preparation, forecasting of targets, and so on

• Conceptualized & implemented long-term manufacturing strategic plan for expansions and new product development with Marketing, Sales & Business Development Team

• Demonstrated excellence in enhancing the production & process operations to optimize resource & capacity utilization; escalate productivity & operational efficiencies; while curtailing costs & expenses

• Proficiency in managing the necessary business relationships, organizational structures & motivational schemes

• Expertise in managing technically advanced cost-efficient, state of the art production systems and processes

• Ensured sufficient utilization of human, financial, technological, informational and material resources

• Demonstrated strengths in maintaining SHE standards and ensuring compliance to statutory provisions

• Expert in developing safety culture in the organization and conducting safety-training sessions to achieve zero accident benchmark; resolution of environment related issues and working closely on green building concept

• Experience in executing projects from Concept-to-Launch with focus on Project Scope and rendering end-to-end solutions with a chief role in operations, new set-ups, technology management & transfer, manufacturing excellence and establishing facilities across assignments

• Effective communicator & negotiator with strong analytical, planning, problem solving & organizational abilities Organizational Experience

Jun’09 - Aug’15 Carlsberg India

Growth Path:

Jun’09-Apr’10 General Manager-Plant Operations (North) Apr’10-Oct’12 General Manager-Engineering and Operation Development Oct’12- Aug’15 Head – Project Engineering & Operations Development Highlights:

• Led complete production functions and steered extensive capacity expansion agenda; installed capacity six times over 2009, from 725KHL to 4.4MHL

• Completed Dharuhera Brewery challenging task and acquired brewery was adapted to Carlsberg standards in a record time of four months

• Merit of being a core member of new product development like Tuborg Strong, Carlsberg Elephant, 3G Bottle Project for Tuborg & Tubing Booster Strong

• Spearheaded a team of project “Drive Down Cost to Serve our Customer and Consumer”; won consecutive 8 quarters and sustained COPS at 2009 level

• Implemented IMS in Alwar, Aurangabad, Hyderabad and Kolkata Plant – Corporate MR

• Reduced energy usage by introducing alternative fuel & technology etc.

• Improved capacity in brew house and packaging lines by building capability amongst team by preparing and rolling out training modules on various equipment & processes

• Stabilized plant operations by executing SGA activity & PDCA process

• Key role to rebuild design-right infra, efficiency improvement, cost reduction, new project scope to all seven manufacturing facility

• Oversaw the vendor selection and scope finalization

• Developed & implemented Process SOP

• Design and Engineering of utility, packaging and brewing.

• Played a vital role in starting up Hyderabad Green field, CAN line start up at Aurangabad, Dharuhera and Bihar plant start up

• Monitored roll out of ProdEx in Carlsberg India – Global Tool of Carlsberg Group

• Headed Must Win Battle for Carlsberg India and saved 200 million over 2011 operations, 185 million over 2012, 135 million over 2013, 252 million over 2014 ytd Aug.

• Rolled out best practice across plants; managed international assignment at Nepal & Laos as an expert to implement best practices

• Received Carlsberg Crown Award and Carlsberg CEO Award – Best Team

• Directed energy conservation across units, Vapor recovery, Bio Gas usage, design and engineering of refrigeration

• Established 2000 million INR Greenfield at Bihar and 1300 million INR brownfield at Dharuhera with brewery acquisition

• Looked after 2500 million INR capex portfolio for 2013, 2014, 2015.

• Sustained COPS at 2009 level by introducing best practices across and innovation

• Developed team competency by various in house & external training

• Developed tool for Water – Salt balance to ensure business continuity. Aug’97-Jun’09 PepsiCo India

Growth Path:

Aug’97-Oct’03 Maintenance Executive/Coordinator/Manufacturing Manager - Bharuch Nov’03-Aug’05 Manufacturing Manager - Roha

Sep’05-Aug’06 General Manager – Punjab Operations

Sep’06-Aug’08 General Manager - Technical Services – EAMU Sep’08-May’09 General Manager – Plant Operations at Aurangabad Role:

As General Manager – Plant Operations at Aurangabad

• Handled pilot plant for new formulation of Juice based drinks; pioneered the launch of new products in Juice

• Trained on NCB at Purdue University USA on Hot Fill Beverage Configuration

• Bagged Silver Award in Global Quality Audit and quality score in 08, first time in Paithan Plant History

• Played a vital role in successfully clearing AIB audit in Jan’09 and plant stood first in Pepsi India COBO operations with a positive score

• Merit of being:

o Project In-charge of Bharuch Rs. 200 million INR PET Project and Rs. 30 million INR Aquafina Project o Lead Energy Savings Group at WEMU

o Core Team Member for SAP Configuration for PP/PM Modules o Lead Energy Savings Group at NOMU

As General Manager - Technical Services – EAMU

• Directed 9 plant operations at various places of East Market Unit having multiple production lines

• Achieved production volume of 15.6 million cases annually; mentored a team of 16 managers and senior people of plant

• Delivered best practices tool to avoid unplanned down time and reduction in energy usage like power, water and FO

• Received feedback from internal legal teams to ensure 100% compliance to the legal and regulatory framework

• Developed Annual Operating Costs & implemented projects involving new technological developments & cost reduction measures

• Approved long range plan, formulated short/long term plans for expansion of plant facilities, modified & improved product developments and other related activities with EVP operations

• Interfaced with the Director Sales and EVP Operations on issued pertaining to strengthening & improving manufacturing capability, long range capital plans, development and improvement of plant facilities

• Coordinated technology transfer from the Research Division to the Manufacturing Group

• Conducted operations meets for cost innovation, benchmark with other Pepsi plants, best practices roll over and identify potential opportunities for continuous improvement; received HACCP and ISO certification in various plants

• Installed Hot filled PET facility at Jamshedpur on time, where achieved a milestone of successful commissioning of AHURA blow molding machine – low capital cost equipment and Shell and Tube type pasteurizer to take care of various juice products

As General Manager – Punjab Operations

• Designed co-packing operations of the entire plant having two (500 + 400) BPM Glass Carbonated Beverage Lines and One 80 BPM PET Line; improved production & quality improvement at Phillaur Plant to be within first 3 plants in the country

• Optimised foot print or company warehouse, fleets and cost.

• Company warehouse management and rolled out best practices in product storage As Manufacturing Manager - Roha

• Monitored production & maintenance of the entire plant having two (600 + 500) BPM Glass Carbonated Beverage Lines, one 600 BPM CAN Line & one 120 BPM Aquafina Packaged Drinking Water Line

• Led a team of 6 Engineers, 1 Maintenance Manager & total workforce of 300 workmen (BKS Union – Affiliated with Shiv Sena)

• Pivotal in heading & implementing:

o M&W (Pepsi Internal Best Practice Tool) in Roha Plant o DT5 (Pepsi Internal BPT to improve Production Line Efficiency) in Roha Plant o LTS at Roha Plant in Maharashtra

o SAP – PP & PM Modules in the plant

• Enhanced production & utility efficiencies at Roha Plant to be within first 5 plants in the country As Maintenance Executive/Coordinator/Manufacturing Manager - Bharuch

• Oversaw production & maintenance during shifts at Pepsi Bharuch Plant having a high speed 600 BPM Kettner line from Germany

• Monitored the erection & commissioning of the above line with Kettner Technical Team

• Imparted & training to entire new workforce on Equipment’s, Process, Production Line & Utility

• Led 200 BPM Pet Line Project for 3 months which was recognized as one of the best high speed PET project with highest productivity

• Performed erection & commissioning of 200 BPM high speed PET Line at Bharuch

• Introduced SCADA WINCC based MIS with various automation and line controls

• Managed 120 BPM Aquafina Package drinking water project in 6 months

• Supervised Maintenance & Utility Team of 31 workmen

• Planned preventive & shutdown maintenance for utility equipment including Boiler, entire refrigeration compression system (Capacity – 300 TR) and Ammonia Absorption System (Capacity - 234 TR), Low Pressure (7 bar) Air Compressors with total capacity of 500 cfm, High Pressure (40 bar) Air Compressors of capacity 750 CFM, ETP plant of capacity 400m3 per day & Water treatment Plant of capacity 60 m3 per hour

• Carried out maintenance of Automated Pet Line having State of Art Machinery from Sidel France, Krones Germany, Linker Europe & Trine, USA; ensured statutory requirements for Boiler, Electricals, Refrigeration & Air Compressor System.

Previous Experience

Apr’94-Aug’97 Ficom Industries Limited, Ankleshwar as Technical Services Executive Jan’93-Mar’94 Gujarat Binil Chemicals Limited, Ankleshwar as Assistant Manager Aug’90-Dec’92 Cadila Laboratories Limited, Ankleshwar as Shift Executive (Electrical) Education

1987 - 1990 Diploma in Electrical Engineering from SKJ Polytechnic, Bharuch, Gujarat University Personal Details

Date of Birth 23rd April 1970

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi Address in USA: 83, Ashmall Ave, Monroe Township, NJ 08831

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