SUDHANSU PATTANAIK

West lands, Nairobi – Kenya (East Africa)

Contact Number: +254-********* / 736741714

E Mail: abszkt@r.postjobfree.com, abszkt@r.postjobfree.com

Skype: sudhansupattanaik

Career Goal:

Seeking Middle/Senior level management position to lead the production operations with

a renowned organisation in Flexible packaging manufacturing companies preferably

with Flexography Printing & Lamination technology anywhere in the world.

Summary:

A competent professional with 16+ years of experience in the areas of Flexography wide web CI

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Printing, Rotary Letterpress Narrow web CI printing, Lamination, slitting& QC Operations with reputed

organisations.

Currently associated with Packaging Industries Ltd., Nairobi Kenya as a Printing Production Manager.

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Experienced in various manufacturing functions of flexible packaging, statistical analysis, customer

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complains analysis, quality management, system development, new product design development at

minimal cost, breakdown analysis, inventory control, team building, vendor development &

assessment.

Responsible for the management and co ordination of department or plant operations including

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Production planning & control, production optimisation, prepress, Printing, Lamination, Slitting, QC,

procurement, engineering stores, mechanical maintenance, consistent to improve the facility’s

performance in delivery, inventory & throughput.

Responsible for the management of planning, organizing, staffing, directing & controlling the activities

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of the organisation in order to achieve the objectives.

Establish the link between human & non human resources like machines, power, money & materials to

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produce a coherent & harmonious working culture.

Typical skills needed include Leadership, decision making, co ordination, communication, negotiation,

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presentation, training and the like.

Work Experience:

Printing Production Manager (December 2003 Present: 8yrs+)

At PACKAGING INDUSTRIES LTD., Nairobi –Kenya (EAST AFRICA)

Company Profile: Largest in East Africa Manufacturers of Laminated & Polyethylene flexible packaging

materials for Food products, confectionaries, flower sleeves, industrial packaging, pet food, detergent soap

& powder, dairy products, horticulture, shopping bags etc.

Daily production planning & executing as per customer requirement.

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Responsible for monitoring day to day production activities with minimum wastage of Flexography

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printing & Lamination section as per the production plan & customer requirement.

Printing on different kind of substrates such as paper, hdpe, ldpe, bopp, pp, pet & laminated substrates

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with solvent base, water base & uv inks

Driving the processes of manufacturing & managing production, Capacity / facility provision &

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procurement and developing new products to be stable in the competitive market.

Responsible for Detailed artwork design, corrections as per process capability at pre press till the

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client’s final approval & delivery of goods. Co ordination with clients & designer for approval of PDF

artwork.

New Development for Flexo Printing like Digital HD flexo Plates, Kodak NX digicap plates of Square flat

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dot technology, GTT uniflex anilox roller implementation, Water based ink development for printing on

PE substrate, Paper substrate.

New Lamination structure development for cost effective packaging of food, snacks & detergent

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powder, soap wrapper etc.

Detailed analysis of customer complaint & major rejection, which are not solved for a period of time.

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Resolve customer grievances thereby securing repeat & referral business.

Costing of the final product for sale w.r.t raw material, design & machine cost with the help of Directors

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for customers.

New system implementation & training to the concerned people, maintaining BRC standards as best

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practices for manufacturing of food packaging.

Cost reduction & continual improvement by utilising KAIZEN tools.

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Responsible for numerous production lines, machine efficiencies, planning manpower & hitting targets.

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Machine Maintenance & minimal inventory of engineering spares .

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Perform monitoring and control of our suppliers to ensure they improving quality, through the action

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plan for improvement of suppliers.

Participate in production activities by analysis of risks related to health and work Safety.

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Ensure all input raw materials in terms of plates, mounting tape, Solvent based inks, OPVs, lamination

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adhesives, reducing solvent and manufacture of inks complies to planned start times.

Provide sound technical inputs & engineering support to team members with TROUBLE SHOOTING

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Guide till completion stage of the product.

Internal & external Customer relation, effective communication within the departments for better work

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flow.

Familiar with Flexo Printing Machineries like: Bieloni Wide web CI printing, BFM Italian wideweb CI

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printing Press, Bfm – stack type, Hemingstone Taiwan wide web (all 2 8 colour printing machines)

Photo polymer Plate making Machine, Nordmeccanica Solvent & Solvent free Lamination machine,

FIMAT Ultrasonic Anilox cleaning machine, Solvent recycling Machine for re use of solvent, Stimag

Sleeve rack machine, Techon Colour densitometer, Stimount plate mounting machine & Slitting

Machines.

Printing Executive (April 2000 – December 2003: 3yrs,9months)

At Essel Propack Limited., Mumbai –India (ASIA)

Company Profile: World’s No.1 MNC Laminated tube Manufacturing company company Manufacturers of

Multilayer laminated plastic collapsible tubes for the packaging of cosmetics, dentifrice, pharmaceuticals in

different sizes depending on the applications.

Hands on experience in 6 colour narrow web CI letter press printing machine, inspection of negatives &

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plate making.

Mounting of plates & make ready for the next job to reduce changeover time & increase production.

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Internal planning & arrangement for production & executing depending on the machine capability.

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Identify training needs of the people for multi skilling.

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Ink mixing & shade matching of UV inks & maintaining of ink stock.

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Getting customer approval of the design & shade card for future reference.

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Manpower arrangement, raw material arrangement as per the production planning.

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Machine break down analysis & co ordinate with maintenance department for preventive & breakdown

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maintenance.

Colour shade matching & colour quality management as per the given Pantone / customer required

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sample with the help of Gretag Macbeth colour spectro meter.

Usage of left over UV inks, flexo UV varnish & make another pantone with the help of software to avoid

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ink wastage.

Customer complaint analysis, implementation of best practices, GMP, ISO within the department.

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Wastage control & analysis towards the reduction of wastage including setting wastage, process

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wastage, internal & external rejections.

Maintaining and updating regular MIS reports for the purpose of reviews and utilisation of information

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for further necessary action & reference.

Familiar with UV Letter Press Printing Machineries like: Kopack Japan, LTP & Sanki Japan, Taiyo

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Japan make Narrow web CI printing Press, Mounting machine Jmsheaford England, Gretag Macbeth

colour spectrometer, Toyobo Plate making machine.

QC Supervisor (September 1996 – March 2000: 3yrs,7 months)

At Essel Propack Limited., Mumbai –India (ASIA)

Company Profile: World’s No.1 MNC Lamitube Manufacturing company Manufacturers of Multilayer

laminated plastic collapsible tubes for the packaging of cosmetics, dentifrice, pharmaceuticals in different

sizes depending on the applications.

Responsible for incoming material inspection, vendor audit & development for the quality product as

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per the laid down standard.

In process inspection at every stage of production of Blown film extrusion, extrusion coating lamination,

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Letter press narrow web printing, tube making etc.

Final inspection of the goods as per the standard AQL & issuing of the certificate of confirmation.

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Co ordination with all manufacturing departments pertaining to improve the quality & reduction of

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customer complaints.

Statistical analysis for Process control & Quality control, technical analysis of customer complaints.

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Steering the implementation of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9000) in the plant.

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Coordinating internal/ external audits and maintaining relevant documents. Analysing Customer

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Complaints.

Making of Process flow chart & laid down standards.

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Familiar with Testing Machineries like: Instorn universal testing machine UTM, MFI tester, ESCR

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tester, Vodeo scope, COF tester,Burst tester etc.

Areas of Skills :

Flexography, Letterpress & Rotogravure Printing, .

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Solvent Base & water base inks & solvents.

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Extrusion Coating Lamination, Solvent free Lamination.

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Ink mixing, colour shade matching.

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Blown film extrusion, slitting, bag making & pouching.

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Production planning & Management, Logistics.

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Project planning & Management.

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Leadership, training, team building, decision making & motivation.

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Outstanding customer service & relation.

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Time management & prioritisation.

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Interpersonal & communication skill.

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Technical support towards productivity & quality improvement.

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Machine Maintenance & Breakdown analysis.

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SPC & SQC Analysis.

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Key Accomplishments:

Received an award for the resolution of a major customer complaint & saved a loss of huge revenue of

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the company. (At Essel Propack Ltd.)

Awarded for inter unit quiz competition winner. (At Essel Propack Ltd.)

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Appreciated for a high definition process printed job for flower sleeve packaging one of our key

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international customer. (At Packaging Industries Ltd.)

Educational Qualification:

• P.G. Diploma in Plastics Processing & Technology (PGD PPT) in 1996

From: Central Institute Of Plastic Engineering & Technology ( CIPET ) Bhubaneswar, Orissa INDIA

• Bachelor Degree in Science ( Bsc) in 1995

From : Utkal University Bhubaneswar, Orissa INDIA

• 10th Standard ( HSC ) in 1990

From: Board of Higher Secondary Education, Orissa INDIA

• Well versed usage with Ms Office (excel, word, PowerPoint), AI, Coreldraw, Pdf, Internet

Applications.

Operating system : Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7

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• Internal Quality Auditor training for ISO 9000, BRC, Ink Manufacturing, Shade matching, colour

management, Kaizen.

Personal Details:

25th May 1975

Date of Birth :

Nationality : Indian

Permanent Address : Bhubaneswar, Orissa India

Contact Nos. : +254(0)720741714 / 736741714

Passport Details : Valid up to 2019

Marital Status : Married

Dependent Details : Wife & 1 Daughter

Languages Known : English, Hindi and Oriya (Mother tongue)

Location Preference : Anywhere in the world

References : To be furnished upon request

Current CTC/Month : When Required

Expt. CTC / month : Negotiable

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