AMIT K SHETTY

Address : Al Soor, Sharjah, UAE

Tel : +971-*********

: +971-*********

E-mail : ac4h8t@r.postjobfree.com

A Dynamic Professional with around 14 years of Experience in Production Planning, Process Enhancement compliance, Man Management and Manufacturing

PROFILE SNAPSHOT

An ambitious and optimistic result oriented Professional with 14 years of proven extensive experience in Production Planning, Plant Operations with various Manufacturing Industries such as Lubricants, Transformer oils, Foundry chemicals, Emulsions and Sealants

Planner with expertise in managing entire plant operations and enhancing operational efficiencies

Capable of driving the team with Balanced score card methods of manufacturing excellence.

Competent in developing continuous development process for safe work environment.

Seasoned Proactive Techno commercial Professional with hands on expertise in Production Planning, Manufacturing, and Energy Management.

Exposed to Integrated Management systems comprising of ISO-9001, ISO-14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards.

An effective communicator with skills in managing the training the workforce and ensuring the compliance of company’s policy requirements

WORK EXPERIENCE

Middle East Lubricants CO LLC (JV of BP, ExxonMobil and Emarat) Jan 2017 – Jan 18

Plan Products of finished goods based on demand for all Stake holders as per the optimal capacity available for individual Stakeholders.

Plan production on daily and weekly basis with the best utilization of man power to reduce over time.

Develop Production Plans (Filling Plan and Blending Plan) on a daily basis

Share the daily Production updates to all Stake holders on a daily basis

Manage the Orders from all stake holders depending on any emergency requirements

Monitoring Process performance issues /metrics systematically such as OEE etc.

Support and comply with all SHE policies and Procedures.

Plays a major role in Process change management as per the change management policies.

Techno Lube LLC, Dubai, UAE.

June-2014 – Jan 2016

Role – Production In charge

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016

Role – Production planning specialist

(Techno lube LLC is a world leader in Lubricants and based out in Middle East), Part of Petromin Corporation, Saudi Arabia

Significant Highlights:

Plan Products of finished goods based on demand for all Stake holders as per the optimal capacity.

Prepare and Liaison with all key teams - Sales, Marketing, IT, MFG, Quality, Warehouse, packaging and understand their significance in the value chain and channelize the drive to deliver best possible service to customer demand.

Drive the SOP process continuously to streamline supply performance & minimize demand-supply gap.

Drives the business by making seamless product delivery to customer by unlocking production capacity constraints & raw-mats availability constraints through innovative solutions in coordination with plant & TSD teams.

Optimizing plant performance and meet production / dispatch targets and quality commitments.

Identify and sort out bottlenecks along with department heads to improve productivity, reduce rejection and ensure timely delivery.

Increase in Productivity by increase in liters/man day by reviewing section-wise manpower utilization and improvement in existing process.

Ensure all Blending and Filling Supervisors understand the importance of shop-floor communication and they communicate the process requirements to all workers on daily basis.

Ensure Root Cause Analysis for all QC-Rejections, Customers complaints and report to GM.

To ensure safety of all workers during all times of operation through continuous training and on-job feedback based on observation apart from formal training conducted by EHS and HR.

Significant Achievements

Successful commissioning of new small pack unit comprising of high speed machines. Established 40 B.P.M (bottles/minute) as machine output with proper Time and motion study.

Developed system and procedures for small pack filling in line with third party requirement and ISO 9001/14001 standards.

Foseco India Ltd March 2013 – May 2014

Role: Executive-Manufacturing (Resin Plant)

Foseco India Ltd is a part of Vesuvius PLC and is the leading manufacturer of Foundry Chemicals such as various types of Phenolic Resins and Hardeners catering to foundry Industries.

Significant Highlights

Responsible for ensuring production compliance as well as optimizing manpower and equipment usage so as to deliver full plan.

Deploying the resources to optimize yield & achieving production targets within defined time.

To champion the operations team in lean manufacturing & TQM initiatives (Kaizens, 5S & NearMissreporting).

Preparing technical data, operational control procedures, work instructions & statistical analysis as part of the ISO9000 & ISO14001 implementation program.

Conducting regular training for Production Personnel on Environment & Plant Safety, Unit Operations & Maintenance.

Develops the capital expenditure budget for the plant and obtains approval for the same. Raises CEAR (Capital Expenditure Approval Request) as required.

Hands on experience in handling hazardous and corrosive chemicals such as Phenol, Formaldehyde solution, Caustic solutions etc.

Ensure Root Cause Analysis for all QC-Rejections, Customers complaints as per Foseco quality norms and Turbo-Q concept.

Meeting production targets, reduction of down time in shut-down & breakdown of plant, reduction of power consumption and maintaining raw materials and steam ratio as per KRA.

Drive plant initiatives on improvement of equipment OEE, visual management & Energy conservation measures and leading the Energy Management team for Pune Site.

Driving the Visual Management practices effectively for the Resin Plant.

Leading the Team for Lean savings by brainstorming and capturing ideas by the Team and successful in getting the ideas implemented.

Dow Corning India limited January, 2011 – January-2013

Role: Process Engineer reporting to Site Manager and Global Technology Centre located in US.

Dow Corning India limited 6 billion US$ Speciality Chemicals company having one of its manufacturing facility in India at Pune, Ranjangaon.

Significant Highlights

Experience in handling Emulsion polymerization reaction for production of Emulsion co-polymers for beauty care segments.

Exposure in Lubricants,Sealants and Emulsion Product line

Hands on experience in setting up pilot facility

Advices on safety design, construction and operation of Pilot plant and manufacturing facilities. Ensures that new process development projects follow company procedures on risk management and new product registrations. Promotes health, safety, environment policies and guidelines.

Managing Scale up processes from Lab & Pilot plant to full industrial scale Manufacture and coordinating the Project with Manufacturing and Product development. Preparing technical transfer dossier for handover of the process to the manufacturing team.

Involved in Process change Management during commercialization of new Products

Supporting Site Manager by leading Six Sigma projects and in meeting savings targets.

Lead the localization and commercialization of new products and raw materials.

Creation of capacity demand chart w.r.t product mix

Preparation of SOP, process operation manuals.

Involved in completion of Hazop and FMEA.

Working in tandem with the machine/Equipment supplier for installation, commissioning and performance trials.

Transfer of Knowledge from US and Wiesbaden in Germany to India

Optimize the manufacturing process by using fundamental statistical control and process designed experimentation to enhance manufacturing operation.

Kluber Lubrication India Pvt Ltd. Jan 2010 to Dec-2010

Role: Asst. Manager (Production) reporting to Sr.Manager (Operations)

Kluber Lubrication India Pvt Ltd is a Part of Freudenberg Group based in Germany, a market leader in specialty chemical segment. It is an ISO-9001, 14000, OHSAS 18000 certified organization.

Significant Highlights

Managing the operations of Specialty chemicals segment such as Emulsions, Speciality oils, and Greases.

Handling equipments such as Homogenizer, Colloid mills etc.

Involved in deployment functions viz planning & scheduling shifts in accordance with the requirements and reduced the change over time.

Identify and implement improvement in production, product quality, safety and other manufacturing related metrics.

Yield improvement and cost reduction projects.

Prepare, update and train plant personnel on safety and operating procedures

Develop and implement plans to maximize productivity through process changes

Adherence to Production/Formulation standards set by the company and to see that there is no deviation in work practice other then the standard work instructions.

Ensuring that the product complies with all statutory norms. Familiarity to factory acts, environment related legislation.

Implementation of GMP and total quality control in the Production process.

Responsible for ensuring adherence to safety and environmental norms.

Taking operational decisions involving RM/PM selection, equipment maintenance and replacement, labour productivity which is having impact on the Production cost.

Involved in Planning for capacity expansion to meet increasing market requirements and for new products

Maintaining high Housekeeping standards using 5S, conducting 5S audits.

Apar Industries Ltd, Silvassa Mar-2003 to Dec-2009

Role: Dy Manager (Production) reporting to Head of Operation

COMPANY PROFILE: Apar Industries Ltd. is into manufacture of lubricants viz, (i.e. Engine oils, Gear oils, Hydraulic oils, Cutting oils, Transformer oils, Rubber Processing Oils Liquid Paraffin oils (IP Grade) having Production units at Mumbai, Silvassa and in UAE

Joined the company as a Management trainee and then subsequently promoted to various positions and finally Dy. Manager (Production) reporting to Head of Operations

Significant Highlights

Spearhead the entire Plant Production with optimum utilization of resources.

Planning and maintaining the stock of MTS as per ROP and SS level.

Planning and controlling the production operations as per the capacity available & sales projection

Accountable to ensure the Plant delivers the best operational efficiencies like,Inventory days, Manufacturing cost,OTIF with proper employee engagement

Hands on experience in handling of vacuum filtration units, Adsorption towers, Blending, automated barrel filling

Following Standard operating procedures, manuals & work instructions for production operations for the unit.

Reducing rejection level and rework through continuous up gradation of quality circles to observe better compliance in line with changing customer requirements

To assist the Maintenance team in providing the desired level of engineering services to ensure proper functioning of all Plant Equipment

Maintaining the raw material reconciliation report. Compared raw materials consumption between the warehouse issues and productions at every month-end and confirm the variations

Ensuring a desired level of right quality production and independently run production batches to cater to specific customer requirements

Significant Achievements

Successfully managed the Project SAP (PP, MM) from Project phase to Go live-phase and final roll out of the modules.

Successfully reduced oil wastage from 0.5% to 0.2% by construction oil water separators, and installation of separate and dedicated pipelines

Took a strong initiative in reducing customer complaints to 5% by proper monitoring at every stages of operation.

Declared as the best Production employee for the year 2007-2008

ACADEMICS

Qualification

Institute

Percentage

Class

BE(Chemical)

MIT Manipal

62.72%

First Class

COMPUTER SKILSS

SAP and Microsoft Office

PERSONAL DETAILS

Nationality :

Indian

Languages Known :

English, Hindi, Marathi, Tulu, Kannada

Marital Status :

Married

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