Plant Maintenance

PRASHANT CHANDNA

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HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATION

Expert at streamlining plant operations, improving productivity and increasing plant efficiency, offering a successful career history comprising more than 8 years.

Outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, enhanced through creating and maintaining a long-term collaborative relationship with colleagues, clients, and management.

Man & Machine management, Equipment, Process handling expertise; has done many engineering improvements in the plant to reduce staff & to save cost.

Good knowledge of Lean, Root Cause, TPM,5 Whys, Fishbone, Kaizen and 5S system.

Establish effective quality control and safety programs, encouraging proactive participation across the manufacturing floor.

Working knowledge of OSHA, FSMS, QMS and Environmental management regulations.

Preventive maintenance of Process equipment & Utility equipment. Reduced MTTR & MTBF by using CBMS Tools.

Well versed with the guidelines of Good Manufacturing Practices and Food Safety regulations

Worked to provide strategic, operational, and fiscal leadership while working to reach the company’s long-term goals and maintain organizational vision.

Well versed working with SAP, ERP, Excel, Solid Works, JIRA, Confluence, MERPS, and JDE.

Native language proficiency in English, Punjabi, and Hindi.

Areas of expertise

Lean Manufacturing

Regulatory Compliance

Project Management

EHS & OHSAS

Production & Process

Tube Packaging

Policy / Procedure Development

ISO Compliance

Cost Reduction

Bottle Packaging

Budget Preparation and Control

Preventive Maintenance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Diconium, Stuttgart, Germany Dec,2018 to March,2019

Budget preparation, allocation, and control for up to $ 2 million.

Assessed project risk and proactively resolving issues

Resource planning and allocation for critical path schedule.

Build credibility, establish rapport and maintain communications with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.

Earned value analysis for projects.

Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations. Excelled at gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to the development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusion.

Utilized work-breakdown structure (WBS) to ensure appropriate allocation of resources based on cost estimates and develop manageable scheduling for completion of deliverables.

Tracked project timelines, deliverables, and budgets.

Facilitated team meetings and followed up on action items

Team Lead Technical

Oriflame, Noida, India April,2016 to Feb,2018

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Preventive maintenance of Plant’s equipment & Utility equipment.

Made preventive maintenance schedule for all plant assets. Tracking & monitoring completion of preventive for all machines.

Negotiate, analyze, and prepare purchase order agreements, subcontracts, and cost control, etc.

Inventory Management - Monitors the use and inventories of critical spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary within the budget.

Daily interaction with the team for feedback on how to prevent and mitigate major breakdown by taking immediate preventive action w.r.t. Plant, Process, Policies, Regulations, and Standards

Managed and facilitated the training of 20 employees and 150 plant staff in the production plant.

Conducted and organized safety committee meeting with all members of the Safety Committee and ensuring the active participation of all members.

Increased plant efficiency from 70% to 80% by doing engineering in-house modification.

100% Compliance for HASSAP, EHS, OHSAS & Food

Collaborated with all functions to ensure smooth an end to end process.

Successfully installed high-speed bottle and tube packing machine with the in-house team.

Sr. Executive Technical

Pernod Ricard, India (CPG) Oct,2014 to March,2016

To Define daily priorities for the team with the daily meeting including activity and production area efficiencies and improvements

A planned and streamlined process for $1M+ monthly production target and schedule.

Converted batch manufacturer to a Demand Flow Lean Manufacturing operation which reduced lead-time by 90%.

Ensured the equipment’s maintenance and reliability to higher standards by 100% preventive and autonomous maintenance.

Held monthly meetings with employees’ lead representatives to address issues and concerns.

Controlled & monitored M&R budget & to ensure all work needs to be completed within the specified budget limit.

Managed a project of 240BPM Automatic & 150 BPM Semi-automatic liquor lines.

Managed & executed projects worth rupees 20 Million ($ 0.3Million)

Sr. Executive Technical

ITC Foods Ltd., India (CPG) Oct,2013 to Sep2014

Enhanced plant capacity by 20% by introducing IR Heater & increasing oven length.

Cost Reduction Projects; Install and stabilize fully automatic sandwiching machine with high-speed packing machines.

Planned and conducted an internal audit for quality, safety, environment, and hygiene.

Responsible for internal audits & safety meetings

Production planning on weekly basis to cater demand and to plan NPD products at the same time.

Managed Team of 5o+ professional on different locations to deliver projects on time.

Executive Technical

Britannia Ltd., India (CPG) June,2010 to Sep,2013

Installed of a gas line in Super Snacks Ghaziabad & in Bhagwati Foods, Kanpur.

Spare Planning and Procurement from the vendors and Suppliers.

Training to the Technicians and operators for SOP and safety measures.

Handled the maintenance, servicing, and AMCs of the Utilities.

Supervised and trained 50 employees.

Worked round the clock to Launch new products & started new Plants.

Conducted fire drills in every quarter and training for operating fire extinguishers.

Introduced KANBAN for spare parts management.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical 2006 to 2010

Kurukshetra University, India

Certified Master in project management (PMP)

(Vskills govt. of NCT Delhi )

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