Sandeep Dua

Delhi, India,

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SUMMARY

Versatile professional with 22+ years of comprehensive leadership experience and proficient in formulating, developing, and implementing organization’s manufacturing & operations strategies, looking for a senior role in plant operations / manufacturing. Well versed in adopting TQM, Kaizen & TPM to drive continuous process improvements. Lead cross functional teams and extracting synergies, eliciting superior performances in improving plant output and efficiencies. Keen strategist, planner and implementer consistently delivering excellence in given role.

EXPERIENCES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Factory Manager

Disha Foods Pvt Ltd (Dukes Group) Jun 2022 to July 2023

Heading the factory’s operation to plan, implement and review strategies to implement company’s growth. Evaluate, develop and implement a variety of operating policies and procedures.

Increased the plant output from 95 MT per day to 110 MT per day by increasing the packing machines speed there by clocking the highest ever monthly production.

Reduced the plant manpower from average 750 to 720 man-days by optimizing the manpower.

Preparing production plan based on the sales forecast for the month.

Daily monitoring of the Planned vs Actual production targets and taking corrective actions to overcome the variance if any.

Daily monitoring of plant parameters like RM/PM usage, manpower, power & fuel consumption.

Finalising the conversion cost with ITC for their products.

Spearheading various audits.

Manufacturing Manager Ghana

Twellium Industrial Company Dec 2019 to Feb 2021

(Biscuit Manufacturing) (left due to Corona pandemic)

Heading the company’s manufacturing department to plan, implement and review manufacturing strategy. Evaluate, develop and implement a variety of operating policies and procedures.

Preparing production plan based on the sales volume forecast for the month.

Daily monitoring of the Planned vs Actual production targets and taking corrective actions to overcome the variance if any.

Daily monitoring of plant parameters like RM/PM usage, manpower, power & fuel consumption.

Executed and commissioned automatic RM handling system to reduce the plant wastages and reduce the manpower requirement, thereby reducing the overall manufacturing cost.

Slashed the manpower cost by 2% through optimizing the position based manning.

Supporting quality department for various audits.

Coordinating with all department’s HODs to ensure smooth running of all manufacturing processes.

Conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and review of CAPA implementation for any complaints / observations during audits.

Preparing yearly KRAs for the subordinates and conduct periodic reviews as per guidelines set by the HR department.

Leading, mentoring, training & monitoring the performance of team members to achieve functional KRAs.

Create and maintain a collaborative & performance-oriented environment while providing development opportunities to members.

Plant Head Lagos, Nigeria

Venus Processing and Packaging Ltd May 2016 to May 2019

(Frozen Vegetables and Fruits)

Heading the plant operations overlooking the profit & loss of the business unit. Preparing the manufacturing and CAPEX plan to enhance the company’s capacity. Spearheading the end-to-end Operations, Supply chain management, Warehouse management, Purchase Management.

Increased the plant yield from 50% to 54% by systematic decreasing the process wastages.

Slashed 10% workers by optimizing position-wise manning hence reducing the overall manufacturing cost.

Identifying and capacity building to introduce new products to maximize the company’s profitability.

Spearheaded the BRC Global Food Safety System and cleared it with “A grade”.

Supporting quality department for various certification and regulatory audits.

Coordinating with all department’s HODs to ensure smooth running of all manufacturing processes.

Preparing yearly KRAs for the subordinates and conduct periodic reviews as per guidelines set by the HR department.

Leading, mentoring, training & monitoring the performance of team members to achieve functional KRAs.

Create and maintain a collaborative & performance-oriented environment while providing development opportunities to members.

Head Engineering

Harvest Gold Industries Ltd Jan 2014 to Mar 2016

(Bread and Bakery products manufacturing)

Heading the engineering department of the company looking after all engineering aspects for 4 factories. Managing the predictive and preventive maintenance schedules for these factories.

Introduction of ERP PM Module across company.

Introduction of RFID system to optimize the process cycle time which improves the quality.

Modification of air handling system design for better cooling effect.

Initiating various capacity expansion and quality improvement projects to meet the increased market demand.

Spearheading the maintenance activities (Predictive, preventive as well as breakdown maintenance) across factories.

Britannia Industries Ltd. Mar 2007 - Jan 2014

(Biscuit Manufacturing)

As a Regional Maintenance Manager Aug 2012 to Jan 2014

Developed maintenance management for companies own plant and contract manufacturing units.

Reduced plant breakdown time to less than 2%.

Reduced engineering inventory stocks by categorization of engineering spares.

Preparing CAPEX and OPEX budget for engineering activities.

Capacity creation for cream biscuit plant.

Part of Kaizen team. Reduced baking time of Marie Gold biscuits by 10 secs as Kaizen project thereby increasing the line output.

As a Project Manager May 2011 to July 2012

Commissioned Green field project of 50000 TPA biscuit plant in Odisha, completed the project within the given budget and record time of 15 months.

Administered liaison with Govt. departments to obtain NOCs to establish the factory and to run the factory.

As an Operations Manager – CP (Contract Manufacturing Unit) Mar 2009 to May 2011

Heading the company’s manufacturing CP facilities across North India (6 factories).

Preparing and monitoring the adherence to production plan based on PPC plan for all these factories.

Introducing new manufacturing plants / enhancement of capacities to meet the increased demand.

To make sure all manufactured products are in line with specifications and quality guidelines.

Lowering conversion cost by optimizing position-based manning and production output.

Introduction of new products like Little Hearts, Jim Jam, new Tiger variants, Cream biscuits etc.

Continuous review of productivity and efficiency for all the factories and make a proper plan to improve it and preparing monthly MIS for all these factories.

As a Maintenance Manager Mar 2007 to Mar 2009

Maintenance Manager (Contract Manufacturing Units), Capacity expansion to increase the plant output. Capacity building to introduce new products.

Introduction of companywide project to reduce the pack sizes of all SKUs.

Providing technical knowhow to factories for better efficiencies of the plant.

Reliance Retail Petro Ltd Area Maintenance Manager Aug’05 to Feb’07

Asian Paints India Ltd. Sr. Engineer Dec’03 to Aug’05

Oswal Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. Sr. Engineer Mar’99 to Nov’03

(Part of Green Field Project and after plant commissioning part of maintenance team)

RELEVANT SKILLS

Factory Operations, Manufacturing Management, Production & Quality Management, Plant Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting, P & L Management, New Product Development, Kaizen Implementation, Preventive Maintenance System, New Project Management, Manpower Management, Team Monitoring & Handling, Infrastructure Setup, Multi-tasking, Vendor Management, Supply Chain Management, MS Office, ERP - SAP

NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS

Lowering production cost by Re 1/Kg of biscuit manufacturing by implementing position-based manning (Operations Manager in Britannia Industries Ltd).

Stabilizing new products within given timeline and budgeted wastages (Operations Manager in Britannia Industries Ltd).

Green field project of 50000 TPA biscuit factory (Project Manager in Britannia Industries Ltd).

Introduction of SAP PM Module across company (Maintenance Manager in Britannia Industries Ltd).

Facilitated to successfully cleared BRC Global Food Safety audit in first attempt with “A” grade (Plant Head in Venus Processing and Packaging Ltd).

Strategized the relocation and stabilization of Jim Jam and Little Hearts biscuits manufacturing line to improve products availability (Operations Manager in Britannia Industries Ltd).

Spearheaded various capacity expansion projects as per business requirement (Manufacturing Manager in Twellium Industrial Company).

CERTIFICATES

Internal Auditor for BRC Global Food Safety System

EDUCATION

M. Tech (Electrical Engg) Moscow Power Engineering Institute 1997

B. Tech (Electrical Engg) Moscow Power Engineering Institute 1995

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