GANESAN ARUNACHALAM

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Passport Number: K5802485 [Valid till 16.09.2022]

Career Objective:

Analyze trends in food industry and design better alternatives to current techniques to maximize quality product output

Experience Profile:

Total 34years experience in Biscuit,Pasta and wafers industry in India and Africa as General Manager Production.

Achievements:

• Awarded by the Angolan Government for the best work and increasing turn over in a very short time

• Fuel consumption in plant was controlled by adopting the method of CII

• Cost reduction made to maintain wrapper wastage

• New production technique implemented by modifying in production areas to reduce cost

• Man power controlled by adopting automation in production areas to reduce cost

• New 4 biscuits variety introduced and improved the market volume

• Inventory level carefully controlled, enhanced the plant utilization

• Production norms enhanced over and above the 12/3 settlement

• Systems

Career Profile:

2016 - 2017 General manager (production) Ahadukes Food industrial s.c, Ethiopia 2013 - 2016 Consultant for biscuits manufacturing industries 2011 - 2013 SrProduction manager M/s FozkudiaIndustrial Limitad -Luanda 2001 - 2011 Production Manager for Golfrate Industrial Limitada – Luanda Angola (No 1 factory in Angola Linked with Unilever Limited)

2000 - 2001 Quality Control Manager for Rom-vijay- Bio tech (P) Ltd. Mfr : Bio – Manure – Cuddalore, SouthIndia

1998 - 2000 Production Manager for Raj Agro products – Hyderabad, India 1992 - 1998 Deputy Manager – Pasta plant, M/S Aurofood Limited, Pondicherry, India 1986 - 1992 Sr. Executive – Biscuits Prodution, M/S Aurofood Limited, Pondicherry, India 1983 - 1986 Shift Incharge – Biscuit Plant Production, M/S Aurofood Limited, Pondicherry, India

1981 - 1983 Lab Assistant Quality Control in Central Laboratory – Approved by the Department of Scientific R&D, Govt. Of India

Job responsibilities:

• Formulating annual budgets – Production based on demand forecasts, economic batch Formulating quality standards for each variety of Biscuits based on materials and production costs customer reaction and available equipment

• Allocation, equipment setting, batch size and quality control checks

• Review operation of plant to ensure quality and productivity standards are met

• Initiate studies to improve packing efficiency and productivity

• Initiate steps to modify recipes of developed modified products.

• Assessing the effect and advantages of modification in terms of cost, taste and process efficiency.

• Worked with Direct fired ovens,Indirect fired ovens and Gas fired ovens 4 lines

• worked with 2lines of long cut pasta and 1 line of shortcut pasta

• worked with 60 tonees capacity per month of wafer line.

• Handled Simon vicars,Itlaysaiwa and Indian Plants, Braibandi pasta lines and Franshaas wafer machinery

• Very good experience with packing machines of multi pack,AMP rose Envelope pack,Sai packing machines,Nichromepacking machines, Aucotourier wafer packing machines. Maintenance:

• Identify any lapses in Preventive or breakdown maintenance and initiate corrective action through maintenance Engineer.

• Guide maintenance personnel in breakdown maintenance if necessary.

• Formulate preventive maintenance schedule jointly with maintenance Engineer so as to minimize downtime and cost.

Quality Control:

• Review quality control reports on a daily basis to ensure quality standards and procedure and followed and achieved.

• Improve quality awareness amongst employees through guidance/ counselling and “In House Training”.

• Initiate and scrutinise results of shelf life and consistency tests with a view to improve quality to ultimate customer.

• Formulate and review implementation of vigorous process control norms and checking Miscellaneous:

• Ensure cleanliness and hygiene in the plant

• Keep abstract of latest developments in Biscuit technology General Administration:

• Liason with government agencies like Factory Inspectorate, Boiler Inspectorate, Pollution Control, Economic Police etc.

• Maintaining good employee relations and handling the IR situation like lay off, suspension of operation

• Worked with 2 lines of biscuits and 10 varieties(Hard dough,softdough,cream and wafers) up to 1200 tons production

• Handled 350 workers (Direct and Indirect)

• Preparing MIR – Weekly, Monthly, Annually : Plant performance Education Profile:

B.Sc. (Chemistry), Madras University, Madras [1980] Diploma in Chemical Process, Annamalai University, Chidambaram [1990] Language Proficiency:

Tamil, English, Hindi, Portuguese

Expected Package: 18Lacs p.a (last drawn salary US $ 2500 per month)