ASHISH KUMARE-Mail: ty.ashish24@gmail.com

Mob: 9818582200; Landline: 011 43042801

OPERATIONS/ PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

Career Summary: Professional possessing 11+ years of experience in Production Planning & Management, Factory Administration,

Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Quality Management, Budget Management and People Management. Expertise in maintaining quality, work delegation, managing teams, managing the overall control of activities

pertaining to cost control, inventory management & development of staff on skill and function. Skilled in Lean Six Sigma Methods, knowledge of manufacturing principles and standard production procedures and

adept at surpassing security, quality and manufacturing objectives. Profound understanding of handling a secure, proper, aggravation free work place for workers and clients and

skilled at providing suitable, comprehensive training to staff. Results driven individual with presentation, negotiation, consultation and communication skills and keen abilities in

planning, goal setting, strategy implementation and follow-up. Strong leader with success in directing audit and accounting teams, managing diverse operational levels, interacting

with the management ranks & customers, ensuring superior performance through value added development programs and trainings.

Areas of Expertise: Project Management Cost Management Operational Management

System Management, Process Control Methods Employee Development

Maintenance Schedules Manufacturing Operations Team Management

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

-PARAMOUNT SURGIMED LIMITED, BHIWADI, RAJASTHAN-Factory Manager (Nov 2013 - Present)

Brief: Paramount was established in 1993 as a surgical blade company with exporting to 50 countries and the first company to get CE/ISO14002/ISO9001 for her products.

Key Results Areas:Production Planning & Management Managing the Plant operations and internal logistics for Blade and Adult Diaper unit. Planning, formulating, organizing, controlling, and directing production activities. Controlling the production process to maximize production efficiency while meeting standard operating procedures,

finished product’s quality standards and specifications adhering to the company’s quality assurance policy. Determining the key capacity parameters identifying constraints for ST & MT production. Ensuring that OP targets for Volume, OEE, OR, and cost are achieved.

Quality & Safety Management Supervising product quality standards and enforcing quality-control programs and ascertaining that all the

specifications are met. Ensuring the successful implementation & renewal of the combined ISO 9000/14000 /18000 /CE Certifications

systems throughout the factory including Adult Diaper and Under Pad Unit. Developing & managing the factory operating plan, budget & control, the manufacturing conversion costs and

internal logistics (labour, wastage and rework) against budget. Implementing the procedures, systems and work-instructions to ensure the safe handling of all chemicals, safety of

processes and the health and safety of all people on site. Implementing appropriate safety training programs and HR policies & procedures.

Strategic Planning Establishing short term/ long term budgets & corporate strategies for achievement of business targets. Setting up & managing operations with a view to achieve business objectives and goals; ensuring top-line/ bottom-

line profitability. Liaising with govt. authorities like State Excise/ Local Administration Office/ Labor Office/ Factory Office.

Deploying methods to analyze processes, recommending modifications to minimize escalations, reduce rejection rates, realize operational efficiencies, control variability, costs and reduce cycle-time.

Ensuring continuous improvement in performance, output and reliability by managing the activities of production and internal logistics teams leading to plant de-bottle-necking/alterations/replacements.

Team Management: Ensuring the effectual adopting of new programs and policies and providing training in order to meet improved

requirements ordered by customers. Reviewing the overall performance and identifying training necessities of production personnel. Providing constant mentoring and coaching to the production staff.

Key Highlights: Stellar role in increasing the Blade Production by 61 % from 38,000 boxes to 62120 boxes (Nov 2013 – Mar 2015). Successfully initiated the manpower skill development program resulting in an increase of manpower productivity

by 15%. Successful in reducing the Power cost from 17 INR to 11.60 INR per box along with subsequent increase in PF. Introduced the separate scrap collection system and led to the recovery of 5000cms of blade from waste leading to

annual saving of 4.80 lacs. Diaper Production for the subsequent period increased from 3 lacs diapers per month to 13 lacs per month.

Subsequently rejection level reduced from 17 % to 5.5 %. Successfully reduced the vendors’ base from 20 to 10 thru critical evaluation. Successfully completed CE Certification audit.

-MOSER BAER INDIA LTD., GREATER NOIDA, UP-Assistant Manager - Production (May 2003 – Oct 2013)

Brief: Moser Baer is the 2nd largest global player in DVDR / CDR Manufacturing with annual turnover of more than 2000 crores.

Key Results Areas:Operations Management Managed team of 150 engineers and handled over 54 DVD – R lines- producing 1.8 million discs per day. Overlooked production management, project management, cost management, operational management, system

management, process control methods, employee development and maintenance schedules.

Manufacturing Operations Handled planning, organization & implementation of policies, procedures and strategies in order to manufacture safe

& quality products at the lowest possible cost. Ensured increase in the net A grade yield. Coordinated with the Quality Control division, identified deviations to accomplish determined quality standards,

improved and maintained the quality of the products.

Cost Control Ensured increase in profits by employing various cost control strategies in areas of manpower, supply chain,

procurement, scrap disposal etc.

Process Improvements Introduced Lean Manufacturing method to reduce waste and productivity involving collecting and analyzing data

and making effective decisions on operations. Assisted with sound technical inputs/ engineering support to the team from conception to completion of a product

stage. Managed the rejections, yield and developed reports on yield improvements for new production lines.

Quality Management Determined potential deficiencies by interacting with Quality Department and implemented corrective actions. Implemented Defect & Rejection control FMEA, Control plan, MSA, Corrective and Preventive action conducting Root

cause and Data analysis for problem solving. Handled customer complaints & prepared CAPA & their timely green resolution. Coordinated internal/ external audits and maintained relevant documents.

Key Highlights: Received awards in recognition of excellent work:

3 best division Champion Awards 2 best 5S Suggestion Awards

My Line Best Award3 distinctive OSA Awards for breakthrough Kaizen for improving uptimes

Best 5S Division Awards for the department (2013)

Played a key role in increasing the throughput of the mono lines from 2.26 crore discs to 2.54 crore discs and thus enhanced the capacity (Apr 2012 – 2013).

Successfully increased A+B grade from 83% to 88%. Improved the manpower productivity by 25% by elimination of NVA, VSM. As a certified trainer in the organization and conducted more than 170 man hours training on manufacturing

reliability. Conducted Safety Awareness Programs at shop floor as well as performed safety audits. CRDD Compliance: Ensured >97.5 compliance to Daily Production Plan drawn according to SNOP. Successfully rearranged and improved the skills of the team and thus saved 30% of manpower cost. Accomplished tremendous scrap reduction from 8kg to 2kg per line /day leading to saving of INR 18-20Million per

annum. Achieved UV Energy reduction by 33%. Carried out six sigma Black Belt project on improving Online ‘A+B’ Grade yield from 30% to 80% in Challenger Lines.

Plant -1, that resulted in increasing productivity of ‘A+B’ grade by more than 120% and revenue by 227K USD. Carried out six sigma Green Belt project on Scratch Analysis and eliminated them through improved mechanisms and

processes – ensured zero customer complaints Led the merger of primary IPQC functions with the productions as part of line ownership concepts – reducing the

indirect manpower engaged on shop floor Introduced the colour coding system and SOP for handling product mix and maintained the product integrity Efficiently reduced the product changeover time to average 30minutes from 2hours without due flushing process to

90 minutes with dye flushing process Reduced the sliver thickness in MBI – grade from 140nm to 90 nm and for OEMs to 105 nm Reduced the Line Cycle Time from 3.0 seconds to 2.5 seconds for increasing the throughput of mono lines and OEE. Improved productivity by activity analysis and re-engineered sequences on shop floor and reduced the average cycle

time taken for product to reach printing from 23hours to 12hours

CREDENTIALS

Academic: PGDBM (Operations Management), Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad (UP) (2005) BTech (Industrial & Production), Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut (2002) – 75% Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev Polytechnic, New Delhi (1999) - 64%

Trainings/ Courses: Exposure to statistical techniques like Design of experiments, FMEA, Simple Linear Regression Analysis & ANOVA

during training conducted by Quality Growth Services Pvt. Ltd. In November 2007 5'S and Kaizen by Moser Baer India Ltd Q12 Impact on Engagement by Gallop Organization Managerial effectiveness and time management Training on Perfect Planning & Flawless Execution by Anil Bhatnagar Training on Achieving & winning with People by Anil Bhatnagar Training on CE audit

Certifications: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified at Quality Growth Services Pvt. Ltd. (Affiliated to Pivotal Resources USA) In April

2013 Six Sigma Green Belt Certified at Quality Growth Services Pvt. Ltd. In November 2007 Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certified at Moser Baer India Ltd. in 2006

Computer Courses: AutoCAD from CADD Centre, New Delhi (Nov 1999) C++ Programming from CMC Ltd., Delhi (Certificate Course) (2000)

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 11 Mar 1979 Languages Known: English & Hindi Address: 197-D, Pocket-1, Mayur Vihar, Phase-1, Delhi 110091 Preferred Location: Delhi, NCR