KARTHIKEYAN PALANISAMY
RESULT DRIVEN OPERATIONS MANAGER WITH 14+ YEARS EXPERIENCEA result driven operations manager with 14+ year’s management experience in a busy manufacturing environment provides me with the capacity to successfully meet your requirements.
Key capabilities that are relevant to your job opportunity include:
• Sound experience of Lean manufacturing principles and up-to-date knowledge of current manufacturing technology.
• Solid background in planning efficient production processes to assure optimal use of available capacity
• Established track record in the identification and implementation of new manufacturing capabilities
• Demonstrated awareness of occupational hazards and effective implementation of safety precautions
• Proven ability to work with, train, supervise and motivate employees to improve quality and control costs
• Knowledge and ability to plan and manage annual and monthly budgets
• Strong computer skills including MS Word, Excel, and Project
I am accustomed to a fast-paced work environment and efficiently handling multiple jobs at the same time. I enjoy a challenge and work very hard to achieve results.
Last Resume Update | March 31, 2019 |
Address | CHENNAI, India |
karthikeyan.p2311@gmail.com | |
Phone Number | 00919443081129 |
Experience
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Manage overall operations and responsible for the effective and successful management of labor, productivity, quality control and safety measures as established and set for the project Department. Ensure safe and efficient operations. Serve as a company representative on regulatory issues. Enhance the operational procedure, systems and principles in the areas of information flow and management, business processes, enhanced management reporting and looks for opportunities to expand systems. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company’s policies and applicable laws.
Responsibilities & Achievements:
• Finalizing quotations as per the customer requirements & winning the bid in taking projects.
• Estimating the project cost as well as product cost on in house production & BOP is met as per the project profits.
• Estimating the BOQ for the projects and ensuring them that they are meeting customer requirements and at economic cost.
• Purchasing of new machineries for wood carving, planning & cutting such as CNC, routers & filing equipments.
• Planning, purchasing & producing of materials as per the required drawings for effective & timely completion for projects.
• Preparing & ensuring the projects are set & constructed at the time frames as per the consultant and contractors.
• Delivering shop floor plan for manufacturing of products as per the site requirements.
• Full coordination & handled project managers and ensuring that projects are completed & hand over to clients without any issues as per the time frame.
• Focusing and working on the time limit for the completion of the project.
• Recruiting & training new staffs & workers against their responsivity & ensuring the PPE & HSE are always maintained as per the company and governing body standards.
• Created a new work shop for inhouse activities for insulation panels, wooden panels and made as a full kit for exporting to clients with out any man power technically to fix just by following the instructions from the catalog.
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Rolls & Responsibilities:
• Managing the company for the sake of profit, by reducing the costs professionally & increasing the healthy sale
• Preparing operations & procedures manuals for efficient & effective operations & reviewing the utilization of existing policies, procedures & suggesting improvements.
• Purchase new products & new business activities to sustain in market and making better opportunities with respective analysis.
• Leading the company in professional & profitable way by training the sales people on products & reaching them with maximum sales of respective products.
• Monthly procurement planning of all materials & purchasing both locally & from International Market and ensuring optimum inventory in raw materials as well as in finished goods.
• Plan, organize & follow up stock taking process & overseeing stock levels, formulate decisions on stock control & management.
• Maintaining logistics schedule for sales in professional manner & finding why, how & how to prevent? Etc...
• Directing the organizational activities to achieve financial & trading targets.
Achievements
• Reviewed and analysed bids & proposed to purchase for more profit on products & monitored vendors to get the best price & generated best profit.
• Made direct purchase from OEM suppliers and manufacturers for spares other than local market especially from china & India to make cost efficient.
• Rate negotiations with suppliers and vendors directly for better price.
• Made 100% operatable plant from trial phase after the plant set up by avoiding the bottleneck on production line in terms of process optimization, maintenance & quality.
• Re engineered machines to minimize the machine stoppage time such as cleaning & utilizing the time to make more production.
• Modified mix designs to make more profits on products without affecting quality of the products.
• Closely working & monitoring the production, purchase & maintenance are as per the budget.
PLANT & PLANNING MANAGER
Key deliverables
• Production Management – Plan for Man, Machine, Material, & Mould to make day to day operations to run smooth & increased the plant utilization to 85% by effective planning of all the resources.
• Operational Cost Control – Maintaining & cut cost at operational areas where ever possible without any compromise on the quality with a unique control of purchasing, Bill of Materials & to maintain the inventory level as limited for raw material, spares & Finished Goods .
• Supplier Chain Management – Negotiating rates with suppliers, contractors with zero compromise on quality. Calculating lead time in purchasing and making the materials available on time & ensuring the production is not affected both in quality & quantity.
• Quality Management – Maintaining high level in the quality of the products which is produced in plant with no complaints from customers by doing First off, Last Off & Final inspection along with lots in house sampling as per municipality requirements.
• Customer Satisfaction – Prompt deliveries & quality as per the municipality & customer requirements.
• Maintenance Management – Ensure the plant has enough spares in case of change over during break downs. Created spare change over history record to study the life of spare which resulted in avoiding down times & minimizing the OEM spares purchase, purchased spares locally available to reduce the cost.
Achievements
• Increased overall sales turn over to 21 Million Dirham annually from 6 Million annual turnover –By clearing all the bottle necks of supplier by improving quality, quantity & on time delivery by proper utilization of machine & fleet.
• Reduced plant operating costs to 0.6 Million Dirham – achieving 83% of OEE, thro Proactive utilization of labor, materials, optimizing processing, and creating why why? Analysis for scrap & waste reduction.
• Modified the obsolete moulds to produce rare moving products to avoid cost in purchasing new moulds & satisfying the customers.
• Chairman award for best plant manager in 2015 in whole Bukhatir Group & best employee award among 4 units in 2016.
• Made customers 100% satisfactory in terms of timely delivery & quality which resulted in increase in the revenue as well as increase in number of customers.
• Made systemized workflows to improve productivity (OEE), reduction of rejection (8D Analysis), Inventory control (ABC, ROP Planning), redefined maintenance check sheet as per the consumables.
• Given additional responsibility as Production Planning & Control (PPC) manager for all the units & made production plan to all units on weekly basis along with raw material requirement plan resulted in holding of enough stock of raw materials for production.
LINE MANAGER
Key deliverables
• Reduced the in – house and customer rejection PPM form 8500 to 6500 (in – house) and 0 PPM at customer end by 7 QC tools, 8D reports, etc.
• Worked in the areas of product assembly line balancing to facilitate attainment of daily targets and MRD.
• Responsible for productivity on production floor as per quality guidance. Ensured that required material for production activities was continuously available, and maintained cross functional coordination at all stages.
• Maintaining smooth coordination for achieving assembled parts for the product to attain shipment target; with zero compromise on quality.
• Ensured effective implementation of OEE, 5S in the factory. Furnished MIS report to facilitate decision making in management meetings.
SENIOR ENGINEER
Key Deliverable
• Conducting the weekly PPC review meeting with shop floor production in-charge, Assembly in-charge & stores in-charges for find out the bottleneck points and assure to reach the production target with in specified date.
• Analysis the production capacity of shop floor, assembly, vendor and supplier accordingly plan their production target. If required to develop the new source to avoid the capacity constraint.
• Prepare the ISO documentation and attend the ISO auditing.
• Reduced the inventory from 125 Days to 45 Days for moulded component by Inventory turnover ratio method.
Education
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY