KRISHNAN GNANAPANDITHAN
MilkyMist Dairy Food Private limited
Krishnapuram(PO)
12
years of professional experience
Dynamic Maintenance Specialist and Team Manager with over 12 years of experience in the FMCG, dairy, poultry processing, and aseptic filling sectors. Expertise in overseeing comprehensive maintenance operations for high-speed filling and packaging lines, including advanced aseptic filling systems and various secondary packaging equipment such as sleever, shrink wrapper, carton packers, and palletizers. Proficient in SAP MM/PM, spare parts management, shutdown planning, and executing maintenance strategies that enhance operational efficiency. Proven success in leading maintenance teams to minimize breakdowns, boost Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and uphold stringent GMP, HACCP, and food safety standards in high-pressure manufacturing environments.
Work History
Team Manager
1 Year 2 Months- Coordinated daily plant operations, ensuring production targets, quality standards, and equipment reliability were consistently achieved.
- Performed preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance of Krones Blow Moulder (BM), aseptic filling, and capping systems to ensure high equipment uptime.
- Maintained aseptic and processing equipment including H₂O₂ sterilization systems, CIP/SIP systems, filling machines, and secondary packaging equipment such as sleever, shrink wrapper, and palletizer.
- Managed SAP MM activities including PR/PO processing, spare parts procurement, and inventory control to support uninterrupted maintenance operations.
- Maintained maintenance documentation, SOPs, and audit compliance records for safety, GMP, ISO, and quality requirements.
- Diagnosed and resolved mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and control system issues, while leading shutdowns and improvement activities to enhance equipment reliability and OEE.
Senior Executive
2 Years 10 Months- Working in familiar with Corazza, Natec, Multivac, Grunwald packaging machineries.
- Organize team and scheduling activities to team for daily and weekly Preventive activities.
- Prepare and coordinate with purchase team for spares arrangement and maintain spare inventory.
- Coordinate and plan activities with OEM Team for AMC activities.
- Monitoring and reducing breakdowns and focusing for increasing machine OEE.
- Conducting daily and weekly meeting with internal and production team and do RCA for major issues.
Team Manager-Production Maintenance
5 Years- Leading and organizing the team to maintain the Health and Safety, Food safety quality standards during work activities.
- Focusing on the Line efficiency, Technician performance and skills, Machine improvements, PM completion and its effectiveness.
- Conducting regular audits for PM completion efficiency, 5S standard maintain LOTO adherence and tools availability.
- Preparing reports for MTTR, MTBF, RCA, Critical service PM spare parts, expenses report.
- Conducting daily meeting for technicians to discuss about Safety, major issues and repeated breakdowns.
- Prepared activity chart and will conduct Safety audit and Supervision on Critical quality and major service activities.
- Worked in Corazza, SIG Combibloc, Stephan, Natec, Sapal, FMC, Meurer, ABB robots & Mariani palletizing system.
Executive Technical
1 Year 4 Months- Lead a team in the installation & commissioning of feed supplement production line & service optimizers a multi-dosing equipment for poultry feed.
- Established the best solutions to enhance production rates, output quality & reduced maintenance cost.
- In-house fabrication of new dosing & installation.
- Conducted trials on customer sites with applicator and summit report.
Maintenance Technician
1 Year 11 Months- Maintenance of 4500 BPH poultry slaughtering (MEYN) production machineries.
- Carried out preventive maintenance and breakdown repair on food processing machines like primary, EV& Chillers.
- Assisted Boiler, Rendering & ETP team activities to conduct major maintenance works during shutdowns.
- Responsible to maintain and monitor records and reports.
- Supporting team for Internal and External quality audits.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - MECHANICAL
High School Diploma
MBA - Production And Operations Management
Skills
Maintenance Planning
Scheduling & Shutdown Execution
PLC & HMI Troubleshooting (Siemens/Automation Systems)
Servo Drives
VFDs
Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance
Pneumatic & Hydraulic Systems Maintenance
SAP MM/PM (PR
PO & Spare Parts Management)
Inventory Control
Vendor & Contractor Management
GMP
HACCP
Food Safety & Quality Compliance
Audit Management (Internal
External & Regulatory)
OEE Improvement
MTTR & MTBF Optimization
Budget Control & Cost Reduction Initiatives
Cross-functional Coordination & Continuous Improvement
Accomplishments
- Awarded employee of the month for January 2020.
- Assisted suppliers in the commissioning of square cheese filler SAPAL & packing machine (GMA).
Languages Known
Tamil
English
Hindi
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- DOB: 04.06.1992
- Nationality: Indian
- Passport: N3315143
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