SANJAY LAXMAN
Pune
Summary
Dedicated Plant Operations Manager bringing demonstrated record of success and 24+ years of experience in manufacturing environments. Focused on controlling costs, eliminating overages and enhancing efficiency using hands-on approach. Inspires and influences teams to build cohesion, enhance knowledge and increase productivity, safety and quality by taking care of financial growth.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Plant Head
Shree Pressing
11.2023 - Current
- Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers' expectations
- Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards
- Be responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results
- Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus
- Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions
- Share a trusting relationship with workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff
- Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime
- Reviewing recommendations for special machinery and working with engineering teams to improve products and processes
- Participating in plant expansion, equipment planning and conversion
- Overseeing the maintenance of equipment, building, plant security and protection
- Monitoring and testing various plant processes
- Controlling costs to achieve budgetary goals for the company
- Developing a preventive maintenance program
- Setting performance goals and expectations
- Determining important key performance indicators and measuring them regularly
- Staying up to date with the latest production trends, technology and best practices
- Building trustworthy relationships with employees
- Participating in various manufacturing-related activities, such as quality, productivity, safety, innovation, supply management and on-time shipping
- Ensuring smooth day-to-day operations of the manufacturing plant.
Operation Head
Platex India
03.2022 - 11.2023
- Daily Weekly and monthly production scheduling
- Make availability of required manpower, utilities and raw material as per production scheduling
- Inventory management by considering booked orders and upcoming orders
- Manage and allocate teams for onsite servicing
- Coordinating with suppliers for quality, time line for material supply and costing
- Coordinating with customers for project requirements in terms of on time supply, quality, cost, documentations and special requirements if any
- Maintaining 5S standard and safety norms on shop floor
- Hiring and training new team members and workers
- Maintaining LEAN culture on shop floor
- Complying ISO standards with required documentation and Audit facing
- Daily monitoring and making action plans for production plan, OTD and FPY
- Costing for projects in terms of raw material, manpower requirement and extra utilities required
- Responsible for maintaining safety stocks for all fast moving items
- Making and executing plans for consuming slow moving inventory
- Daily monitoring with logistic team for on time dispatch
Production Manager
Tranter India P. Ltd.
11.2015 - 09.2022
- Analyze production data and make recommendations for process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce waste
- Develop and implement safety protocols to ensure a safe working environment for all employees
- Coordinate with other departments such as sales, marketing, and logistics to ensure that production meets customer demand and delivery schedules
- Monitor production costs and implement cost-saving measures to improve profitability
- Manage inventory levels to optimum levels
- Instituting annual performance management system for direct reports in line with overall vision and objectives of the company
- Addressing the customer complaints and conducting the thorough Root Cause Analysis; devising the immediate corrective action and proposing the necessary preventive actions to ensure the nil recurrence of the issue
- Maintaining 5S and safety standard in Production, Service Centre and Stores
- Functioned under LEAN and ISO standard
- Handled projects on Inventory Management, KANBAN, Cell layout up-dation, Lean management.
Assitent Manager
Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited
12.2008 - 11.2015
- Planing and monitoring production schedules for Machine, Fabrication and assembly shop
- Coordinating with overall CNC and VMC machine shop setup for continual stepwise feeding to Assembly shop.
- Assisting in the preparation of production reports and budgets
- Conducting performance evaluations and providing feedback to production staff
- Managing inventory levels to ensure materials are available for production
- Ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards
- Coordinating with other departments to ensure smooth production operations
- Developing and implementing production schedules to meet customer demand
- Assisting the production manager in planning, organizing, and controlling production activities.
Production and Development Engineer
Suparb Diacasting Pvt. Ltd.
07.2007 - 12.2008
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, drawings, and manuals
- Design and develop new products or processes to improve efficiency and quality
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation of new products or processes
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to production or development processes
- Develop and implement testing and validation procedures to ensure product quality and reliability
- Monitor and analyze production data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and safety standards in all production activities
- Train and mentor junior engineers and technicians on production and development processes.
Production Engineer
Rucha Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
02.2006 - 06.2007
- Managed power/mechanical press M/C of 50 to 200 tons
- Worked with SMED, Lean Manufacturing, and TPM
- Operated for documentation of TS 16949, maintained safety & housekeeping standards on shop floor.
Production Engineer
Alsa Fasteners Pvt. Ltd.
10.2001 - 01.2006
- Manage production schedules and ensure on-time delivery of products
- Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental regulations
- Design and develop production equipment and tools to improve manufacturing processes
- Trained team of technicians and managed continuous improvement projects for productivity
- Assessed the production activities of the plant by insuring uptime of the utilities.
Cell Coordinator
Gabriel India Ltd.
02.2001 - 09.2001
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of cell activities, production data, and inventory levels
- Acted as a Team Leader in centre-less grinding machine cell
- Experienced in cellular manufacturing systems with single piece flow concept
- Functioned with TS 16949, Kaizen, Poka-Yoke, 5-S systems, maintained safety & housekeeping standards on shop floor.
Education
Diploma - Mechanical -
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
01.2000
12th -
Maharashtra
01.1997
10th -
Maharashtra
01.1995
Skills
- Leadership skills
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Resource allocation
- Performance management
- Operations Management
- Lean Manufacturing Processes
- Safety Management
- Environmental regulations
Languages
- English
- Marathi
- Hindi
Projects
- Single piece flow in large PHE cell - To establish single piece flow in LPHE cell.
- Reduction in slow/ Non - moving inventory - Reduce the slow/ non- moving inventory month on month by 3% of total inventory through communication with sales team, other branches of company or by scrapping if shelf life is over or parts are not usable.
- Reduction in routing hours - This is the project starting to reduce the product cost. YTD Productivity for 2019 is maintained at 67% even after average 10% reduction in routing hours.
- Press scrap reduction - Tranter India P. Ltd charges 3% as press scrap to customer. Press scrap percentage for 2015 and 2016 is 5.36% and 4.47% respectively. This higher press scrap % than limit is directly affect net profit of company. YTD press scrap rate for Year 2018 is 2.72%.Strategic project completed successfully.
Personal Information
Date of Birth - 5th November 1979.
Married.
Timeline
Plant Head
Shree Pressing
11.2023 - Current
Operation Head
Platex India
03.2022 - 11.2023
Production Manager
Tranter India P. Ltd.
11.2015 - 09.2022
Assitent Manager
Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited
12.2008 - 11.2015
Production and Development Engineer
Suparb Diacasting Pvt. Ltd.
07.2007 - 12.2008
Production Engineer
Rucha Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
02.2006 - 06.2007
Production Engineer
Alsa Fasteners Pvt. Ltd.
10.2001 - 01.2006
Cell Coordinator
Gabriel India Ltd.
02.2001 - 09.2001
Diploma - Mechanical -
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
12th -
Maharashtra
10th -
Maharashtra
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