KHEMRAJ SAMI
South Plainfield,NJ
Summary
A highly organized and conscientious individual with a proven track record of achieving and delivering results. Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously, showcasing ability to collaborate with colleagues at all levels within diverse environments and foster strong working relationships. Possesses excellent interpersonal and planning skills. Thrives under pressure and excels as a team player. Continually expands technical knowledge and skills, particularly within the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, food, and candy/gummy industry. Progressed from manufacturing supervisor to plant manager in the chemical industry in a remarkably short period of time. Strong ambition and passion for learning drives eagerness to embrace new challenges and further enhance capabilities.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Plant Manager
Broadview Technologies
11.2022 - Current
- Ensure the plant’s safety policies are adequately communicated and enforced
- Ensure departments are getting the necessary resources and direction to support the plan and producing the desired level of quality, delivery, and service required
- Drive plant to use appropriate lean manufacturing tools that reduce waste and improve the operations
- Interact with CEO and COO, advising of the plant’s performance, improvements, and needs
- Provide daily, weekly, monthly reporting and forecasting
- Ensures that the production schedule is met
- Monitor and implement LEAN processes, where needed, to achieve production goals
- Monitoring/Managing Inventory levels
- Monitoring and managing scrap/waste variations and implementing LEAN processes to reduce waste
- Order raw material as needed
- Assists in maintenance as needed
- Work closely with customer service to ensure product is ready for shipment
- Help maintain a fun, family atmosphere in the department.
Facility Supervisor/Manager
Pharm vista
10.2021 - 10.2022
- Manage approximately 12-15 employees
- (Time sheet, attendance, PTO, OT etc.) Receiving all raw materials and ingredients and entering COA data into system
- Ensure that QA release all ingredients in a timely manner and quarantine/reject material/ingredients and products when applicable
- Ensure the cleanliness of the facility
- Ensure facility is maintained and schedule contractors as needed
- Organizing drying rooms and moving gummies to coating process, in addition, ensure that the quantity of trays and racks are available for the following day
- Ensure that all logs for the facility is maintained
- Including- Pest Control / Truck Maintenance, cleaning, calibrations, water sampling, preventive maintenance etc
- Verify that QA conduct swab testing twice per month
- Order all facility and warehouse supplies as needed.
Operations and packaging Supervisor
Kellogg’s Blue Anchor plant
10.2019 - 10.2020
- Conduct/run daily am tier meetings with other supervisors and managers
- Assist in planning, coordinating, and managing production activities and responsible for the health and safety of 20-22 union employees
- Manage and document any near miss, incidents, injury, or food safety incident that occur on shift and escalate to all management
- Verify all documentation are filled correctly and good documentation practices are being adhere to
- Ensure that cGMP and sops are adhere to at all times
- Work closely with maintenance to ensure that there is minimal downtime during processing
- Keeps management informed of area activities and of any significant problems and downtime
- Record and submit all down time in kplas
- Ensures a high standard of housekeeping are maintained in all areas of the manufacturing floor
- Foster a collaborative environment in which diverse backgrounds are respected and valued
- Schedule overtime as needed (based on seniority, if the operator is qualified for the job, or if operator needs to be forced to work) Prepares production report for shift turnover/pass down.
Lead/trainer
TRISPHARMA
09.2012 - 10.2019
- Assisted in planning, coordinating, and managing production activities on 3rd shift - 17-20 employees
- Coordinate with supply chain, research and development and technical service departments to maintain schedules or plan for additional processes as necessary
- Participate in investigations involving process/es and deviations involving batch records and evaluate performance of employees and creating corrective action plans where appropriate
- Ensures documentation such as operation logs, batch records, etc
- Are fully completed, signed and in compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements
- Evaluates/solves production problems by reviewing the area of concern, developing potential solutions, technically evaluating, or testing the solutions, and preparing recommendations for management
- Keep up to date with employees sop training records
- Ensuring the accuracy of good documentation and product specifications and tolerances are met and within ranges as per master batch record
- Also ensures full compliance with Company policies, procedures, cGMP’s, Ethical Business Practice, and SOPs are adhering to at all times
- Ensures that production schedule is met by distributing workload in accordance with changing priorities of the company orders
- Responsible for each employee safety on the floor and ensuring that all employees work in a responsible manner in order to create an injury/incident-free environment and complies with all job-related safety and other training requirements
- Provides clear direction and expectations for each task and ensures responsibilities are clear
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of employees to ensure optimal performance
- Sets goals and objectives in alignment with the company for self- appraisal and creates action plans, sets milestones, and delivers progress reports and developmental plans for team members
- Maintain a work environment that encourages teamwork and supports the company’s efforts to continuously improve processes
- Applies company policies fairly and consistently across departments and developed a relationship of trust and transparency with all employees
- Maintain inventory of production supplies and file purchase order as necessary – mainly tools and other day to day utensils
- Develop employees that contribute to the daily success of production and can be successful in my absence
- Verify equipment’s preventative maintenance and calibration are current and ensures operation of equipment by working closely with maintenance and coordinating, preventative maintenance and repairs as needed
- Ensures a high standard of housekeeping are maintained in all areas of the manufacturing floor
- Foster a collaborative environment in which diverse backgrounds are respected and valued
- Keeps management informed of area activities and of any significant problems
- Prepares production report for shift turnover/pass down.
Education
Sports Studies -
University of Wolverhampton
BTEC Certificate in Sports - undefined
South Birmingham College
Skills
- Lean manufacturing
- Prioritize to meet deadlines
- Organizational Time management
- Multi-tasking
- Analytical abilities
- Problem solving
- Process improvement
- Employee evaluation
- 5S
- Calibration
- Forklift
- JDE/ERP system
- SAP
- Kronos
- Fishbowl
References
References provided upon requests.
Timeline
Plant Manager
Broadview Technologies
11.2022 - Current
Facility Supervisor/Manager
Pharm vista
10.2021 - 10.2022
Operations and packaging Supervisor
Kellogg’s Blue Anchor plant
10.2019 - 10.2020
Lead/trainer
TRISPHARMA
09.2012 - 10.2019
BTEC Certificate in Sports - undefined
South Birmingham College
Sports Studies -
University of Wolverhampton
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