MANOJ PATIL
Oakwood,GA
Summary
With 9 years of manufacturing experience and 7 years of team leadership, I offer a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Throughout my career, I have planned and executed operations, managed change management projects, made critical decisions, and spearheaded engineering projects. My focus on continuous process improvement, production optimization, and high-performance team development has consistently contributed to company growth. I excel in coaching and leading teams and individuals, driving them to achieve deliverables and improve performance.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Manager
King's Hawaiian
01.2022 - Current
- Oversee and manage production lines along with a team and deliver results in safety, quality, productivity and cost.
- Facilitated and lead the operations for transitioning a new product line to full-scale production on a newly developed site.
- Provide strategic operational leadership to the front lines and cross functional teams to assess daily production results while continuously tracking, driving and delivering results against KPI’s.
- Build high performance work teams by motivating, providing constant constructive feedback and coaching, facilitating effective training to achieve their individual and team performance goals and objectives, and improve employee engagement within the organization.
- Collaborate closely with the maintenance and food sanitation teams, to build strategies and plans for executing repairs and cleans respectively to reduce downtime and maximize line production time.
- Initiate, develop and execute continuous improvement projects using lean and six sigma techniques, and guide production supervisors in completing their projects successfully and deliver benefits.
- Executing projects to build standards and develop centerlines in the mixing area to deliver optimum product quality, improve yield and minimize adjustments.
- Working closely with engineering team and CI team to complete the bottleneck analysis, identify gaps, develop strategies and build action items accordingly to maximize plant capacity utilization and decrease costs.
- Leading organizational projects such as building data reporting and Visualization tools using Tableau, to move the organization towards a more statistical data driven approach and improve decision making capabilities.
Production Manager
Bonduelle Fresh Americas
10.2020 - 01.2022
- Managed and improved KPI's such as safety, quality, efficiency, cost, attainment, etc
- On a day-to-day basis and directed strategies to achieve short term and long-term goals
- Developed and strategized implementation of short term and long-term goals along with the team leads with consistent coaching and mentoring
- Build data gathering and analysis tools to help teams to understand the true loss and perform root cause analysis followed by CAPA
- Improved process executions by focusing on sustainability of the processes with the help of weekly process audits performed at various levels of floor leadership
- Increased run capacity by improving product run sequence through line balancing exercises by cross functioning with the national scheduling team
- Reduced material wastage up to $300K by building standard works for process control activities throughout the SIPOC chain
- Managed and trained teams to lead continuous improvement projects to eliminate downtimes and increase efficiency by 14%, improve inventory accuracy and, reduce direct labor costs and overtime by 7%
- Improved people engagement by assigning individual process owners, providing career growth opportunities, established R & R programs and stabilized training programs
- Lead organizational projects such as introducing automation in the plant, autonomous staffing and autonomous sanitation which are focused on reducing costs, improve HC and improving work life balance of the associates
Operations Team Lead
Bonduelle Fresh Americas
09.2019 - 10.2020
- Directed day to day activities of the shift by delegating tasks to employees and monitoring timely completion
- Build high performance work teams with consistent coaching and mentorship to achieve KPI targets
- Developed action plans by analyzing the gaps using SPC methods with the team on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
- Drove focused improvement initiatives with the team to reduce downtime and increase yields by doing time studies, data analysis using tableau, RCA, Pareto charts, etc
- Tracking KPI's daily, weekly, and monthly to identify trends and act appropriately to improve/maintain the performance
- Strategized and achieved cost saving initiatives up to $500K with projects like optimizing equipment layout to improve yield performance, center lining projects to avoid mechanical adjustment downtime, etc
CI Project Engineer
Bonduelle Fresh Americas
11.2017 - 09.2019
- Partnered with senior leadership to lead and manage cost saving projects across the site and achieve a zero-loss manufacturing environment
- Collaborated with project engineers across all other sites in leading and implementing continuous improvement culture
- Executed six sigma and lean techniques like DMAIC, 5S, RCA, SPC, SMED, SIC, ABC analysis, Kanban, FMEA, Heijunka, Mass balance sheets, Bottleneck analysis, etc
- Developed crewing and labor standards for bidding on new product contracts and created efficiency, direct labor, and yield standard models for the site
- Standardized processes, developed KPI tracking system, launched and trained teams on new project management tools
- Ownership of handling TMO projects, Vorne OEE systems, and facilitating KPI meetings across the site
- Managed and lead CAPEX and cost savings projects up to worth $4M across the site
Engineer/ Lean Implementer
Cube Hub Inc
09.2017 - 11.2017
- Developed a detailed value stream map of the organization, process flow maps for each manufacturing unit
- Created an expectation chart to close the value flow gaps between the roles played in each department
- Implemented Lean tools like value stream mapping, root cause analysis & FMEA to resolve raw material shortage issues for the operations department by 64% and decrease lead times
- Used SAP to track and generate inventory reports, performed statistical analysis to find the discrepancies
- Designed a system to handle NCR processing of the materials within the plant and with the vendors
- Improved the material flow across the process, resulting to increase in efficiency up to 8%
Education
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
Lamar University
Beaumont, Tx12.2016
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
GITAM University
Hyderabad, India05.2015
Skills
- Process Development
- Project Management
- Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma
- Statistical and Data Analysis
- Continuous Improvement
- Visualization tools: Tableau & Power BI
- MS Office Applications
- Problem Solving
- Leadership & Mentoring
- Change Management
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Enterprise Tools: JDE Oracle, SAP
- Critical Thinking
- New Product Development
Certification
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Project Management
- Introduction to Baking Science
Timeline
Production Manager
King's Hawaiian
01.2022 - Current
Production Manager
Bonduelle Fresh Americas
10.2020 - 01.2022
Operations Team Lead
Bonduelle Fresh Americas
09.2019 - 10.2020
CI Project Engineer
Bonduelle Fresh Americas
11.2017 - 09.2019
Engineer/ Lean Implementer
Cube Hub Inc
09.2017 - 11.2017
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Project Management
- Introduction to Baking Science
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
Lamar University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
GITAM University
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