Nirmal Prasad
Eustis,USA
Summary
Innovative professional in engineering field known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Skilled in project management, problem-solving, and technical writing. Excels with strong communication, teamwork, and adaptability, ensuring successful project outcomes and collaborative work environments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Engineer
Florida Food Products
Eustis, Florida
07.2023 - Current
- Developed project plans, budgets and timelines to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Maintained project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities and resolving problems.
- Analyzed and resolved the production loss in Grind and Pack department by bringing the system running up correctly by validating all the equipment's
- Installing a new centrifugal sifter to catch any foreign materials flowing into the final product helps in reducing customer complaints.
- Assigned DHA in all required areas of production to reduce the dust explosions and made changes accordingly.
- Developed a Downtime tracker to analyze and study various breakdowns in all departments, to make changes, and helped in reducing downtime, and improved production rate by 20%.
- Designed and developed a new packaging room to increase efficiency and yield for production, and helped in reducing operational costs.
- Installed a backup water heater system for preheating the CIP water system improves the heating efficiency for longer lines.
- Designed a drum dump station with bag squeezer and chopper tank to withstand any production loss and increase in yields.
- Developed and executed various GMP and safety projects, such as hand wash stations, high-speed roll-up doors, estop switches for various blenders, and mixers.
- Developed and installed a boiler economizer as an ESG standard project.
- Installed a new tea extraction and caffeine extraction line as part of the growing CAPEX project.
- Installed a new 12-bay cooling tower for the tea extraction line.
Process and Validation Engineer
ADH Health Products.INC
Congers, New York
04.2021 - 07.2023
- Responsible for managing the manufacturing operations of the company from pharmacy to packaging which includes day to day operations, plannings, scheduling, etc
- Managing manpower requirements and training them with various GMP Guidelines to lead a quality production
- Setting up and testing various machines daily to stop any errors from occurring
- Assisting with the IQ, OQ, and PQ of manufacturing tools like tablet press, capsule machines, and new laboratory machinery
- Developed a better cleaning procedure by using previously unutilized cleaning agents in the mixing and compression/encapsulation departments, such as peroxy protein, chlorinated degreaser, and acid blend, to increase clearance rates and shorten blender wash time
- Handled coating for tablets for different batches with appropriate solutions needed
- Raw material inventory for the upcoming batches and checking packaging components for each product
- Created a validation methodology to map the raw material warehouse's whole temperature range
- Created mixing procedures for various batch sizes including assigning blenders and phases of mixing
- Developed automated warehouse to pharmacy inventory for raw materials using Mysis Manufacturing
- Led weekly open order meetings with representatives from all company departments to establish production goals weekly
- Planned and assigned liquid machines for various manufacturing products including packaging
- Conducted gap analysis between existing documents and current GMP requirements.
- Scheduled validation testing with different departments and managers.
Assistant Planning Engineer
Metal Crafts Technical Services
Surat, India
09.2016 - 04.2019
- Implemented manpower & resource planning at L&T piping center, improving manpower efficiency by 10% & resource budget by 15%
- Monitored & regulated piping - welding processes to maintain progress reports & achieve reduced error rate of 5%
- Prepared look ahead resource schedule of 3 months to achieve reduction in cost by 10% by effective material selection
- Maintained Radiography reports and hydro testing reports of fabrication spools
- Developed Piping AutoCAD 2D drawings
- Presented and coordinated client meetings for pipeline project with Essar group of companies
- Monitored project performance to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, quality standards and safety regulations.
- Fostered a collaborative work environment, facilitating communication between project team members and external partners.
Education
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey12.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Vinayaka Missions University
Chennai, India05.2016
Skills
- MATLAB
- Simulation
- ANSYS
- Minitab
- MIsys Manufacturing
- MS Excel
- AutoCAD
- Solid Works
- Meshmixer
- CATIA
- CREO
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Intelligent Machining
- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Advance Manufacturing Process Analysis
- Digital Manufacturing & Design
- DFMA
- Root Cause Analysis
- Time Study
- ERP
- 5S
- Inventory Control
- Data Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Technical Expertise
- Decision Making
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Strong organizational skills
- Estimating and Bidding
- Blueprint Reading
- Project Scoping
- Project development
- Process Improvement
Certification
- Advanced Manufacturing Process Analysis
- Digital Manufacturing & Design
- Intelligent Machining
Timeline
Project Engineer
Florida Food Products
07.2023 - Current
Process and Validation Engineer
ADH Health Products.INC
04.2021 - 07.2023
Assistant Planning Engineer
Metal Crafts Technical Services
09.2016 - 04.2019
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Vinayaka Missions University
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