Pawankumar Tripathi
West Chester,OH
Summary
DELIVERY HEAD - PLANT ENGINEERING
Dynamic leader with vast experience in managing technical & commercial functions in plant engineering, project and program management, customer relationship management, business growth, procurement, and general management with expertise at customer engagement, proposal winning, business presentations, executing green field projects. Associated with Procter and Gamble for last 12 years on engineering projects and delivery driven business growth (parallel sales). Seeking a leadership level role with in the technology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, engineering sectors. Successful Director of Engineering with proven expertise in managing delivery programs at medium to large scale, expertly handling needs across North America & India. Coordinates schedules, teams and resources to consistently meet customer demands and exceed expectations. Good contract management and quality assurance skills.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Delivery Head (Senior Director)
L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, PROCTER & GAMBLE CO
11.2011 - Current
- Plant Engineering) - increasing roles and responsibilities
- Promoted and transferred from India to USA to manage large engineering projects at different locations for Procter and Gamble Company for delivery excellence, program and design management, customer relationship management and delivery led organic growth of account
- Built a team and executed design of $200 million project for building US FDA compliant pharmaceutical facility for food grade supplement meeting vision of Procter & Gamble vision of expansion and global supply chain network
- Delivered front end engineering for a completely new design and formula, for $400 million project of P&G's Greenfield project for manufacturing fabric care product to meet their increasing market demand
- Built largest team at new plant of Procter and Gamble and established engagement with customers from scratch, developed engineering services business up to $3MM in first year to $5.5MM in 3rd year and executed all those design engineering projects meeting customer expectations with value adds
- Acquired engineering services business in new segment at Procter and Gamble and successfully delivered global and regional design engineering projects contributing to growth of account from $19MM in 2017 to $30MM 2022 through contribution of $3MM to $5.5MM every year
- Developed new capabilities for detailed design of FMCG projects by hiring and training more than 30 engineers
- Successfully delivered global engineering design for fabric care greenfield projects of $500MM value, for Procter and Gamble in Brazil and China from USA
- Partnered in successful platform lifecycle management in selected business units by complex transitioning to new TechDoc system from legacy system
- Executed global design delivery for execution in US, China and London for manufacturing and packing plants for fabric enhancers products by effective coordination with Procter and Gamble and their manufacturing subcontractors.
General Manager of Projects
NECTAR LIFESCIENCES LIMITED
09.2010 - 10.2011
- Hired to design and build new $100MM Greenfield facility including a co-gen power plant, for manufacturing of Pen-G based bulk active pharmaceuticals in order to expand the API business into new geographies in the world for the overall growth of company by 25%; and thereafter to manage future capital projects
- Recruited and built a high performance team
- Completed engineering design in record time of 4 months
- Developed strategy to manage contracts, procurement, construction and installation in parallel to the design
- Obtained necessary licenses and statutory permissions in timely manner
- Completed 100% design, 90% procurement, 50% construction and 25% installation in one year out of 18 months schedule, thus saving at least 25% saving in schedule by strategic planning, meticulous risk management and effective stakeholders management.
Director
TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS
08.2007 - 09.2010
- Recruited by the Managing Director of India business of Teva Pharmaceuticals for design and execution of $40 MM new multipurpose plant from grassroot for manufacturing if Active Pharmaceuticals, aligning with the vision of Teva's vision for global supply chain, organic growth and low cost manufacturing strategy
- Acquired land at optimum cost and availed benefits under the state's mega project scheme within scheduled time by building cordial relations with government authorities
- Recruited and built a diverse new team for execution of capital projects, developed and appraised the teams
- Designed from masterplanning, procured equipment, services and materials, built and commissioned new US FDA compliant bulk active pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, worth $40MM, in 20 months against plan of 24 months, saving 15% in schedule, with saving of 10% in budgeted cost
- Devised and executed a strategy for completing validation batches of planned actives ahead of readiness of full sale plant and saved time and in filling applications for regulatory approval for USFDA and UK MHRA
- Obtained licenses and statutory permissions as necessary in time
- Successful technology transfer of planned pharmaceutical intermediates from other locations.
Senior Project Manager
WATSON PHARMA
04.1998 - 08.2007
- Retained and promoted into many positions to grow the organization to multiple locations, multiple businesses, multiple products through brownfield expansions, implementation of newer technologies, productivity improvement systems, major expansions to build new plants for manufacturing of bulk active pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals formulations
- Designed and executed greenfield Project to build API manufacturing facility project worth $20MM in 16 months (2005)
- Designed and executed a greenfield Project to build solid dosage pharmaceutical formulation facility worth $10MM in one year (2001)
- Upgraded old API plant for cGMP compliance leading to US FDA approval for that facility
- Design of process plants and equipment like heat exchangers, reaction vessels, pressure vessels, purified water and HVAC system, other chemical and pharmaceutical process equipment
- Updated and implemented quality systems in accordance to the requirements of ISO 9000
- Developed new processes for production optimization, yield improvement and scale up of new molecules
- Ideated and implemented several measures for reducing cycle-time leading to increased overall productivity of plant
- Procurement of services and equipment from vendors qualification through contract execution
- Executed several projects for tech transfer, scale up and facility upgrades for new products and new processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Pune
India07.1992
Skills
- People Management
- Operational Excellence
- Plant Engineering
- Project and Program Management
- Engineering Design Management
- Capital Project Management
- Chemical / Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Lean Integrated Project Delivery
- Powder Handling Engineering
- Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
- FDA Regulations
- HS&E Requirements and Regulations
- Budget Management
- Construction Management
- Operations Management
- Value Engineering
- Leadership Skills
- Strategy Development
- Technical / Capital Procurement
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Customer Relationship Management
- Business Growth
- Business Process
- Proposal Writing
- Business Presentations
- Building Effective Engineering Teams
Timeline
Delivery Head (Senior Director)
L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, PROCTER & GAMBLE CO
11.2011 - Current
General Manager of Projects
NECTAR LIFESCIENCES LIMITED
09.2010 - 10.2011
Director
TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS
08.2007 - 09.2010
Senior Project Manager
WATSON PHARMA
04.1998 - 08.2007
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Pune
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