Candidate of the week - Production Manager/Printer, India

Objective
Seeking for a assignment that will utilize my skills and be given the opportunity to use my diversified knowledge, Experience and Creativity in Printing Technology. Possess expertise to increase Productivity and Profitability.


Experience

June 2008 – Till Date, MCT Cards & Technology Pvt Ltd, Karnataka, India.
Production Manager
My responsibilities
1. Goods are to be produced efficiently and they are of right quality, quantity and right cost
2. Ensure that they are produced on time, to the satisfaction of the customer, at the right price.
3. Drawing up a production schedule
4. Working out the human and materials resources needed
5. Estimating job schedule, costing and setting the quality standards
6. monitor the production processes and adjust the schedules as needed
7. Supervising and motivating a team of workers
8. At the pre production stage, responsible for materials handling and production planning ( including demand forecasting, production scheduling and ordering of material )
9. During the Production Stage, responsibilities encompass; production control ( the Sequencing of Jobs, updating time schedules, etc ); stock control; quality control; health and safety issues; and the maintenance and replacement of production equipment.
10. Most important part of production management involves dealing with people particularly those who work in my team; I will be responsible for scheduling their work, disciplinary matters, projecting their training needs to management and progressing their carrier development.
11. Follow up of the Security Policy or the Organization
12. Handle any additional responsibilities as and when given.


May 2007 – June 2008 Madras Security Printers, Chennai, India.
Plant Manager
My responsibilities here are to take care of the whole Production Activities as well as Employees. As this company had recently started the business of Plastic Cards we are looking for more business and I am personally working on Visa and MasterCard Certification Program.
My Experience in the above mentioned company is totally on training people on quality and creating new documents and forms for production activities with my previous experience.


Feb 2005 - 2007 Feb - Future Card International,
Emirates National Factory for Plastics Ind Ltd, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Quality Manager / Asst. Production Manager
My duties here are taking care of the overall Quality of the Materials coming in and the Products going out and checking the quality at each stage when in process. I also have the authority to correct the machine conditions where there is quality involved and give suggestions to the operators.
My involvement in Production is Pre fighting the incoming jobs with the help of our Operators and decides how the job should be taken for printing this is because especially Bank Jobs are involved in both Press and Silk Screen with many passes. The other things I get involved in is Job Scheduling as per delivery dates, Job Executing in machines according to Priority as well as make the Press run continuously without having more wash up time. Get feed back from the daily shift supervisors and update the schedule every day so that the no confusion is there in the given schedule and no jobs gets missed. I also provide the daily schedule to all the machines.


2001 – 2004 Versatile Card Technology (P) Limited, Chennai, India
Plant Manager
Duties include daily scheduling of jobs, engineering jobs, managing supervisors staff and maintaining Production related for management review and productivity monitoring.
Well versed with every stage of the Production Planning of all jobs that comes in to facility.
Directly involved in Scheduling and Production Planning of all jobs that comes in to facility.
Maintain quality level at the pre-press and Pressroom by directly involving and preforming press check during production.
Experience in handling manpower at supervisory level and operator level to take care of day-to-day issues.
Adequate knowledge of all materials of production involved in plastic card manufacturing.
Put together process flow manual for ISO certification purposes relating to production as a process.
Interacted with supplies to maintain adequate inventory levels and make sure quality of raw materials does not deviate from our standards.
Had the opportunity to work with customer by taking them on plant tours and helping them with design of cards, explaining to them about the complexity and practically of manufacturing them.


Production Audit Supervisor/ Security Manager
Responsible for Secured Jobs such as VISA and MasterCard from issuing the material to the Press until the jobs is shipped out. The entire process flow for every job will be controlled and Audited at every stage.
Responsible for maintaining restricted Card Access entry to employers. Issuing card access to authorized vendors and maintaining all security-related records.
Assisting Pre-press to maintain specifications in design as per Visa and MasterCard regulations and keeping close track and implementation of ISO specifications for cards.


1998 – 2001 Sudarsan Graphics, T.Nagar, Chennai, India
Executive Marketing
Satisfied all Existing Clients and New Clients with Good Quality Printing and on Time delivery. Kept the Production working round the clock with tight schedule and the job tracked on each stage to give 100% satisfaction to the customer.
Production Manager

Responsible for Job Planning, Scheduling, Estimation and Job Approval on the Machine and Execution till the job gets delivered. Quality at each and every stage was taken care during the process.
Good experience in handling manpower in day-to-day activities.
Handling inventory and purchase required on day-to-day bases.


December 1993 – May 1998
Dar Al Fatah Printing and Publishing Co LLC, Sharjah, U.A.E.
Offset Machine Operator
Increased Production keeping Quality in mind at all times.
Good Quality Printing. (Advertising Agency Jobs) achieved and experience working on the Heidelberg GTO Press.
Stock Maintenance and Store Keeper
Taking care of purchase, Issuance as per requirement and maintaining database for inventory.
Everyday inventory handling over to accounts for proper tracking for payments and purchase.
Executive Marketing
Increase sales with a good percentage every month



Technical Education
Diploma in Printing Technology,
1989-1992 Salesian Institute of Graphic Arts (SIGA), Chennai, India
Certificate Course of Offset Printing, (Part Time Course)
1991 Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India

Email.  peterraj4@msn.com