Ankit Patel Email & Phone Number

Sheboygan, Wi, Us

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for leading & supporting special project of process engineering, technical service, continual improvement & operational efficiencies of all natural cheese, processed cheese & seasoning plants.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

o Responsible for maintaining & engineering Natural cheddar cheese & sweet whey powder process recipes to ensure product is being product as per design specification & customer expectation,o Providing technical support in the manufacture of natural cheese & whey powder by assisting with process issues troubleshooting that arise and modifying process credentials as necessary to assure consistent quality and capacity.o Conducting Product & process risk assessment to identify gaps & design suitable solution for sustainable fix.o Identifying and executing process improvement projects to meet current budget and longer-term TMM operating objectives that improves Cost, Quality, Productivity & Safety in timely manner.o Daily grading & review of finish product & carry out necessary changes in process to ensure expected outcome.o Conducting trials for new alternative/improved ingredient or packaging material.o Investigating customer concern & implementing CAPA.o Providing technical training to all employee.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

o Primarily responsible to manage routine kiel plant operations by ensuring plant performs to meet targets based on budget & business expectation within stipulated timeline by efficiency & improvement in area of Safety, Quality, productivity & manpower management.o Lead the plant through Change Management processes for new cheese plant & dryer plant commissioning in an effective and efficient manner by actively involved in commissioning of equipment’s, trials & setup of process parameters to ensure product as expected by business.o Providing technical support in the manufacture of natural cheese & whey powder by assisting with process issues troubleshooting that arise and modifying process credentials as necessary to assure consistent quality and capacity.o Representing & coordinating as technical resource for the cheese and whey operation to all the level including LOL & outside organization working on new installation at Kiel. o Identifying and executing process improvement projects to meet current budget and longer-term TMM operating objectives that improves Cost, Quality, and Productivity & Safety in timely manner.o Creating SOP’s & one-point lesson for trouble shooting to train operators and supervisors on new processes, work instructions and equipment to ensure quality and repeatability.o Act as reliver to plant manager & operation manager in their absence.o Other responsibilities include but are not limited to developing and executing the site budget within corporate guidelines. Manage all plant resources to optimize profitability to meet or exceed internal and external customer expectations. Creating a positive work environment that supports continuous improvement, reinforces company philosophy and policies, and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workforce. Develop the skills and capabilities of both salaried and hourly team members.

Riyadh, Central Province, Sa

“A Participative, committed & transformational leader aligned with company ideology of Safety, Quality, Productivity, Sustainability, People, and Leadership.AOR (Production manager)1. Driving safety Programs & Investigate near misses/incidents & put in place actions to eliminate/reduce risk & provided PPE to all employees in compliance to H&S policy2. To promote SPS tools using for Continuous improvement e.g. DMAIC, A3 etc. 3. Target "0" FB risk & compliance to all company policies relating to Quality & Meeting GMP and AIBI targets.4. Monitoring daily loss & waste & work on loss reduction“. 5. Supervising manufacturing process to ensure that all HACCP techniques are applied, HACCP review & plan for process/product changes and CI on regular basis.6. Investigate major NC’s to ensure probable root causes is identified & corrective action is applied.7. Implementing new production processes for launch of new products in controlled, timely manner.8. Evaluating projected sales volume to ensure necessary resources are available. Managing planned maintenance schedules.9. Reviewing plant operational efficiency and set targets for improvement identified 10. Manage business risk process to ensure all risks to supply are minimized. 11. Monitoring regular training cycle & overseeing departmental training plan implementation.12. Reviewing monthly accounts to ensure all financial targets are met.13. Establish formal plan to target localization & other nationals is achieved & in place individual development for all employees after probation is clear.14. Provide encouragement to team member so that continuous improvement mind set is urged and regularly practiced.15. Initiate manpower planning and financial / annual budget for succeeding year on timely basis.16. Coordinate with Projects team in regard to plant expansion & development. Ensuring specifications of plant machinery, components, systems and plant design are reviewed in conjunction with Project Managers.

Riyadh, Central Province, Sa

o Involved with development & verification of factory design & layouts to comply regulatory standards & company KPI,o Lead the team for FAT (Factory Acceptance test) for GEA process automation program review & verification. Ensuring optimum process with minimum losses in system with highest Quality standards. o Involved & assure plant commissioning from plant installation till approval of finish product.o Conducted validation & verification of new process & equipment to assure highest quality standards.o Work with R&D to implement recipes to new equipment’s & carry out process adjustment to produce product with highest level of quality, productivity & cost.o Leading team to develop & implement of food safety management system (FSMS & HACCP) & hygiene standards across the site. o Established food testing Laboratory including equipment’s purchase & installation & development of LMM.o Managing quality role in change phase of construction site to food factory status.

Riyadh, Central Province, Sa

Areas of Responsibility (AOR) Preparing HACCP for new products and review of existing HACCP program on timely basis as required by company food safety policy.  Ensure HARA (Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments) to be prepared for all new projects and ongoing changes to the existing process and product.  Analyzing all kind of market complaints on weekly and monthly basis and trend them, present to management. Looking for all kind of internal & external NCN’s (Major, Minor and Repeating) to carry out investigations, verification and corrective actions to check their appropriateness and robustness & reporting to initiator.  Developing a schedule to review the corrective action for major NCN’s, quality failures, major market complaints and consumer complaints to ensure proposed corrective are taken promptly and consistently in departments to avoid the repetition.  Conduct investigations, Area identification for improvement, Quality awareness and training programs to drive continual improvement across the plant.  Verification and validation of new equipment’s, process and products.  Conducting daily inspections and QA\QC audits across all cross functional departments.  To effectively & efficiently manage the Quality control team by ensuring that physical, chemical µbiological tests are conducted consistently and accurately according to sampling and testing regime. To ensure that all latest techniques are known to management and sampling regimes reflect the Business needs by adopting principles of continual improvement. Minimize inaccuracies in results by implementing the protocols on equipment calibration, proper maintenance, handling and timely reporting the defects to achieve zero false positives. Optimize the laboratory budgets for forthcoming years by forecasting the requirement in order to get maximum benefit to the department & site from the spending on quality control expenditures.

Riyadh, Central Province, Sa

 Daily & Monthly Production Planning, Execution & Communication to management in co-ordination with other departmentAchieving the production targets within stipulated time and optimized cost.Escalation of production process interruptions i.e. Break down, trouble shooting followed by detailed investigationDealing with cross functional departments and including TRD team for any new product innovative to assist them about production process KPI control and continuous process monitoring with valid findings and reports from report & SAPOptimizing performance bottlenecks for achieving high productivity with minimum consumption of material & machine and monitoring expenses.Management of new/improvement projects towards timely, effective and efficient implementation and commissioning of equipment / process and productOnline validation and verification of documents to ease running of process parameters and meeting finished goods quality requirements.Quality management by continual routine auditing & inspection like GMP, AIBI, internal ISO audit.& HARA preparation. Working with Continual Improvement team & cross functional department for product NCN’s, product complaints, root cause investigations its corrective & preventive actions using scientific approach like FEMA, DMAIC, A3.Optimization of the production parameters to have consistent quality products produced across all production linePreparation of new proposal for improving the existing process and product as well as for ExpansionDevelop, implement and maintain an occupational Health and Safety culture within the department directly aligned to the company Safety program.Acting as intermediate responsible person among the whole department for any escalation & training through Tool Box Budget preparation carrying with production and senior production managerSuccessfully managed 42 heads of Canning & UHT, 150 heads of fresh filling as shift in charge of milk & Laban.

Riyadh, Central Province, Sa

 Successfully managed multi-nationality & multi-culture manpower asset of 65 nos. of consisting of Lead Process Operator, Sr. Machine Operators, Assistant Dairy Processing Operator and Basic Machine Operators & Contractors.  Planning & managing day to day manufacturing activities with average processing volume of 3.3 million per day & production volume of 2.8 million per day. Best utilization of plant to meet production & production plan schedule. Optimize product quality ensuring that product meets required specification & maintain first time release. Maximize service of internal customer, right product, at right time, at the right specification Successfully managed & operate all equipments in processing with its technical & operational aspects.such as Pasteurizer, TPM Mixer, Separators, Evaporator, ultra filtration & other sensitive equipment in the department. Minimise process related costs, predominately milk and ingredients by monitoring and suggesting improvements. Investigative & Project work related to complex issues. Key person in developing competency Book (Pictorial standard operating procedure) for processing manufacturing.

Hands On Experience For All The Departments Of Dairy Including Production, Quality, Marketing & Administration.

Bachelor’S Degree, Dairy & Food Processing Technology

High School, +2 Science