Mathisha De Silva Email & Phone Number

Western Province, Sri Lanka

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Short Term International Assignment - BAT Bangladesh

Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Senior Quality ManagerKey responsibilities include — Leading and driving the Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations and customer requirements. Develop and implement.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives for process optimization and waste reduction
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards, regulations and BAT EH&S policy for safe and low-risk operations
• Leading Product Integrity and Traceability (PI&T) Work Streams to ensure product safety and traceability
• Developing and implementing Quality audit programs to assess and improve quality processes and systems
• Managing departmental financial budget to ensure lower manufacturing costs while maintaining quality standards.

Sri Lanka

• Department Manager, Secondary Manufacturing Department (SMD)Key responsibilities include — Lead Secondary Manufacturing Department(SMD) of CTC, Achieve Production Volume Targets OTIF, Quality & Safety Standards.
• 4 Assistant Managers, 8 Master Technicians, 2 Data Analysts & 50+ Equipment Owners (Unionized) & 50+ 3rd Party contractual staff to manage overall department operations
• Delivering benchmark OEE ( Factory Efficiency of 70+ for two consecutive years for the very first time in last 8 years ) by UPDT reduction via Loss Elimination drive using IWS tools ( 6W2H, IPS, UPS ) and Autonomous.
• Leading the team to achieve 53 Record Breaking Performances in SMD for 2022
• Delivery of People Agenda in SMD, including financial management program, social etiquette program, revamp of company gymnasium, factory restroom renovation project, up skilling of EOs for different technologies, SMD.
• Led quality agenda in SMD and recognized for the Global Quality Award for two consecutive years. ( 2021 & 2022 )

Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Production Engineering ManagerKey responsibilities include — Coaching and steering the Progressive Maintenance pillar of IWS to the Operations teams to achieve Operations Strategy of BAT through elimination of Losses.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives for process optimization and waste reduction
• Ensuring compliance with BAT EH&S policy for safe and low-risk operations
• Developing and implementing Product Integrity and Traceability (PI&T) Work Streams
• Leading Talent Pipeline Development initiatives to ensure future operations sustainability
• Managing departmental financial budget to ensure lower manufacturing costs.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Department Manager, Primary Manufacturing Department (PMD)Key responsibilities include — Lead Primary Manufacturing Department (PMD) of CTC, Achieve Volume Targets OTIF, Overall Quality and Safety Standards Moderation.
• HoD, Management of Process Lead - Maintenance Lead - Overall Department Operation
• Ensure Optimised Plan, Schedule for Tobacco Delivery OTIF as per MPS
• Develop/ Execute Continuous Process-Maintenance Improvement to Reduce Waste, OEE
• Drive EH&S to Ensure Operations at Low-Risk (BAT EH&S Policy Compliance)
• Drive Product Integrity and Traceability (PI&T) Work Streams in PMD

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Manager, Production PlanningKey responsibilities include — Production Plan of 4Bn Capacity Factory for 24 SKUs, Fulfil Country's Domestic and Export Requirement, Manage Expectations of Stake Holders (Regional Level Supply Planners, Singapore - NPI Manager - Brand Manager - Product Manager - Manufacturing Manager - Regional Level Demand Planners).Notable.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Assistant Manager, Production Planning

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Executive, Product DevelopmentKey responsibilities include — Subject Matter Expert for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) on Specification Creation - Recipe Development - Synchronisation of BOM, for key NPI projects.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Executive, Quality Assurance

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Project Coordinator, TaO ProjectKey responsibilities include — Data Objects Delivery for Operations Work Stream, Subject Matter Expert Coordination (SMEs) for TaO, User Acceptance Test (UAT), Data Validation on T03 I04 P03 System Environments.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Engineering Trainee, Quality Assurance

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: University Cricket Team, Student Council Vice-Captain, University Cricket Team 2010 - 2012 Committee Member.

Post Graduate Diploma, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Student Association Member, Student Association 2015 - 2017

Education record

Activities and Societies: Science Society, U19 Cricket Team, Computer Society Member, Science Society 2008 - 2010 Member, Computer Society.