Leverage leadership and maintain full accountability of various cast house services sites (steel plants) all over IndiaSpearhead a service team of 40 team members including 1 DGM, 2 Sr. Managers, 2 Managers, 4 Dy. Managers, 2 Safety managers, 29 site supervisors. Indirect reporting of 150 contract work force.Performed succession planning by introducing hiring criterion, training, performance evaluation for management and non management positionsManaging Cast house services, steel area maintenance activities of various steel plants spread across India (JSW BPSL, TATA steel, JSW Salem, Sunflag Bhandara Bokaro steel plant, Bhilai steel plant, JSW Monnet Ispat steel plant) Handled the turnover of 72 Cr in 2022, developed strategies to improve bottom line profitability. Responsible for the preparation of annual budget, capex and its implementation.Managing Iron & steel enquiries for various plants initial and maintenance projects Ensuring the safety of the Cast house service team as well as contractor team with utmost satisfaction levels to customers. Till date achieved 3.5 million LTA free man hoursMonthly reporting, Gross Margin analysis, presenting monthly reports to Management in the Monthly meetings Dealing with OEMs & Customer for techno-commercial meeting and execution of order

Managing complete operations of Imerys Ceramics includes: Mining, Production, Engineering, EHS, Purchase, Supply chain, Quality activities of the company. ● To charter the Ships/vessels for exports as and when needed. ● Proposing yearly budget and capex requirements, finalizing the budget along with the Europe team and ensuring the yearly spending as per the budget. ● Propose new business opportunities for cost effective operations, process improvements and execute modifications. ● To present performance report on monthly basis (in the monthly senior management meeting) for all verticals under my responsibility ● To liaise with government authorities for necessary approvals for plant, Mining operations. ● To comply with all the norms of government as per mining rules, factories act, shop & establishment act. And to coordinate with all government authorities for the smooth operations of Imerys Ceramics pan India operations. ● Propose and implement cost reduction measures as the product is price sensitive and business is highly competitive. ● Prospect for new mines for business development.

To manage Production, Engineering and Packing teams for Powder and Slurry plants. To oversee the new classification project, make planning and schedules for the same. To chair daily production meetings and Suggest the best solutions for the issues they have. Achievements: Increased the production rate (8%) and equipment up time by 10% with proper planning of scheduled maintenance activities and modifications to the existing equipment. Achieved good support from all the employees by educating and making them think towards management views. Employee attrition rate came down drastically because of the good working environment.

Successful execution of of Green field project right from design, erection, commissioning and process stabilization of the wet ground calcium carbonate plant.with direct report to Project director stationed at AustraliaOverseeing all the unit operations including liaising with government authorities (eg: factories inspector, electrical inspector, pollution control board authorities etc)Ensured the supply of Wet ground calcium carbonate slurry product just in time for the Joint Venture customer requirement. Efficiently planned and handled start-up / shut-down activities of the plant ensuring all safety aspects and succeeded in achieving process & energy optimizationReporting the daily production reports & performance reports of the plant to the North Asia Operations Manager stationed at ChinaSuccessfully managed inventory control and wastage so as to minimize production cost

Responsible for all the maintenance activities of the GOSS press line (4 Nos offset presses)Achieved best ever performance of Maintaining the inventory of spares and lubricantsProposed and implemented Modifications to improve performance of the equipment Maintained the printing press trouble free so that there will not be any delay in printing the daily news paperIntroduced the latest lubricants to increase the bearings life in a wet environment, condition monitoring to reduce unplanned downtimeWorked with a special team to resolve recurring problems

After the Campus placement to ITC, for the first two years I have been given the responsibility of shift in-charge to take care of maintenance related problems during the shift and acted as safety coordinator for the Paper machine maintenance department. Later on I was given the responsibility of Area in charge for the Finishing house and then for the Paper machineHandled different types of critical issues related to maintenance and learned while working with those issuesMajor accomplishment during this period is working on Vacuum fans. Failure of these fans causing Paper machine monthly downtime by 45 hours against 9.3 hours budgeted. These are very high speed fans (6000 rpm) and used to fail quite often. Took this as a Specialproject and modified the fan bed and strengthened the base and changed the bearing type and lubricant which resulted in to achieving ZERO down timeLearnt the knowledge of making Standard Operating Procedure, Work Instructions, making of PFD & P&ID Drawings, Costing of the Products, Preparation of MIS reports, Preparation of Annual Operating Plan, Preparation of Bill of Materials, Annual budget for the operationsTrained the Plant personnel for Pre-commissioning, Commissioning activities and operation of the Plants efficientlyHaving hands-on experience in the Plant Operations, confident in handling any type of Plant/Unit independently for Operation and related activities