Highly ambitious Production Manager with an impressive 13-year track record in the food industry, working with several multinational FMCG companies. Known for motivating employees to perform at their best and align with company objectives, even in fast-paced production environments. Demonstrates superior competency in resource allocation, production scheduling, and effective workflow management. A results-oriented professional who consistently delivers high-quality outputs while maintaining optimal efficiency in manufacturing processes. Possesses in-depth knowledge of CPG industry dynamics, allowing for insightful decision-making and strategic planning to achieve both short-term goals and long-term growth. Proven leadership skills and a hands-on approach to problem-solving,making me an invaluable asset in driving operational excellence and maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety in food production.
Hi, I’m
Manpreet Singh
Brampton,ON
Summary
Overview
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Tantalus Labs
Production Manager
09.2022 - 06.2023
Job overview
- Implemented several projects utilizing LEAN tools, 5-WHY analysis, DMAIC, and FMEA with the goal of enhancing productivity, profitability, and quality standards.
- Managed continuous improvement initiatives to drive gains in quality, flow, and output.
- Determined suitable crew requirements, scheduled employees, and worked with human resources to meet changing production schedules.
- Estimated labor requirements to support anticipated workload.
- Proactively manage production risks and issues, upwardly managing Tantalus leadership to ensure that risks are mitigated and issues are resolved before they impact production.
- Created and oversaw production schedules and adjusted as needed to meet deadlines.
- Coordinated with other departments to align production with customer requirements.
- Enforced health and safety protocols to promote safe working environment.
- Devised and administered cost control initiatives saving $500,000 approx.
- Owning the processing team budget, undertaking regular reviews of Budgeted Vs Actual spend with Finance and COO (Chief Operating Officer).
- Develop and manage production workers' recruitment, retention, and training processes.
- Reviewed work for quality and compliance with company standards and design specifications.
- Ensure training, progressive disciplinary actions, performance management, and employee development practices are implemented and executed.
Sunrise Poultry Processors
Production Supervisor
12.2021 - 09.2022
Job overview
- Managed a team of 90+ production associates, overseeing productive production processes and meeting all deadlines in an unionized environment.
- Monitoring and managing daily order requirements and ensuring 100% OTIF by overseeing and advising priorities, revising schedules, and resolving problems.
- Responsible for encouraging, training, and managing employees to meet the Company's productivity, safety, and quality expectations. In the last five months, I have trained employees on various safety policies, quality issues, and the Company's expectations.
- Ensuring timely check and submission of employees' timesheets, processing orders in line with logistics planning, and planning maintenance activities without impacting production planning.
- Executing plans to ensure Company's compliance with all Federal/Provincial Food Regulations, HACCP, GMP, QA programs, and Sanitation procedures, reduce mechanical breakdowns and production downtime, and optimize line efficiencies and overall productivity.
- Ensuring the Company meets required food safety standards, legal compliance, quality, yield, efficiency, and customer needs. Therefore, I have developed a few additional SOPs to standardize the process and strengthen the knowledge of the employees to meet the set targets.
- Managing the labor force in the Company's best interests and concerning the collective agreement, I have optimized the labor to meet the orders by rotating employees from Boneless to IQF to Seasoning. In some scenarios, I rotate employees from different departments to meet the overall production targets.
- Coordinated with other departments to maintain smooth and efficient product flow.
- Evaluated team member performance regularly to identify and resolve productivity concerns.
BC Frozen Foods
Production Manager
06.2021 - 12.2021
Job overview
- Responsible for production planning, resource planning, preparing shift roasters and reports, and updating daily production key performance indicators KPIs.
- Responsible for enforcing all quality assurance measures and implementing best management practices on the production floor to improve productivity and quality of the products.
- Ensuring efficient use of raw materials, packing materials, and available resources to maximize the plant's productivity and profitability.
- Working closely with the quality assurance team to ensure the Company's quality and sanitation standards are being met and participating in HACCP, PRP, and other quality review meetings.
- Responsible for training, planning and scheduling, hiring, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints, and resolving issues.
- Conduct training cross-functional team on LEAN tools, 5-WHY analysis, DMAIC, and FMEA to improve collaboration and communication among the team, resulting in enhanced productivity.
- Implementing health and safety review meetings to boost safe working practices and resolve current safety challenges.
- Responsible for planning, organizing, controlling, and evaluating daily operations.
- Support the procurement team in maintaining the proper raw, packing, and finished product inventory. Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
GC Rieber Compact AS
Operations Manager
02.2018 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Work closely with the Sales team, CS&L team, and procurement team to ensure robust production planning and review production schedules to ensure delivery of production targets with optimal resource utilization.
- Monitoring and controlling the KPI (key performance indicators) such as Labor Utilization, Energy Cost, OEE, MTBF, etc., across lines, identifying areas of concern, and developing a corrective plan to improve.
- Act as a Lead coach and support team members' capacity building to complete equipment and process ownership.
- Lead the AM pillars and coach the team to implement pillar systems and procedures to ensure zero losses due to breakdowns.
- Work closely with FI pillar to identify, execute and integrate lean six-sigma (IL6S) projects across lines and conduct value stream mapping and loss analysis to increase efficiencies.
- Support the organization pillar to drive policies and initiatives such as Rewards and Recognition systems, PDP, employee engagement initiatives, etc., to achieve 100% employee engagement.
- Prepare the budget for the function and ensure adherence to it.
- Drive adherence to QA requirements related to manufacturing.
- Support the Quality Pillar implementation to ensure that the HACCP, GMP, and ISO guidelines are adhered to protect our products' quality.
- Work closely with the procurement team for purchases of indirect items (OPEX/CAPEX). Help the team by doing techno-commercial bid analysis.
- Directed initiatives to improve work environment, company culture or overall business strategy.
- Negotiated contracts with vendors and suppliers to obtain best pricing and terms.
- Developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency and increased profit by streamlining operations.
- Managed inventory and supply chain operations to achieve timely and accurate delivery of goods and services.
- Led hiring, onboarding and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.
Kerry Foods
Assistant Engineering Manager
08.2014 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Responsible for planning, organizing, controlling, and evaluating daily operations of engineering department.
- Responsible for hiring, encouraging, training, and managing employees to meet the engineering department's productivity, safety, and quality expectations.
- Ensure the implementation of a new product line with required capacity and quality standards
along with engineering. - Responsible for maintaining process equipment and industrial equipment installed in the premises.
- Provide all site-specific technical inputs to Architects and Engineering Consultants regarding facilities and process requirements and design in layouts of line, process, and utility equipment.
- Coordinate timely delivery of equipment to various project sites with the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and also track budgets for capital investments continuously from concept to closure of the project.
- Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of complete infrastructure and equipment of plant in the desired standards to achieve the set targets.
- Clearly define and communicate the scope of work and requirements to all suppliers for various
projects and follow-up to ensure uniformity of techno-commercial proposals. - Addressed design challenges and evaluated alternative design models to meet project requirements.
- Responsible for maintaining DG, Boiler, Air Compressor, ETP, STP, HVAC, and other utilities installed in this premises.
- Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of complete infrastructure and equipment of plant in the desired standards to achieve the set targets.
- Team development to achieve the highest performance at the lowest cost. Optimize plant and equipment availability.
- Identifying the scope for planning, implementing & monitoring technological changes to enhance productivity
- Work closely with Corporate/Region/Unit Supply chain team for proper evaluation of Commercial Offers received from suppliers.
- Develop and establish Management routines between all the stakeholders responsible for project deliverables.
Mondelez International
Senior Project Executive
04.2012 - 07.2014
Job overview
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Did detailed engineering calculations for Electrical, Instrumentation & Automation
requirements to ensure optimal usage of existing infrastructure at each facility wherein any
project is under evaluation. - Load Feasibility Calculation, Designing, Installation and Commissioning of Transformers, PCCs
(Power Control Centers), Sub PCCs, MCCs (Motor Control Centers) and cables and cable trays
for process and utilities areas like Boilers, Chillers, etc. - Load Feasibility Calculation, Designing, Installation and Commissioning of Diesel Generators and
Designing of Synchronizing Panel and Relay Control Panel in AUTO as well as in MANUAL - Load Calculation, Designing, Installation and Commissioning of UPS of 400 and 600 KVA.
- Prepare documentation (tenders and contract documents) and MOMs (minutes of meetings) of
all Techno-Commercial discussions and agreements with all suppliers with sign-off from all
stake-holders for all projects. - Track Budget for Capital investments on continuous basis from concept to closure of the
Project. - Ensure timely issuance of purchase orders, advances, contracts, scheduled payments, technical
acceptance certifications to all suppliers. - Managing the budget allotted for Electrical, Instrumentation and Automation.
- Mitigation of Switchyard 33/0.433 KV (kilo volt) with Alphanumeric Relays and new CTs (current
transformers) and PTs (potential transformers). - Coordination with regulatory and legal bodies (State Electrical Bodies) for approval of all legal
Electrical Drawings and load extension. - Responsible for ensuring the completion of work, meeting all design parameters, delivering on time, completing within budgets, and meeting overall business goals.
- Accountable for Electrical, Instrumentation & Automation budget planning, design base & execution.
- Responsible for introducing new standards for electrical basis Hygiene & Safety practices.
Nestle Foods
Engineering Officer
08.2009 - 03.2012
Job overview
- Responsible for maintenance of all utility installations such as boilers, transformers, DG Sets, Air Compressors, and other utilities.
- Conducting Root cause / 5 WHY analysis of major & repetitive breakdowns and providing acceptable solutions, managing inventory of consumptions, maintaining M&I budget and raising CAPEX proposals.
- Responsible for weekly energy monitoring and optimization.
- Accountable for planning & controlling the spare procurement and store inventory.
- Maintenance of Legal Compliance/Liaisoning of electrical system and equipment with state electricity board.
- Trained employees on safety and project procedures.
- Kept detailed records of project progress and budgets.
- Designed detailed annual budget for engineering equipment and projects.
Education
Royal Roads UniversityVictoria, BC
MBA from Global Business Management
11.2021
University Overview
Punjab Technical UniversityIndia
Bachelor of Science from Electrical Engineering
05.2009
University Overview
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Process Improvement
- Change Management Process
- Lean Manufacturing Processes / Six Sigma
- Continuous Improvement
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Employee Performance Reviews
- Plant Maintenance
- Capacity Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Production Planning and Control
Timeline
Production Manager
Tantalus Labs
09.2022 - 06.2023
Production Supervisor
Sunrise Poultry Processors
12.2021 - 09.2022
Production Manager
BC Frozen Foods
06.2021 - 12.2021
Operations Manager
GC Rieber Compact AS
02.2018 - 04.2020
Assistant Engineering Manager
Kerry Foods
08.2014 - 01.2018
Senior Project Executive
Mondelez International
04.2012 - 07.2014
Engineering Officer
Nestle Foods
08.2009 - 03.2012
Royal Roads University
MBA from Global Business Management
Punjab Technical University
Bachelor of Science from Electrical Engineering
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