Hi, I’m
Pavan Kumar Gavini
Peterborough,ON
Summary
Seasoned Operations Manager and talented leader with 7 years of experience applying exceptional planning and problem-solving abilities toward enhancing business plans and day-to-day activities. Results-driven and resilient in developing teams while improving processes and increasing productivity. Bringing solid understanding of industry trends, excellent communication skills, talent for spotting areas in need of improvement and implementing changes with strategic approach.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Coca-Cola
Operations Manager
09.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Working with the manufacturing team of 60 employees and key stakeholders
- Plan, organize, lead, and control the integration of all work areas and disciplines within the project effectively
- Ensure all designs and work plans incorporate safety, quality, health, and the environment
- Robust managing change in scope, schedule, costs, and impact to stakeholders against the project baseline
- Chairs effective meetings and delivers informative and interesting presentations to large and diverse groups
- Utilized robust lean six sigma principles and management methodologies
- People Development: Develop strategies to improve staffing process, ensured experience in handling risk management
- Train, coach, and mentor front line leaders for continuous improvement to drive excellence
- Interacting with various stakeholders independently or in team meetings to address complex and risk in functional areas
- Develop procedures and policies for the operation functions with complexity to interpret with in scope of responsibility
- Build a plan to deliver all safety, regulatory and quality training
- Coach and develop the Subject Matter Expertise
- The mechanism of Daily Operations Review (DOR) to have regular interactions with employees to review metrics from previous shift, communicate targets for the current period/quarter and Celebrate success
- Work with Key stakeholders to help Subject Matter experts hold floor Employees accountable for providing plant wide consistency when reacting to Triggers to launch Performance improvement process
- Safety: Ensuring all team members use applicable safety equipment and adhere to safe work policies/practices, radiation protection policies/practices and any other safety requirements as mandated by the organization
- Using both leading and lagging indicators as well as roundtable feedback to build and plan proactively address safety issues and concerns
- Supporting the development ad implementation of EHS in site
- Collects, analyses the incidents, near miss and LTA reports regularly to communicate with the management team to improve in the area of opportunities
- Ensure 100% timely and accurate completion of required incident investigations including Root cause
- Providing visible safety leadership to proactively change floor culture
- Performing GEMBA walks regularly to find any infractions and root causes
- Assisting the internal and External safety audit planning and execution
- Familiarity with OHSA, EHS regulations
- Quality: Committed to deliver against the Quality wall process
- Ensure 100% timely and accurate completion of required Hold and Quality incident investigations including Root Cause and execute action plans
- Translating data into meaningful insights to build and execute plans to reduce consumer complaints and proactively address potential food safety risks
- Understands and implements substantial safety and licensing requirements with many internal and external regulatory interactions
- Analyzed data trends to identify potential bottlenecks in operations workflow, implementing strategies to mitigate risks accordingly.
- Oversaw facility maintenance, ensuring optimal functionality of equipment and infrastructure at all times.
- Developed robust contingency plans to ensure business continuity during unforeseen disruptions.
- Built sustainable improvements in shop floor Food Safety practices through Hourly work assignments, Down day planning, GMP audits and AIB work
- Production/Productivity: Ensure Production areas run to targeted adherence/ Attainment through reduction work in Unscheduled DT
- Participating in the annual budget plans for the department and high level strategic decisions in terms of operations planning for the year
- Establish and monitoring the KPI’s/metrics related to operations and quality and complacency! Ensure annual targets for salvage, overpack and product destroyed are met or exceeded
- Provide interventions when trending offside
- Leverage team to identify and deliver productivity
- Plan and deliver against all the financial metrics (Manufacturing overhead, Productivity and Capital Spending)
- Uses technical systems like SAP, ITS and EIT, ETQ for reporting and analytics
- Manages time, vacation and payroll systems using Kronos.
- Improved operational efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing cost-saving measures.
- Reduced turnaround time for project completion through effective resource allocation and team management.
Joriki.inc Food and Beverages
Quality Assurance Supervisor
06.2017 - 09.2020
Job overview
- Train the employees on new implemented programs on GMP and GLP
- Reviewing the daily QC Audit checks and observing the Out of specification and Out of trend products and finding the root cause for the OOS
- Coordinating with the QA manager in terms of Product holding and recalls if the product doesn’t meet the specifications required
- Championed a culture of quality awareness, fostering employee engagement in maintaining high standards across all operations.
- Provided technical support for troubleshooting equipment issues or other production challenges that impacted product quality levels.
- Tracked quality issues with external customers, suppliers, and internal plant operations.
- Working along with the cross functions teams to manage the production related issues in connection with the quality
- Performing all the essential duties adherence to GMP and HACCP
- Improved product quality by implementing rigorous testing procedures and identifying areas for improvement.
- Streamlined processes with the introduction of automated testing tools, increasing efficiency and reducing human error.
- Reduced defect rates through meticulous inspection and proactive identification of potential issues.
- Enhanced team performance by providing regular training, feedback, and guidance to Quality Assurance staff.
- Achieved consistent compliance with industry regulations by conducting thorough audits and ensuring adherence to standards.
- Optimized workflows by regularly reviewing processes for inefficiencies or redundancies, implementing changes that improved overall productivity.
- Served as a key liaison between Quality Assurance and other departments, facilitating collaborative efforts that led to increased product consistency and customer satisfaction.
Education
Jawaharlal Nehru technological UniversityKakinada, India
Masters in Pharmaceutics
01.2015
Rajiv Gandhi Health SciencesBangalore, India
Bachelors in pharmacy
01.2012
Skills
- Business Development
- Process Improvement
- Risk Analysis
- Data Analysis
- SAP Expertise
- Inventory Management
Accomplishments
- My work on Effects of Environmental Heavy Metal Contamination on Rate of Antibiotic Resistance development in Bacillus thuringiensis has been exhibited in National Engineering Month of Canada
- Conferred the award of exemplary trainee for being the best team member of Troikaa Pharmaceuticals.
Technology Summary
Computer literacy in Internet applications and MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook and Commendable Knowledge on Statistical software Language SAS
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Availability
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Software
SAS language
Software Testing
Timeline
Operations Manager
Coca-Cola
09.2020 - Current
Quality Assurance Supervisor
Joriki.inc Food and Beverages
06.2017 - 09.2020
Jawaharlal Nehru technological University
Masters in Pharmaceutics
Rajiv Gandhi Health Sciences
Bachelors in pharmacy
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