Candidate
Ripon Kumar
May 2023 - Current
Manager & Section Head - Nutrition & Coffee , Beverages Units
Nestle Bangladesh PLC
Leading the manufacturing unit of Nutrition & Coffee , Beverages as head of manufacturing of Infant formula, Infant cereal , Dairy, GUM & Coffee , Beverages Plants .
Key Roles :
• Manage Production Capacity & Debottlenecking the activities aligned with
plant utilization & business strategy
• Manage a team of 14 WC people & 430 BC employee
• Develop team & talent on Nutrition Category, developing team competency
level from 2.5 to 3.8
• Design, Develop & Implement departmental strategies to achieve factory
objectives.
• Manage quality, cost of production , contributed in factory shark initiatives .
• Design & Implement safe working place for the employee with full
compliance of safety & environment.
• Leading the sustainability projects to reduce virgin plastic usage in PM
• Leading the team to make paperless journey for one pilot plant through
digitalization.
• Supervised and delegated tasks to employees to meet key productivity
targets..
June 2020 - April 2023
Project OSL (Operational Start up Manager) Nestle Bangladesh
Leading the operational start up part of a new dry mixing & filling plant.
Providing support to meet all the operational requirement for start up ensuring
people safety, Product safety & Best in class quality.
Key activities
• Project Gantt chart for plotting timeline basis on business urgencies
• CQV plan & Ensuring Vertical start up of the plant ( Level 3 of TPM)
• Planning & execution of both BC & WC competency development plan for
new product & category .
• Managing trial & start up cost within defined budget & timeline.
August 2016 - April 2020
Technical Trainee Officer , Sr . Production Officer Nestle Bangladesh
Involved in shift operation with 24 hr job rotation, Ensure production as per
Planning from SC, ensure low cost, highly efficient, sustainable operation,
Measure, analyze & control performance by the Online tool (SAP),Review
DPS(Demand & Production Schedule) Weekly & MPS Monthly, Review
Process failure & execute continuous improvement through Lean Practice.
Preparing standard documents for necessary Audits (HACCP, HIRA, AIM, MP,
EMP, and QMS). Involvement of creating Operation Procedure, Used standard
problem solving tools like DMAIC & SMED
October 2015 - June 2016
Management Trainee Officer , Lean Manufacturing Project Meghna Group
of Industries (MGI)
• Coordinator of Lean Training & Lean Implementation Training for the Top
Management -Implementing the Basic tool of Lean (7 Wastage, 5S)
• Implemented Process mapping for (DF to CWA ) for identifying wastage and
Non-value adding activities then Eliminated wastage and reduced Non-value
adding activities and went for a test run .