AJAY KUMAR RAI

Current

• Operations Manager at Baxter HealthCare Inc.

Past

• Manufacturing Manager at PepsiCo Beverage Inc.
• Maintenace Manager at PepsiCo Beverage Inc
• Asst Mgr Maintenance at PepsiCo Beverage Inc.

• Shift Engineer at PepsiCo Beverage Inc.
• Mechanical Engineer at DCM Shriram Industries Limited

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Education

• Dayalbagh Educational Institute
• Kendriya Vidyalaya
• Misc Trainings - IIM Lucknow, MDI Gurgaon , PWC

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Connections

90 connections

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Websites

• My Company

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Summary

B.E. (Mechanical) with 14 years of experience in Manufacturing, Plant Engineering & Maintenance, Projects, Business Excellence & SAP R/3 system Implementation with well-known MNCs in FMCG & Healthcare sector.

Expertise in Handling Complex Multi-line Manufacturing facilities to meet Strategic Business Objectives - Safety, Quality, Productivity , Delivery , Costs and Total employee Involvement.

Proficient in managing Production , Planning & Delivery function in Complex Plant scenerios . Also Possesses expertise in Planning & implementing effective Maintenance strategies for Plants .Successfully Planned & executed Green field & expansion projects within allocated Time span & budgets .

An enterprising leader with abilities to lead teams to deliver organizational goals by implementing Operational Excellance Systems like Lean Manufacturing, Six sigma Methodology, Toyota Production System ,Industrial engineering, TPM & M&W.

Certified Lean Manufacturing Champion from Kanzen Asia-Pacific Institute. Also possesses Green Belt Six sigma Certification .

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Specialties:

1. Operations ,Maintenance, Engineering & Projects .
2. Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma ,TPS , TPM , M&W ,DT5.
3. Energy Engineering Management ( Power, Fuel & water )
4. Environment, Health & Safety .( E.H.S )
5. ERP Implementation & Trouble shootings.( SAP R/3)
6. Sound Exposure to QMS & SCM systems.

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Experience

• Operations Manager

  Baxter HealthCare Inc.

  (Public Company; BAX; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  1. General Management
  2. Manufacturing, Engineering ,Project Managment , EHS
  3. Operational Excellence - LSS and M&W
  4. QMS & SCM
  5. Energy Conservation
  6. VIP Management

• Manufacturing Manager

  PepsiCo Beverage Inc.

  (Public Company; PEP; Consumer Goods industry)

  November 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  Headed Manufacturing Operation of Jainpur, PepsiCo India biggest plant having installed capacity of 2100 BPM (5 Nos Bottling lines) .Plant had 107 Permanent and 200 contractual employee strength. Achieved 21.8 Lacs cases Production Volume in May 04-Highest Volume in PepsiCo India Business Unit History.

• Maintenace Manager

  PepsiCo Beverage Inc

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  November 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 1 month)

  Worked as Maintenace Manager for PepsiCo Jainpur Plant .Managed Operation & Maintenance of Utilities & Production equipments. Also acted as Project Manager & Handled Jainpur PET & Litre Line Expansion project (2002)-300 BPM .
  
  Core team Member of SAP R/3 team implementation team and successfully implemented PM & PP module across all 16 Pepsi Plants.

• Asst Mgr Maintenance

  PepsiCo Beverage Inc.

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  March 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 9 months)

  Worked as Maintenance head for PepsiCo Sathriya Plant.
  Acted as Project manager & exceuted 2 expansion projects.
  1. CSD Line 2 Expansion in Sathariya ( 400 PM)
  2. Phase 2 Exapnsion of Bazpur Plant

• Shift Engineer

  PepsiCo Beverage Inc.

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  February 1997 — March 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  Woked as shift Engineer & taken care of plant routine Production & Maintenance activities.

• Mechanical Engineer

  DCM Shriram Industries Limited

  (Food Production industry)

  June 1995 — February 1997 (1 year 9 months)

  Independently handled Shift operation of Sugar Factory during season & Annual maintenance in off-season.

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Education

• Dayalbagh Educational Institute

  BE , Mechanical Engineering , 1991 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  1. Engineering College Volleyball team captain.
  2. Participated in Inter-university Volleyball tournaments.
  3. Hostel Captain during Engineering studies.(Dayalbagh)
  4. Acted as Mess Secretary in New Hostel.
  5. Initiated & Launched HOZCOLA magzine with hostelers inDayalbagh.

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  Physics,Chemistry,Biology,Mathematics,English 1984 — 1991

• Misc Trainings - IIM Lucknow, MDI Gurgaon , PWC

  1.Strategic Management programme -1 week-MDI Gurgaon.
  2. SAP R/3 ERP SYSTEM - PWC- 5 months -Calcutta & Gurgaon
  3. Management Development Programme -2 Weeks-- IIM Lucknow
  4. Change Management- Manford alliance, New Delhi-4 days- Kanpur.
  5. PepsiCo Leadership Training, -2 days -Lucknow
  6. Manufacturing Excellence-Lean & TPS -10 days-Kanzen Asia Pacific Ins.
  7.TPM training Introductory and implementation Guide 4 days-PepsiCo, Panipat
  8.Baxter Business Excellence Model -LSS- 2 days Gurgaon

Additional Information

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Websites:

• My Company

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Interests:

Stock Market & Investing ( Equity & Mutual funds ), Technical Knoweledge Sharing & discussions,Motivational & leadership Trainings & discussions,

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Groups:

Ex-Jainpuria Pepsi association , DEIT50

•    Lean Six Sigma
•    Kendriya Vidyalaya (Central School) Alumni
•    DEI Alumni Association
•    PepsiCo Employees and Alumni
•    Dayalbagh Educational Institute Alumni
•    Internship

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Honors:

Special Recognition Award in Energy & Water Conservation at Global Baxter Energy Conferance at Atlanta USA in 2006.

Facility Nominated for Best EHS facility award in Baxter plants across Globe.(2006)

Merit certficate from CBSE board for securing 99% in Mathematics Class XII

AJAY KUMAR RAI’s Contact Settings

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