1. Snehal Parikh
Contact: 09712943652 , 09426365244 ~ 02602684011 ~ E-Mail: sneh133@yahoo.com
Middle Management Professional With enriched expertise in
Production, Quality, Engineering, Procurement , SHE, Six Sigma , TPM & H.R
SUMMARY
Mechanical Engineer working with over 24 years of experience in, Manufacturing, Quality,
Maintenance, Souring, TPM, Six Sigma , E.H.S and H.R.
Gained exposure in world leading MNC - FMCG , Lighting , Engineering , Trading & Exporter sector.
Completed Leader ship Graduate of Technical Leadership program of GE ( General Electric –USA)
A keen strategist & implementer aiming at achieving timely production completion, profit and business
growth objectives & turnaround for increase in top line and bottom line in rapid change environments.
Demonstrated excellence in setting priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals,
testing of materials and track details, data, information & activities.
Possesses strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.
Hand on experience maintaining statutory compliance related to legal framework & SHE
Well versed with implementation & documentation formalities for Unilever SHE Framework System Audits,
SHE Reality Check Audits and techniques including TPM.
Managed the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) in the plant to attain an injury-free organization.
Exercising water & energy conservation activities continuously across the plant through Kaizens
Maintaining a high level of quality & discipline amongst the work force across the department.
Liaison with external agencies & regulatory authorities to ensure compliance to the requisite rules &
regulations and obtaining the requisite clearances & approvals.
Expertise on preparing of Risk assessment, HAZOP, Incident/Accident Investigations, Emergency
Preparedness Plan, SHE manuals, contractor’s safety management, SOP’s and Training Manuals
Conducting the Trainings, Tool Box Meetings, Safety/Environment/HIM/Road safety/Slip, trip & fall week
celebration, Water/Energy/Ozone/diabetes/AIDS/Heart day celebration, Quarterly safety R&R functions etc
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Conceptualizing and devising plans / schedules, arranging resources and executing them in the given time
frame as per budgeted cost parameters.
Deploying various methodologies to analyze processes, recommending modifications to minimize
escalations, reduce rejection, realize operational efficiencies, control variability, costing & reducing cycle-
time.
Ensuring that the organization is fulfilling all statutory norms / quality stipulations.
Troubleshooting all technical problems; conducting various tests & inspections to ensure that products
developed are in compliance with pre-set quality specifications.
Implementing quality standards & structured processes / quality plans in production operations.
Taking quality measures including preparation / maintenance of necessary documents to ensure statutory
compliance as well as customer requirements.
Coordinating the entire research & development including requirement analysis, tools and cutter planning,
finalizing specifications, designing, prototype development and taking trail.
Dealing with Govt. Agency
2. ACADEMIA
• 1990 Mechanical Engineering.
• Technical Leadership Graduate – GE - USA ,
• USA Six Sigma Green Belt, training. GE – USA.
• Advance Diploma In Industrial Safety ,
• Approved by Food & Drug - India
Other Courses:
Certified Manufacturer of FDA products (by Food & Drug Dept.- India)
SAP, for Production and QM – Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
HACCP
Asset & Investment care - Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
DuPont Safety Course.
NSD Bar Technology - Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
EHS awareness workshop - by GE USA.
Industrial Hygiene course - by GE INDIA
Career management - by GE lighting India.
Project management - by Nutshell Inc. U.S.A
14 Web –Based course in Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Du-Pont safety Course (DSC)
Leadership & change Goals & goal SettingHindustan Unilever Ltd. – Safety & YouSafety , Health &
Environment
IT KNOW HOW
Well versed with MS Office, Access, Web based SAP and Internet Applications.
ORGANISATIONAL SCAN
Since Aug’ 2001 Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Gandhidham. Executive
Growth Path Shift , General Shift Executive & SHE of Personal Care, Bleach & Detergent Plant.
Since Aug’01 Executive
Deliverables:
Meeting Unit Target in line with Unilever Over all Targets ( Production ,Quality, SHE, Maint., TPM )of
Unit .
Carry out daily / routine plant safety inspection and ensuring compliance of safety rules and regulations
at site
Updating of all documents like Monthly Safety report, training and inspection report and all SHE related
data to be report to corporate SHE
Monitoring of Compliance / Non compliance with Unilever SHE Standards/guidelines
Implementation of SHE Frame Work Standards, guidelines and Communication Pack
Conducting the Induction and Tool Box training for all employee and contractor workmen
Auditing the compliance of various standards like access control, work permit system, contractor safety
etc across the plant
Conducting the mock drills : wet and dry
Fire-Fighting, Defensive driving for two/four wheeler, forklift and First Aid training thru external
agencies
Implementation of Audits action plan (System, Area, Planned etc)
Fully responsible of SHE Reality Checks, Frame Work Standard (FWS), Annual PAR & EPR audits
3. Manuals (FWS, SHE, Environment, ETP, Contractors, Emergency Response Plan, Health etc )
Preparations
Accountable for Incident / Accident Investigation
Preparation of Risk Assessment (CTI/THA,LBRA,EBRA,OHRA)
Compliance monitoring of mitigation part of SAM, SBO, Hazard and Near-miss related actions
Leading USHEC, SHE Committee, shop floor SHE committee, contractor’s with regular review meetings
Application of various consents/NOC, amendments for factory
Compliance maintaining and monitoring of PCB Norms and Statutory requirement
Hazardous, Non Hazardous & Recycle waste management
Various Water/energy/Co2/Sox/waste reductions projects
Enhance awareness / consciousness among employees regarding SHE
Vitality Health check of all the employees
Active involvement & participations of various projects activity
Ergonomics/Illuminations/MSD/Noise study & implementations of gaps.
100% OTIF of various central initiatives drives on safety, health & environment
Accomplishments:
Recipient of Various Award – Govt. of Gujarat & India.
Highest score in HUL all over India in Compliance of Environment Care 99% & 98% in Occupational
Safety & health in FWS Audit
Also help other units in FWS audit to score more than 90 % score.
Initiated & started HIM concept & 360 degree m/c guarding & interlocking
Rated Excellent trainer
Initiated & started Ergonomics study for entire factory
Successfully Commissioned new M/c ( Serac, Mespack – 100 pouch & 200 Bottle per Min. )
Successfully completed the 5th 4 Yr. LTS with Employee
Continuously Exceeded Production target i.e 100% against the target of 95%
Superseded Production target which was increased to 150%, consecutively Two Year’s in a row; with
minimum available Hardware & support saving 23.26 Cr of Company, production line fill target
Created a record of 40.861 tons Production in two shift highest in all HUL’s Unit with Nil Quality defect,
Safety incident due to M/c reliability & motivation of work force.
Exceeded the Quality target.
Member of Unit team to Cleared Unilever's full scope QVP audit - Audit result – Green ( “A” Rating) .
Exceeded all target of Safety (Hazard, Contact & SAM).
Member of team of Unit to Successful clearance of two FWS audit - 93.3% in OHS (Occupational health
and safety) and 96% in EC (Environment Control) - An improvement of almost 4 % from the previous
FWS audit.
Leader of Team to receive the TPM FM trophy.
Member of Unit team to receive Director-Supply chain “TPM Award” for two years in India , .
Increased batch cycle time for Vim bar thus increase in Volume / shift.
Enhanced Production by modification of batching system of Detergent Powder.
Multi skill of Employee 100% ,thus People will work with more joyfully & thus work will not suffer due to
non availability of Person.
4. Jun’00-Aug’01 Horizon International, Nadiad. Head – Supply Chain
Deliverables:
Sourced & looked after Supply Chain for all kind of products.
Highlights:
Look for exporting other requirements of customers thus increase the utilization of container space.
Deliver the quick requirements of goods
Maximum utilization of space.
Dec’94- Jun’00 G. E. Lighting India Ltd., Limbasi .Asst. Manager – Plant In charge & EHS
Coordinator of Plant
Deliverables:
Attained production target.
Attain Mat. Efficiency.
Maintained Quality Improvements & Variable cost reduction projects.
Implemented Six Sigma Projects .
Maintain the GE ehs standards by Conducted training to shop floor people on EHS.
Highlights:
Lowered P-Off defect from 4.5 to 1.5 % resulted in saving of 87K$ per year.
Aligned team to increase the Productivity, Quality & Safety work.
Attained Production target S
Selected in task force to Increase line (Imported from Canada) Efficiency From 23 % to 75% Reducing
Sealing hole 2.57 % TO 1.0 % & Open Seal 1.54 % TO 0.5 % on Sealing M/C. Saving 17.5lacs/year
Functioned member of Cost reduction team.
Previous Assignments:
Aug’92-Dec’94 C N Tractors (Ford), Dhulia Asst. Manager
Mar’91-Jul’92 Elecon Engineering, V.V.Nagar. Production Engineer
Projects Handled
In HUL : Proj. -1 : Installation of New Imported M/c Mespack & Serac – 100 pouch & 200 bottel perm min.
Proj. 2 :Installation of Rin fabric whitener ,
Proj. -3 :Set up line for New Domex Thick ,
Proj. -4:Set up of line for Domex Bend neck ,
Proj. – 5:In house manufacturing of Capping M/c ,
Proj.-6:Re location of whole Unit ,
Proj.-7:Vartical start up of Packing lines. Proj.-8 :Simplification of Packing lines.
In GE :Green belt Projects 1 - Reduction in Powder off by using Pareto, Process Mapping, Charts, Fish bone, C
& E matrix, Chi-square test, Process Capability, DMAIC, Cost & quality, 87 K $ / annum.
Green belt Projects 2: Increase line (Imported from Canada) Efficiency From 23 % to 75% by using Pareto,
Charts, Fish bone, C & E matrix, FMEA, Design Tolerance.
Green belt Projects 3:Reduction in Sealing hole & Open Seal (Sub project of Above Project).
Projects 4: Maintain Mercury level in three Plants as per GE Standards.
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth: 20th January, 1969
Address: 506, “Cassia”, Garden City, Samarvarni, Silvasa- 396230.
– Native: Moti Pole , Modi Santh, Nadiad, Dist. Kheda , Pin code 387001.
Linguistics: English , Hindi , Gujarati & Marathi.