Prott Pairojana

Experience

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  IRPC Public Company Limited

  Jul 2003 - Jul 2006

  Production Engineer

  • Take care of tanks storing petroleum, Gas, and asphalt • Load base lubricant and asphalt to tanks, trucks, ships• Supply crude oil to processes and receive distilled oil• Support processes by supplying natural gas and oil for heating boilersAccomplishment• Reduced a sample size by half to reduce waste from laboratory• Reduced penalty fine for over/under load order for ship loading by 60% (17 to 7 per year)

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  VF Asia Ltd.

  Aug 2011 - Oct 2016

  Plant Engineer

  • Take care of production lines and improve in terms of quality and productivity.• Conduct a cost analysis to ensure the consumption of material is accurate and efficient.• Prepare markers for cutting to achieve the most marking efficiency. • Do study and research on material and products in order to improve product cost.• Do engineering work to set up a shirt factory in Bangladesh and Kenya.• Work measurement to identify areas to improve in terms of labor efficiency and material consumption. • Do a woven shirt factory setup.o Production equipment list (including machine selection, work aids, furniture) o Factory layouto Manpower list (direct and indirect)o Operation breakdown (related to job standardization)• Monitor & control production flow.• Coordinate between internal counterpart and vendors for a supply chain (from order planning to shipping goods).Accomplishment• Reduce material consumption across all backpack brands and save the company for $500,000 over 12 months• Reduced fabric consumption in the factory I worked and made the consumption the lowest among all factories in Asia (markers and cutting method)• Rearrange production lines to increase output by 25% for high volume styles ( lean production and line balancing) Show less

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  DyStar

  Feb 2017 - Sept 2017

  Site Operation Supervisor

  - Supervise all site maintenance jobs to ensure the production runs at the maximum capacity.- Study and implement an automation for production to improve productivity, safety, and ergonomics for associates.- Monitor and control the maintenance budget for the site.- Collaborate with Global Head of Manufacturing & Engineering to create improvement projects and execute them.- Optimize warehouse's storage capacity and maintain product category storage (DG and Non-DG)- Be a contact person for government officers regarding local regulations. Show less

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  VF Corporation

  Sept 2017 - now

  - Manage costing development team for 4 apparel brands (Timberland, Napapijri, Smartwool, and Icebreaker)- Support all brand PD teams across 4 brands to hit target margin in style level.- Work with sourcing teams, Regional Office Product Development (ROPD) to achieve target and timeline for all 4 brands.- Align expectations with brand PD teams to set target and retail prices.- Train team members in garment manufacturing to better negotiate with vendors.- Support a costing brand leader to negotiate with vendors in a business level. Show less - Collaborate with vendors to improve productivity and quality performance in various product such as outerwear jackets, backpacks, footwear through Kaizen event (1-week continuous improvement event).- Support sourcing strategy plan with key vendors in Cambodia.- Analyze production operations through GSD to generate SMV and set baseline & expectation for efficiency across key vendors in all product categories (apparel, footwear, and equipment)- Build up an SMV library.- Simplify the process to generate SMV from 2 days per style to 30 minutes per style for a better support to costing team.- Work with vendor to align Does-cost SMV to Should-cost SMV to improve product FOB- Generate cost saving of US$ 1M annually through labor cost saving and SMV alignment with vendors. Show less - Analyze data, reports, and process in order to improve the productivity andprofitability of the operation through initiation and implementation of projects thatoptimize costs, efficiency, quality and inventory.- Lead, facilitate and manage implementation of new projects to supply base- Recommends the best methods of space, manpower, material, and equipment utilization inproduction facilities.- Investigates, plans, and works with other departments, such as production and quality,to execute cost reduction initiatives by evaluating projects, developing action plans,coordinating, implementing, and following-up for results.- Work directly or indirectly with manufacturers in order to improve efficiencies,productivity, quality, and on time delivery.- Help manufacturers to reduce manufacturing cycle time and improve Speed toMarket. Generate regular activity reports, as well as detailed factory trip reports withsummaries of opportunities, results of tests, and photos/diagrams. Show less

  • Assistant Manager, Development costing

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Senior Costing Analyst

    Mar 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Engineer

    Oct 2019 - Mar 2023

  • Engineer

    Sept 2017 - Oct 2019