Sameer Raza Mohammad

Experience

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  Vizag Steel Plant

  Dec 2013 - Dec 2013

  Industrial Training

  Recovery of coke oven by products from batteries in a Steel Plant. Brief introduction to various unit operations.

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  IIT Guwahati

  May 2015 - Jun 2015

  Research Intern

  Topic: Bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass and its optimisation1. Performed unit operations/processes such as sono-assisted delignification, acidic hydrolysis, GC for final product samples

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  Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2022

  Was Responsible for:1. Overseeing all operations of High Potent & Onco API manufacturing as a production block in-charge in accordance to the established SOPs and cGMP.2. Investigating product failures/deviations and taking necessary correction, corrective and preventive actions.3. Ensuring equipment and process safety.Key Achievements:1. Capacity enhancement by 2x of a critical onco product to meet US launch requirements.2. Yield improvement of a high cost API by 35%.3. Successful customer audits with zero critical and major observations. Show less Was Responsible for:1. Project management and design check of product capacity enhancements, solvent recoveries and simplification drives.2. Co-ordinating with production and engineering services departments to deliver end to end support and achieve budgeted savings in TVC (Total Variable Cost) and Opex (Operating Expenditure) using Six Sigma and Lean.3. Interlinking outcomes of Manager Model Area project - a drive to achieve culture of operational excellence, autonomous and world class maintenance through empowered employees.4. Developing and revising project plans & budgets, tracking project/budget status, identifying and negotiating resolution of issues, escalating as necessary.Key Achievements:1. Capacity enhancement of a key molecule from 3 MT to 10 MT per month in response to market demand surge due to nitrosamines issue.2. With the support of portfolio team, presentation of strategy document to CEO to achieve 5x revenue growth.3. Establishment of new recovery streams of Ethyl Acetate and Toluene of a key API to achieve annual savings of Rs. 1 cr.4. Conducted POBOS benchmarking exercise in collaboration with McKinsey. Show less Was Responsible for:1. Project Management for an integrated, time-bound and site-level Quality Improvement Plan that combines elements of Manufacturing, Operations, Quality Assurance and Culture transformation to primarily address audit readiness and cross-functional set of activities. Overall of 60 action items tracked and progressed to completion.2. Collaboration with Department Heads and projects team to spearhead the operational excellence drive at site.3. Co-ordinating the monthly review meetings with the site senior leadership team and capture the minutes and drive for closure of action items.4. Conducting daily business reviews with cross-functional teams with focus on meeting the targets of key site metrics such as R vs C vs A and QC TAT.5. Sharing daily plant report to the site head capturing important KPIs such as Sales, RM shortages and OOS/OOT/CAPA/CCF numbers.6. Driving operational excellence projects with an aim to improve product yields, solvent recoveries and up-gradation of systems aided by IT & infrastructure support.Key Achievements:1. Standardization of reporting of key plant metrices to ensure regular and smooth review mechanism.2. Annual savings of Rs. 5 cr through the operational excellence drive.3. Conceptualization and initiation of Centre of Excellence (CoE) project under the guidance of management council. Show less 1. Studied and performed analysis of process flow (Chemical synthesis & Unit Operations) of an anti-fungal Intermediate and API synthesis and there by increased the overall yield by 10% & eliminated the quality failures with respect to diastereomer.2. Performed design check of solvent recovery distillation columns along with end-to-end mass balance of solvent flow from production to recovery & re-usage. Increased the batch size and storage facilities which resulted in throughput enhancement by 50%. Show less

  • Team Leader (Deputy Manager) - Production

    Jan 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Team Leader (Asst Manager) - Special Projects

    Apr 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Senior Team Member-Operational Excellence

    Oct 2017 - Mar 2019

  • Senior Team Member-Production

    Jul 2017 - Sept 2017

  • Technical Trainee

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
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  Viatris

  Sept 2022 - Sept 2023

  Was Responsible for:1. Technical support/assistance to API Global Manufacturing Head with responsibility of managing Operational Excellence (OE) initiatives.2. Create review mechanism to oversee manufacturing operations of 6 API units.3. Drive digital initiatives to simplify day to day operations.Key Achievements:1. Ideation and implementation of savings of $ 5 Mn in co-ordination with site teams.2. New solvent recovery streams' establishments to achieve competitive RMC.3. Solvent recovery improvement from 55% to 65% at CMU site.4. Opex cost savings by reduction of ~20 kLD high TDS stream. Show less

  • Manager - API Sourcing and Procurement

    May 2023 - Sept 2023

  • Manager - API Manufacturing

    Sept 2022 - Apr 2023
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  Biocon

  Oct 2023 - now

  Senior Manager - Manufacturing