Jitendra Shinde

Experience

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Jun 1999 - Aug 2000

  Reasearch Associate

  Worked on environmental engineering projects such as UASB reactor & ETP validation & upgradation.

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  AAK India South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa

  Sept 2000 - Nov 2003

  R & D Executive

  Leading R & D projects to develop all new products such as Bakery shortenings for all applications such as puff, biscuit, cake etc.cocoa buter substitutes such as PKS, HPKS, PKolein, Hpkolein, icecream fat & different confectionary blend fats. Handling pilot plant to develop formulations to develop new products. Worked closely with application team , sales team to market new products. Worked closely with plant team for commercialising the product at plant level. Handeled project of erection & commissioning of bakery shortening & cocoa butter substitute plant. Represented kamani at various exhibitions & conferences. Show less

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  3F Industries Ltd.

  Dec 2003 - Jun 2006

  Assistant Manager- Projects

  Assistant Project Manager for GREEN FIELD Project at Shrilanka. Have erected & commissioned 100 TPD physical refinery, 50 TPD chemical interesterification plant with physical refining. 100 TPD bakery shortening plant, 10 TPD cocoa Butter substitute plant to produce palm kernel stearin at Srilanka while working with Ceylon Speciality fat , a sister concern of FFF. Also was having additional charge as Assistant Manager- R & D to help in new product development in speciality fat segment.

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  Liberty Oil Mills Limited

  Jul 2006 - Apr 2008

  Assistant Manager Production

  Was accountable as plant manager for 3 refineries. 100 TPD soyabean oil chemical refinery, 150 TPD vanaspati physical refinery, 150 TPD hydrogenation plant, 300 TPD chemical Interesterification plant with physical refining. Accountable for handling institutional customer deliveries such as Nestlke, parle. Was responsible for cost optimisation & process control operations. Was awarded best residential manager award for year 2007 for best performance.

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  Cargill

  Apr 2008 - Aug 2019

  Project Manager for new projects. Accountable for preengineering, designing, planning, budgeting of projects. Coordinating with COE for best practices implementation in safety , food safety , productivity, efficiency improvement. Accountable for site execution, meeting the timeline & completing project within budget with zero incident. Accoutable for supplier management, specification management, quality manangement, manpower managemnet ,safety , food safety, of Project. Accountable for carrying out project as per Cargills Project Portfolio Management Model with all legal compliance. Show less Accountable for film plant operation, serving to customers such as all Cargill units & external customers. Managing production of Film plant which includes blown film processing of polymers to make film in Windmoller & Holscher Extrusion plant , Windmoller & Holscher 8 deck printing plant & slitting plant to make film as per customer specifications & artwork.Leaded plant to achieve highest production in the history of film plant . Successfully leaded Cargills Gemini Brand relaunching activity . Accountable for PNL , safety, food safety, production, commercial, logistic & stores operation. Show less Accountable for production of speciality fats, bakery shortening, and speciality oils for key customers, corporate customers.Handling production of speciality fat in SPX & pattyn packaging line, coordinating processing of speciality fats in Desmet hydrogenation & refinery plant. S & OP compliance for the month. Handling day to day production activities with safety & food safety compliance. Coordinating with sales team , logistic team to provide right product to the right customer. Handling blending activities to make the right product as per the customer specification, BU specifications.Handling bulk deliveries to customer. Show less Accountable for development of new products such as bakery shortening, speciality fats, value added products for various applications such as pharma, nutritious products, RTE products. Commercialisation of specaility products such as PMF, CBS by taking plant trials .Taking product trials at pilot plant level. Formulation developments to develop product matching customer specifications.Customer specifications management. Coordinating with process, packaging, logistic, sales team to carry out plant trials for new products.Technical lead for BROWN FIELD Project of speciality fat plant. Done process engineering for creating facility for speciality fat processing. Worked with suppliers SPX germany & Pattyn belgium for technical specification finalisation for speciality fat processing & packaging plant. Detail engineering on tank farm designing, piping & automation. Successful erection & commissioning of specilaity fat plant by implementing best practices recommeded by COE. Show less Accountable for development of all new customers in oil segment, speciality fat segment. pharma, RTE etc.Customer specification management, catering right sample to customers. Technical service to customers. Imparting training to plant team, sales team. Customer complaint handling. Closely working with sales team for new customer development. Technical service to plant such as starting vanaspati manufacturing at plant, developing formulation for vanaspati , bakery shortening. Conducting plant trials for hydrogenetion, fractionation, bakery shortening, speciality oil processing at refinery. Was imparted 4 months training on development & processing of speciality fat at Cargill Malaysia. Leaded commissioning activities of speciality fat plant for 2 months in Cargill Malaysia. Show less

  • Manager Bakery, Speciality fat Operation

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

  • Manager - Projects

    Dec 2015 - Aug 2017

  • Manager Plant Operations- Film Plant

    Feb 2015 - May 2017

  • Assistant Manager - Speciality Fats Plant Operation

    Jun 2013 - Feb 2015

  • Assistant Manager -Product Development.

    Jun 2011 - Jun 2013

  • Product Development & Customer Service Executive

    Apr 2008 - Jun 2011
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  Capital Foods Private Limited

  Aug 2019 - Jun 2022

  Plant Head

  Plant Head for Masala & Soup manufacturing plant. Accountable for plant operations along with safety, food safety, quality & legal compliance of plant. In pandemic successfully leaded plant operation to achieve consistent highest production contributing to organization growth in FY 20-21. Successfully handled plant operation complying S&OP demand keeping operating cost within budget. Worked on SIX SIGMA Kaizen projects to enhance efficiency, productivity & control losses. Demonstrated strong leader-ship to enhance teams’ morale in pandemic situation. Successfully handled new plant commissioning project by erection & commissioning of new blending system from Miranda Automation & new packaging machine from Uflex, Sanko, KHS, Jingway. Worked on end-to-end project execution with technology finalisation, lay out finalisation, machinery finalization. Show less

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  Suminter India Organics

  Jul 2022 - now

  General Manager - Works

  Managing end to end Operation and Supply Chain for two manufacturing units as Operation Head. Soya processing unit and spice processing unit producing export grade products for B to B segment customers.