Uddipan Debnath

Operations Associate

Kolkata, West Bengal, India2 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led a team of 25 to achieve quality excellence.
Executed CAPEX projects exceeding INR 20 Mn.
Achieved highest unit score in Quality vertical.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Manufacturing and Quality Assurance expert with a focus on Continuous Improvement and Digital Transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceNew Product DevelopmentDigital TransformationContinuous Improvement ProjectsCapex Projects

Other Skills

AnalyticsAudit ManagementBusiness ExpansionC++CatalysisCorrective and Preventive Action (CAPA)Dashboard CreationData StructuresDigital Quality ManagementESGEngineeringExploratory Data AnalysisGraphsHeterogeneous CatalysisHypothesis Testing

Experience

Itc limited

Manager - Quality

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Munger, Bihar, India · On-site

Leading a team of 25 unionised employees and working with 200+ shopfloor employees & 20+ managers to institute and drive process and quality excellence for the unit; MR for ISO 9001:2015 Quality Policy
New Product Development: manufactured 9 new brands with differentiated offerings for market launch in niche RSFT Slims and KSFT Slims segment
Successfully coordinated and closed multiple audits ensuring adherence, compliance and integrity
achieved highest unit score in Quality vertical (89/100), helping unit to claim IMexI 2024 Apex Prize
Orchestrated roll-out of new Product Quality Rating System (PQRS) having differentiated & comprehensive defects, at unit level
Liaised with HR and union to design a two-week long quality awareness drive; impactfully nurtured competition between shop-floor employees to learn the new PQRS system
Achieved benchmark unit consumer complaints; lowest in last 10 years; lowest across all ITD units
Executed CAPEX projects exceeding INR 20 Mn to modernize, digitize & de-risk quality processes & systems; conducted quality protocol for CAPEX projects worth INR 100 Mn+ in manufacturing operations
Digitalized QMS data by integrating it with IoT platform to transform quality KPIs, feedback and data analysis so as to improve decision-making
o Sports I/C at Peninsular Society (registered society) - elected by ~150 members
Organised the biggest, month-long sports event at any manufacturing residential society of ITD, Winter Olympic, involving managers’ families of 4 ITC divisions
Responsible for welfare and maintenance of sports amenities and nurturing culture of sports
Elected to be the best I/C for 2024-25 term

Audit ManagementNew Product DevelopmentQuality AssuranceAnalyticsDigital Quality ManagementStakeholder Management+9

Wipro consumer care and lighting

Senior Manufacturing Executive

Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

o Continuous Improvement Projects (Six Sigma)
Achieved energy savings of INR 1.75 Mn by implementing CIPs in major energy consuming machines via DMAIC approach
Quantified GSM range for wrapper and stiffener in 700 spm Santoor line using Hypothesis Testing to avoid jamming and material losses
Decreased contribution of PR Items in R&M Expenditure of Santoor plant (amounting to INR 25 Mn) from 48% to 39% by identification and shifting of spares worth INR 1.5 Mn to MSL
Redefined MSL quantity for 139 spares amounting to a differential consumption value of INR 7 Mn for better utilisation; identified dead spares inventory worth 0.4 Mn
Created dashboard to track OEE, MTTR, MTBF and usage variance related to power and packing material for each SKU to track operational losses
o CAPEX Projects:
Handled proposal and budgeting of 750 spm high-speed banding m/c worth INR 4 Mn for Santoor's 80+ TPD production line, generating daily revenue over INR 25 Mn
Executed proposal, budgeting, supply, installation and commissioning of 1.9 MWp Solar PV Rooftop Power Plant project (without net metering) costing INR 59 Mn, reducing 20% net power consumption, translating to net savings of INR 369 Mn in 20 years at an IRR of 21%
o Competitions:
‘Best Sustainable Initiative of the year 2024 - Go Green’: Awarded by UBS Forum - for reduction in energy intensity by 8.8% and emission intensity by 1% at Hyderabad factory

Continuous Improvement ProjectsSix SigmaHypothesis TestingDashboard CreationCAPEX Projects

Axtria - ingenious insights

Analyst

Jun 2022 – Jul 2022 · 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

Segmentation & Targeting for onboarding HCPs and improving CRM by designing Call Plan Feedback and Product Assignment

The ohio state university

Research Intern

May 2021 – Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Ohio, United States · Remote

Analyzed 50,000+ molecules using Avogadro; executed a program to find Donor and Acceptor sites
Identified 1 million+ D-A pairs (staggered type); discovered inherent fault in using SMILES to make D-A-D & A-D-A triads
Operated on graph-based representation to make the triads; used DFT to calculate energy levels of MOs & find charge mobility