Ramesh Walia is a senior management professional with over 30 years of experience in project management, operations excellence, maintenance, and engineering. He currently works as the Head of Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Projects, and IER at DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals India Limited, where he manages capital expenditures, greenfield and brownfield projects, and drives operational excellence across multiple sites worldwide.

1. Ramesh Walia
H. No. 286, Sector 20-A, Chandigarh - 160020
Contact No.: +91-9878628620
E-Mail: rameshwalia@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rameshwalia
Senior Management Professional
Head - Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Projects & IER
PROFILE SUMMARY
A Senior Management Professional with 30 years of experience in Project Management, Operations Excellence,
Maintenance and Engineering
Leadership Role
 Inspirational Leadership focused on drive to convert visions into reality.
 People development
 Driving Organisational Values within the organisation.
 Developing Effective communication and transparency within the organisation
 Ensuring Respect for People
 Leading various Cross Functional Teams.
 Creating high performing, motivated & engaged teams.
 Fostering innovation
 Effective and timely decision making
 Creating safe and quality compliant workplace
Functional Role (Regular Operations)
 Managing and improving Opex
 Cost reduction leading to increase in profitability.
 Maintaining & improving life cycle of plants & equipments
 Inventory Management leading to optimum Operation Working Capital
 Safety, Quality & cGMP improvement
Functional Role (Projects)
 Managing Capex within the organisation
 Managing Green field as well as brown field business projects.
 Ensuring that the projects are completed safely, within budget & within schedule. Also ensuring that the
plants deliver the desired capacities, productivity, yield, time cycle & product cost.
 Technology transfers in plants located across the world & introduction of new products.
 Guiding & coaching teams in improving work processes.
Functional Role (Operations Excellence)
 Striving to achieve Excellence in various functions of the organisation.
 Advanced Manufacturing leading to improvement in productivity, yields, cost leadership, time cycle, waste
management.
 Transferring Best Practices across various sites across the world.
 Change Management
 Driving Lean culture in the organisation leading to optimisation of resources like Opex & manpower.
 Risk Assessment & management (Business Risk, Project Risk, IP Protection Risk, Safety Risk, Technology Risk,
Quality Risk etc)

2. ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sep 1993 ~Till Date : Worked on various positions in this organisation.
1. DSM Anti-Infectives India Limited - A MNC Company in the field of Life
Sciences (APIs) and Material Sciences:
Section Head – instrumentation & Project Control
2. DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals India Limited - A MNC Company in
the field of Life Sciences - APIs
Now working as Head - Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Projects &
. Improve Equipment Reliability
Sep 1985 ~ Sept 1988 :
JCT Electronics Limited
Worked for 5 years in JCT Electronics Limited as Instrumentation Engineer.
Responsible for the installation and maintenance of instruments, PLC systems
and automation of equipments.
Sep 1985 ~ Sept 1988 :
Worked for 3 years in ACC Limited as Asstt Engineer – Instrumentation.
Responsible for the maintenance of instruments.
ACADEMIC DETAILS
Masters in Business Administration (MBA -Marketing)
Graduation in Electronics & communications Engineering.
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
Diploma in Instrument Technology
Advanced diploma in Industrial Electronics
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 28th July 1965
Address: House No. 286, Sector – 20 A, Chandigarh 160020
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Punjabi
Date :
Place : Chandigarh (Ramesh Walia)