1. ELAYARAJA K
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E-mail: enbaraja@gmail.com Mobile No: +251 912507851
+91 9790921076
Career Objective: To reach an expert level in food and Beverage industry by adopting
world class proven food processing systems and add value to the hiring organization by
demonstrating the full commitment and delivering functional excellence
Educational Qualifications
 MBA PROJECT MANAGEMENT – PURSUING, SIKKIM MANIPAL UNIVERSITY (2013 –
2015)
 B. TECH PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY – (First class - 72.3%)
[2002 – 2005], School of Engineering and Technology, Bharathidasan University, Trichy,
Tamil nadu
 DIPLOMA IN CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY – (First class with honours – 85.45%) [1999 –
2002], Thanthai Roever Institute of Polytechnique, Perambalore, Tamil Nadu
Present Employment
ABIG since October 2015
Company Profile:
ABIG is ASKU & BERHANE INVESTMENT GROUP which is in to Food & beverage,
petrochemicals, Health care and Foreign Trades. Consisting of about 1200 direct
employees and 1900 indirect employees with foreign experts.
TECHNICAL EXPERT
Job Responsibilities:
 Project Planning.
 Responsible for the overall safe execution of manufacturing activities.
 System development and implementation.
 Carrying out regular monitoring visits of all factory operations.
 Overseeing the training, assessment and monitoring of all staffs; train the trainer
 Providing technical and production support for group operated factories.
 Ensuring staff are equipped and trained to an appropriate standard.
 Assisting the factory managers in identifying the gaps and needful corrective
actions.
 Ensure provision, supply, maintenance and safe and appropriate storage of all
necessary tools, spare parts and repaired.
 Capacity building Plan, coordinating the recruitment & training of new employees.
 Participating recruitment procedures for employment as required.
 Developing corporate level plant strategies.
 Studying and proposing Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality and Control
Strategies, Policies and Procedures for all Plants.
 ERM implementation and monitoring.

2. Previous Employment
Dansa Foods Limited, Dangote Group November 2011 – November 2014
Company Profile: Dansa Foods Limited, a leading beverage industry in Nigeria owned by
Dangote group. Dansa Foods Limited, stationed at Lagos have about 80 SKUs from 6
TETRAPAK, 3 PET, 2 COMBIBLOC, 2 DOY pack, 3 Dry packs manufacturing lines categorised
as Dairy (Flavoured milk and Yogurt), Juice, Nectar, Carbonated Soft drinks, Table water,
Milk powder and Sweetened Sugar
MAINTENANCE HEAD
Job Responsibilities:
 General supervision of plant maintenance and engineering materials procurement
 Facility/physical plant up-keep and capital improvements
 Develop annual maintenance budget planning and execution
 Lead day-to-day maintenance operation of the facility
 Work closely with the production team to increase productivity and profitability
 Lead the maintenance team for improve on periodical and breakdown maintenance
 Work closely with quality personnel to review product consistency while
monitoring scrap rates to determine trends and areas of improvement
 Coordinate the hiring and training of all manufacturing and maintenance personnel
 Monitor maintenance expenses and research ways to reduce costs while
maintaining product quality
 Analyze workforce requirements
 Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to the team
 Encourage and promote operating in a continuous improvement environment
 Remove production constraints; allocate human and equipment resources and
assist production employees to attain all established goal
Key Achievements
 My leadership, dedication and teamwork earned promotion, leading to me managing a
portfolio of 16 manufacturing lines
 Handling the maintenance team responsible for
o PET LINES
 Krones - 24,000 BPH
 Sidel – 14,400 BPH
 Sidel - 6,200 BPH
o ASCETIC LINES
 Combibloc - 24,000 PPH
 Combibloc - 9,000 PPH

3. o TETRAPAK LINES
 A3 Flex : 7,000 PPH,
 A3 Square : 6,000 PPH,
 TBA19 : 6,000 PPH
 TCA LINES : 13,000 PPH
O FORM FILL & SEAL LINES: HOT FILL
 Volpak; Hot fill - 6000 PPH
 Bossar; Hot fill - 4800 PPH
 Universal; Dry packing - 8000 PPH,
 Campagnola lines;Dry packing - 12000 PPH
O LINE UTILITIES: Air compressors, chillers, cooling towers and CO2 plant
 Planned, measured and coordinated installation of KRONES PET line, COMBIBLOC
aseptic line and utilities (2013 - 2014)
 Water treatment plant restructuring (2013)
 Authored and implemented comprehensive maintenance and safety program
 Planned, measured , purchased and coordinated over haul for filling lines and utilities
 Established valuable vendor and subcontractor; reduced labour and parts costs
 Utilised troubleshooting publications to solve problems, interpret blueprints,
schematics, manuals and requirements for various mechanical and electrical processes
 Established incentive schemes, increased the line productivity and RMPM reduced the
wastages.
 Implemented the effective preventive maintenances program and increased the
machine mechanical efficiency
 Cost effective and cost saving modifications to minimise the manufacturing cost
 Cost saving by reducing the preforms weight ($0.03/tray : $150,000/- for 2013)
 Cost saving by removing tray pads ($0.4/tray : $410,000/- for 2012 & 2013)
 Established spare parts management system
Previous Employment 3
Voltic Nigeria Limited, SABMiller PLC March 2010 – October 2011
Company Profile: Voltic Nigeria Limited produces its packaged drinking water including
premium juice based drink at this facility. Voltic Nig Limited is owned by SABMiller having
four 120 BPM speed bottling lines to pack the purified water & beverage in PET bottles.
Plant certified for silver grade by SON
Production manager
Job Responsibilities: Production planning, manpower and material management,
development and sustainability of product quality & plant quality of the factories operated
by SABMiller PLC in Nigeria. Cost saving, improving the line productivity, minimizing the
line break downs and rejections, maintaining and tracking of daily downtime report,
providing proper training to the employees

4. Achievements:
 Installation and commissioning of 80 BPM ‘Table water’ plant – Port Harcourt, Nigeria
(2010 – 2011)
 Installation and commissioning of 40 BPM ‘Super Maheu’ plant - Onitsa, Nigeria (2010
– 2011)
 Installation and commissioning of 50M3/Hr UF water treatment plant
 Established and streamlined the Product quality requirements and standards
 Reduced the chemicals and consumables cost by 40%
 Increased the JBD yield to 96%
 Increased the blowing efficiency to 95%
Pervious employment 2
PepsiCo India Feb 2008 to March 2010
Company Profile: PepsiCo produces all its premium beverage brands including packaged
drinking water at this facility. PepsiCo, Palakkad is company owned operation and having 3
high speed bottling lines to pack the beverage & purified water in both Glass & PET. Plant
certified for HACCP, ISO 14000:2004 certified and AIB, 2010 certified.
Quality Control Executive
Job Responsibilities: Shop Floor Activities including Product Quality Control, process
quality assurance, Documentation, Record Keeping, Inspection, Sanitation, HK, GMP,
Training's, Raw Material Analysis, Microbiological Analysis, Market Survey, Trade Age
Audit, Consumer Complaint Tracking, Process Trends Analysis, implementation of HACCP
standards
First person responsibility for Aquafina PDW meets 100% to PepsiCo and BIS
standards requirements. Product Quality Control, Process Quality Assurance,
Documentation, Inspection and Sanitation activities as per PepsiCo requirements,
Implementation of ISO & HACCP standards,
Achievements:
 Successfully completed RO revamping resulted in using higher TDS bore wells (not
been used ever) and reduced the chemicals consumption (cost saving Rs 12 lakhs)
over the year 2008.
 Established the system controls and automations as per the Pepsico requirements.
 Developed RO normalization data to monitor the RO plant performance
 Carried out the scheduled maintenance for the Water treatment plants
 Involved in HACCP and ISO 14000:2004 certification programs

5.  Aquafina (PDW) operations improved by sustaining at 14KL/Hr permeate flow with
lower TDS level against poor ground water quality.
 100% compliance against the product quality and process as per PepsiCo
requirements, showed 20% improvement over 2008.
 PepsiCo Best performance award 2008 & 3 PepsiCo spot awards
 PepsiCo acknowledged two BEST PRACTICES introduced in Aquafina line and
implemented in all PepsiCo plants.
 Implemented and standardized the Annual preventive maintenance in Aquafina
line.
 100% compliance against the instruments working and line automations
 40% Reduction in Chemicals & Consumables by adopting BPT’s.
 Unit certified with ISO 14000:2004 (First in AMEA Division).
 Plant awarded with UNESCO supported Water Digest Award for best water
practices.
Pervious employment 1
Parle Agro Pvt. Limited July 2005 to Feb 2008
Company Profile: Parle Agro (Frooti Beverages – Chennai) produces all its premium
beverage brands including packaged drinking water at this facility. Parle Agro, Chennai was
company owned operation and having 4 high speed Tetra pack lines to pack the JBD, 1 Hot
fill line, 1 CSD (JBD) line and PDW line.
Quality Assurance officer
Job Responsibilities
Shop Floor Activities including Product Quality Control, process quality assurance,
Documentation, Record Keeping, Inspection, Sanitation, HK, GMP, Training's, Raw Material
Analysis, Microbiological Analysis, Market Survey, Trade Age Audit, Consumer, Complaint
Tracking, Process Trends Analysis, implementation of HACCP standards.
Achievements:
1. Solved fermentation issues in apple based product.
2. Involved in commission and standardization of CSD line (JBD).
3. Developed Sop’s and published across all PARLE plants for Appy Fizz line.
4. Improved the line efficiency by 80%.
5. Involved in implementation of HACCP.
Special Trainings
 Installation and maintenance training for PET lines – KRONES, GERMANY (2013)
 Operation and maintenance training for PET lines – SIDEL, ITALY (2012)
 Processing & Brewing – SABMiller, Zambia (2011)
Computer skills
OS : Windows, Linux, IOS

6. Applications : MS Office, MS project
ERP : SAP, Windows Navision
Languages Known : English, Tamil & Malayalam
Personal Particulars
Date of Birth : 4th June 1983
Marital Status : Married
Permanent Address : Karuppur PO, Pattukkottai TK,
Thanjavur DT, TamilNadu – 614903
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