Akriti Belbase

Skilled mechanical engineering professional with involvement in maintenance and safety department of FMCG industry. My experience in the FMCG industry has given me a solid understanding of the importance of productivity, cost effectiveness, quality and safety in production processes. Expertise in manufacturing Oral Care toothpaste tubes, Skin Care Tubes, Skin Cleansing Tubes, Skin Care Jars, Skin Care sachets, Hair Care bottles, Hair Care Sachets, Personal wash soaps, home care cleansing and Handwash Liquids.

MAINTENANCE EXECUTIVE at HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED (2025-03 – Present)

• Preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance of machines with spare management of FFS and doypack machines
• Focused Improvement to improve Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and capacity of machines to improve asset utilization, Machine installation, commissioning, energy saving projects, net productivity projects execution.
• Local manufacturing of spares such as plastic grippers, aluminum rollers, silicon rollers, positive displacement pump shafts to reduce cost of maintenance and reduce lead time
• Use of WCM tools to create Emergency work orders and RCAs of high potential breakdowns to improve Mean time between failure and Mean time to repair

MAINTENANCE OFFICER at UNILEVER NEPAL LIMITED (2023-01 – 2025-02)

• Preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance of machines with spare management
• Quality Improvement Actions such as hygiene engineering design of pressure vessels and holding tanks, process lines and packing lines to eliminate formalin disinfection and introduce thermal disinfection
• Vision cameras set up in packing lines to check cap placement, pcro print quality and black specs or foreign matter contamination in products

SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT OFFICER at UNILEVER NEPAL LIMITED (2021-04 – 2022-12)

• Risk Assessment and risk prediction of all operations to eliminate, reduce, substitute and put admin or engineering controls in high and medium level risks to convert it to low-risk activities
• Machine Guarding assessment and Conveyor safety gap assessment
• Gap assessment and gap closure of life critical standards: working at height, confined spaces, line break, excavation, process safety
• Encouraging reporting to build up safety culture in workplace by reporting unsafe activities, conditions and near misses
• Gap assessment of safety as per IS45001 standard for safety and IS14001 for environment and improved 1050 points in frameworks audits

SUPPLY CHAIN INTERN at UNILEVER NEPAL LIMITED (2020-12 – 2021-03)

• Understood manufacturing processes of shampoo, toothpastes, facewashes, sunscreen, cream and soaps from procurement, research and validation of formulations, processing setups, packing setups and dispatch procedures
• P&ID for water systems and compressed air systems
• Operation of Effluent Treatment Plant and monitoring of effluent parameters such as COD, BOD, MLSS and Sludge Volume
• Inspection of material cage hoists, scissor lifts and lifting tables

Academic Internship at Metal Cast Pvt Ltd (2020-08 – 2020-10)

• Feasibility Analysis of Direct Reduced Iron Plan in context of Nepal
• Analysis and reduction of casting defects using Pro-Cast Software in various sand casting and investment casting

BACHELOR IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING in Mechanical Engineering – Kathmandu University (2016-08 – 2020-12)