Head of the Department (Fabric sourcing, Lab, Pretreatment, Dyeing, Printing & After treatment of fabric) at Ratan Jaipur Group (2022-01 – 2026-02)
Responsible for product compliance, costing, fabric sourcing, and quality management. Reporting to Managing Director with oversight of all fabric pretreatment, dyeing, and printing operations.
- Reporting to Managing Director
- Responsible for product compliance & costing
- Responsible for fabric sourcing
- Developing, evaluating, and maintaining relationships with fabric suppliers (domestic and international)
- Sourcing new fabrics, negotiating pricing, and managing Purchase Orders (POs) from raw material to finished product
- Ensuring fabrics meet quality standards, handling rejections and coordinating lab tests
- Optimizing material selection to meet budgetary targets
- Coordinating with design/technical teams on sample development (lab dips, strike-offs) and managing the fabric library
- Approving lab dips, handlooms, bulk samples, monitoring physical parameters like GSM, shrinkage and colorfastness to ensure compliance with buyer standards
- Ensuring suppliers meet environmental and ethical certifications such as OCS, GRS, GOTS, OEKO-TEX or BCI
- Coordinating with vendors to ensure timely delivery of fabrics to meet production schedules
- New machine erection & programming
- Responsible for the planning of all machines
- Responsible for the lot wise process costing, steam costing, water costing & machine running costing
- Responsible for shade matching & approval according to customer's standard
- Responsible for the improvement of RFT
- Co-ordination with shift supervisors & follow up of pipeline material in production department to avoid burden on production department
- Responsible for shop floor utilization & manpower allocation
- Responsible for the target production should be as per protocol
- Responsible for the follow-up of urgencies and on time delivery planning of urgencies
- Co-ordination with R&D department to ensure that product quality is in strict compliance with the standards
- SOP preparation and implementation to reduce human dependency
- Data analysis and computer presentation
- Technical assistance to customer's technical complaint & queries
- New product development to meet customer's requirements
- MIS data preparation, analysis of data, department presentation and record keeping
- Responsible for the inventory management of dyes & chemicals
Assistant Manager (Marketing & Technical) at New India Color Company Limited (Pidilite) (2018-09 – 2022-01)
Product promotion, business development, and technical support for dyes and printing auxiliaries.
- Product promotion
- Business Development
- Development & execution of sales plan to meet the target
- Responsible for developing & maintaining good customer relationships
- Responsible for handling existing clients, market research knowledge of all company & competitor products within area of responsibility
- Responsible for expanding sales of the product within the given target time
- Technical trials of Pigments, Dyeing & Printing auxiliaries
- Visit customers frequently in order to meet customer needs and capture market potential
- Assess customer needs and translate it into projects
- Deliver technical support to customer needs
Assistant Production Manager at Manoher Filaments Private Limited (2016-01 – 2018-09)
Planning of dyeing machines, shade matching, RFT improvement, and quality management for cotton and polyester products.
- Responsible for the planning of dyeing machines
- Responsible for shade matching according to customer's standard
- Responsible for the improvement of RFT of cotton & polyester
- Co-ordination with shift supervisors & follow up of pipeline material in dyeing department to avoid burden on dyeing department
- Responsible for shop floor utilization & manpower allocation
- Responsible for the target production & color addition should be as per protocol
- Responsible for the follow-up of urgencies and on time delivery planning of urgencies
- Co-ordination with lab department to minimize the color addition in production department by the confirmation of non RFT & new shades
- Co-ordination with R&D department to ensure that dyed product quality is in strict compliance with the standards
- SOP preparation and implementation to reduce human dependency
- Data analysis and computer presentation
- Technical assistance to Customer's technical complaint & queries
- New product development to meet customer's requirements
- MIS Data preparation, Analysis of data, department presentation and record keeping
Department In-charge at Vardhman Textile Limited (2011-06 – 2015-12)
Management of dyeing department with responsibilities in technical problem-solving, quality assurance, and production optimization.
- Responsible to solve technical and line problems that encounter in day-to-day plant operation
- Follow-up of urgencies and on time delivery planning of urgencies
- Co-ordination with lab department
- Responsible for shade matching according to customer's standard
- Co-ordination with twisting & winding department to arrange the grey according to the urgencies and planning
- Responsible for efficient utilization of plant/machinery and manpower & minimize the production losses including raw materials
- Responsible to ensure that dyed product quality is in strict compliance with the standards
- Efficient in supervising the manpower through efficient supervisory and team management skills
- Analysis of process & quality problems & troubleshooting
- Responsible for the minimization of waste in the production department
- A team member of quality circle and involved in various projects like increasing RFT, cost reduction etc.
Production Officer at Vardhman Textile Limited (2011-01 – 2011-05)
Production management in dyeing department with focus on technical and line problems.
Officer at Natraj Wooltex Limited (2009-07 – 2011-01)
Lab and R&D department work focused on dye selection, new shade development, lab to bulk reproducibility, and quality assurance.
- Literature reading and using
- Responsible for the best route & dye selection for a given Product/Intermediate for quality and productivity of dyeing material
- Development of new lab dips by using cost effective method
- Study of lab to bulk reproducibility
- Responsible for the textile dyes & chemicals testing
- Maintaining the product quality & ensure that product meets the consumer satisfaction
