Kannan_ Sk

B.

Tech Chemical

Engineering graduate with hands-on experience as a Manufacturing Engineer in API manufacturing at Cipla, operating GLR, SSR, HAR, and ANFD equipment across distillation, crystallization, drying, and filtration operations within a cGMP environment. Strong grounding in mass and energy balance, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics, with a consistent track record of BMR and SOP compliance. Seeking a Process Engineer role in an API manufacturing plant to drive process scale-up, optimization, and R&D-to-commercial technology transfer.

Senior Executive, Manufacturing Engineer - Cipla Ltd. - Bommasandra, Bengaluru

(2026-06)

• Hands-on experience operating GLR, SSR, HAR, and ANFD systems with a focus on precise process control across API manufacturing operations.
• Perform the full range of unit operations, including phase separation, distillation, crystallization, drying, and filtration, in accordance with cGMP and SOP requirements.
• Apply strong understanding of mass balance, energy balance, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and scale-up/scale-down concepts to troubleshoot and optimize process performance.
• Gained foundational, hands-on exposure to plant equipment and unit operations while training under senior process engineers in a live cGMP manufacturing environment.
• Assisted in monitoring distillation, crystallization, drying, and filtration cycles, and supported documentation for batch manufacturing records.

Apprentice Trainee, Manufacturing Engineer - Cipla Ltd. - Bommasandra, Bengaluru

(2025-08 - 2026-06)

• Hands-on experience operating GLR, SSR, HAR, and ANFD systems with a focus on precise process control across API manufacturing operations.
• Perform the full range of unit operations, including phase separation, distillation, crystallization, drying, and filtration, in accordance with cGMP and SOP requirements.
• Apply strong understanding of mass balance, energy balance, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and scale-up/scale-down concepts to troubleshoot and optimize process performance.
• Gained foundational, hands-on exposure to plant equipment and unit operations while training under senior process engineers in a live cGMP manufacturing environment.
• Assisted in monitoring distillation, crystallization, drying, and filtration cycles, and supported documentation for batch manufacturing records.

B. Tech - Chemical Engineering - Anna University — The Kavery Engineering College (2021 - 2025)