Vivek Rokade

Areas of Expertise

Production /Maintenance Management of soft drink bottling plants

Hands-on knowledge of Automated packaging machines
Electrical power distribution Systems
Project management in soft-drink bottling plants

Industry ExperienceTotal Industry Experience of 21 years.

16 years in soft drink manufacturing industry (Eight years in COCA-COLA India.
Currently working since last five Years with Sevenup Bottling company, Nigeria,
Mega Bottler of PEPSI.)

Five years as department head reporting to a plant head.

Project Manager for installation of High speed RGB/PET Lines.

Project Management

600 BPM KHS line at Ikeja with Mixer of Mojonnier & EBI of Krones.
o Specifying the line equipments & inviting bids from suppliers.
o Assessing the utility requirements.
o Ordering equipment & scheduling deliveries
o Designing the electrical & piping requirements of the line.
o Vendor selection & follow up on contract execution
o Coordinating equipment shipment/deliveries/receipts
o Follow up of bank documents & insurance
o Coordination of the line installation with OEM engineers & local
contractors
o Commissioning the line with help of engineers from equipment
manufacturers
600 BPM KHS line at ABA.
Installation of 20 EBI machines across 9 plants of sevenup bottling
o Specifying the machine requirements
o Inviting quotes from vendors & evaluating supplier based on after sales
service.
o Negotiating discounts & delivery timelines
o Scheduling the machine installation with minimum impact on
productivity
o Coordination the machine commissioning with OEM engineers
o Training of the manpower
PET Line at Enugu

Contractor selection for dismantling/shipment of the equipments

Scheduling of forwarding of the line, Insurance etc.
Ordering the change parts according to pack types
Calculating the warehouse requirements & storage racks
Ordering the raw material/packaging material for the line.
Specifying the civil/structural requirements of the bay to the civil
contractor
o Civil vendor selection & job execution
o Post installation refurbishing of the line equipments
720 BPM Krones line at Benin
o Complete revamp of the electrical distribution of the plant
o Specifying/Designing /Ordering of main panel & electrical cables
o Liaison for Shifting of the 33 KV power station to a new location.
o Plant lighting/services upgrade as per the new plant layout.
o Refurbishing of old equipments
o Replacing old equipments with new ones & upgrade the conveyor
accordingly.
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Systems Exposure

Implementation of Computerized maintenance Systems for Maintenance

Management in bottling plants
Use of Inventory control systems for backup of critical spares, replenishment
of fast moving spares.
Implementation of MP2 system for inventory coding to optimize Inventory
carrying costs
Use of Microsoft projects for project management & critical path decisions.
Member of CORE TEAM in TCCQS (The COCA-COLA QUALITY SYSTEM) for
defining SOPs for process & plant.
MIS systems for tracking Plant productivity & RMPM Usages through
customized systems like PRS ( productivity reporting systems) in COCA-COLA,
M&W in PEPSI.

Career progress
Year 1993- Year 1996 I worked with Parle beverages as Maintenance
Executive reporting to factory manager to handle production line having Tetra- PAK
machines Series TBA 10 packaging juice. Gained experience on homogenizers,
carton forming machines, Tetrapak form fill seal machines, pasteurizer.
Year 1996- year 1999 Worked with Borosil glass as Instrumentation Engineer
reporting to Maintenance Manager to handle process automation for PYREX glass
manufacturing plant. I have independently handled a project of installing a new
glass drawing line. I have handled continuous process automation systems of
YOKOGAWA /PID controllers & Allen Bradley PLC.

Year 2000- I Joined Coca-Cola as Maintenance Officer at Wada plant reporting

to Maintenance Manager . Job role included handling of Automation of Glass/PET
lines/Hot fill Juice line & electrical maintenance of utilities. I have undergone a 15
days Siemens training on S7-300/S7-400 & S5 series PLC programming & 10 days
training on Blowing machines of SIDEL facility at France.
Year 2001 2002 Promoted to Maintenance Executive & made Maintenance incharge of 185 BPM PET line. Implemented computerized maintenance program on
the line/ inventory planning modules. Implemented several initiatives to improve
the line efficiency from 55% to 80%
Year 2003- 2004 Promoted as a Technical Manger to handle plant maintenance of
three 600 BPM glass lines.
Year 2005- Opted for a cross functional stint to head the logistics/Supply chain of a
plant having 5 production lines. I was reporting to the logistics manager & was
responsible for distribution activities at 4 warehouses in the Mumbai City. The
value of the in-bound purchases was 60 MN rupees & had 125 SKUs. I was awarded
as the BEST EMPLOYEE for cost control & inventory management.
Year 2006 - 2007. I was selected as Maintenance Manager at another Mega plant of
Coca-Cola. Dasna having 7 lines ( 2 PET, 3 Glass, 1 Juice, 1 Tetra pak) . Job role
included handling of electrical/automation of the plant & utilities with five
executives reporting to me. Three executives handled automation in shifts. One
handled electrical maintenance & three handled the plant service utilities. I was
able to bring down the maintenance cost by over 25%. I was part of the team to
installing the new hot -fill juice line.
Year 2008 2013 Joined Seven-up bottling in Nigeria as National Instrumentation
Engineer reporting to the National Manufacturing Manager to handle project &
plant technical support
In year 2008 , I was the project coordinator for installation of 21 EBI machines
at 9 plants of Seven-up across Nigeria.
I have functioned as a Project leader to install 600 BPM KHS line at Ikeja &
ABA in year 2009.
Independently executed the installation of the PET line at Enugu .
I have conducted extensive trainings to develop in-house capability to
maintain Automated machines like EBI/Mixer etc .
Hands on experience of bottling Machines

SIDEL blowing machines

KHS/Kister Tray packer

SIdel Alfa /Krones labeller

40 bar compressors of Gardner Denver / ABC spain. ( Multistage
Reciprocating Split type with Screw)
Multi-pass fire-tube boilers using heavy oil/Gas of Thermax.
Volumetric /Gravity/counter pressure Fillers of KHS/Krones/O&H/SASIB
Beverage Mixers of various types Mojonnier ,Intermix,paramix
Palletisers/Depalletisers of KHS/SASIB
Bottle inspection machines of Krones/Heuft
Beverage cooling systems using direct Ammonia cooling & indirect
Freon/glycol cooling.

Personal Data
Educational Qualification

Diploma in Instrumentation Year 1992

Diploma in Industrial Electronics. Year 1990.

DOB- 19th September 1970

Marital Status Married. Two children aged 14 year & 8 years
Contact Details: +234- 08056491208, +91-9833943949
E-mail- vivekrokade@yahoo.com