Asian Paints Limited | Mumbai

• Manager
  • Project Leadership: Spearheaded the end-to-end delivery of a ₹170 Cr greenfield warehousing infrastructure having a 130+ team size and a ₹30 Cr electrical power system, ensuring seamless execution, budget adherence, and alignment with strategic goals.
  • PAN India AMC Rollout: Centralised annual maintenance contracts for UPS, solar and wind systems across 8 factories, negotiating terms to generate cost savings of ₹25 Lakhs.
  • Sustainability Initiatives: Strategic management of a 48.7 MW renewable energy portfolio across 10 manufacturing sites—developed a digital dashboard for real-time performance monitoring and data-driven insights
  • Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management: Acted as a key liaison between Sales, Marketing, Legal, Corporate Affairs, and Project teams to align design and execution strategies across multiple initiatives.
  • Regulatory Stakeholder Management: Facilitated resolution of 3-year pending wind energy settlements with government agencies, recovering over ₹2 Cr in revenue; recognised at VP level.
  • Inclusion, Equity & Diversity (IED) Advocacy: Served as the IED Champion for Manufacturing Technology, leading awareness campaigns and fostering inclusive practices across operational teams.
  • Sales & Marketing Support: Conducted market evaluation for Nilaya Wallpaper in the western region, supporting brand penetration and product placement strategy.
     
• Assistant Manager
  • Led 30+ team members for breakdown resolution and preventive maintenance in a 3 lakh KL/annum plant.
  • Developed energy forecast models to optimise maximum demand, delivering annual cost savings of ₹30 lakhs.
  • Led Digital Factory Initiatives, including cloud-based maintenance management system (CMMS) implementation across 5000+ equipment—reducing physical documentation by 80% and enabling real-time data access through QR scanning.
  • Championed real-time IOT-based breakdown management, integrating automation with visual factory systems to streamline maintenance workflows and minimise downtime.
  • Implemented SAP MII & Visual Factory Tools to digitise KPI monitoring, enable predictive maintenance, and support autonomous decision-making across operations.
     
• Senior Executive
  • Designed central training modules for pigging operations, improving onboarding speed and consistency across the supply chain.
  • Automated & Deployed Real-Time Dashboards for energy and water management—achieved 20% reduction in specific energy consumption and 7% water consumption savings, contributing to sustainability goals.
  • Automated DCS systems for packing and production (handling 1 lakh I/Os), stabilising plant operations and accelerating production ramp-up.
  • Automated packing line changeovers, improving OEE by 5%.
  • Collaborated with senior project leadership to execute a 2 MW high-tension solar power plant within 9 months.
  • Experienced in end-to-end execution of electrical system of a critical greenfield project & multiple plant Capex.

• Fast-Tracker: First and youngest Assistant Manager at Mysore (2020) and only female GET promoted to Manager (2023)
• Project Excellence Award: Recognised for leading instrumentation towards timely Alchemy critical emulsion batch production
• Operational excellence award for stabilising pigging system operations, reducing downtime by 50%
• Performance Leadership award for spearheading the lowest power consumption benchmark across Supply chain
• Academic: Topped SB Women’s College, Cuttack in 12th CHSE Board (2013)
• National and International level award winner in Abacus (2007-2009)

• BTech (Electrical Engineering), College of Engineering & Technology, Bhubaneswar

• Trainer for TRACC manufacturing excellence practices, CCI.
• IMS (integrated management system—ISO) internal auditor, TUV India.
• Basic programming for process automation, ABB India.
• SCADA Automation, CTTC Bhubaneswar.
• Practical Training, Electrical Maintenance, Tata Power Company Ltd., Jojobera.

• Trained Odissi classical dancer; winner of solo dance performance at APL National Supply Chain Competition.
• Corporate‑level badminton athlete, having captained and led intercollege team to tournament victory.
• Event organising: Spearheaded initiatives such as Energy Week celebrations, Diversity Day, and Engineer's Day at the factory, bringing together teams with 100+ individuals and fostering collaboration.
• Creativity: Apparatio event winner at Tech Fest of NIT, Rourkela & Regional level winner in Bank of Baroda canvas competition
• Oratory Excellence: Winner at various intercollege competitions.
• Represented Odisha in SIP Abacus & BrainGym at Rashtrapati Bhavan
• Master Emcee: Event anchor for academic and corporate functions.
• Leadership: Elected School Captain and awarded “Miss St. Joseph’s” for leadership and all‑round excellence.