Engineer Six Sigma

SUNITA MEHTA

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Tustin, CA, 92782

Ph: 909-***-****

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CAREER SNAPSHOT

. Engineer with strong leadership experience in lean deployment, change

facilitation and training.

. ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

. Extensive hands-on experience in Six Sigma, Lean, Continuous Improvement,

Kaizen Events, Planning and Scheduling, Statistical Process Control (SPC)

and FMEA.

. Proficient in Minitab, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and

Visio.

. Experience serving Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Medical Device

Industry

LEAN CONSULTANT

March 2010 - Present

St. Jude Medical, Irvine CA

. Identify process improvement opportunities in medical device

manufacturing

. Advice management on lean deployment strategy

. Create value stream maps and project plan, coordinate lean activities and

provide training.

. Perform measurements, conduct data analysis, and deliver executive

presentations.

LEAN ENGINEER

June 2007 - May 2009

Esterline Kirkhill Elastomers, Brea CA

. Partnered with executives, stakeholders and supply chain to deploy lean

and six sigma programs.

. Worked closely with Product Development Engineers (NPI) to incorporate

Lean and Design for Six Sigma process (DFSS) principles upfront during

development process.

. Develop employee training on lean manufacturing techniques like value

stream mapping, root cause analysis, statistical process control ("SPC"),

pull systems, line balancing, standard work etc.

. Developed standard work to define manpower requirement for the processes.

. Lead an engineering team to re-design bonding process using DMAIC which

resulted in projected savings of $ 5M/year.

. Improved on-time delivery from 0% to 98% by creating Kanban.

. Developed Dock-to-Stock program to help Purchasing and Quality

departments reduce the lead time of raw material from 4 weeks to 3 days.

. Developed Pull System to reduce the work- in process inventory which

reduced lead time from 12 weeks to 2.5 weeks.

. Improved gross margin of the product from -7.8 % to 58.8 % by process

analysis and re-designing process steps.

. Reduce scrap from 45% to 3 % by tracking six-sigma matrix such as rolled

throughput yield and defects per unit.

. Designed a cell layout which reduced the cycle time by 50%.

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

October 2006 - May 2007

Kemac Technology Inc., Azusa CA

. Responsible for planning and scheduling production, training and

supervising a team of 5 manufacturing technicians.

. Perform detailed assessment of CAD drawings and tooling, analyze etching

process variables and establish required process and quality controls.

. Develop and execute process improvement plans for productivity and yield

enhancement.

. Create standard operating procedures, review and approve manufacturing

process change requests and other documents and forms.

. Assist in internal and external quality audits and ISO documentation for

all the medical customers.

ENGINEERING INTERN

February 2004 - October 2004

General Motors Holden Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

. Using Lean Manufacturing principles identified and eliminated non-value

added activities in the Cylinder Block Line.

. Performed line balancing of flexible manufacturing cells using time and

efficiency study.

. Worked with tooling vendors to optimize tool design, perform material

flow and operational simulation using Simul8 modelling software.

. Recommended improvements that reduced the process cycle time and

increased throughput of the block line by 40%.

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EDUCATION

Masters of Engineering -Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Industrial Research Institute,

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Nirma Institute of Technology, India

CERTIFICATIONS

. ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt

. Certification in Project Management

. Kirkhill Certified Master Trainer.

. Harris Lean Systems Certification in Level Scheduling.

. ATK Certification in Performance Enterprise systems- An aerospace

customer based lean training.

COMPUTER SKILLS

. Minitab, AUTOCAD, Pro-E, CAD, CAM, JD Edwards ERP software.

. MS Office suites like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and

Microsoft Project.

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