Ramandeep Singh

**** ***** ******** ****, ***# **2, Greenville, SC-29615. Ph: 864-***-****. Email: abnt3p@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Seeking a challenging Mechanical Engineer position to employ my skills, experience and in the process make a valuable

contribution to the organization.

Profile

•Over 4 years of experience in Project Management and design engineering

•Experience working in Cost productivity and design projects for Piping and Packaging team in GE Energy

•Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, MI

•Six Sigma Green Belt Certified in DMAIC sub methodology

•Expertise in design efficiency and new product introduction projects

•Proficient in Finite Element tools-Hypermesh, ANSYS, MSC-Nastran and their application in structural analysis

•Experience in CAD/CAM in analyzing the design of existing products and their applications

•Expertise in Piping design projects using ASME and UBC codes and ISO industry standards

•Proficient in PFMEA, Design for Manufacturing, Kaizen and Lean principles

•Ability to interact with all functions and levels of the organization with strong communication and presentation skills

•Excellent team player and fast learner

Experience

Project Engineer- Piping & Packaging Team - GE Gas Turbines, Greenville, SC Feb 2008 – May 2009

(Quest LLC)

Worked in the Plant Accessories Engineering for optimizing piping cost savings for gas turbine projects

Lead piping design projects focused on Direct Material Productivity (DMP) cost savings for Product Accessories team

–Gas Turbines

Own and design low-pressure filters located on the liquid fuel forwarding skids, resolving product related issues and

recommending solutions.

Prepare detailed estimates based on RFQ packages, track RFP’s for projects. Hands on experience in writing Design

Change Instructions(DCI’s)

Experience reading blueprints, design specifications and other design standards conforming to the customer

requirements and testing of products

Worked with CAD designers to create design layouts and fabrication drawings for the Piping components

Worked with the outsourcing team on piping design projects that involve analysis of pipe support structures using

ANSYS and auto pipe. Also worked on the mechanical structural analysis of exhaust diffuser.

Leading Six Sigma initiatives to improve the supplier qualification process through the Failure Mode and Effect

Analysis (FMEA) methodology

Leading manufacturing team to implement cost/labor reduction ideas to capitalize labor savings in terms of cycle time

reduction and man hours reduction

Involved in the design for Manufacturability of the Piping components and responsible for application of Lean

principles to ensure efficient and improved production processes

Coordinate the design reviews and direct material productivity (DMP) meetings and follow through Chief Engineer

tollgate process

Established project schedules based on a clear understanding of design milestones, deliverables as identified by

Engineering, and forecasts for implementation assessed by Sourcing

Proposing the budgets for manufacturing and setting baseline costs for all items in the piping and Packaging team

Actively drive Total Cost Productivity initiatives to increase GE’s competitive position in the market place

Strong contribution to restructure the Bill of Materials for all the Model List Items in the Piping team to help sourcing

negotiate prices with the suppliers, therefore increasing the supplier base

Instructed Drafting team for Piping BOM restructuring projects and then audited the savings achieving the team’s

savings target of $ 1.6M

Expertise in preparing cost analysis by recapitulating material cost, labor cost and other installation cost incurred

during the manufacturing and assembly of piping components.

Industrial Engineer – Essar Steels, India Oct 2004 - Nov 2006

Facilitated in erection and commissioning of the skin pass (temper) steel rolling mill

Develop process improvement plans and ensure effective labor utilization in the project team of skin pass rolling mill

Interacted with vendors, prepared bids and determined cost effectiveness in the project management team of Skin Pass

rolling mill

Cross-functional role in dealing with Purchase, Engineering, Maintenance and Logistics for timely delivery and

installation of equipment at the site of rolling mill

Responsible for driving quality execution of project (skin pass rolling) using six sigma continuous improvement

methodologies for on time project execution and completion with minimum delay and defects

Operations in charge of Skin Pass Rolling mill, handling the manufacturing as well quality of cold rolled products in a

team of ten engineers.

Employed SQC and SPC principles to reduce variation and to create robust manufacturing process by maintaining SPC

charts for dimensional specifications

Contributed to the Quality team on a project involving failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) during operation of 4

HI Skin Pass rolling mill to reduce the chance of potential failure and enhance the performance

Manufacturing Design Engineer – Steel Strip Wheels Ltd, Punjab, India Jun 2004 – Sep 2004

• Worked as a part of New Product Introduction (NPI) in manufacturing group

• Formulated a design for assembly (DFA) to introduce most efficient and flexible production processes through

ergonomic study for manufacturing process improvement

• Implemented (SQC) statistical quality control tools and control charts to meet the tolerance design

• Assumed ownership of the car wheel production line ensuring increased production and decreased downtime while

addressing supplier and quality issues

Education

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA Jan 2007- Dec 2007 GPA: 3.62/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Aug 2000-Jun 2004 GPA: 3.40/4.0

Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India

Research Experience

Presented a Six sigma case study using DMAIC technology for Technical Call Center optimization

Thermal analysis of flip chip package under cyclic load using finite element analysis (Abaqus solver) and

predicted the fatigue life in clean and non clean flip chip package.

Conducted the study for the effects of mesh density, element type and void size on the fatigue life of the flip chip

package using Abaqus.

Conducted a Cantilever beam-bending study under the influence of distributed load in contact with the rigid

cylinder stopper and calculated the spring back angle after removing DLOAD.

Performed Finite Element Analysis of Torque Arm made of two different materials (steel and aluminum) using

HyperMesh and optimizing the design, removing the material from non critical area

Software skills and Capabilities

FEA Soft wares: MSC/NASTRAN, ANSYS, Hyper Mesh and ABAQUS

Modeling Soft wares: Unigraphics, AutoCAD

Others: Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, MINITAB, MS Excel, MS Project

Professional Memberships

• Member of Formula SAE team, Wayne State University.

• Executive member of IIE Wayne State Chapter & working as a program coordinator for group events

References

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