Engineer Plant

HARDIK TALATI

***** ******** *****, ***-****, Dallas TX 75254

Cell No: 972-***-**** Email:

************@*****.***

PROJECT ENGINEER

Skillful, Self-driven & Resourceful Project Engineer with significant

experience in process and manufacturing industry. Recognized for

productivity improvement, ability to work with different groups, goal

oriented through variety of projects. A strong team player and able

to communicate and work well with all levels of management.

SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE

. General Engineering:

Proficiency in AutoCAD, Manufacturing Technology, Machine Design, Theory Of

machine, Machine Tool Design, Stress Analysis, Underground pipe design etc.

. Industrial Engineering:

Productivity improvement Techniques, Six Sigma, Design Of Experiments,

Value Stream Engineering, Process Mapping, Time study Analysis, Statistical

Process Control, Plant Engineering & Plant Layout, Product Design, Linear

Programming, Engineering Statistics, Manufacturing Technology, Capacity

Planning, Lean Concepts, Six sigma methodologies, OEE, TEEP, Kaizen, 5S,

TPM, KPI, Decision Making etc

. Computer & Software:

o Proficiency in MS office suite in particular MS excel, MS word, MS

PowerPoint, MS outlook, windows 98, XP, vista, windows 7.

o Hands on experience and knowledge of Crystal reports, AS400 ERP/MRP

software, Simulation, SAP for MRP/ERP, Bentley Stress analysis

software, CAPEX project management software, Microsoft Project

Management etc.

o Basic knowledge of Programming language "C", PL/SQL, RDBMS, Adobe

suite etc

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Johns Manville (A Berkshire Hathaway Company) Fort Worth, TX 10/2011 to

present- Project Engineer

Project Engineer Duties:

Pick projects from project deck & create Business case, scope of work,

justification, retrieve quotes, design system/machine with manufacturer,

project QUAD presentation, project time lines, gantt chart, project

finances break downs, WBS element creations, resource planning, maintenance

& installation time lines, lean/six sigma application to justify project

productivity etc.

Projects:

. Glass Delivery System: Working on a critical issue of glass delivery

in fiber forming assembly line. Due to the change of raw material

(from glass marbles to glass pieces) plant is facing issue of glass

dust & chips, which creates issue conveying glass raw material through

the assembly line. I am working on replacing current bucket elevator

system with drag conveyor chain disc system, which will carry the

material with care and eventually will result in reduction of scrap &

process loss. (Budget $0.5M)

. SCM Furnace Installation: I am working along with corporate

engineering group on SCM (Submerged Combustion Melter oxy-gas fired)

furnace installation at our facility. This is one of its kind glass-

melting furnace and we are one of the few companies that are running

this furnace in the nation. Currently we have HERM type & E-Glass type

traditional furnaces at our plant. I am working on marble forming and

conveying, Marble packaging and waste glass collection areas in

particular. (Budget $ 19M)

. I am also working on several in plant local projects identified by

process; production & maintenance group which budgets anywhere from

$50K to $750K.

. Working at plant and manufacturing environment I got certified in

several ESH practices. To name a few Elec. Arc Flash protection, Fire

Extinguisher, Fire protection, Stack Smoke intensity reading etc.

. Energy Co-coordinator for the entire facility which includes

forecasting energy usage, analyze energy usage, with help of corporate

engineering group set targets for energy usage and conduct team

meetings.

Thermacor Process L.P. Fort Worth, TX 06/2008 to 09/2011-

Manufacturing/Industrial Engineer

. Manufacturing Engineering Duties:

o Spooling and designing the underground and aboveground piping with

maximum productivity.

o Checking the stress intensity & heat loss and heat gain in Hot

water/Steam and Chill water/Condensate systems, calculate the

expansion of carrier pipe due to temperature

o Material Take Offs

o Create detailed pipe installation drawings using AutoCAD along with

drafting department in most productive way so customer/contractor will

have hassle free pipe installations.

. Industrial Engineering Duties

o Lean/Six Sigma projects across the plant which includes Plant Layout,

Process Improvement, Value Engineering, Time Study, 5S + Safety etc.

o Keep all the process charts and guidelines documentation updated for

all the production processes across the plant.

o Material Requirement Planning for all the engineering projects.

Release BOM for all the engineering jobs using ERP software.

o Plant engineering Projects, New equipment costing and installation

analysis using OEE and TEEP concepts

. Projects:

o In recent times Thermacor was facing a huge issue of time and labor

consumption of each product across the plant. I worked on finding the

real cause of the issue using RCA (Root Cause Analysis) method and

with the team of technicians we worked on mapping the flow of process

of each product, collecting large sets of data that and gathering

proofs of the causes. After finding few bottle necks and main causes,

with the use of Value Streaming/Mapping I worked on laying that

material flow in flow diagram with the use of machine footprints to

achieve the optimum path of product travel. As result the total

product travelling time decreased about 55%, which eventually resulted

in faster production and money saver.

o Finished a time study project for the entire plant operations. In

which I was taking time of each product for each operation through the

plant and trying to obtain the total time taken at each station and

total distance travelled by each product through different stations.

This exercise resulted in to productivity improvement while 20-25%

money saving in labor hours. Also, worked on 8 wastes and 5S + Safety

concepts with plant manager.

o Worked on determining the linear speed of the foam forming system to

improve the productivity of the plant, with the use of the extruder

output, HDPE sheet thickness, melt temperature and the foam

thicknesses for different products across the plant. This action

resulted in to yearly material saving in HDPE pallets and also

improved jacket thicknesses by producing consistently uniform jackets.

Poly America L.P., Grand Prairie, TX, 10/2007 to 06/2008- Corporate Process

Engineering Technician

. Main Job duties:

o Standardizing process parameters across the plant leading to better

quality, faster production and process consistency with total

improvement in final product.

o Updating of older equipment with newer and innovative technology

helping to sustain newer challenges of variety of products with

continuous improvement in quality.

o Together with plant manager and process engineer working on main

downtime causes, TPM, and productivity improvement.

. Projects:

o Successfully worked on quality & productivity improvement in HDPE

section of the plant. In which we use sensor technology to control the

Air Ring (Air Blowing Unit) with PLC parameter (P, I & D) tunings.

The implementation of this project helped company to get remarkably

good quality of plastic with long-term consistency in processing.

o Worked on Downtime Analysis of the product lines throughout the plant

with the use of pivot tables (MS excel), which is very useful to list

the top problems and possible reasons.

Texas Instruments Inc, Dallas, TX, 02/2006 to 09/2007- Manufacturing

Specialist (CMP/IMP)

o Continuous quality check of the total automatic polishing tools,

timely maintains the polishing equipment, effective scheduling of

different products in CMP/Implant area and getting certification on

different chip making processes. I have been part or 5S team and

Equipment Engineering Tech team.

EDUCATION

Bhavnagar University, Gujarat, India

Bachelors of Science in Production Engineering, with first class

distinction, July 2005 (Evaluated by IACEI).

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Presently enrolled in Master of Science program in Industrial

Engineering.

Currently working on PMP (Project Management Professional) and Six

Sigma Green Belt Certifications

STATUS

US Citizen

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