Engineer Design

Full Name : Jignesh Natwarlal Panchal.

Permanent postal : B2/402, Jalaram Co op Hsg Society,

address Near Rofel collage, Chharwada road,

Vapi – 396 195.

E mail - ***********@*****.***,

Contact No : 098********, 922-***-****.

Nationality : Indian

Date of Birth : Jun 23rd 1977 .

Marital status : Married

Languages known : English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi.

Height & weight : 5’ 10”& 77 kg

Educational Qualification

• Passed SSC examination with distinction in the year March 1992 .

• Passed Diploma in Mechanical Engg. With distinction from Govt. Polytechnic, Valsad in the year Dec 1996 .

• Completed graduation in Mechanical Engg from Institution of Mechanical Engg.(India) with second class in the exam held in Dec 02.

• Completed Executive MBA in 2014 in operations from Karnataka state open university with distinction.

Computer Proficiency

• Windows all versions

• Oracle 8i

• MS office

• ERP systems

WORK EXPERIENaCE

• As the first job, I worked with Harish Textile Engineers, a textile machine manufacturing company in GIDC Umbergaon, Gujarat as a production Supervisor in manufacturing division. Basic functions involved were to operate manpower, plan production activities, schedule sub assemblies to manufacture textile processing machineries and co-ordinate with other divisions for related job works.

Duration : Dec’96 to July’97 .

• In a Bombay based small scale company named Ganesh Vac India, a vacuum pump manufacturing company I had my second work experience as a production and design engineer. Designing and manufacturing vacuum pump parts to achieve optimum capacity and vacuum were the main functions along with the maintenance of various types of rotary vacuum pumps.

Duration : Aug’97 to Aug’98 .

• As my third work experience I have worked as a purchase officer with Universal Comfort Products Private Limited ( A joint venture between Voltas Limited and Fedders International Air conditioning-USA since Oct 2001) previously known as Voltas Limited a Tata Group company having a turn over of 450 crores.

I. Responsible for annual procurement of approx. 45 crores of items required for air conditioners other than compressors and motors.

II. Responsible for planning and procurement of all steel sheets required for Window and split air conditioner parts and for sending them to sub contractors for further processing, related transactions of subcontracting, excise work and reconciliation of these materials.

III. Responsible for procurement of all other sheet metal parts being used in Window AC and splits.

IIII. Responsible for Procurement of all interconnecting Copper pipings used for Window and split air conditioners, which also involves global sourcing of required blank sizes for the manufacturer of interconnecting pipings.

V. Responsible for procurement of all sorts of hardware items used in Window and split air conditioners.

VI. Also handled the procurement of other parts of Premium model of Voltas window air conditioners and out door units like plastics, rubber, compressors, motors, and other electric and electronic parts for one year.

VII. Worked as a development engineer of machines for LG electronics, Whirlpool etc.

VIII. Responsible for releasing of purchase orders of capital items, maintenance items and project related items.

IX. Responsible for carrying out internal auditing of ISO and maintaining documentations for the quality system and activities required for ISO 9001:2000 for Materials Department.

X. Successfully implemented MRP for material department which enables system to provide online stock position, pending order position and releasing requisition and purchase order automatically through system on the suppliers as per their lead time and stock availability .

XI. Responsible for all overseas communication with Fedders Inc., USA & Singapore for information inter change in order to develop vendors by global sourcing and provide information of existing vendors of UCPL to achieve cost reduction and get good quality material through reverse auction held by Fedders Inc.. Also responsible for sending other reports like sourcing reports, monthly review reports, cost reduction reports and e-prints of component drawings.

XII. Responsible for releasing and maintaining all import purchase orders for all imported materials.

Duration : Sep’1998 to Apr’2004.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Cost reduction in fabrication charges of interconnecting pipings of all types of air conditioners by 55% over the period of 3 years.

• Cost reduction of Copper U bend in import by 10% by negotiation.

• Cost reduction in the labour charges of sheet metal items of Window Room Ac by 15% by negotiation and total cost of sheet metal items of Window Room Ac by 8% by value engineering.

• Cost reduction of hardware items by 30% over the period of 2 years.

• Cost reduction of 10% in the sweep motor of the Window AC.

• Cost reduction of 8% in the epoxy powder.

TRAINING PROGRAMMES

• ISO 9000-2000 internal auditing.

• Negotiation skills.

• Personality development.

• Currently heading a hard chrome plating and fully equipped machine shop untility in GIDC – Vapi, Gujarat. The operations involves hard chrome plating of jobs of all kinds of article and domestic products’ moulds, film and pipe extrusion dies, plastic moulds, critical parts of film plant, rolls used in various industries like printing industries, rubber industries, textile industries,tube drawing dies and other parts used in plastic, rubber and automobile industries. With machining of all kinds of precision turned parts and die components used in plastic extrusion machinery, textile parts, electric and vibration motor parts and hydraulic valve parts.

i. The factory has a work force of 16 persons out of which 5 are skilled, 3 are semiskilled and remaining are unskilled workers.

ii. 8 people work in machine shop and 8 people work in hard chrome plating plant. Remaining are QA and account persons.

iii. The factory also hires polishing persons for die and mould parts on job contract basis.

iiii. Majority of the jobs undertaken by the factory is of plastic and rubber industry parts belonging to the OEMs of plastic extrusion machinery manufacturers like Kabra Glaucesters(USA), Windsor machines ltd and such other companies.

v. Responsible for overall operations of the plant which includes marketing, purchases, production control, quality control, dispatches and related accounts activities.

vi. Having ISO 9001:2008 implemented for the last 3 years.

vii. Having complete knowledge of CNC turning centre programming & operating in Siemens systems.

viii. We have our USp in hard chrome plating of critical components having intricate shapes being used in plastic extrusion die heads. We could also machine turned parts within a closer tolerances within 15 microns.

Duration : Continued since May’04

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