Manager Engineer

JAYANT VAIDYA

**** * ******** **** ***. **** Phoenix AZ 85042

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Production and Manufacturing Operations Professional with 20+ years of experience devising significant solutions and managing day-to-day manufacturing operations and projects through effectively utilizing man, machine, method, and materials. Deft at managing Vendor Development, Resource Optimization and Quality Control across the supply chain management.

Key Skills:

Strategic Planning and Organizing

Cost Analysis and Decision Making

Quality and Continuous Improvements

SAP Implementation

Business Analysis

Operations

Techno Commercial Negotiations

Liaising and Coordinating with Customers

Negotiations and People Management

Project Execution

Greenfield Project Set Up

Regulatory Compliances

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) 05/2013 – 08/2014 Linnhoff India Pvt. Ltd. Pune, India

Linnhoff India invested in an Industrial land of more than 8 acres in Pune, India to build a manufacturing facility of 1,20,000 Sqft covered area to produce high quality LINTEC and LINNHOFF asphalt batching plants, and EUROTEC concrete batching plants to service our customers in the growing India market.

Set up a state of the art modern plant for the manufacture of hot mix batch plant & concrete batch mix plants with an investment of $80 million

Saved 20% of budgeted cost through

Actively sought out and used latest cost saving best in class equipment and technologies Assistant Vice President (Unit Head) 06/2012 – 04/2013 JBMA, Nashik, India

Pioneered and revolutionized the industry with state-of-the-art technology in the field of automotive, engineering and design, and today has 40 manufacturing plants, 5 engineering & design services across 19 locations globally with an annual turnover of US dollar 1.2 billion, and a Top Tier1 supplier to Auto OEMs

Responsible for all functions of a plant supplying to Auto OEM. Overall responsibility of Plants, cost saving measures. Inventory control by Lean Initiatives like 5s, waste reduction

Achieved financial goals of plant through continuous reviewing coaching and monitoring plant objectives. Preparation and control of operational budgets ( 200 mn)

Implemented new projects, products and processes all within set timeframes

Developed New Press tool, and was responsible for New Press shop project

Organized training programs for suppliers which led to an upgrade in quality

Set and monitored departmental goals and strategies consistent with Plant, Corporate, and Operational goals and provided leadership in the planning process to meet these goals

Managed Inventory Reconciliation, controlling variance of system and physical stock

Set up time reduction ( SMED) Layout modifications to implement New projects and ramp up existing products to meet customer demand

General Manager (Manufacturing) 12/2010 – 05/2012

Electropneumatics & Hydraulics (I) Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

Explored ways to reduce manpower and effort needed to produce products without sacrificing quality

Led the improvisation of product costs and worked towards reduction in the lead times for new product developments like Hot Forming and Hydroforming Assistant General Manger (A.G.M.)

Musco Stampings (Mahindra & Mahindra Group Co. Pune, India A US $16.9 billion multinational group based in Mumbai, India, employing more than 200,000 people in over 100 countries.

Growth Path:

A.G.M. (Production, Tool Room & Assembly depts.) 2006 – 2007 Manager (Production, Tool Room) 2003 – 2006

Sr. Executive to Dy. Manager (Quality Assurance) 1996 – 2003

Led a workforce of 550+, including 5 managers for 3-shifts, 3 production areas (Skin Panel, Deep Draw, Chassis) and 5 support functions (production, tool-room, quality, assembly, rework)

Created plan for addition of manpower in the Production & Tool Room to accommodate last minute customer requests, resulting in improved customer satisfaction

Controlled in-house inventory and WIP by reducing batch and set up time by 25%, which allowed achievement of 100% delivery targets for JIT supplies to customers

Managed support functions including receiving, in process, final, and pre dispatch inspection, and controlled & monitored these areas to reduce rejection and rework of components Implemented Quality Management Systems like ISO, QS 9000, TS 16849, TS 16949, and TQM including APQP, PPAP, and FMEA & SIX SIGMA. Authored over fifty ISO 9001 work instructions needed for certification.

Devised Statistical process control, Six Sigma, and Design of Experiments techniques to improve quality and reduce rejection and Cost of Quality

Implemented SAP user modules for Quality and Purchasing, Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Requests, Created Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Info Records, and Quality plans

Maintained Tools, Modified and Fool proof Dies, Solved problems with tools, tested new tool to check for quality

Developed yearly process standardization that increased productivity by 33% and reduced daily rejections by 50% and customer complaints by 60%.

Visited Taiwan for Die Buy-Off with COC Tooling (Oghiara Group Co.).

Reduced yearly overall facility downtime by 10% and achieved aggressive production downtime goal and zero major injuries for workers, through Safety Audit

Established in-house Die Manufacturing facility that projected addition of 15% through new revenue stream, independently.

Marked significant improvisation in the Vendor quality through quality system audits.

Conducted shop level meetings to review daily production targets that increased productivity by 10%, weekly shift meetings to communicate customer concerns and daily dispatch meetings to review customer satisfaction.

Negotiated wage settlements with employee unions. Successfully maximized labor utilization and redistributed work to temporary workers that resulted in cost savings. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sulaan Solutions Phoenix-Az as Operations Manager 08/2008 – 02/2009 Fry’s Electronics Phx-az as Cust service representative 04/2008 – 07/2009 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Mumbai as Section Engineer 04/1987 – 03/1996 Mukand Steel Ltd., Mumbai as Engineer Trainee 12/1985 – 03/1987 EDUCATION

Masters in Administrative Management 1992

University of Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) 1985

Karnataka University Dharwad

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