VIDHI JOSHI

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Manufacturing Electro-Mechanical Quality PLM

Summary:

* ***** ** ******** ********** with earned reputation in the manufacturing procedures, product lifecycle, and continuous process improvement. Experience and skills include:

Troubleshooting

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma Techniques

Agile PLM

Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (CAPA)

New Product Introduction (NPI)

Calibration

Bill of Materials (BOM)

Professional Employment:

Tupoin, USA (2016 - Present) Product Manufacturing Engineer

Develop manufacturing processes by product requirements and coordinate with production accordingly.

Managed manufacturing processes such as assembly, testing, tooling, for existing and new product introduction.

Debug electronics to component level including PCBA’s, and cabling.

Validation and verification of the products ensuring product requirements, specifications, are fulfilled. Quality and reliability expectations are met.

Managed Bill of Materials (BOM) and used Agile PLM tool.

Generate manual troubleshooting procedures and work instructions for production.

Contribute towards engineering design by reviewing all schematics, drawings, process documents, SOWs, and other technical data as needed. Understanding of GD&T.

Revision and initiation of new documentation, and track through appropriate approval cycles and implementation.

Working effectively with cross functional teams to ensure the project deliverables are complete, accurate, and in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Create, manage and review engineering change notes (ECN), manufacturing change orders (MCO) as necessary.

Determine root cause of the production/manufacturing defects and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

Coordinate with material purchasing, planning and production departments on for supplier rejections and discrepant material.

Developed and Implemented standard operating procedures and quality documents to align in compliance with regulations and practices.

Create and maintain test documentation including test requirements, traceability matrices, test plans, test cases, test protocols, and test results.

Implement Lean manufacturing techniques to better define, continuous improve or clarify practices, process and/or product quality.

Coordinate with project management, R&D, and manufacturing as needed to ensure the project deliverables are complete, accurate, and in compliance with regulatory requirements.

GE Energy, UK (2005 – 2012) Manufacturing Engineer

Determined accuracy and reliability of the instruments. Validation & Verification of test records using UKAS and ISO/IEC 17025 standards.

Mentored and trained less experienced staff.

Through understanding of engineering documents such as component data sheet and schematics. Modelling experience using CAD.

Used product change notification (PCN) to estimate the component’s end of life (EOL).

Succeeded process improvement, development of test procedures, and calibration methods to reduce cycle time.

Trained junior team members with strict guidelines of ISO 9001:2008 & CAA regulations.

Involved in project planning, budgeting, scheduling and tracking using SAP ERP.

Reduced the product rejects and scrap rates to less than 2% using SPC.

Managed Bill of Materials (BOM) and raised engineering change notes (ECN). Coordinate with supply chain planning and organized the distribution of goods. Used MFG to update data and process of the production.

Managed NCR, corrective/preventive actions and investigated customer complaints on quality issues and made process improvements/adjustments accordingly.

Leadership, management, and motivation of the team to meet customer deadlines.

Partnered with Design Engineering teams on new product introductions (NPI), the logistics team to coordinate inventory levels, production schedules and deliveries to customers.

Analyzed production quality data using statistical analysis methods to determine quality and reliability expectancy of finished products. Investigated manufacturing issue, fault finding to component level and diagnostic for process improvements.

Carry out tests on units using automated and manual test rigs, ESS screening, LDS Vibration table and test chambers.

Used IPC 610 and J-STD 001 soldering techniques, SMT and advanced manufacturing technology.

Cafe Networks, UK (2005 to 2005) Hardware-Desktop Support Engineer

Supported the end customer hardware and operating system issues for an internet service provider. Desktop maintenance, software and hardware upgrades.

Managed PC and server builds, resolved daily administration issues. Maintained documentations and quality records, test data, and supported production in troubleshooting problems in existing processes. Co-ordinated and controlled the order cycle.

Ensuring successful communication for understanding or explaining the problem and accept the problem as a challenge and solve it in a methodical manner.

Professional Certifications

ISO 9001:2015 Transitioning & Implementation – ASQ

Risk based thinking for ISO 9001:2015 - ASQ

Introduction to Biomedical Industry – ASQ

Software Risk Assessment, Verification and Validation for Regulated Industries - ASQ

Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (CAPA), Nonconforming Materials Reports (NCMR) and Deviations- ASQ

Education:

Master of Science, Engineering Management, (In-progress)

International Technological University, USA

Studying engineering management skills required to manage engineering teams.

Acquiring project management skills such as planning, analysing schedule and cost required, preparing project documents. Also, focusing on organizational behaviour skills, team building and effective productivity tools for engineering team improvements and Data Analysis for Industrial applications.

Bachelors of Science (Hons), Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management (2013-2015)

University of Lincoln, UK.

Studied supply chain strategies, problem solving skills, industrial applications, understanding of change management models. Thesis on Talent Management for retaining and developing employers in an organisation.

Engineering Diploma (Associates), Electronics and Video Engineering

Reinet Polytechnic - MSBTE Mumbai, India.

Studied TV transmission and Reception – NTSC, PAL, Troubleshooting of TV systems, and Basic Audio systems.

Computer Architect – Microprocessors (8085, 8086), IT Skills - C and C++, JAVA, AutoCAD.

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