Quality Assurance Heavy Equipment

SHIVAKUMAR.D

***********@*****.***, Mob: No: +966*********

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Summary

Over 20 years of progressive, multi-national experience in large scale military & civilian heavy equipment manufacturing. Providing strategic and tactical leadership for bleeding edge operations with specialization in production process, planning, quality assurance and inspection. Well versed with Middle Eastern manufacturing processes and culture. Education

MBA in Operations Management, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India

Bachelor of Engineering, (Mechanical), National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India

Highlights of Experience

• Project Management • Stakeholder Management

• Risk Management • Quality Management

• Project Planning • Innovation and Cost Reduction

• Problem solving • Team Building

Production Control Engineer (April 2012- Till now) Military Industries Corp. Armored Vehicle & Heavy Equipment Factory Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Leadership Experience:

Manage, observe and organize interconnected projects.

Co-operate with stake holders, cross functional teams and assigned Project Managers

Supervise and assess the performance of project and other staff members.

Monitor progress, solve raising issues and initiate appropriate corrective action.

Leadership for overall activities of production- cut sheets preparation, production planning and scheduling, material planning and inventory control in line with organizational standards.

Responsible for aligning plans and practice through inventory and strategic planning, communication of directives and development of about 80 team members in a matrix organization. Directly responsible coordination with product development with 12 section heads.

Spearheading multitude of activities (status checks, time sheets, material inventory, tools and other key resources) to ensure timely delivery. Key responsibility to position shop floor for adaptive & flexible production needs.

Functional Experience:

Liaison with other areas in the organization (control engineers, strategic planning, planner workbench, production and control supervisor) daily to ensure timely delivery as well as optimal supply chain.

Preparation of issue work orders to align with planner workbench. Monitoring production progress and timely intervention to ensure schedule adherence. Orchestration of team activities to provide issue resolution.

Providing critical feedback from shopfloor for multiple areas

(production planning/scheduling, material inventory and tools) to help forecast needs and resolve critical bottlenecks.

Preparation of Production reports, SOP's, check sheet formats and developing Key Performance Indicators and reporting the same. Quality Control:

Leading internal audits and providing audit schedules. Maintaining and reviewing Quality Management System (QMS) records for the organization.

Maintaining NCR summary for the business units for ISO 9001 compliance. Providing oversight for operational NCR reporting and corrective action implementation for different operations. Head of Operations. (Jan 2010 to Mar 2012)

ToolsAxyz Management Associates Pvt. Ltd. (@Bajaj Auto Ltd.Pune, India)

Leadership, Team Building & Execution:

Led a 26-member team of highly skilled engineers and technicians to fulfill tooling needs, to support the delivery of motorcycles (PULSAR models) with volume of 4,500 vehicles per day and also premium bikes

(NINJA & KTM models) for export.

Built the team of technicians and engineers from scratch (worked with the board to obtain funding, designed job requirements with HR, conducted interviews, recruited, provided on boarding/on-going training).

Set strategy for quality control and guided the team on multiple tactical goals to slash tool costs per vehicle by 25% in 6 months.

Guided the team to critically investigate external and internal customer complaints. Charted action plans that brought in drastic reduction in rejection rates of components – from 15% to 6% - in a period of 8 months.

Created strategic management systems for sustenance and continuous betterment of quality improvements to reduce premature failure of tools.

Streamlined tool inventory process to achieve zero-down time within 4 months, in a period of intensive delivery schedules. Production Engineer (May 2006 to Feb 2009)

Oerlikon Balzers Coating India Ltd, Jamshedpur

Led a team of erection engineers to guide erection, equipment layout, installation and raw material procurement within timelines for Erection of new plant.

Led a 5-member team of production assistants to deliver industry leading coatings for precision tools. In charge of production, planning, scheduling and quality control.

Served as single-point specialist liaison between marketing and production to author flexible production plans in accordance with customer demand projections. Worked closely with production executives to socialize and implement the plans on the shopfloor. Page 2 of 3 Inspector, Metrology Quality Assurance Feb 2002 to Apr 2006 HVTL, Tata Motors Jamshedpur, India Quality Control:

Led various production lines- gearbox, differential, ball head, front & rear axle, and the paint sections – to enable roll out of 350 chassis per day for multiple different models. Designed systems to streamline and differentiate quality control for domestic delivery & exports.

Took initiative and provided oversight to implement end-to-end quality control metrics.

Responsible for quality of in house and supplier parts CNC Technician, Automobile Spares (May 1995 to Jan 2002) HVAXLE, Tata Motors Jamshedpur, India

In charge of operating and trouble-shooting CNC and lathe machines for flawless assembly of automobile parts.

ACCREDITIONS

* Certified Internal Auditor ISO 9001:2015 (TUV)

* Certified Internal Auditor ISO 45001:2018 (TUV)

* Certified Internal Auditor ISO 14001:2015 (TUV)

* Safety and First Aid conducted by Civil Defense (State Government)

* Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (ASCB)E TRAININGS

* Sigma Lean Manufacturing * PMP (PMI) certification preparatory course

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