Project Engineer

ARVIND RAMANADHAM

*** ********** ****, *** ***

Mobile, AL 36609

Tel: 734-***-****

E-mail: rj9mfo@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER GOAL

To obtain a Mechanical Engineer position in a growth-oriented organization that offers diverse job responsibilities and that will fully utilize both my technical and team-working abilities.

SUMMARY

• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt awarded by ASQ (American Society for Quality).

• Three years of Aviation industry experience for Aircraft Passenger to Freighter Conversion Program and Aircraft heavy maintenance and overhaul.

• Familiar with FAA/ EASA quality regulations and studying various Boeing / Airbus Specifications.

• Extensive knowledge in the usage of Structure Repair Manuals (SRM), Service Bulletins, Aircraft Drawings from the OEM, Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM), Illustrated Parts Catalog (IPC) for aircrafts Boeing 727, Boeing 757, DC-10, Airbus 300.

• Master of Science in Mechanical Design Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

• Certified CATIA and ANSYS Professional from CADD Centre, India.

• Ability to work independent or as a team member.

• Self motivated with excellent communication skills.

• Project management skills to plan and implement projects, resource allocation and management, motivating team members to ensure timely delivery.

• Commitment to perform the job successfully and satisfactorily with good work ethics.

WORK EXPERIENCE

S.T. Aerospace Mobile, Inc. (Oct 2009 – Till date)

Manufacturing Engineer (Full-time)

• Working on the Modification of Boeing757-200 Passenger to Freighter Conversion program for 14 Pallet and Combi configurations.

• Proposing engineering solutions to problems and non-conformances arising during aircraft modification projects.

• Planning and developing estimations for initial project equipment and project costs.

• Determining required design data, bill of materials, blue prints and manufacturing specifications for cost estimations and technical bids.

• Coordinating between suppliers, clients, production and engineering to resolve issues that crop up during manufacturing and installation of aircraft parts.

• Reviewing Boeing documents for special processes like heat treatment, finishing and special assemblies.

• Working on Production planning and Inventory control systems used to manage the manufacturing processes for the in-house fabrication.

• Streamlining and optimizing drawings of aircraft structures for serial production.

• Planning requirement of manpower, equipment needed for the in-house fabrication and facility availability during the 757 Passenger to Freighter conversion program.

• Developing 100 Day conversion flow plan so as to meet the customer requirement in delivering the aircraft.

• Initiating several lean projects and kaizen events with production and support group processes.

S.T. Aerospace Mobile, Inc. (May 2008 - Aug 2009)

Engineering Intern

• Working on lean projects for installation of door surround structure, provisional parts and pre assembly of window plugs and ceiling panels.

• Researching and identifying differences between various configurations of Freighter airplane structures.

• Generating Bill of Material (BOM) based on the configuration of the aircraft.

• Determining required design data needed for the passenger to Freighter conversion.

• Working with the suppliers in resolving engineering problems during fabrication of parts.

• Providing technical assistance to the production with drawings and manuals on PTF conversion program as needed.

• Maintained records to ensure engineering drawings and documents are current and that engineering-related production problems and resolutions are documented.

PROJECTS

• Project 100D to achieve the modification time for Boeing 757 Passenger to Freighter conversion in 135 days.

• Project Purple to complete maintenance check for the wide body aircraft (FedEx MD-10/DC-10) in 30 days

• Project on CNC Programming and machining of Booster Pump Casing,

• Project on designing and manufacturing of mould using Master CAM-X and CNC machining.

• Various engineering design and stress analysis projects using Unigraphics, CATIA, Pro/E, ALGOR and ANSYS

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Design Softwares: AutoCAD, Pro/E Wildfire 2.0, ANSYS 7.0, CATIA V5, NX Unigraphics, Master cam-X and Working Model 2D.

Operating System: Windows 95/98, NT, XP, Vista, 7 and MSDOS, Linux and Mac OS X.

Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Project), Sigma XL and SAP.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Mechanical Design Engineering, Dec 2009

Eastern Michigan University, Michigan

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering May 2007

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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