Karthik

6/9/2015
Kansas City, KS

Position Desired

Quality Engineering
Kansas City, KS
No

Resume

Profile :
Quality/Operations manager, Six Sigma green belt with 13 years of experience in production planning, lean Management, establishing process adherence, budgetary control and new products launch management of automotive components, Automotive sub-assemblies.
Core Competencies
• Customer quality management, Handling quality issues at OEMs – 0 KM and at Field across the globe.
• Six Sigma Core green belt, familiar Process FMEA, Advanced product quality planning and expertise in G8D
• Cost effective solutions for key quality topics and supporting business case of the organization with no deviation in quality requirements.
• Implementing and rolling out the lean assembly concept resulting in world class state of the art assembly operations.
• Setting up Greenfield projects and supporting ramp up by reducing losses and improving the efficiency of processes in planning and supply chain management. Manpower Rationalization in production and quality management.
• ERP tools : SAP production planning module power user, Quality management system.
Personal traits
• Detail oriented and possess good follow-up skills. Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written at all levels of the organization. Possess ability to motivate people and extract efficient output.
• Leadership skills and the ability to lead a large team including associates, team leaders and managers to ensure the company's targets in terms of delivery reliability, quality, optimal operational cost-effectiveness targets are met.
• Have multi cultural exposure and handled customer and internal cross functional groups across the globe.(Knowledge of GERMAN-A1)
Education
• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Hindustan College of Engineering, University of Madras, Chennai, India.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune,India.

Experience
Bosch India limited , Diesel systems, Product head quality Aug 2010 to Present
Department head-Quality for Single cylinder fuel injection pumps and Glow systems(Glow Plugs and Glow control Units) manufactured from India and supplied worldwide.


Achievements
• Year on year reduction in 0-Km customer complaints from 18 ppm in 2013 to 1 ppm in 2014 for single cylinder fuel injection pumps
• Establishment of local analysis center(LAC) at Bosch, Stuttgart for investigation of products manufactured in India(Single Cylinder Pumps) and supplied to European OEMs-thereby reducing lead time for investigation and ensuring prompt response to customer issues.
• 0-km complaints for glow systems at 1 ppm in 2014 ,a reduction from 2 ppm in 2013.
• “Zero” Export complaints in 2012 for Single Cylinder fuel Injection Pumps.
• Customer incidences on poor quality reduced from 110 in 2013 to 46 in 2014.
Honeywell Turbo Technologies India Pvt. Ltd from Manager , Production Feb 2007 to Aug 2010
In charge of module for production of turbochargers and related sub-assemblies and facilitating improvements in work processes and standardization of the same.
Achievements
• Production increase from nearly 300 turbo/Day to a maximum of 2667 Turbo/Day (Nov-08 ) and productivity improved from 15 Turbo/Person/Day to Nearly 25 Turbo/person/day by improving line balancing by handling a Team of 100 Associates and 14 Team Leaders.
• Winner of Honeywell India-China President’s Award twice for recognition of good work
• Core team member for successful ramp up of a “Greenfield project “ ensuring training of associates relevant to the new product, implementing material flow standardization to new lines a...

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