plastemartjobs.com Email: jobs@plastemart.com, hr@plastemart.com Download Date: 2/6/2025 2:07:41 AM ________________________________________________________________________________________ RefNo: CA - 7280 Gender: Male Age: 60 Designation: Manager Highest Education Level: Graduate - Degree Current Gross Salary: 70000 70000 /Annum Expected Gross Salary: 100000 100000 /Annum Notice Period: 90 Days Education Details: IEng Registered With Engineering Council UK in 2009. AIMMM Registered With Institute Of Materials Minerals & Mining Uk In 2009. Diploma In Plastic Engineering From S.B.M Polytechnic, Mumbai-india In 1984. Licentiate Of Plastic & Rubber Institute (Honors Degree) From Plastic & Rubber Institute, London-uk In 1988. B.E (Mechanical Engineering) From Abhinav College Of Engineering & Polytechnic, Mumbai, India In 2006. Skill Sets: Technical Project Management Tooling Development Molding Process Materials CAD/CAE Work Experience: 39.1 Work Experience Details: NPI - Engineering Technical Project Manager Since Oct. 2008 Company Profile: Leading Electronics Manufacturing Service (EMS) provider focused on delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to automotive, computing, consumer digital, industrial, infrastructure, medical & mobile OEMs. Reporting directly to Business Unit Engineering Director. Technical project management for new projects for renown customers Primary Accountabilities: Supports business development in completing the activities that includes customer pre-qualification, RFQ/RFP, manufacturing agreement, customer interface on new business opportunities, etc. Be responsible for facilitating and coordinating the entire NPI activities and interfaces with customer and ensures to build the product are met. Review and approve the phase gate checklist. Perform leadership and direction within project execution team. Holds new product start up meetings, NPI readiness review meetings, NPI Qualification build and pilot build review meetings and product transfer meetings with relevant department and/ or customer. Provides final pilot reports to the customer Develop team composition and formation, NPI checklist, implementation plan and schedule, submit the plan and schedule to the customer to obtain review and approval. Define the volume manufacturing site. Conduct program management review and perform documentation services. Prepare presentations of the project internally and externally. Provide input and solutions, technical assistance and guidance. Execute regular reporting of NPI activities, issues and opportunities at the customer. Participate in the daily production meetings. Provide daily minutes/ status to Divisions. Proactively validate and ensure Flextronics Mechanicals manufacturing & test capacity, materials & buffer requirements are able to meet customer requirements. Alert divisions of any urgent issues/ concerns by performing engineering risk analysis. Participate in weekly and any conference call that may be necessary between divisions & customer. Highlight issues & concerns that may impact schedules. Take minutes for distribution. Review the output from functional team and identify training needs and development programs for staff. Senior Tooling Engineer, NPI Procurement From Jun? 05?Feb? 08 Eastman Kodak Company, Inkjet Systems, Singapore Global leader in Imaging Technology Products and services for the photographic and graphic communications market Primary Accountabilities:- Plastics tooling and parts procurement for the very first digital AIO photo-printer. Development and qualification of plastic components and processes by working with suppliers and, a multi-disciplinary team of design engineers, quality engineers and program managers. DFM review, tooling design review, CAE analysis review e.g. moldflow. Testing of sample parts, and submission and approval of Production Parts Approval Package. Vendor evaluation and selection of mold-makers and molders in Singapore and China Highlights:- Significant contribution towards launching of more than 60 new molds right from scratch. Independently handled NPI material procurement activity; materials involved were engineering thermoplastics viz. ABS, modified PPO, PC, modified POM and SAN, etc. Managed to handle sudden upsize in the forecasts by 25% and through collaboration and strong relationship with the vendors, managed to build additional machine and mould capacity. Achieved cost saving worth US$ 200K through purchasing price negotiations for new and repeat tools, jigs & fixtures and molded parts and ensure the tooling budget target is met. Handled New Tooling Project involving total plastics tooling worth US$ 1.5 Million. Senior Engineer-Technical Specialists Group (Plastics) From June 98 to June 05 Philips Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd., DAP, Singapore. A global leader in consumer electronics, healthcare products and services; Euro 26.8 Billion in annual revenue in 2007: The DAP Singapore site is a Centre of Competence for Electric Irons. Primary Accountabilities: Exploring opportunities of early influence in conceptualizing new product design; co-ordinating with plastic parts designers and mold-makers to ensure high manufacturability of high quality parts at the lowest costs. Conducting Moldflow CAE simulation, translating on numerous occasions in design improvements, shortening the PCP lead-time, reducing cost & speeding-up the new product introductions with this first-time right approach. Highlights: Handled cross-functional teams on new product introduction projects, operational on-going improvement teams, innovation support teams, and delivered the results. Managed complete injection mold development activity from ?cradle to grave? starting with mold-maker selection, mold DFM/ drawing approval, mold modifications, buy-off and transfer including spare-parts management and mold maintenance planning. Established the budgeting/planning yearly mold requirements for different projects, tracked the mold life and raised the CAPEX for new molds for capacity/ replacement purpose. Played a key role in implementing new technologies such as 2-component molding, thin-wall molding and decorative insert molding. Successfully executed mold transfer and commissioning of ?LESI? iron project to Brazil; won Appreciation Award of Diploma from Director and the committee from the Brazil unit. Enhanced operational metrics and Business Balanced Score Card with the proven results and won several awards including Bronze award in the in-house convention. Single-handedly managed ?flash-free mold maintenance program? for in-house molding shop equipped with 12 molding machines ranging from 120 to 350 tons and from renown brands e.g. Krauss Maffei mono/ two-component & Thermoset Injection molding & Engel Tiebarless and gas-assist molding. Contributed as an elite team member in the flawless execution of the development sample building of the ambitious innovative iron project ?Aquarius? for which received appreciation and spot award from the BU general manager and project leader. Achieved cost saving worth US$ 300K in materials by driving cost reduction activities. Assistant Manager R & D Audio From Feb 95 to Jun 98 Philips India Ltd., CEF, Pune, India A global leader in consumer electronics, healthcare products and services; Euro 26.8 Billion in annual revenue in 2007: The CEF Pune India site was a full fledged R & D & manufacturing centre catering to the India market before amalgamation with the COC BU in Singapore, and produced a wide range of audio products from stereo HPS, mono/stereo portable systems, MINI/MIDI systems. Leading and monitoring the activities related to Product Design, Mold Design & Part Processing and coordinated all mold development activities with third parties and overseas suppliers with the objective of optimizing on quality, cost and delivery. Highlights: Significant contribution towards complete mould development for a stereo HPS model in collaboration with Hong-kong BU that involved mold design approval, overseeing the mold development, on-site inspection of tools and Buy-off with total responsibility of off-tool parts approval. Imparted training to the mechanical designers on the aspects of plastics molds and mold design with a live demonstration of actual two-plate molds. Technical Officer From Dec. 92 to Jan. 95 Polychem Ltd., Mumbai, India. An Indian Chemical company and a manufacturer of Thermoplastics Raw Materials - PS, HIPS, ABS, SAN; Established in the sixties this first styrene polymerization plant in Mumbai with a capacity of 20,000 MT/annum was built in technical collaboration with Dow Chemicals, USA. Primary Accountabilities: Responsible for new applications development for PS, HIPS, ABS & SAN materials. Provided continual technical advice for selection of suitable material/grades/processes and given extensive support in trouble-shooting material quality issues at the molder. Developing techno-commercial feasibility reports on new products using Styrenics materials for the entrepreneurs willing to invest and set-up a plastics injection molding plant. Highlights: Developed and fabricated a proto-type falling weight impact testing machine based on ASTM specifications for in-house material testing laboratory. The equipment was used for comparison of impact strength among extruded sheets of ABS and HIPS material. Provided training and assistance to molder for optimizing molding conditions when using Styrenics material. Production Supervisor From Jan. 89 to Nov. 92 Supreme Industries Ltd., Mumbai, India An Indian company diversified in different areas of plastics manufacturing i.e. injection molding, extrusion and with backward integration in raw material manufacturing; Mumbai unit is a custom injection molding facility. Primary Accountabilities: Managing the shift operations including 40 Injection Molding Machines ranging from 30 tons to 800 tons and 30 direct skilled/semi-skilled labor. Testing and commissioning of new molds, preparing mold try-out reports and advising on design and mold improvements. Highlights: Achieved hard production targets such as rejection rate < 2%, 100% production efficiency. Pioneered various improvement programs for enhancing the productivity, reducing the rejects and machine maintenance down-time. Plastics Engineer From Sep. 1987 to Dec 1988 Vidyut Metallics Ltd., Thane, India. An Indian export company manufacturing male shaving systems with a captive injection molding facility. Primary Accountabilities: Looking after the entire shift operations, comprising of 15 advanced microprocessor controlled molding machines ranging from 80 tons to 130 tons. Supervising a team of 10 direct skilled/semi-skilled labor. Involved in mold set-up and troubleshooting of molding process to optimize parts quality on advanced microprocessor controlled molding machines using fast cycling, multi-cavity (8 - 24 impressions), hot-runner moulds. Highlights: Provided assistance to operator in shortening the learning curve for molding of new product introduction molds. Assistant Consultant (Plastics Technology) From Feb. 85 to Aug 87 S.P.K Consultants, Mumbai, India A proprietary technical consultancy for Plastic, wood and metal based Projects. Primary Accountabilities: Responsible for identifying and preparing techno-commercial feasibility studies with turnkey installations for plastic based projects based on a mix of imported and local plant and machinery. Involved in local representation for specialty plastic processing plant & machinery from Germany ranging from tabletop molding machine of miniature plastic parts, ram extrusion of difficult to process HMHDPE/PTFE, Injection-blow molding machines to produce hollow parts with high precision necks, and specialized vertical rotary insert molding machines for molding the electrical cable plugs and connectors. Future Goals: To continue to expand and enrich skills by continuous learning and striving for excellence. Rapid and stable career advancement and in the process contribute fullest in the company's organic growth. ________________________________________________________________________________________