Meet Acharya
Victoria,USA
Summary
Graduate Industrial Engineer with over 5 years of co-op experience in facility design, lean tools, and continuous improvement. Expertise in mechanical maintenance within the petrochemical industry, focused on troubleshooting and reducing equipment downtime. Strong background in equipment qualification and compliance with safety and regulatory standards in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Mechanical Engineer, Testengeer
Formosa Plastics
Point Comfort, TX
01.2023 - Current
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (ASME, API, OSHA) and regulatory requirements.
- Develop detailed engineering drawings, P&IDs, and other technical documentation after each management of changes (MOCs).
- Maintenance and Repair: Plan and execute preventive maintenance programs to optimize equipment reliability. Support Maintenance crew for the scheduled plant turnaround.
- Troubleshot and diagnosed equipment failures, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions to enhance operational reliability.
- Executed B-1 Projects for mechanical maintenance, preparing bid packages and purchasing requisitions while controlling project expenses within budget. Produced engineering drawings for bids and evaluated vendor quotations and contractor bids, ensuring timely and accurate processing of materials and services.
- Provided maintenance performance support by collaborating with operations to establish equipment criticality and supply standby equipment for critical systems. Applied data analysis to develop engineering solutions for repetitive failures, addressing issues impacting safety, environmental compliance, capacity, quality, and cost.
- Implement company safety policies and procedures, using employee training, work planning, audits and other tools to ensure compliance with safety regulations and progress toward achieving the goal of zero incidents. Maintain equipment in such manner as to eliminate environmental emissions, upsets, or unscheduled shutdowns which will result in zero non-conformances and zero emissions or releases.
Validation Engineer
Vastek Inc
06.2020 - 01.2023
- Managed validation documentation and execution for IQ, OQ, and PQ protocols for pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratory equipment.
- Led equipment qualification activities for manufacturing systems including vial washers, fillers, mixers, and capping machines.
- Qualified critical utility systems including HVAC, steam, WFI, compressed air, and purified water systems, supporting sterile manufacturing operations and regulatory compliance.
- Executed cleaning validation studies for compounding tanks, part washers, and lyophilizers, ensuring compliance with GMP standards and product quality.
- Performed temperature mapping of controlled temperature units including refrigerators, freezers, vaults, and incubators using Kaye Validator systems.
- Developed User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Functional Design Specifications (FDS) in collaboration with engineering and end users.
- Coordinated with vendors and engineering teams for Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and validation planning aligned with Quality by Design (QBD) principles.
- Investigated deviations, exceptions, and performed root cause analysis to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
Manufacturing Engineer
Murlidhar Die & Tools
01.2017 - 05.2018
- Best practice in Solid command of technologies, tools and best practices in 3D part model designing using SolidWorks (2D-3D), AutoCAD engineering drawings. Proficiencies in reading blueprints/drawings.
- Developed machining operations and techniques, reducing manufacturing costs and time through Lean manufacturing, accelerating production rate of aluminum parts by 25% and decreasing machining time by 1.25 minutes per product.
- Created parts for machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding to support diverse manufacturing processes.
- Introduced JIT to reduce the waste of WIP inventory by 15%.
- Manages New Product Development Process (NPDP), Robust plant and schedule, BOMs, performs PFMEA.
- Performed concurrent design and manufacturing engineering functions, streamlining processes to reduce time to market.
- Tested the feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components and systems.
Education
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
Lamar University
Texas, USA05-2020
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Gujarat Technological University
India01-2017
Skills
- CAD software expertise
- Prototype testing
- Quality assurance
- Regulatory compliance
- Data analysis, statistics
- Automation, design
- Project management
- Applications: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel (VBA), MS Word, MS Power Point
- MySQL, MS Access, SAP RDBMS
- R, Python programming
- Technical documentation
- Project management
Certification
- AutoCAD, SolidWorks from IGTR
- R essential, Python for Data Science, Python for Data Analysis from IBM.
Timeline
Mechanical Engineer, Testengeer
Formosa Plastics
01.2023 - Current
Validation Engineer
Vastek Inc
06.2020 - 01.2023
Manufacturing Engineer
Murlidhar Die & Tools
01.2017 - 05.2018
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
Lamar University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Gujarat Technological University