Nicholas Noshirwani
Medway,Massachusetts
Summary
A professional business leader with 8 + years of progressive operations experience in product design and manufacturing organizations. Most recently served as an executive manager with an innovative, high-growth company in the healthcare & diagnostics industry. Extensive experience with new product development in a cross-functional environment.
Innovative manufacturing engineer with background in optimizing production processes and integrating new technology to enhance efficiency. Skilled in designing and implementing cost-effective equipment modifications that improve safety and reliability. Strengths include problem-solving, project management, and collaboration across departments to achieve production goals. Previous work led to significant reductions in downtime and material waste, directly impacting operational success.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manufacturing Engineer Lead
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
12.2024 - Current
- Overall responsibility for a production work cell that ran 24/7 across 5 shifts, managing daily activities for production technicians.
- Managed and enhanced the manufacturing process by implementing Lean Six Sigma methodologies, reducing manufacturing cycle time.
- Performs time studies to establish base-line metrics, clearly identify production bottlenecks, and develop automation solutions for improvement.
- Maintained detailed assembly / test process plans and trained production technicians on the production floor.
- Performs continuous improvement activities to drive down labor cost and enhance safety in the work cell.
- Collaborated with R&D to transfer new product development over to production.
Director of Manufacturing
Convergent Dental
01.2023 - Current
- Provided leadership and coordination of company instrument manufacturing and supply chain functions.
- Developed and implemented manufacturing strategy and aligned supply chain activities to manufacturing strategy.
- Monitored and analyzed capacity and asset utilization, production schedule, adherence to GMP and cost of goods against goals. Focused on continuous improvement and operational efficiency to reduce costs.
- Managed contract manufacturer(s) (CM) and service providers to ensure alignment of inventory needs and CM production schedule, maintaining a balanced, on-time flow of inventory and optimum levels of safety stock to avoid back orders while keeping cash in inventory minimized.
- This included development, review, and monitoring of CM performance metrics (e.g., on-time delivery, cost, quality, and yields).
- Worked with manufacturers, product engineering and quality to drive programs aimed at reducing cost per unit through sourcing and manufacturing yield improvements, efficient packaging, and handling of inbound/outbound logistics.
- Measured by quantifiable improvements in supply chain parameters such as cost, order fills, order fulfillment cycle times, out of stock ratios, product introduction lead times, manufacturing scrap, warehousing, and distribution costs.
- Managed vendor, product transitions and balance demand across multiple sources in a cost and operationally efficient manner. Support vendor onboarding and off-boarding with minimized risk and pragmatic speed.
- Ensured alignment of CM(s) to most current design specifications, manufacturing, and test methodologies, and quality requirements for manufactured products.
- Lead and developed regular operational reviews with existing and new CM(s), vendors and drive consistent improvements through kaizen/lean projects.
- Maintained status updates in ERP/MRP of BOM, vendor, PO/PR, inventory, and shipment status.
Manufacturing Engineer Manager
Convergent Dental
07.2020 - 01.2023
- Overall responsibility for a manufacturing operations team consisting of 10 - 15 employees.
- Leads team in a fast - paced environment to ensure products meet contractual quality, cost, and delivery requirements by planning, organizing, and directing the flow of production internally and at 2 contract CMs.
- Performs continuous improvement activities using lean tools driving cost reduction, quality improvement, improved efficiency, and material flow.
- Performs time studies to establish base-line metrics, clearly identify production bottlenecks and develop automation solutions for improvement.
- Works to develop manufacturing processes that optimize the most efficient fabrication methods and workplace layout.
- Provides leadership, work direction, and guidance to team members.
- Lead in identifying risk, develop mitigation strategies, alternative solutions and resolving issues in collaboration with cross functional groups.
- Develops relationships with customers (internal and external), vendors and other members of the management team.
- Responsible for managing various suppliers to maintain bill schedules and delivery dates.
- Responsible for maintaining inventory cycle counts on a quarterly basis to assist finance.
Manufacturing Engineer
Convergent Dental
03.2017 - 07.2020
- Create detailed test process and test procedure documents, allowing for the reduction of in production and labor costs at the CM.
- Evaluate and improve existing manufacturing procedures and workflows to identify areas requiring optimization and improvements.
- Assist the marketing team and design consumer goods for existing and new customers.
- Maintain inventory of spare parts for field service technicians.
- Train and inform operators, quality control technicians, front line leaders and management on improved process techniques and manufacturing process improvements at the CM.
- Plan and execute process development builds (Engineering samples and validation builds).
- Support subcontractors with troubleshooting equipment, devices, and products.
- Authorized ECO's and DCO's for manufacturing process improvements at the CM.
- Work with CM to identify root causes of failures and customer complaints.
- Modify final acceptance, system-level, and test procedures for use at the CM.
Manufacturing Technician
Tepha
04.2014 - 03.2017
- Executed test procedures during final acceptance testing for sterile finished products of absorbable mesh from start to finish.
- Participated in extrusion activities of biodegradable polymers to satisfy customer needs.
- Aided engineers in developing, building, and testing prototypes - new products, processes, and test procedures.
- Authored ECO's to improve test procedures and processes.
- Inspected finished products to ensure compliance to quality and regulatory standards along with customer expectations.
- Inspected clean room areas for pre-sterile packaging to ensure compliance and standards.
- Maintained the inventory of job materials for both the shipping and receiving departments.
- Gained experience using equipment for grinding, extrusion lines, specifically using the twin screw pelletizer.
- Troubleshoot issues with test equipment, devices, and products.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Associate Degree - Electronic Technology, Computer Systems
Northern Essex Community College
Skills
- Lean Six Sigma
- Production scheduling
- Process optimization
- Quality assurance
- Supply chain management
- Inventory control
- Vendor management
- Continuous improvement
- Lean manufacturing expertise
Timeline
Senior Manufacturing Engineer Lead
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
12.2024 - Current
Director of Manufacturing
Convergent Dental
01.2023 - Current
Manufacturing Engineer Manager
Convergent Dental
07.2020 - 01.2023
Manufacturing Engineer
Convergent Dental
03.2017 - 07.2020
Manufacturing Technician
Tepha
04.2014 - 03.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Associate Degree - Electronic Technology, Computer Systems
Northern Essex Community College