Pratik Chauhan
Kansas City,KS
Summary
Knowledgeable Senior Manufacturing Engineer with over 9 years of dedicated experience in Aerospace, Elevators, Compostable products and heavy equipment manufacturing. Accomplished at implementing new projects and leading by example. Committed to efficiency and cutting production costs without sacrificing quality.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Techno Soft Engineering
Kansas City , KS
2024.07 - Current
- Designed and finalized the warehouse layout using AutoCAD, optimizing aisle widths for forklift operations, and secured stakeholder approval.
- Coordinated with vendors and internal teams to procure and organize rack components, ensuring lean operations in line with Toyota's waste reduction principles.
- Implemented and trained team members on a new RFID system to enhance efficiency and reduce errors.
- Responsible for overseeing this project with a budget of approximately $500,000.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Infotron Solutions
Miami , FL
2023.10 - 2024.06
- Utilizing tools including value stream mapping, overall equipment effectiveness, and 5S to understand and improve quality, labor efficiency, throughput, and cycle time
- Developing and enhancing manufacturing processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase productivity.
- Conduct design reviews for existing assemblies with other relevant departments on Solidworks.
Senior Manufacturing Industrial Engineer
Pakka
Bengaluru , IN
2020.12 - 2023.10
- Prepare IQ, OQ and PQ plan and report for the new machineries and equipment required to improve the efficiency of the production.
- Work very closely with the production department to provide engineering support in solving prime issues by using different methodologies like DOE, Fishbone diagram, Pareto analysis and 5 Whys.
- Responsible for preparing cost sheets for brown field and green field projects by calculating product’s material, labor, variable overhead and fixed overhead cost.
- Support NPD team in the GATE process from the manufacturing aspect. Provide critical feedback to the design team in order to bring the manufacturing cost down.
- Prepare RFQ document and get quotations from different suppliers. Moreover, evaluate the capabilities of the supplier based on their past projects.
- Possess fundamental proficiency in employing MODAPTS methodology to conduct comprehensive cycle time analyses.
Manufacturing Engineer
Safran Aerospace
Los Angeles , CA
2018.10 - 2020.10
- Acting as shop liaison between design engineer and production to ensure products are built to specification and engineering documents.
- Preparing engineering change notices (ECNs) as required to support manufacturing and quality of parts produced.
- Implement 5S culture, create a red tag area, restructure the production, and inventory storage to material movement by 14%.
- Institute data-driven Process Improvement initiatives at the plant level including Gemba walks, Visual Factory, Time Studies, and develop standards, allowances.
- Collaborate with the Quality team to develop CAPA, root cause analysis, and visuals for quality issues to improve overall quality level by 24%.
- Develop manufacturing processes (SOPs) and best practices, resulting in a 20% yield increase and $100k reduction in raw material waste cost annually.
Manufacturing Industrial Engineer
Pneumatic Vacuum Elevators
Miami , FL
2015.10 - 2018.10
- Created an efficient process improvement in the form of an assembly line, transitioning the manufacturing process into a more streamlined process, which increased productivity and decreased costs. This new procedure increased annual elevator production from 520 elevator body to 980 elevator body, and revenue by $2.2M.
- Coordinate effectively with vendors, fostering vendor relationships by monitoring performance in terms of quality, cost, delivery, and responsiveness while focusing on continuous quality improvement.
- Drastically increased the shipping rate from 2-3 order per day to 4-5 order per day on average by facilitating proper planning and forecasting.
- Lead strategic PFMEA and DOE activities that ensure design and manufacturing issues are identified and promptly rectified.
Mechanical Engineer
Samson Controls
Pune , IN
2012.06 - 2013.07
Education
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, FL2015-05
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Pune
India2012-06
Skills
- Solidworks
- Auto-Cad
- ERP System Implementation
- Vendor Relations
- Cost Control
- MODAPTS
- Pro-E
- MS Office
- Catia
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
| January 2022
Process Capability Analysis| October 2022
Root Cause Analysis and 8D Problem Solving| October 2022
Microsoft Power BI for Data Analytics| January 2024
Timeline
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Techno Soft Engineering
2024.07 - Current
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Infotron Solutions
2023.10 - 2024.06
Senior Manufacturing Industrial Engineer
Pakka
2020.12 - 2023.10
Manufacturing Engineer
Safran Aerospace
2018.10 - 2020.10
Manufacturing Industrial Engineer
Pneumatic Vacuum Elevators
2015.10 - 2018.10
Mechanical Engineer
Samson Controls
2012.06 - 2013.07
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
Florida International University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Pune
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
| January 2022
Process Capability Analysis| October 2022
Root Cause Analysis and 8D Problem Solving| October 2022
Microsoft Power BI for Data Analytics| January 2024
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