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VIC SELVARAJ

Windsor,Canada

Summary

Passionate Quality engineering professional with 8+ years’ experience in quality, and manufacturing. Worked with electronic sensor assembly, molding (Blow and Injection), Press (sheet metal components, composites) Experienced in multi-tasking by working with multiple customers and suppliers to resolve quality issues. Proven track record of excellence for demonstrating problem-solving, leadership and commitment at work Innovated an automation solution in executing feature wise design verification methods and achieving USD 9967 cost saving by reducing the cycle time by 6.7%, leading to Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Championed launch of 4 production lines from scratch from trials, debugging to production from quality side. Created, sourced, Validated, trained, and followed through sort criteria for Toyota fuel tank issue with flaw detector saving 500K in rework, scrap cost. Coached and developed a high performing Quality Operations team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements Customer service oriented with the ability to establish and strengthen customer relationships. Strong cross functional leadership, team building and interpersonal skills Extensive work experience in lean technique such as value stream map, JIT (Just in Time), Kaizen, Kanban, Non- conformance Report, 6S, KPI (Key Performance Indicator)

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Quality Engineer

Kautex Corporation
03.2021 - Current
  • Developed, Implemented and Maintained Product /Process Quality Management Plan for each product line that focuses on the key risks and supervised Quality Engineers and assisted Quality technicians in the Department
  • Responsible Toyota, Lexus, Rivian, and Ford under body protector / fuel tank assemblies
  • Launched the first composite under body protector line for Kautex & 1 Ford (P703) and 2 Lexus programs (31PL)- APQP, Production trials, FMEA development and maintenance and production line controls with Built-in Quality
  • Developed and maintained strong cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Design & Development, Validation testing, Strategic logistics, Maintenance, Finance, and Advanced manufacturing
  • Implemented quality systems to monitor product quality and develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable evaluation of trends and continuous assessment of product and manufacturer risks
  • Identified major part quality concern and work with Toyota on problem solving, including root cause investigation, fault tree analysis (FTA), regression analysis during recreation, and created sorting method
  • Worked directly with customer’s STA, PVT, and PD groups, and meet their requests through the proper assignment of activities to team members in the team and follow up to meeting deadlines
  • Reviewed statistical analysis (capability studies) in critical characteristics and special characteristics and take action to ensure compliance to the minimum expected Cp and Cpk values
  • Sound Knowledge of IATF 16949 and lead auditor for internal and external audit for all customer (MSA audit, PPDA, BIQS Audit) and developed and maintained overall quality plan and audit program
  • Supported Quality Engineers and Manufacturing Engineers in the implementation of permanent corrective actions that address customers issues at the OEM facilities or in Warranty
  • Elaborated annual testing plan to Quality Technicians according to Control Plan, and ensure compliance
  • Travel as required to customer and supplier plants for process/ quality improvement projects
  • Maintain great working relationship with management, suppliers, customers, and production workers

Quality Engineer

KSR International Co.
07.2018 - 02.2021
  • Provide quality improvements in various assigned projects by working with Internal (production, scheduling, shipping, manufacturing, CI, Program management, design, and testing teams) and external (customer, suppliers, and vendors)
  • Follow CI/Quality procedures such as issuing quality alerts, manufacturing deviations, Safe-launch instructions, sorting instructions, product containment, investigating root cause, reviewing work/package instructions and 8D procedure
  • Contribute with quality/process related inputs in design review and APQP meetings on weekly basis
  • Creating PPAP related documents as per customer requirements to get the Part Submission Warrant signed
  • Update quality technicians about daily work schedule, internal quality concerns and review inspection sheets
  • Review off-line gauges and implement poka-yokes for APEC’s and KPEC’s according to design intent
  • Review incoming quality and handle quality related issues with suppliers
  • Travel as required to customer and supplier plants for process/ quality improvement projects
  • Maintain great working relationship with management, suppliers, customers, and production workers

Manufacturing Engineer

Tata Groups - (Engineering and Industrial Services)
11.2014 - 12.2016
  • Authored manufacturing work instructions facilitating manufacturing and assembly sequence of operations by outlining the list of operations with the Bill of Materials (Method of Manufacturing)
  • Created and contributed towards APQP support documents such as Characteristic Matrices providing feature verification methods to support the inspection plan, Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis, Control Plan methodologies and Root Cause Analysis documents
  • Contributed in weekly status meetings on implementing production improvements with cross-functional teams
  • Assisted New Product Introduction (PPAP) by conducting design and process validation simultaneously with initial production run to check process capability and also to draft PPAP necessary elements
  • Developed best practices in using Computer Aided Process Planning of manufacturing process layout and flow, which includes tackt time, machining time, and alternate operation definition using PLM software (Teamcenter)
  • Designed inspection fixtures, tools and machines for sheet metal components and Injection moulds assembly and Inspection with respect to the client’s SOP, PDS and Gauge R&R
  • Developed stage drawings (GD&T) and 2D machine drawings with respect to client specifications: NX 10.0 (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly)

Manufacturing Engineer

Tata Groups
06.2015 - 12.2015
  • Conducted time study, normality test and DMAIC analysis for an activity involving deciding and writing feature wise inspection procedures for the sheet metal parts
  • Problem and pain areas were found through Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • Conducted meetings assembling leads from cross- functional teams for idea generation and discussion
  • Proposed an automation tool, tested the tool with the same representatives, and improved the cycle time by 6.7 %
  • The idea passed through two months of testing period before implementation
  • The project resulted in 9,967 USD cost saving and leading to Green Belt certification

Education

Masters of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering (Automotive Specialization)

University of Windsor
Windsor, ON
04.2018

Skills

  • Lead QMS Auditor
  • IATF 16949:2016
  • ISO 9001:2015
  • APQP
  • PPAP
  • Process FMEA
  • Control plan
  • SPC
  • MSA
  • Customer Specific Requirements
  • Product Design
  • Product Analysis
  • Problem solving tools
  • 8D
  • A3
  • Regression
  • FTA
  • Process capability study
  • DMAIC
  • CAD tools
  • Auto CAD
  • Pro E Wildfire 50
  • NX 100
  • CATIA v50
  • SolidWorks 2016
  • Microsoft Office
  • Word
  • Excel
  • Powerpoint
  • Project
  • Programming
  • Matlab
  • Visual Basic
  • C

Accomplishments

  • Published paper named 'Powered two-wheeler with integrated safety using RecurDyn multi-body dynamics' in International Peer-reviewed Journal (Applied Mechanics and Materials) DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.591.193
  • Won the Best Final Year Project Award for the year 2014 (among 150 projects) for 'Design and Simulation of Improved Two-Wheeler Safety using Dynamic FEA' held at Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai, India.
  • Won the technical paper presentation event for a proposing foolproof emergency exit design in bus titled 'Design of improved exigency exit and its ergonomics in buses', a national-level symposium.
  • Won Second position in the Design competition titled 'Designer’s Quest' organized by SAE-INDIA club 2011.

Projects

DMAIC PROJECT, Cycle time reduction in feature verification methods (Six Sigma Green Belt project), Manufacturing Engineer, Tata Groups, 06/2015, 12/2015, Conducted time study, normality test and DMAIC analysis for an activity involving deciding and writing feature wise inspection procedures for the sheet metal parts., Problem and pain areas were found through Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Conducted meetings assembling leads from cross-functional teams for idea generation and discussion., Proposed an automation tool, tested the tool with the same representatives, and improved the cycle time by 6.7 %. The idea passed through two months of testing period before implementation., The project resulted in 9,967 USD cost saving and leading to Green Belt certification.

References

Professional references available upon request.

Certification

  • Certified Lead QMS Auditor IATF 16949:2016 / ISO 9001:2015 ; Exemplar Global Inc.
  • Certified in APQP/PPAP, Process FMEA 4th Ed., Control plan, SPC, MSA ; Omnex
  • Certified Master Diploma in Product Design and Analysis

Software

Microsoft Office

CAD Tools

Matlab, Visual Basic and C

Timeline

Senior Quality Engineer

Kautex Corporation
03.2021 - Current

Quality Engineer

KSR International Co.
07.2018 - 02.2021

Manufacturing Engineer

Tata Groups
06.2015 - 12.2015

Manufacturing Engineer

Tata Groups - (Engineering and Industrial Services)
11.2014 - 12.2016

Masters of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering (Automotive Specialization)

University of Windsor

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