Vinothkumar M

- Developed and executed comprehensive project plans, ensuring alignment with customer milestones and project deliverables. - Tracked and monitored project progress, coordinated delivery dates, and managed stakeholder expectations. - Conducted gate reviews, tracking critical open points against Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Engineering (QCDE) targets. - Represented Project Management in Cross Functional Review (CFR), providing project stage-wise updates based on RM availability, commodity, localization status, and adherence to GPMS standards. - Implemented risk management strategies to mitigate potential risks and ensure project success. - Maintained comprehensive project documentation, ensuring transparency and auditability. - Facilitated weekly review meetings with customers, discussing project status, addressing bottlenecks, and ensuring stakeholder alignment. - Collaborating with procurement team to support unique Raw Material (RM) sourcing for proto harness and new projects, ensuring timely delivery to meet customer demand. - Monitored RM status weekly, conducting reviews with CFTs (SCM/Engineering) to ensure alignment with customer timelines and proposing alternative solutions as needed. - Reviewed new equipment and special tool requirements with manufacturing engineering and production teams, ensuring timely completion of activities to meet plant production targets. - Collaborated with Supply Chain Management (SCM) teams on supplier selection, supplier tooling development, and part readiness timelines. - Ensured timely PPAP approval, coordinating with relevant teams to meet project deadlines.

• Conduct feasibility review with input from customers across the CFT team member to analyze and identify the possible risks, regulation requirements, new technology, new process requirements to take countermeasures. • Interact daily with the clients to interpret their needs and requirements and represent them in the field. • Coordinate project activities across multiple departments, ensuring efficient use of resources and timely completion of deliverables. • Facilitate communication between project team members, stakeholders, and management, ensuring alignment on project goals and objectives. • Compare the actual cost of the development project to estimates. • Collaborates with the operations department to identify and troubleshoot problems. • Oversee budgetary, scheduling, and project databases, and report regularly to top management on progress as well as on problems that could significantly affect cost or schedule.

• Work on all stages of product creation, product modification, and product componentry • Undertake special projects as required • Agree the material choice proposed is able to meet mechanical performance requirements • Plan project requirements and resources, including the sourcing of subcontract elements, etc • Produce deliverables on time to customer requirements, clarifying these requirements where necessary • Track tasks against the project timing plan • Preparation of detailed technical presentations for both internal and client project engineering review • Support reaching the quality, costs, and delivery targets of the program • Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems

• Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout • Implementing & maintaining 5S activities on Shop Floor, TPM, KAIZEN SOP; working on different methods like Pareto Analysis, Fish-Bone, Root Cause Analysis, PDCA, Quality Control, and OEE techniques continuous improvement of the plant. • Communicate with the teams by utilizing visual management, delivering shift briefs with a focus on quality, cost, and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement • Calculating the OEE level on monthly basis for all assembly lines and analysis for losses action plan corrective & preventive. • Calculating the machine ROI. • Closing of production plan at the end of the month & take review overproduction achieved. • Responsible for efficiency and productivity of 3 shifts in the production area. • Experiences in line balancing, operations sequence, process optimization, layout planning for Assembly. • Preparing & implementing SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and KPIs (Key Performance Indices) • Controlling overall production requirements including RM & maintaining minimum stock level. • Maintaining jigs and fixtures tool life history. • Organizing the associate meeting regularly for discussion and managing audit for the improvement of Quality Line Side. • Process observation, development, and documentation of assembly processes utilizing manufacturing methodology. • Create, maintain and improve “mid-volume” manufacturing assembly line, workflow processes, manufacturing plan, and detailed work instructions. • Conduct monthly safety meetings to ensure the work environment operates efficiently and without hazards. • Performing engineering analysis to reduce downtime and outages. • Evaluating current production activities and making recommendations for improvements • Maintaining daily report on production & report to superior on time to time basis Operator Skill matrix preparation.

• Completed ISO 9001:2015 internal auditor training. • Familiar to work under a quality management system (ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001). • Working as a Management Representative having responsibility for facing Quality ISO 9001:2015 audit, customer audit & prepare audit plan, conducting Internal audit for all Departments and conducting MRM, and updating KPI for all process owner and closing NC’s For external and internal. • Assist with first off sample approvals • Complying with the Health, Safety, and Environmental Policies. • Maintain the Quality Manuals and Quality Procedures and ensure contents are appropriate for business • Organise and manage the plant internal audit system and the corrective action reporting system • Conduct Quality Systems audits and assist in training/guidance to other auditors • Host external Quality System audits • Coordinating & arranging Management Review Meeting & Internal Audits with the defined frequency. • Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met • Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems

• Build up components and sub-assemblies into finished products. • Adjust machine controls and monitor the production process and outputs • Make quality control checks on products • Ensure parts are to the correct tolerances and meet customer and internal standards and specifications • Carry out cleaning and basic maintenance of work areas and machinery • Report equipment faults to maintenance staff • Adaptable and flexible with a positive professional attitude in any critical situation. • Self-motivator and hard worker • Consistently manages the task • Able to work within tight cycles/deadlines and with minimum supervision • Contribute to continuous improvement activities • Ability to learn quickly • Well Understanding of lean manufacturing and 5S (Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) process