ATUL TANDON

• Managing for Innovation
• Customer-Driven Excellence.
• Systems Perspective
• People development and involvement
• Continuous learning, innovation and improvement
• Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
• Focus on Results and Creating Value

To Build profitable growth for Multiple Units of Amtek by focusing in increasing Revenues, enhancing Asset Utilization & margins, acquisition, retention & satisfaction of Key Accounts, ensure acquisition of Customers in Export & After Market, Building Strategic alliance, increasing operating efficiency & Building a performance oriented culture through enhanced employee engagement and reduce Cost of Production, Increase productivity & Improve overall effectiveness.

Experience of turning around businesses and improving Topline and bottom line to significantly high growth

Managing Overall business of Operations, HR, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Sales, Program Management

Building & maintaining relationships with all stake holders – Customers, Suppliers, Associates and external environment

Strategise to continuously add value in each of the business segments through increase in Sales, Turnover & Operating margins.

Oversee team of 2 Unit Heads across all units/functions including HR, Operations, business development, as well as sales, marketing & development.

­Review of daily MIS with respect to product line, key bottlenecks, identify the gaps and take corrective actions.
­Ensure robust processes are followed to achieve zero rejection rate
­Provide direction to materials department to ensure optimum utilization of inventory
­Identify best practices for production optimization and implement to bring in improvements.

­Provide strategic direction to the business and take steps to improve the top line and bottom line
­Maximize profit and loss by effectively managing cost
­Plan expenses of the plant within the budget.

Develop and implement Business Plans designed to assure Sustainable Volume Growth, Increased Market Share and Improved Profitability

Ensure customer satisfaction through ‘Best in Class Service’ and establish an extremely healthy “Supplier – Customer Relationship” with all customers.

Identifying & realization of new businesses and increasing SOB of existing business.

Value creation and makes decisions on where to allocate resources based on maximizing value to the organization

Meet Collection Targets and ensure Profitability, Targets, Manage Business Top line and Bottom line growth

Operations Re-engineering

Led management team in identifying and correcting critical problems; reduced and streamlined overhead expenses, strengthened product gross margins, overhauled and improved operating processes and systems, resolved quality and warranty issues, and differentiated product lines.

­Manage all aspects of planning, delivery and monitoring to ensure that the customer expectations are met
­Ensure timely delivery to customers as per projected sales plan
­Take sustainable corrective action in case of gaps in delivery schedule

Generation of RFQs and ensure the win rate
Program mgmt. to meet the customer requirements
­Proactively interact with customers to ascertain their needs
­Manage customer escalations and build relationships for business govt.

Ensure Company operations to ensure production efficiency, quality, service and cost effective management resources.

Manage and optimize vendor development and relationship

Team Development

Continuous trainings to keep team abreast of new developments in industries. Focus on tools like Lean, TPM, VSA program by OEM’s, VA/VE.

­Motivate, enthuse and bring confidence in team members to meet targets and achieve business goals
­Lead cross-location teams and keep them informed on budgets, processes, and other business-related matters

Focus to build and manage a result oriented team committed to organizational goals and to train & motivate them by instilling a sense of discipline, team spirit and a desire to excel and perform

REPORTING TO Executive Director (Works)

Foundry is equipped with High Pressure Moulding Line for Ductile Iron (SG Iron) Casting Production other than conventional moulding machines for Cast Iron production with automated Sand Plant and Induction Furnace and other automatic machine for Fettling process.

Having an experience of handling a Greenfield project for setting up New Foundry with High Pressure Moulding Line, Induction Furnace, Automated Sand Plant and other auxiliary equipments required for Foundry operations.

High end Experience in Manufacturing, Quality Management, Maintenance, Process Enhancement and Service Engineering.

Experience in minimizing performance bottlenecks for achieving high productivity with minimization of men, material & machine. Demonstrated abilities in controlling parameters pertaining to operational efficiency, material consumption, rejections, inventories, tools & consumables.

Successfully able to Lead, and become first foundry in country to implement TPM in shopfloor. SPRL awarded with TPM Special Award

An effective communicator with excellent relationship, management skills and strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.

Possess excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.

Planning, routing, and scheduling to meet the monthly production targets on daily basis.

Implementing new processes as per requirement.

Devising solutions for the problems by implementing methods of scientific analysis.

Designing & developing special tools & low cost automation equipments for enhancing productivity

Implementing specific improvement plans taken up to improve ancillary operation by close monitoring of performance in terms of rejection and nonconformity.

Lead and implement Business Excellence Lean Program like SMT successfully across both plant.

Worked on Special Projects with our Collobrator Riken, Japan and exceeded better than Japan in various parameters like Energy Consumption, Yield Improvement and Cost Reduction other than Rejection Reduction and Metallurgical Control at our Ghaziabad Plant

Was responsible in implementing EMS (ISO 14000) and TS 16949 other than production and maintenance.

Also Responsible for Developing Ancillaries (Vendor) for

Ring Splitting/Machining Activities in the field of Supply Chain.

REPORTING TO Chief Manager- Foundry

Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete projects on time.

Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.

REPORTING TO General Manager- production

Controlling all METALLURGICAL aspects of Iron, Cast Iron, Steel Items from Melting to Micro-examination & SAND TESTING facilities. Worked as an INTERNAL QUALITY AUDITOR for ISO 9002, contributed for achievement of ISO 9002 and development of different grades of S.G.IRON/Ductile Iron for Hyundai, Telco. Also, Contributed for the certification of QS 9000.

REPORTING TO Global Head (Italy) - Quality

A joint venture between Kalyani Group India and Teksid SPA, Italy ( Associated to Fiat Auto, Italy). Second largest producer of automobile component in the world of Grey Iron & Ductile/S.G.Iron. I was sponsored for a project in Foundry Process at Teksid Plant in CARMAGNOLA, ITALY. Handled specific task in Quality Assurance of Carmagnola plant concerning METROLOGY, NON DESTRUCTIVE TEST TECHNIQUES (ULTRASONIC, X-RAYS).

REPORTING TO General Manager- production

It is a 100% EOU and an associate of M/S R.B. AGGARWAL & CO. Calcutta, which is India’s largest exporter of Iron casting with export quantity exceeding 36K tons p.a. The unit at Goa is the manufacturer of Ductile Iron pipe fitting and Manhole covers.

I have contributed myself for achieving EN-124 specification (Equivalent to ISO 9001).

REPORTING TO Works Manager- Foundry

The Company manufactures all grade iron automobile casting for various Blue chip companies like Hero Honda, Telco, and Hercules Hoist.