BALAKRISHNAN NAGARAJAN
Villupuram
Summary
Multi-talented Senior Manager well-versed and highly effective at developing, executing and directing key improvements to enable business enhancements and growth. Visionary leader with solid success leading business operations toward growth. Accomplished industry leader offering 21 years of experience management expertise including staff training and development, performance evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager - Manufacturing
Poclain Hydraulics
Pondicherry
01.2010 - Current
- Lead Manufacturing team to achieve the overall plant's Production targets with Quality Standards
- Drive, Track, maintain all key Five Metrics be Green on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Productivity targets
- Manages successfully Customer Audits like John deere, Caterpillar and implement the outcomes to strengthen the manufacturing process
- Performing appraisal and team development activities through evaluating the performance of all production personnel from Operators to Shift Engineers and provide constructive feedback to employees regularly, offer support and counselling on performance issues
- Manage & Plan Operator resources and work with HR on hiring Contract resources based on interim and prospective manufacturing demands
- Effective Coloration with Inhouse/Supplier Quality, Manufacturing engineering, Maintenance Team during any critical quality issue and solving through Systematic approach like 8D methodology, Six Sigma & Seven QC Tools
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Plant Maintenance & other Stakeholders on Cell enhancement, new manufacturing Setups, Equipment Procurements, layout modifications and other infra/facility related activities to meet Organization Roadmap
- Implement, maintain 6S and facilitate trainings on multiskilling of Operators to Cell leads
- Make sure KPI targets to meet on Daily, Weekly, Monthly report and implement Kaizen on the shop floor
- Monitor, Track, solve through effective actions on discussions in Line, Production & Plant QRQC / SIM to drive towards “Zero rejection concepts”
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, Process Improvements to enhance productivity, reduce waste, Rework, Controlling WIP inventory and improve product quality
- Maintain work place clean and safe plant, collaborating with Safety and Environmental Coordinator to ensure compliance with Local & Indian Industry safety regulations
- Implementation of part traceability for assembly process to have better control
- Various initiates on real time data updates on production qty, in house FPY PPM for better control.
Senior Engineer - Manufacturing Engineering
Cooper Bussmann
Pondicherry
09.2010 - 01.2012
- Lead the project & process improvement team for manufacturing line set-up for Domestic & International product transfers & Engineering changes aligned to five stage corporate Project Tollgate processes
- Lead & Driving Plant Maintenance Team to implement various systems & controls for reducing downtime by thorough Planned Maintenance & spare management
- Executing the Industrial Engineering team for balancing the Machines & Operators with optimum material flow path in optimized layout for Mfg cells through MSD (Manufacturing System Design) frame work
- Supporting OSHA – OSHME & EMS to achieve corporate deployed target score by through engineering controls
- Effectively lead: Operations & maintenance revenue budget's aligning to company's fiscal policy
- Submission of AFEʼs for overall Indian Unit and proposal making for meeting good pay back & IRR
- Creation & correlation of capital investments with MSDʼs (Manufacturing System Designs) for all projects by making cross functional interactions with Sales, Product Management, Planning, Product Development & Production Teams
- Global Manufacturing Engineering Team to roll out cost effective qualitative shorter lead time project implementations, by utilizing Indian Manufacturing Engineering.
Assistant Manager- Maintenance
Mando India Limited
Chennai
11.2007 - 09.2010
- Plan and oversee execution of overall maintenance activities (TPM, Preventive, Predictive maintenance) of all kind of Production Equipment, Utilities
- Planning Budget on Capex, Revex & track utilization on expenditures
- Drive Team and ensure MTTR, MTBF under Control
- Installation and commissioning of new equipment's during plant expansions
- Track and control the maintenance spares cost, optimize the repairs, power and fuel expenses
- Perform analysis on MIS reports and perform root cause analysis for all critical breakdowns
- Plan Shifts (contractual + temporary) with respect to Production plan to ensure proper maintenance operation without line stoppages due to unavailability of manpower
- Company's asset management & support finance for capital audit
- Spares management & inventory control for assembly and machine shops.
Superintendent
TVS Motors
Hosur
08.2006 - 11.2007
- In charge of tracking daily equipment downtime and developing preventative actions for recurring phenomena on plant welding, engine assembly, vehicle assembly, and paint shop sectors
- Renovation: 15 CNC Robo drilling obsolete machines are being refurbished to make FLAME motorcycles, a new product
- Part of Predictive maintenance implemented Thermographic and vibration analysis for vital equipment's
- Locating regions of energy waste, removing them using energy-saving devices, and modifying the PLC logic
- Resource planning.
GET & Engineer
Mando Brake Systems India Private limited
Chennai
09.2003 - 07.2006
- Perform preventive and predictive maintenance on equipment as scheduled
- Perform troubleshooting CNC machines, including FANUC-controlled Doosan, Makino, BFW, and AMS equipment
- Monitoring daily equipment downtime and implementing preventative steps for recurring issues
- Maintaining records and carrying out TS 16949 activities
- Reduced frequent equipment failure in milling machine by replacing traditional relay with solid state relay
- Real-time clock (RTC) helps save energy in plant lighting systems
- Standardized and upgraded PLCs from Messung to Mitsubishi.
Education
BE (EEE) -
Alagappa Chettiar Govt College of Engineering
Karaikudi, Tamilnadu05.2003
Skills
- Versatile Operation Manager
- Production Engineering
- Maintenance Engineering
- Infrastructures & Facility Management
- Operations Management
- Employee Scheduling
- Task Delegation
- Employee Performance Evaluations
- Cost Reduction
- Recruiting and interviewing
- Operation Planning
- Resource Allocation
- Strategic Planning
- Budget Oversight
- Plant and Manufacturing Expansion
- Human Resources Management
- Cross-Functional Communication
- Industrial engineering
- Reporting management
- Organizational improvement
- Talent Development
- Business performance management
- Data-driven decision-making
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Overseas Experience
- Equipment Procurement
- Organizational Development
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Employee performance evaluation
Certification
- Internal auditor for ISO 45001:2018 & ISO 14001:2015
- Sig Sigma Green belt
- ISO50001:2018
Languages
- Tamil
- English
Hobbies and Interests
- Digitalization, Data mining & Industry 4.0
- PLM implementation
- Cost Effective solution and adopting new manufacturing technology.
Timeline
Senior Engineer - Manufacturing Engineering
Cooper Bussmann
09.2010 - 01.2012
Senior Manager - Manufacturing
Poclain Hydraulics
01.2010 - Current
Assistant Manager- Maintenance
Mando India Limited
11.2007 - 09.2010
Superintendent
TVS Motors
08.2006 - 11.2007
GET & Engineer
Mando Brake Systems India Private limited
09.2003 - 07.2006
BE (EEE) -
Alagappa Chettiar Govt College of Engineering
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