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Prashant Laxman Gawade
Assistant Manager
Wagholi
Summary
Accomplished Assistant Manager with in-depth experience consistently rising through ranks. Well-versed in quality management, testing and manufacturing of automotive electronics and mechanical components. Utilizes strategic planning and problem-solving skills to enhance team productivity and service quality. Dedicated to complete knowledge of company products and services for optimized customer service.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Asst. Manager Quality
Interface Microsystems
Pune, India
03.2022 - Current
- Handling quality-related customer complaints and replying to customers in the form of 8D and CAPA.
- Involved in testing and trials of NPD parts, and vehicle validation at the customer end.
- Responsible for vehicle-level testing during the early product life cycle in coordination with customer engineering teams, like TML ERC and MML MRV.
- Hands-on experience with vehicle diagnostics tools like Canalyser, Garuda, etc.
- Single point of contact for customers and suppliers, located in Maharashtra.
- In charge of the customer support team, based in Pune.
- Responsible for managing the QRE team of 15 members in India, with different customers.
- Conducting process audits at suppliers based in Maharashtra.
- Attending to and solving quality-related issues using QC tools at various customers, such as Tata Motors, Mahindra, Varroc, Marelli Motherson, and Minda Group, etc.
- Responsible for the timely closure of customer concerns, with proper root cause analysis and actions.
- Handled the responsibility of obtaining vehicle-level part validation from government authorities at ARAI and VRDE.
- Overseeing operations at the customer end if any ECNs are created.
- Active member of the core team for failure analysis of products.
- Maintaining communication between various teams, such as sales, production, and quality, as the person in charge of the QRE team.
Senior Quality Engineer
Private Parts Engineering Pty. Ltd.
11.2020 - 09.2021
- Managing a quality team of six members.
- Single point of contact for customers and suppliers.
- Giving notification to the supplier for NC, taking segregation done from them, and making M OM.
- SPC and MSA studies for variables and attributes.
- Effective management of coordination between the production and quality teams.
- Responsible for the total quality of the product, and the quality control system.
- Daily rejection monitoring, analysis, and resolving quality issues with the 8D method.
- Doing corrective actions for NC, and continuously monitoring the performance.
- Possible kaizen, Poka-yoke, and its analysis.
- Monitoring preventive maintenance of jigs, fixtures, and equipment, and planning for inspection.
- Maintaining 5S in the inspection area.
Quality Engineer
SEACO Pvt. Ltd.
03.2016 - 05.2018
- Handling quality-related issues in-house, as well as customer complaints, and replying in the form of 8D and CAPA.
- Interaction with customers for quality issues and special requirements.
- Finding opportunities for Poka-yoke.
- Development of auto ancillary parts: TATA MOTORS bed plate, DAIMLER INDIA tag axle, and differential gear housing.
- Preparing the layout inspection of new part development and support.
- Preparing documents related to APQP, and PPAP.
- Monitoring gauge calibration activity and improving the calibration percentage.
- To guide the Quality Team regarding line quality, final inspection.
- Responsible for on-the-job training for operators regarding precision instruments, documentation.
- Monitoring and implementation of 5S activity.
- Co-ordination and communication with the STD room, store, process engineering, and production.
- In-process inspection of the product, final inspection of the product, and pre-dispatch inspection, DOC audit.
- Implementation of the 7 QC Tools.
- To maintain the process capability, analyze the process defects, and find out permanent and preventive actions to avoid the reoccurrence of the defects.
- Initiation for continual improvement.
- To reduce inspection time by implementing production and quick-checking gauges, special gauges.
- To maintain online SPC of critical parameters, and Gauge R&R.
- Basic knowledge of CMM inspection.
- Handling Customer Complaints.
- Recording and maintaining in-house and customer-end PPM data.
Education
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Wollongong
Australia07-2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Pune
India01-2015
Diploma in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE)
India01-2012
Skills
Electronics Circuit Reading and Interpretation
Team leadership
Decision-making
Certification
5 S
Interests
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that all particulars furnished in this application are true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
PLACE: PUNE
DATE:
(Mr. Gawade Prashant Laxman)
Timeline
Asst. Manager Quality
Interface Microsystems
03.2022 - Current
Senior Quality Engineer
Private Parts Engineering Pty. Ltd.
11.2020 - 09.2021
Quality Engineer
SEACO Pvt. Ltd.
03.2016 - 05.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Pune
Diploma in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE)
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Wollongong