Uday Arun Ghatge
Bengaluru
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate, successful at managing multiple priorities, with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Results-driven Program Manager known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Skilled in strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Excel at using leadership, problem-solving, and adaptability to deliver projects on time and meet objectives. Bring focus on continuous improvement and team collaboration to drive success in complex environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Stumpp Schuele Casings Private Limited
Ck Palli
06.2024 - 03.2026
- Led end-to-end program execution for factory operationalization (excluding civil works), coordinating production, quality, supply chain, compliance, maintenance, and logistics functions.
- Owned component homologation and qualification programs, securing regulatory approvals and enabling transition from import to serial production.
- Managed Transfer of Technology (ToT) from joint-venture partner, driving documentation control, process handover, localization, and production stabilization.
- Planned and governed production, inspection, PDI, and phased dispatch programs, delivering 5+ million rounds of ammunition with 100% on-time compliance.
- Established program governance frameworks, SOPs, trackers, and dashboards to ensure schedule adherence, risk mitigation, and audit readiness.
- Led cross-functional and multi-stakeholder coordination with customers, vendors, regulators, and JV partners to align program objectives and execution.
- Facilitated regulatory inspections and defence audits, achieving zero major non-conformities.
- Drove continuous improvement initiatives to optimize workflows, inventory levels, and operational efficiency across departments.
- Built and led high-performing teams, promoting accountability, structured communication, and a problem-solving culture.
- Provided regular program status reporting, risk assessments, and corrective action recommendations to senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
- Delegated work to staff, setting priorities and goals.
Junior Quality Engineer
MultiTech Industries
Chicago
06.2023 - 05.2024
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement effective quality control processes.
- Served as an essential point of contact for quality-related inquiries from both internal stakeholders and external customers, providing prompt and accurate information to resolve concerns effectively.
- Led the quality optimization process by programming the CMM to gradually automate all incoming inspection requirements.
- Proactively collaborated with design engineer to develop 3D printed fixtures for CMM that further reduced inspection time.
- Partnered with senior management in research and developments of new parts prior to PPAP.
- Worked with engineering team and operators to drive corrective action and ensured conformance.
- Built relationship with vendors and suppliers to synergistically improve quality of product and services.
- Worked with project engineer to conduct APQP meeting and set up part launches.
- Improved PPAP log by 15% by supporting PPAP engineer with annual validations and other data collection activity,
Process Engineer Intern
Abigail Enterprises
06.2022 - 07.2022
- Worked with engineering team to develop new plans for safety and coordination of labor to reduce hazards by 9% and overtime by 11%
- Re-vamped the inventory and began implementing alpha numeric bin system for inventory to increase efficiency by 25%.
Quality Engineering Intern
Wienerberger
02.2021 - 03.2021
- Assisted Quality team in taking samples and interpreting the data collected
- Worked with Supply chain team to optimize the storage and decrease loading time and labor by 15% by adding crane at loading dock
- Implemented an additional safety measure in the stockyard
- Proposed a with idea on how to move material in facility much faster and reduce labor required by 20%.
Industrial Engineer Intern
Stumpp Schuele and Somappa
05.2019 - 06.2019
- Improved worker safety by implementing laser and double hand safety feature on punch press
- Worked with Industrial engineers to implemented lean management resulting in increased efficiency by 13%
- Conducted several time studies and increased the efficiency in grinding wheel changing time by 45% by automation.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Engineering Management -
University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago, IL12.2022
Skills
- Microsoft office suite
- Operational Improvements
- Control Plan Development
- PPAP Submissions
- Lean Six Sigma
- Inspections
- Quality Control Testing
- Team Collaboration
- Team Leadership
- CMM programmer
- Relationship Building
- Critical Thinking
- Safety and Risk Assessments
- Lean Manufacturing Principles
- Continuous Improvements
- Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
- Client Relations
- Fixture design
- Part Programming
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Compliance management
- Production planning
- Quality control
- Tech transfer processes
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
- Project management
- Vendor sourcing
- Lean / six sigma
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Operations management
- Effective negotiations
- Process engineering
- Vendor relationship management
- Recruitment and hiring
Certification
- Supply chain logistics (Rutgers University)
- Supply chain Operations (Rutgers University)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (C.S.S.C)
- Zeiss Calypso basic
- Zeiss Calypso advanced
Projects
O'Hare Airport Terminal Utilization Simulation Project, UIC, 2021
Using flight records available from the O'Hare Airport, the team and I modeled an airplane arrival function using a Gamma distribution that passes a 95% confidence Chi-Squared goodness-of-fit test and used this data to simulate Airport terminal utilization in Arena.
Safety project, UIC, 2021,
Analyzed a safety hazard that existed, the team and I presented a detailed report on why it occurs and how it can be prevented. We also provided a solution on how such incidents can be prevented by using safety equipment and following safety guidelines.
Plant layout project, UIC, 2022
Took an existing production floor layout, analyzed the bottlenecks. Redesigned the whole plant layout using Visio and improved the production capacity and efficiency of the factory by 23%.
Timeline
Program Manager
Stumpp Schuele Casings Private Limited
06.2024 - 03.2026
Junior Quality Engineer
MultiTech Industries
06.2023 - 05.2024
Process Engineer Intern
Abigail Enterprises
06.2022 - 07.2022
Quality Engineering Intern
Wienerberger
02.2021 - 03.2021
Industrial Engineer Intern
Stumpp Schuele and Somappa
05.2019 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Science: Engineering Management -
University of Illinois At Chicago