V AMIR KUMAR PATRO

• Managed production of 6,000 metering boxes and panels with several vendors yearly.
• Managed the planning of activities with vendors.
• Coordinated the end-to-end process for tendering, costing, and purchasing of materials amounting to around 900 MINR each year.
• Reduced costs by 100 MINR via strategic supplier agreement negotiations.
• Implemented sourcing strategies and developed alternate vendor sources.
• Monitored vendor operations to ensure adherence to quality benchmarks.
• Manages supplier performance, monitoring on-time delivery, quality, and lead time.
• Deployed methodologies to analyze processes and minimize escalations.
• Attended purchase functional benchmarking event, contributing to industry knowledge sharing and representing the purchase department from AIS.
• Worked with production and quality teams to address potential issues using kaizen principles.
• Collaborated with marketing team and product manager to share cost-saving ideas aligned with technical specifications.

Key Role: QC and SQA and Production

• Verified and validated MV switchgear products.
• Oversaw customer and third-party inspections with companies such as Petrofec, KOC, OPTCL, Jindal, Reliance, Adani, and NTPC.
• Developed and maintained test facilities and methods.
• Analyzed quality issues and implemented resolutions.
• Ensured compliance with ISO 9001 through diligent vendor inspections.

• Check the Bill of Material as per Drawing.
• As per decided production chart independently doing Planning and scheduling activity at production shop as per decided target.
• Taking complete responsibility for completion of panel at production shop.
• With help design and quality person ensuring quality product to be made also taking active part to improvement initiative.
  Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst team members.
• Working on succession planning of the workforce, shift management activities and appraising the member’s performance & providing feedback.

• Preparation of costing of panel as per the customer specification.
• Preparation of G.A, SLD, BOM and Schematic Diagram for all type of L.T panel as per as Consultant SLD.
• Take technical approval of drawings from the customer.
• Commissioning & Installation of VFD in various applications like Fan, Pump, Lift, Textile, and Conveyer in various industries like GEMSCAB, Delton etc.
• Servicing of various VFD like VACON, DANFORSS, SIEMENS, ABB etc.

• Inspection and Testing of LV Switchboards as per Drawings & Specifications.
• Megger and High voltage test of all panels.
• Develop Inspection Checklists & Test Procedures & Standard Operating Procedures for manufacturing process control, QC inspection and customer inspections.
• Decide Corrective & Preventive Actions for continuous quality improvement based on analysis of rework / rejection, Quality Audits and Customer complaints & feedback.
• Preparation ASBUILT drawing with help of Auto CAAD.
• Commissioning & Installation of VFD in various applications like Fan, Pump, Lift, Textile, and Conveyer in various industries like GEMSCAB, Delton etc.
• Wide experience of various projects for domestic and export quality Motor Control, Power Control Centre, VFD, AMF and PLC Panel etc.
• Develop Logic and Programming of various Intelligent Relay like Siemens and Areva as per customer requirement.

• Professional Development Courses: Pursuing Certificate Programme in Project Management from IIT, Delhi.

Achievement

• 2016 : Employee Engagement Reward-Gold in 2016.
• 2017: PI Award for automation initiatives at Larsen & Toubro Limited.
• 2020: Collaboration Value under Productivity Improvement Initiative-LC6 Category.
• 2021: Relentless Order Execution under Business Excellence Category Award.
• 2022: Agile Project Execution under Business Excellence Category Award.
• 2022: Collaboration Value under Break Through Order Execution Category Award.
• 2023: NWC Improvement under Business Excellence Category Award.
• 2024: Lean Six Sigma under Business Excellence Category Award.