Hi, I’m
Yogesh Premraj Kale
Premraj
Hyderabad
Overview
19
years of professional experience
Work History
ZF TCI Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad, India
Senior Team Manager (Product Line Structural parts)
08.2013 - Current
Job overview
- Leading a team as Senior Manager (GL6-B1) for Product line structural parts R&D team (Design responsible for chassis components ball joints, Control arms, knuckles, and hubs)
- Leading assigned team members while taking care of constant growth of their competency
- Perform long term resource planning and allocation to ensure the sufficient stuffing in projects
- Being point of contact to Project-Management in terms of project escalations
- Define and motivate team internal and department-wide process improvements forward
- Defining and executing process improvements with team internal SE teams.
- Responsible to organize regular status meetings with customers to ensure customer satisfaction and strategic coordination in alignment with the relevant management levels at customer and ZF engineering.
- Performing new product presentations for customers and support project acquisition activities, maintain close relationship with customers
- Responsible to establishment of Quality Management System (based on ISO 9001) process landscape for R&D team
- Read the market trend collecting customer pain points from technical perspective and support customer specific promotion strategy set up with Sales. Be the on-site partner near customer location in order to provide self-responsibly technical support for the customer.
- Component failure analysis and technical support / Technical issue resolution
- Supporting technical sales office working out long term business development strategies.
- PL: Car Chassis Components
- Profile description: Senior Team Manager (Product Line Structural parts)
Behr India Pvt. Ltd. – Engineering Service – Pune, India
Design Engineer Oil coolers & Battery cooling
02.2011 - 07.2013
Job overview
- Component design of Chiller, Cooling plate, Cooling systems and other brazed aluminum heat exchangers for major OEM’s like Audi, Volvo, PSA, BMW, Daimler, Ford, Renault, VW etc.
- Concepts & proposal design in acquisition. Design & drawings for series production, cooling plate layout in Battery package and plate design, data management and part structure release for prototype shop & production plant. Worked on new stack plate development for Chiller and oil coolers.
- Dimensional and tolerance analysis of stamped chiller parts using scanned data of hardware parts.
- Profile description: Design Engineer Oil coolers & Battery cooling
Addeco India (Onsite: THERMAX India Ltd. Pune)
Structural Design Engineer: ESP department
08.2010 - 02.2011
Job overview
- Design and drafting of Monorail for ESP.
- Design and drafting of Gussets for ESP columns.
- Preparation and release of GA drawings for customers.
- Conversion of design empirical formulas to excel format.
- Profile description: Structural Design Engineer: ESP department
GKN Sinter Metals Pvt. Ltd. Pune
Assistant Manager, Production
09.2006 - 08.2010
Job overview
- Handling production process operations, developing process improvement techniques & implementing various systems in the organization.
- Developing process & planning schedules, implementing policies & achieving targets consistently.
- Responsible for daily and monthly production targets.
- Possess excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical & negotiation skills with strong organizational & team building abilities. Exposure to ISO/TS 16949 and Lean and kaizen methodologies.
- Profile description: Assistant Manager, Production
Education
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Bachelor of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
04.2006
MSBTE Board
Diploma from Mechanical Engineering
04.2003
Skills
Communication Skills: English: Fluent in reading, writing & speaking German: A1 level
Technical Skills: Engineering Design & Technical drawing with GD&T CATIA V5: 10 years of work experience Working experience of Axalant Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Interests
Playing Badminton, listening to music
CORE COMPETENCIES
- People management
- Project management
- Customer engineering management
- New product development
- Process improvement
- VA/VE activities
Timeline
Senior Team Manager (Product Line Structural parts)
ZF TCI Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad, India
08.2013 - Current
Design Engineer Oil coolers & Battery cooling
Behr India Pvt. Ltd. – Engineering Service – Pune, India
02.2011 - 07.2013
Structural Design Engineer: ESP department
Addeco India (Onsite: THERMAX India Ltd. Pune)
08.2010 - 02.2011
Assistant Manager, Production
GKN Sinter Metals Pvt. Ltd. Pune
09.2006 - 08.2010
MSBTE Board
Diploma from Mechanical Engineering
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Bachelor of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering