Neel Bhalaria Email & Phone Number

Family run enterprise which manufactures a range of sheet metal products. Customers spread over 75 countries include hotel and food services organisations to industrial OEM products.Key Contributions included:• Tapping into new markets and exhibiting the company at trade shows.• Shop Floor Manufacturing Controls: Designed, fabricated and maintained tooling's and administered the workflow of materials.• Quality Control and Quality Assurance Roles: Introduced concepts of TQM, Quality Circles and Six Sigma quality management to help achieve international standards within local conditions.• Supply Chain issues: Dealt with suppliers and introduced ERP (basic) to ensure continuous flow of inputs.• Back office Administration, cost control management and CRM: Seven week assignment to in-house strategic reorganization team. Activities included top-down, bottom-up analysis and reorganization of various manufacturing, cost control and client management processes for competitive positioning within a challenging domestic and global marketplace. • Led the task team for manufacturing process change – relating changes with ultimate customer needs.

Electrical Business Group managed R&D, Design, Manufacturing and Marketing for various products for the power industry, transit and transportation industry and consumer sectors.• As Implant Trainee was assigned to various roles with the Business Units including Human Resources, Productivity Enhancement, and manufacturing R &D.• At HR was exposed to numerous issues of labor management and compensation mechanisms.• Involved for a week long in-house exercise in value engineering and product pricing seminar.• Participated in Six Sigma implementation on two product lines that eventually resulted in higher Cp, Cp K value.

Heavy Engineering Division• Served as Engineering/Management Trainee at company's largest business unit based in Mumbai.• Exposed to a variety of tasks from safety review and assessment to in-house training issues of OHSHAS (Occupational health and safety) and regulatory certifications.• Complied and analyzed detailed cost –benefits resulting from accident and fault prevention processes. • Developed predicative spreadsheet based database and model to track per unit savings for each contiguous seven day accident free/ fault free production cycle, quantified time savings as a factor of cost reduction.

Mba, Management

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association, Vice President of Sister Organizations Graduate Marketing Organization, Vice.

Engineering, Production (Industrial)

Activities and Societies: Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering, (Vice President); Indian Society of Manufacturing Engineers, (Member)

Diploma In Engineering, Production (Industrial)