Nitin Pagar Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Leading the Plant Quality management team of highly motivated team members ensuring quality of cars rolling out of factory meets customer requirements while driving continuous improvement in processes.- Lead and facilitate strategic projects, programs and initiatives by translating organizational quality goals and objectives into team’s target agreements by liaising with global Mercedes-Benz standards. - Develop, establish and monitor supplier performance metrics and work closely with suppliers to improve quality of products and sustainable business practices in compliance with global Mercedes- Benz standards. - Collaborate with the NPD department and other functional teams to integrate quality standards into product development and manufacturing processes. - Planning of equipment’s, tools, facility for new model introduction and ensure timely on the job training of team members to achieve desired Quality release.- Represent the department in customer services meetings and manage the customer complaint investigation process, including the root cause analysis, corrective actions and preventive measures.- Provide strategic insights and reports to top management on quality metrics, improvements and customer feedback.- Facilitating cross-functional achievements through KAIZEN, CIW, Suggestions and identification of chronic issues for six sigma projects with technical skill development of team members.- Planning and monitoring of different types of audits at suppliers, extended workbenches, in-house outsourced operations to ensure stable and sustainable quality of products and processes.- Leading the team for preparations of audits such as Q-releases, Surveillance audit, IMS, VDA audits and External audits such as IATF16949, ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, ISO50001 certifications by TUV SUD.

Moscow, Russian Federation

- Start-up of Green field new Mercedes-Benz plant in Russia been responsible for Planning, installation, commissioning & start-up of various Paint Shop Processes.- Leading a team of 4 Managers, 3 Engineers and 120 team members for planning day-to-day strategies, budgets, production schedules along with resource allocation to achieve production goals with optimum efficiency.- Providing strategic, operational, financial, and managerial leadership for successful implementation of production activities in stipulated time, cost and quality.- Steering efforts in implementing quality standards and structuring processes, control plans for manufacturing operations & ensuring accomplishment of monthly targets.- Reducing rejection level/rework by maximizing interface with internal suppliers (Press Shop, Body Shop) and Customers (Assembly and Quality) to resolve quality related concerns thus improving overall Quality. - Guiding and mentoring team to reduce cost per vehicle focusing on areas such as Quality, Productivity, energy reduction, process optimizations resulting in HPV reduction and meeting overall cost targets.- Mentoring, motivating & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations, tracking performance, qualification of employees and making development plan for them in line with corporate values.- Lead the team for the ramp up of Plant to its full capacity by optimization of workflow, analyzing the incoming defects and taking backward actions through strong feedback loops.- Work closely with Planning team to evaluate new processes, participate in supplier engagement, lead production tryouts during engineering changes and new product start-up phases. -Steering shop floor management meeting for monitoring of KPI’s such as safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Morale in line with production plan.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Lead the team of Assembly Shop operations consists of 5 Managers and 100 team members responsible for 2 trim lines, 1 Mechanical line, Documentation, IS Testing and Rectification.- Start -up of new models exposed with multi discipline talent, approach and experience while dealing with international team adaptability to meet launch deadlines.- Implementing various production strategies such as line balancing, planning workflow & schedules with long term and short-term impact monitoring to manage high volume volatility ensuring timely delivery of cars to the market.- Liaising with manufacturing teams and management for evolving strategic vision, driving change, infusing new ideas and planning continuous improvement programs.- Diligently planning for materials and inventory management, performing regular inventory checks and maintaining stock level Adhering to SOPs, manuals & work instructions for production operations for the unit.- Developed team flexibility and capability via building the 1st champion car concept for New model introduction.- Successful implementation of shopping cart concept (Warren Korb) as a part of lean manufacturing on the assembly line with the help of MPS and Industrial Engineering.- Develop equipment communization concept to increase line flexibility wherever Multimodel model approach is possible without higher investment.- Highly involved in fostering a collaboration with employee union members to develop win-win discussion between management and work force.- Project management and new model introduction in co-ordination with the Engineering, production planning and PBA CKD planning from Germany.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Paint Shop Operations-Successfully led the Paint shop team to secure Green Q-release for the new paint shop in co-ordination with trainers from Mercedes-Benz AG and proving of the paint shop for the series production.-Established paint shop as benchmark for CKD plants in Daimler world.-Successfully implemented 7-axis robot concept for the first time in India.-Training of Brazilian CKD plant team for technical and operational concept In India.-Improved Internal Customer (Vehicle Testing) focus with ‘ZERO’ shower Leakages for 4000 cars.-‘ZERO’ rework due to Paint Shop issues at Finish line for consecutive 25 weeks.-Paint cost reduction by 30% with optimization of robot parameters and monitoring Top up in paint mix room on daily basis.-Strategy planning for all the paint shop operations to ensure capacity utilization with optimum efficiency and co-ordination with contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, vendors for the start-up of critical processes-Programming of PTED hanger movement with Eisenman programmers and paint suppliers.-Planning the equipment requirements for the new model introduction and new color introduction.-Stress test co-ordination with Eisenman Engineers to identify bottlenecks in the processes.-Co-ordination with other CKD countries for Knowledge sharing and best practice implementation.-Review and monitor of all the statutory and regulatory requirements related to paint shop such as health, Safety, Environment, Energy management and emergency preparedness in compliant with the IATF16949, ISO9001, ISO 14001, ISO45001, ISO50001, VDA 6.3 standards and other government regulations.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Planning, Commissioning, and start-up of 1Primer and 2Top-Coat Booths after fire Incident in Tata motors for ramp-up of Paint Shop to 54 JPH capacity.- Set-up of Paint Mix Room with additional lines to accommodate new color introduction in future with the new return line concept.-Initiated RFQ’s, evaluated commercial & technical proposals from suppliers.- Offline and Online Programming of ABB Painting robots along with ABB.- Set up and Fine-tuning of all the ovens to meet the baking conditions with reduced cost consumption.-Set up of ASUs, AHUs, Heat recovery system, Booth balancing and sludge collector scrubber system.- Implementing low-cost automation to improve efficiency, quality and reliability.