Raghav Sood Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

• Responsible for entire operations perimeter of new programs within interiors, seating, safety restraints, and labels commodities• Led new product development builds and ramps through risk management, bottleneck resolution, and cross-functional alignment between 10+ teams, resulting in launch of 5 vehicle-level NPI programs• Developed risk mitigation plans for 6M’s of manufacturing to enable strategic decisions on program KPIs (scope, schedule, budget, and quality); thereby maximizing first pass yield to ~97%• Released Bill of Materials (eBOM / mBOM) and master data structures to facilitate on-time sourcing milestones and integrate design intent into manufacturing operations; improving operational efficiency by ~15%• Optimized 4+ operations including commonization of PPAP processes, synchronization of PO and BOM changes, and simplification of supply continuity methods to streamline program transition to sustaining; reducing obsolescence costs by ~$6.5M• Harmonized data flow between PLM / ERP / MES systems to ensure overall manufacturing readiness against changing product design, quality, and costs; saving $300k in material and equipment costs• Implemented Design for Manufacturing (DfM) part changes through Root Cause Analyses (RCA) to eliminate production roadblocks, increasing production output by 3x cars per shift

Austin, Texas, Us

• Responsible for manufacturing perimeter of new programs within interiors, seating and safety restraints commodities• Led Change Control Board (CCB) meetings and completed >100 line trials to determine engineering change feasibility, conduct change analyses, and evaluate impact to manufacturing; ensuring continued ramp capability for 1,000+ part numbers• Executed 12 Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) across NPI build phases to support critical tooling validation and confirm sustained run-at-rate capability, yielding a 33% increase in production output efficiency• Owned end-to-end Manufacturing Execution System (MES) integration across Supply Chain, Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Production to ensure operational readiness for and during pilot builds; resulting in minimal production downtime• Created dependency-based roadmaps / Gantt charts highlighting roadblocks and countermeasures per milestone / gate review

Columbus, Indiana, Us

• Drafted DVP&Rs / FMEAs / ESWs by identifying and ranking critical risks to realize feasibility of functional requirements• Performed technical validation tasks to identify areas of improvements in system performance prior to design freeze

Columbus, Indiana, Us

• Led technical field failure analyses (formulating Fault Tree Analysis, applying short-term containments, determining assignable and Root causes, and implementing long-term solution) to improve product reliability, reducing warranty costs by ~$250k• Prepared system-level validation plans to confirm product technical specifications against customer requirements

Columbus, Indiana, Us

• Built part prototypes through CAD modelling and shop fabrication to verify functional parameters for improved performance

Pune, Maharashtra, In

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme