Rahul Nadig Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, Us

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, De

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, De

•Developed and implemented a process to qualify the parts from Broker to support procurement, planning & manufacturing.•Lead the project to implement ‘Dock to stock’ process to eliminate part inspection process, yielding cost savings of $50K.•Lead the project & supported NPI to qualify the Suppliers and the parts for a new class II medical device.•Lead the project to covert a consignment model of procurement of Keyboard assembly to Turnkey model resulting in a cost savings of $200K per year.•Developed the process to qualify new suppliers and Supplier changes through supplier production part approval process (SPAP).•Lead the project to implement 3D Automated optical inspection (AOI) at the PCBA contract manufacturer & reduced the quality issues by 30% & resulting in cost saving of $100K.•Lead the audits at the Suppliers to improve their process and quality systems.•Lead the projects in qualifying the Suppliers & the parts for the design improvement projects from R&D. •Supported the external audits such as ISO 13485/MDSAP in the backroom staff & as an auditee.•Solving the Design & process related Supplier quality issues by issuing & monitoring nonconformance & corrective action reports.•Lead and owned the CAPAs to solve the Supplier issues, & improved the Supplier qualification process.•Evaluating & executing both the design & process changes at the Supplier through Engineering change management system.•Creating inspection rationale for incoming inspection by reviewing design control documents & defining statistical sampling plans.•Reviewing and approving First article inspection (FAI) based on assessing the design changes. •Overseeing the maintenance of approved supplier list, supplier corrective action and the monitoring of supplier performance.•Maintaining and presenting quality records and Monthly Supplier Quality Metrics to the management.

Austin, Texas, Us

Roles & Responsibilities• Problem-solver.• Reliability Engineering & Root cause analysis.• Implementing Quality tools like 8D, FMEA, Ishikawa, 5 why.• On-site quality analysis, performing containment activities and arranging for disposition.• Development and Improvement of the Quality Management system.• Leading cross-functional teams to drive process and product improvements.• Performing 5S activities.Projects:• Resolved the field quality issues for All the Tesla variants using 8D problem solving methodologies.• Developed a system to recover the costs of the field returned Model 3 parts by liaising with Service and Reliability Engineering.

Auburn, Al, Us

Physics department- Teaching-assistant for the Undergraduate level Physics course offered by David Patrick, attended by 40-50 students.- Conducting weekly meetings, Tutoring undergrads, grading and critiquing projects and exams.

Austin, Texas, Us

Service Quality Intern,Roles & Responsibilities• Problem-solver.• Reliability Engineering & Root cause analysis.• Implementing Quality tools like 8D, FMEA, Ishikawa, 5 why.• On-site quality analysis, performing containment activities and arranging for disposition.• Development and Improvement of the Quality Management system.• Leading cross-functional teams to drive process and product improvements.• Performing 5S activities.Projects handled:• Handled & Resolved the field return issues for all the Tesla model variants using the 8D methodologies and tools.• Developed a system to recover the costs of the field returned Model 3 parts by liaising with Service and Reliability Engineering.• Developed a quality system through JIRA to monitor and track the throughput of service testing operations. • Implemented countermeasures for one of the top issues, Model X ‘window noise' and achieved 20% drop in service operation costs.• Reduced the occurrence rate of the Model X ‘strut cover issue’ by 25% in the field.• Reduced the cycle time of the Service testing operations by implementing 5S principles in the testing area.• Created a system to reduce the inventory buildup through SPC model by tracking the incoming parts and their disposition timeline.• Conducted time study at the repair station to eliminate the wastes regarding lack of resources, repair backlogs & productivity.• Conducted failure analysis for Model S/X components and determined their failure modes by liaising with Reliability Engineering.

Mt. Prospect, Il, Us

Senior Engineer, Supplier Quality• Resolved the supplier related quality issues for Common rail & Inline fuel injection pump components using the 8D approach.• In-charge of incoming quality inspection of the automotive child part components of the Diesel fuel injection system.• Achieved 25 % reduction in the scrapped surface treated common rail parts through process improvement at the supplier.• Reduced the inspection lead time by 30% after revisiting inspection plans and implementing electronic gauges.• Involved in localizing the glow plugs manufacturing supplier with the purchasing team and thereby reducing the cost by 20%.• Participated in the supplier qualification and selection process (APQP) and monitoring & signing off on PPAP documents.• Improved the process flow at the suppliers by revisiting their PFMEAs and control plans.• Coordinator for reviewing the supplier 8Ds for all the value-streams.• Lead the project to sensitize the suppliers with the critical parameters and to implement SPC and Poke Yoke at their processes.• Lead the Process capability studies at Production value stream and the Tier-1 suppliers to prevent quality issues.• Monitored the Quality improvements at the Tier-1 suppliers by conducting monthly audits.• Gained good grasp on the knowledge of components in the diesel engine and their criticality of meeting the design.

Graduate apprentice Trainee in Production Planning:• Production In-charge - ARGO 1000 & ARGO 2000, Self Loading Mobile Concrete mixers.• Analysed the production line with Gemba walk and designed an algorithm to reduce the throughput time of the assembly process by reducing the inspection time, move time and queue time.• In-charge of production activities, job allocation, developing work instructions, Control plan and equipment specifications for the production activities.

Eskilstuna, Se

Gained an overview in Industrial Operations Management• Worked towards understanding the core principles of the Volvo Production System (VPS) like Just-in-time, process stability, built-in-quality, continuous improvement and teamwork to name a few.• Completed a project on “Inventory Record Accuracy”, for reducing the gap between physical and system stock. • Developed an algorithm to ensure the reduction of Inventory aiming at functioning without interruption of operations and to eliminate the annual inventory audit.

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E), Mechanical Engineering

All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Secondary School

All India Secondary School Examination, High School