Rakesh Chandekar Email & Phone Number

India

- Developing and implementing strategic plans to promote revenue, profitability, and growth.- Ensuring our product aligns with market needs and maintaining the high quality of products.- Building and maintaining relationships with customers, providing support, information, and guidance.- Leading, guiding, evaluating, and developing a team of senior managers with operational responsibilities.- Preparing budgets, approving budget expenditures, and analyzing budget variances to… Show more - Developing and implementing strategic plans to promote revenue, profitability, and growth.- Ensuring our product aligns with market needs and maintaining the high quality of products.- Building and maintaining relationships with customers, providing support, information, and guidance.- Leading, guiding, evaluating, and developing a team of senior managers with operational responsibilities.- Preparing budgets, approving budget expenditures, and analyzing budget variances to improve cost-efficiency.- Ensuring the organization’s compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.- Driving business development initiatives to identify new market opportunities and partnerships.- Leading sales efforts to achieve revenue targets, including managing key accounts and negotiating contracts.- All powder metallurgical developments and related tasks. Leading and guiding the team of Metallurgists. Show less

India

• Responsible for powder plant operations as an individual business entity in a group• Incorporate Policies and Procedures• Defining strategy for new business development and revenue plan for the year, quarter & month• Developing and implementing new products that meet customer needs or changing existing offerings to meet changing market conditions• Conducting market research studies to identify potential new customers or new uses for existing products or services•… Show more • Responsible for powder plant operations as an individual business entity in a group• Incorporate Policies and Procedures• Defining strategy for new business development and revenue plan for the year, quarter & month• Developing and implementing new products that meet customer needs or changing existing offerings to meet changing market conditions• Conducting market research studies to identify potential new customers or new uses for existing products or services• Monitoring the progress of ongoing projects to ensure that they are on schedule and within budget• Monitoring industry trends and competitor activities to identify areas where additional research or development is needed to maintain competitiveness• Communicating information about new products to customers• Understanding and meeting the needs of all customers as well as addressing the concerns of organization stakeholders.• Key Projects Handled:• New application development for Sinter filter and Sinter brazing for BIMITE powders• Stainless steel SS316 & other series powder development• Cost reduction project for Nitrogen consumption and other consumables• DMRL & DRDO project for cold spraying Show less

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

 Material Selection on RFQ / New Projects  Responsible for Plant metallurgical lab / sintering / Heat treatment process Raw material / HT supplier Process audit / System audit. Resolve day to day metallurgical issues. Handling metallurgical oriented customer quality issues. Field & in house Failure analysis. SEM investigations of failure parts.  Presenting Monthly Department Performance Responsible for Calibration of all metallurgical Furnace… Show more  Material Selection on RFQ / New Projects  Responsible for Plant metallurgical lab / sintering / Heat treatment process Raw material / HT supplier Process audit / System audit. Resolve day to day metallurgical issues. Handling metallurgical oriented customer quality issues. Field & in house Failure analysis. SEM investigations of failure parts.  Presenting Monthly Department Performance Responsible for Calibration of all metallurgical Furnace equipment’s. Knowledge in Heat Treatment, Sintering, Sinter hardening, Carburizing, Carbo Nitriding, Tempering, Nitro carburizing, Steam treatment processes. Supplier development, technical solutions to optimize the product cost with improved quality. To address, Analyze and implement the counter measure and improvements. Microstructure analysis of Sintered, Carburized, Carbonitrided, Hardened & Tempered, Steam Treated components. Knowledge of Induction Hardening Process. Continues Improvements on quality, process and cost reduction in Processes. Hands on Experience in process Trails, establishment, trouble shooting and Special process qualification and productionizing on New Product developments. Knowledge of ISO / TS 16949 & 14001 Keeping up morale of Team members and implementing safety requirements on the shop floor & Lab. Create and maintained an environment in plant for kaizen &”5S” activities. To motivate personnel in active participation in Kaizen & “5S” activities. IMDS Preparation. Show less

Pune Area, India

 Worked in Melting & Atomizing Plant operations which consist of Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), Ladle Refining Furnace (LRF) and Water Jet Atomization unit. In process Quality Inspection& process Development – Increase Production & quality of RAP. Focused on end quality of products and zero customer complaints. Dexterously involved in the development of alternative solutions and recommending appropriate resolution. Accountable for conducting energy reduction and equipment up… Show more  Worked in Melting & Atomizing Plant operations which consist of Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), Ladle Refining Furnace (LRF) and Water Jet Atomization unit. In process Quality Inspection& process Development – Increase Production & quality of RAP. Focused on end quality of products and zero customer complaints. Dexterously involved in the development of alternative solutions and recommending appropriate resolution. Accountable for conducting energy reduction and equipment up gradation. Honed skills in coaching, leading and directing others to success in meeting organization goals.  Continuous improvement in plant performance to achieve budgeted targets, with optimum cost, Consumables, energy, & man power.  Efforts made to ensure that all plant processes were compliant with statutory regulations and standards. Daily use of M3 (ERP) in plant and Training to all end users  Product Development – Customer requirement fulfills. Statutory compliances – Audits, No non conformity in these audits. Quality System Implementation – Internal &External audits, Least Non conformities. Create and maintained an environment in plant for kaizen &”5S” activities. To motivate personnel in active participation in Kaizen & “5S” activities. Certified Internal Auditor for QMS ISO/TS 16949:2009 Certified Internal Auditor for EMS ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007 Show less

Mumbai Area, India

 Worked on Twin Shell ConArc Furnace operations which are capable of using different combination of charge mix (Hot Metal, Sponge iron [DRI], Scrap). Expertise in the CONARC Operation ( Blowing and Arcing ) and several process including • 100 % DRI Steel Making• 100 % Hot Metal Steel Making• ARC CONARC Process• CONARC Process• ARC COJET Process Achieved time savings and increase in productivity through effective co-ordination EAF LF. AS a Technical team… Show more  Worked on Twin Shell ConArc Furnace operations which are capable of using different combination of charge mix (Hot Metal, Sponge iron [DRI], Scrap). Expertise in the CONARC Operation ( Blowing and Arcing ) and several process including • 100 % DRI Steel Making• 100 % Hot Metal Steel Making• ARC CONARC Process• CONARC Process• ARC COJET Process Achieved time savings and increase in productivity through effective co-ordination EAF LF. AS a Technical team number in “SMS” Reported all steelmaking quality related key process indicators & key process variables, Root cause analysis of the ‘Delays’ at SMS leading to production shortfall.  Involved in quality issues, cost issues, & consumption issues. Proactively identifying and rectifying problem areas to ensure uninterrupted operations. Implementing quality standards (ISO TS-16949) and complete in-process quality control to ensure adherence to quality norms and specifications. I was involved in Successful implementation of level 2. Hands on experience in implementing TPM. Preparation of the shift wise performance reports and ensuring smooth transition from one shift to the other. Maintaining the productivity to achieve the set target. Actively involved in preparation of Departmental Manuals, Internal Auditing and TPM activities. Show less

B. Tech, Engineering

Metallurgical Engineering, Metallurgy, Distinction

Ssc, General Studies