Sasimithran Muthurajan Email & Phone Number

Elkhorn, Wi, Us

Darien, Wisconsin, United States

• Leads first article product releases from cradle to grave with the cross-functional team.• Guide systems engineers on their tasks and the projects they would focus on to meet launch deadlines.• Manages individual and overall program statuses using Gantt charts and other project management tools and techniques.• Track and provide engineers with a priority list of designs to meet long lead lists and product design release deadlines.• Coordinate with the plant manager on the release and deadlines of designs that must be released for production.• Coordinate with the sales personnel and customer on requests for design submittals and provide estimated ship dates. • Improving an existing Project Management process to shorten the overall process of review, submittal, and Delegation of Authority (DOA) approval stages to meet ISO standards.• Tracked and followed up with the Engineering team to identify all Engineering Change Orders (ECO) during the first article release to production.• Coordinate with a third-party professional engineering entity to provide specifications for the professional engineering stamped report comprising the product's wind, snow, and seismic loads.

Darien, Wisconsin, United States

• Served as a technical liaison by providing technical support for operations, product engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and customer service engineering.• Work with cross-functional team to create process flow diagrams to create line balancing.• Collaborated with each functional area of the plant to bring business plan deployment to the shop floor level, creating metrics with the teams that “leveled up” to support corporate KPIs while supporting continuous improvement.• Planned and drafted layouts to optimize the fabrication department floor space, power utilization, and material flow. • Implemented Lean material flow to ensure timely delivery of necessary materials and solved issues at the Shop Floor Level for Internal and External Material Disruptions• Analyzed the possibility of moving operations to a new facility to increase capacity and meet forecasted demand.

Darien, Wisconsin, United States

- Led team members in the operations group during an End-Of-Year rework campaign to ensure successful shipping of 80 units of 22L gensets in 2020.- Coordinated Manufacturing operations to perform APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) Design, Product and Process validations for 22L and 53L gensets.- Acted as a technical and operational liaison between product engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality and customer service engineering to improve cross-functional collaboration in the company to implement APQP framework and procedures for 22L engineering changes.- Created templates as per APQP standards for ISO documentation and for use by employees: - Independent Repair Confirmation (IRC) - Plant Process Change Request (PPCR) - Manufacturing Process Bypass Form - Production Trial Run - Pilot Run Checklist- Managed Engineering Change Orders (ECO) to all managers and departments to facilitate organized transitions (The transitions could be implementing a new design in the shop floor or a part update to the unit.)- Hosted daily meetings for a regular update from all departments to ensure on-time delivery of 22L and 53L gensets.- Decreased production lead time by managing Engineering changes to the Purchasing department which led to on-time arrival of required parts.- Worked in tandem with Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Production department to ensure successful Pilot build of the 22L, 32L and 53L Genset.- Coordinate regularly between Global Supply Chain Manager and Engineers regarding Disposition of Obsolete Material from the facility.

Darien, Wisconsin, United States

- Developed and implemented Line Side Delivery of parts for the 32L power generator unit line using Lean Methodologies (5S, Pull system, and waste reduction)- Analyzed and implemented the Raw material Supermarket for consumables parts using Visual Management strategies.- Coordinated with Production Group Leaders to ensure timely delivery of necessary materials and solved issues at the Shop Floor Level for Internal and External Material Disruptions.- Planned a new layout for the Weld Bays by analyzing existing operations and proposed cost justifying improvements.- Optimized use of floorspace, material flow and planned a Kanban system for a specific list of materials for the Welding operations to assist the Materials department to provide parts and reduce inventory / overstocking.- Analyzed the current state of material flow strategies and planning to improve the operations by kitting for point of use line side material.- Designing Menomi and storage carts for kitting of parts for the production line which decreases waste and unnecessary handling.- Assisted Manufacturing Engineer to create standardized work, perform time studies and ergonomic work environment assessment using techniques learned as an Industrial Engineering graduate.- Experience with Epicor ERP system.

Wooddale, Chicago. Illinois

- Researched for potential use of repackaging automation machines in the Aftermarket department to reduce ergonomic injury risk. The research done was based on automation machines that were provided for demo purpose for PSI use.- Created a new layout with man and material flow design to improve productivity and eliminated ergonomic injury risk.- Analyzed the space and process requirements for the repackaging process and implemented layout changes resulting in 61% increase in rate of packaging.- Performed a cost analysis to determine Buy vs Lease of the automation machine and analyzed the minimum bags to order based on the quantity and dimension of product that would be repackaged.- Performed time studies to suggest improvements to the current repackaging process with a justification of cost for the improved process which had a payback period of 7 - 9 months.

Sipcot, Chennai

Oragadam, Chennai

Master'S Degree, Project Management

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial And Systems Engineering, 3.67 / 4

Activities and Societies: Alpha Pi Mu and Phi Beta Delta

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering