Sergey Utkin Email & Phone Number

Russia

In this role, I apply all knowledge gained in machinery and material science together with all quality tools to ensure a complete satisfaction experience for customers. I focus on leadership qualities nurturing in myself and people, cultivate team culture. Strongly believe in the synergy as an effect of each individual input. I organized process of product homologation that resulted in 5 bearing types out of 6 possible homologated providing 90% volume of sales. At the start up of railway bearings facility it was vital to preapre and certify for ISO TS 22163 (IRIS) and AAR M-1003 (European and American railway standards). This allowed to get certificates in 2012 and to start sales in international markets. I then was awarded a title Man of the year 2012.From the very beginning and now on I strive for processes improvements, problem solving and suppliers development. It enabled to reach 2 times decrease of customer complaints nowadays.Together with my professional team we performed a project by 6Sigma concept; we improved product performance of a key supplier that led to 70% scrap decrease. I was awarded 6Sigma green belt as a result.In the frames of deployment production system in quality department processes and KPI were reviewed and alligned allowing increase the effectiveness of problem solving and response time 50%. A culture of continuous improvement and its constant development provides cost saving effect 10% monthly on a regular basis. I'm proud of my team; 3 engineers out of 6 in quality department promoted for higher positions at the facility, 2 of them for managerial positions.Organized more than 10 internal trainings for railway standards application, heat treatment basics, process approach, problem solving and statistical methods of analysis that constantly upgrade personnel skills and knowledge.

I was lucky to have happened at the railway bearing facility start-up of the world's leading bearing manufacturer with over 40 000 employees across the world and be a part of this project in an international team of professionals. It was an exciting time of hard work to master industry knowledge, adapt them, and launch stable serial manufacturing. Being counted on material science knowledge, laboratory experience and knowledge of standards I took up the role of leading the laboratory, providing test methods for material and product, organizing general processes in laboratory and product quality checks.The measure of success of my team's efforts became accreditation of laboratory for railway safety norms in Russia. Since then we were able to provide all required tests for product certification and valuably shorten homologation time and costs. We did it within 1 year prepared quality documentation, equipment, organizing processes and approved them in state authorities.

I decided to focus on english language learning to boost knowledge and increase my level of speaking. Together with the main purpose, I was investigating the concept and approach in Lean manufacturing, inspired by books of Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo as well as a recent internship that incorporated visits to Toyota, Caterpillar, Isuzu, Amada, JFE steel.In parallel, I concentrated on searching for new job opportunities in international companies.

After graduating from the management training program and getting second education on organization management I was actively looking for opportunities in companies taking up leading roles in manufacturing processes or general management of an organization. It led me to a company with similar product specificity as VBM (drill bits) and further relocation, though the company was 12 times less. In fact, I was a CEO's deputy for the production part and responsible for all relating activities. The feature of the company was in a situation of 80% temporary workers use for the main manufacturing process and frequent quits. It caused constant reschedule of plans, lots of training activity for new comers and management of critical situations for manufacturing plan fulfillment. It enabled to acquire an invaluable experience of people and manufacturing lead in tough situations.

I was proposed to take a leading role as a production manager in the heat treatment department with over 100 employees. Continuing working on process improvements with process development department I was getting first experience of work in big teams trying to focus on building trust within team, proactive approach and leadership qualities development. My daily responsibility supposed manufacturing inherent activities such as scheduling production, people management, development of improvement activities to increase quality and effectiveness, etc. As a matter of success, our activity for manufacturing planning and crisis management together with professional and responsive people would never stop daily run of departments following after us in the manufacturing chain. Sometime after I realized need to enhance leadership and organization management knowledge. So I decided to learn in parallel on the management training program. Educational part of the program and following internship abroad completely rethought the status and I decided to challenge my current being.

I got a master's degree in university and after graduating started out my career path as a process engineer in a heat treatment shop. A factory I was hired was a full manufacturing cycle unit with over 2800 employees producing drill bits for oil, gas and mining industry. It produced high-quality drilling tools and was the leading factory in its product segment in RF, also in the top five of the world leaders. In 2 years I moved to the position of process development department manager with responsibility for all heat treatment processes related activity. This interesting period of work included mastering of new process equipment together with university knowledge application and further improving activity for the processes. I developed a high-temperature carburizing process in vacuum for the drill bit parts. Further improvement of the process allowed to decrease cycle time 20% and make it highly effective. Another process of quenching in vacuum was developed and positive results of it allowed to attract orders from external organizations. Using in the processes anticarburizing coatings I suggested and tested a new solution based on existing materials, which saved consumption of coating 30% and strengthened protection effect. ***Key wordsHeat treatment, Heat treat, Material science, Metal treatment, Drill bits, Quality manager, Quality director, Production manager, Production director, Metal treatment, Quality, Bearings, Railway bearings, Railway, Railroad, Railway equipment, IRIS, ISO TS 22163, AAR, Certification, 6 Sigma, DMAIC, Quality management system, QMS, Quality management, Machine building, Machinery, Innovative bearings, Rail.

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Master'S Degree, Materials Science