Vikas Shinde Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

United States

 Develop and share Strategy / Mission/ Vision (Set directions) aligned with Cummins COS practices. Lead team towards achieving Mission & Vision.  Leading & Representing maintenance business in Development and periodic review of Customer Service Agreement with customers/supporting group. Develop 10 years plan & Review annually along with Team (Equipment Critical Ranking, PM optimization, small improvement projects etc..). Promote TBWS & Culture of appreciation. Leading Business KPI activities alignment with SIPOC. Alignment of individual goals and development work plans to achieve Key business initiative activities (KPI). Leading & Supporting apprenticeship board steering committee leadership roles to have successful Process in place for Apprentice journey to gain the skills. Develop People recognition and feedback program, Periodic Team standard review. Plan, lead and execute department AOP and budget management activities Support leading TPM initiatives. Shutdown planning evaluation, weekend approvals management, PO reviews and approvals. Mentor and coach - develop paths for advancement and remove roadblocks Drive self-accountability, ownership, and leadership behavior at all levels. Lead Benchmarking activities. Lead Maintenance related focus group activities. Attend business level meetings and support the growth. Lead Capital projects from Equipment improvement opportunity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

 Leading the team to resolve the repetitive problems & focus on Preventive maintenance & continual improvements. Managing maintenance of machines including but not limited to upsetting, Heat treatment furnaces, Induction heating, welding lines, Machine shops, Material handling system & utilities. Providing Engineering Support to major equipment which would include troubleshooting problems and developing and executing plans to address issues that may arise with electrical equipment. Developing people to use various troubles shoot techniques to solve critical issues. Encouraging team to follow safe working practices, motivating team to execute innovative ideas to reduce breakdown & improve uptime.

Pune Area, India

 Hands on experience on CNC (Fanuc, Mitsubishi, BFW, PARI), PLC (Allen Bradley, Siemens, Messung, Rexroth Indramat, B & R), SCADA systems (Allen Bradley, EDAC, D2T France), VFD’s. Reviewed & analyzed matrix related to Maintenance. – Uptime of Machine Shop. Assembly & Testing line, Major breakdown, Preventive maintenance, Predictive maintenance & Material handling equipment uptime. Provided guidance to reducing Power, Repair & Hire, Spare & consumable cost through various projects. Ensured spare part availability for critical machines and Prepare agreement for costly spares with suppliers to get spare part within 08 to 10 hours.  Developed new vendors as a contingency & cost reduction. Provided training to people to complete various projects through KAIZEN (Continuous Improvement). Leaded 5S drive in the departments as well as whole Focus Factory. Managed Installation & commissioning of new machines and capacity improvement projects. Leaded process knowledge element of John Deere Production Quality System (JDPQS).

Master'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Started in Jan 2016, Expected graduation in July 2017.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering