J Mohan Rao
Manufacturing Operations Professional
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Business-driven General Manager with more than 18 years of experience in Setting up, planning and organizing Manufacturing Operations & complying with guidelines and procedures. Experience working as a Specialist & Generalist & Excelled in challenging leadership roles in iconic global companies. Tech-savvy with proficiency in Digital Manufacturing
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
8
8
Languages
Work History
Deputy General Manager
Otis Elevator Company Limited
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
01.2015 - Current
Steered the Manufacturing operations from 40M$ to a 100M$ scale with responsibility of overall factory operations.
Manager Business Process Excellence
Schneider Electric India Limited
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
01.2014 - 12.2014
Lead Business transformation & Six Sigma implementation across 32 factories & 7 Distribution Centers across India Region responsible for High impact projects in all entities.
Manager Industrialization
Schneider Electric India Limited
Kolkata, West Bengal
06.2009 - 12.2013
Project Manager for building & Industrializing World Class factory for the manufacturing of Medium Voltage Switchgears, Distribution Transformers. Implemented Schneider Production Systems.
Senior Engineer Process Engineering
Bosch Limited
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
04.2004 - 06.2009
Process and Product Engineering for high precision Diesel Fuel Injection equipments & Plant Industrial Engineering. Expert Bosch Production System Implementation, SAP Implementation, New Product Introduction & EFQM business excellence model implementation.
Senior Industrial Engineer
Maini Precision Products
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
01.2003 - 04.2004
Introduction of Classical Industrial Engineering techniques of Motion & Time studies, Plant layout & Material handling design & Lean manufacturing implementation.
Engineer Intern
Tool Engineers Corporation
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
01.2002 - 12.2002
Hands on experience in production, quality & Jig / Fixture design. Working on machines & producing precision parts like tungsten carbide inserts, Rail wheels & gear hobbing.
Education
Associate of Science - Engineering
Bangalore University
BANGALORE 06.1997 - 12.2001
Skills
Performance improvement
Project Management
Exceptional interpersonal communication
Effective leader
Coaching and mentoring
Operations management
Product development
Lean / Six sigma / TOC / Agile / Digital Manufacturing
Accomplishments
- Built & Industrialized world class factories
- Achieved 81 % volume growth with double digit margin YOY as a Manufacturing operations head between 2015 & 2019 with Zero Loss time injury record. Unprecedented growth in history for the company with highest number of new product releases & volume ramp up.
- Developed Manufacturing strategy & lead the Lean transformation. Achieved 30 % reduction of manufacturing operations space despite of 81 % volume growth over 4 years.
- Completed Productivity based wage settlement with union by achieving substantial productivity increase in 2015, 2018 & 2021. Achieved 10+ % productivity growth in each settlement.
- Developed a detailed digitalization roadmap for the manufacturing operations & initiated implementation with strategic global partners
- “Special Award” winner for a project on “Mathematical modeling for Furnace optimization” at Annual Six sigma contest conducted by Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) - 2013.
- Case study publication at ECCH (European Case Clearing House – The largest repository of case studies formed by top B-Schools across the world)
- Won all-India level 1st Prize in the National Productivity Championship competition at IMTMA Productivity Summit-2011 for the project titled, "Improvement in productivity of space by implementing Lean practices & overall factory re-establishment".
- Won the Areva T&D Country VP’s Best project award-2011 for the project, “Project & Receivables Management – The Lean six-sigma way”.
- Executed the Project of setting up the New, World class Factory for the Manufacturing of Medium Voltage switchgears. Held Lead responsibility for Project CAPEX Management, Building Construction, Industrialization & Facilities creation activity.
- Won the Business Unit’s “Best performer award” for the year 2010, 2011 & 2012-2013
- ERP implementation for full plant (Expertise in Routings & PP module in SAP).
- Won all-India level 3rd prize in the National Productivity Championship competition at IMTMA Productivity Summit in the stream, “Manufacturing System Redesign” for the project titled “Creating Integrated Value streams with lean lines”.
- Presented 2 papers (Group technology clustering algorithms) at the IIIE India Convention
- Secured 10th Rank in Engineering at Bangalore University.
Additional Information
Interested in Business transformation & to grow along with the Organizational growth.
Certification
Six sigma Black Belt
Post Graduate Program in Operations Management in IIM Calcutta
A program called as Executive Program for Young Professionals developed to take young professionals to leadership path.
Timeline
Deputy General Manager
Otis Elevator Company Limited
01.2015 - Current
Manager Business Process Excellence
Schneider Electric India Limited
01.2014 - 12.2014
Six sigma Black Belt
07-2012
Manager Industrialization
Schneider Electric India Limited
06.2009 - 12.2013
Senior Engineer Process Engineering
Bosch Limited
04.2004 - 06.2009
Senior Industrial Engineer
Maini Precision Products
01.2003 - 04.2004
Engineer Intern
Tool Engineers Corporation
01.2002 - 12.2002
Associate of Science - Engineering
Bangalore University
06.1997 - 12.2001