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Karamvir Kumar

Karamvir Kumar

Walkley heights,SA

Summary


Professional production specialist with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Skilled in overseeing production processes, optimizing workflows, and ensuring quality standards. Reliable and adaptable, effectively managing resources and fostering productive work environment. Expertise in safety protocols, inventory management, and process improvement. With experience in different manufacturing sectors such as seeding and tillage machinery, chemical industry, apparel and sports accessories.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Production Supervisor

CNH Industrial
09.2023 - Current
  • Ensuring to meet targets for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity and Profit
  • Manage the planning and production of fabrication, paint shop and assembly departments
  • Establish production scheduling plans and coordination to ensure resources are effectively allocated
  • Implement the monthly, weekly and daily production plan on shop floor
  • Implement the recent Engineering design changes, reporting issues in the BOM
  • Manage DMS boards and KPI Scorecards for L1, L2 and L3 Matrices
  • Create and issue indirect PRs for the facility maintenance and development
  • Conduct and Implement 5S, SMAT audits, Kaizens
  • Update the central team for the weekly and monthly achieved targets
  • Oversaw employee training initiatives to ensure all team members were proficient in company procedures, safety regulations, and job-specific tasks.
  • Conducted periodic cycle counts to maintain up-to-date information on available stock quantities, ensuring optimal location accuracy and stock adjustments after finance approval
  • Coordinated material procurement efforts, ensuring on-time availability of components for uninterrupted production cycles.

Industrial/Production Engineer

Chesser Chemicals
04.2022 - 09.2023
  • Develop and implement short-term and long-term production schedules ensuring that they are in line with the operational targets of the monthly, quarterly, and yearly production plans
  • As per forecasting create master production schedules (MPS) and work on material requirements planning (MRP) to practice JIT
  • Conducted root cause analyses to identify areas for improvement and implemented corrective actions in both powder and Liquid departments
  • Practiced lean principles, which led to improvements in workflow and quality and waste reduction.
  • End-of-month inventory management and reporting
  • Responsible for increasing productivity and efficiency through the implementation of better production processes and procedures by reducing or eliminating the non-value-adding activities
  • Supervising the manufacturing processes of powder and liquid departments
  • Implementation of lean and six sigma tools such as 5S, DMAIC, continuous improvement (Kaizen), value stream mapping, Pareto analysis, etc. to increase yield, improve quality and reduce downtime
  • Establish safety procedures and find risks, hazards and then eliminate them
  • Investigate and analyze problems and provide solutions that save money, material, and time to reduce cycle time
  • Design and develop new production systems, processes and equipment to ensure manufacturing is efficient and effective

Production Operator

Electrolux
02.2022 - 04.2022
  • Assembly of electrical components.
  • Operate air tools to assemble parts.
  • Reviewed production specifications to verify the accurate parts prior to operate.
  • Examined incoming materials and compared to documentation (SOP) for accuracy and quality.
  • Calibrate machines to maintain required productivity levels and adherence to quality standards.
  • Inspected final products to assess compliance with quality standards.
  • Supported current production needs by moving items between equipment, conveyors, and staging area.

Industrial and Production Engineer

Freewill Sports Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 08.2019
  • Maximized productivity by developing and implementing innovative production processes like Line Balancing using Lean Six Sigma tools and Flexsim for new and existing products.
  • Completed and submitted monthly and yearly audit reports to support executive decision making.
  • Supervised team of 12 Supervisors in production activities.
  • Implemented Lean tools improvements to increase yields, improve quality and Reduce downtime.
  • Directed 25-person production team to introduce efficient methods of production.
  • Provided technical support to troubleshoot equipment issues, minimizing downtime and maintaining production targets.
  • Increased production volume, optimizing equipment layouts for maximum efficiency.

Education

Master of Engineering Management -

University of South Australia
12.2021

Bachelor of Technology - Industrial and Production Engineering

National Institute of Technology
05.2018

Skills

  • Production System and Process Improvement
  • TPS, Lean and Six Sigma Tools
  • Line Balancing
  • Flexsim, AutoCAD, Catia, Solidwork, Excel
  • Total Quality Management
  • MPS, MRP, Inventory Management
  • Time study

Certification

  • Green belt in Lean Six Sigma (April 2017)
  • High Risk Forklift Truck
  • Car, HR

Timeline

Production Supervisor

CNH Industrial
09.2023 - Current

Industrial/Production Engineer

Chesser Chemicals
04.2022 - 09.2023

Production Operator

Electrolux
02.2022 - 04.2022

Industrial and Production Engineer

Freewill Sports Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 08.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Industrial and Production Engineering

National Institute of Technology

Master of Engineering Management -

University of South Australia
Karamvir Kumar