www.mindagroup.com Minda Industries Ltd Bareilly : Battery Design & Development GM

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Minda Industries Ltd. Bareilly : General Manager - Design & Development

Designation: General Manager - Design & Development
Experience: 12 - 22 Years
Location: Bareilly

Job Description:
Will Head the Design Dept. Design & Development of Automotive and non-automotive batteries. Extensive Customer Interaction worldwide. Job Location is Pantnagar (250 KM from Delhi)

Desired Candidate Profile:
Candidate with proven background in Automotive Battery Designing and can lead a team of design engineers. Candidate worked in India or abroad are eligible

Company Profile:
#NK Minda Group is India 's foremost manufacturer of a range of automotive components.
# It has an annual turnover of Rs.8.32 billion (USD $ 205.36 million).
#It is a leading supplier to global Original Equipment Manufacturers.
#NK Minda group works with the leading auto components specialists globally, to bring the most technologically advanced products to its customers.

Email Address: jobs.pantnagar@mindagroup.com
Website: http://www.mindagroup.com

Keywords: Battery Designing

[Guest]

Dear Sirs,
I am a post graduate in Chemistry with a good experience in design and development in VRLA,Tubular and GEL Lead acid batteries.
I have worked in Standard Batteries, Mumbai, HBL power systems,Hyderabad and presently in Union Batteries , Pune.
I am aged 59 now.
Current Salary TCC Rs.1 Lakh/month and expected salary Rs. 1.5 Lakhs/month
C.V/Resume for the post of R&D Manager, Lead acid Battery will be sent if you are interested.
Regards,
S.Viswanathan

[Guest]

K.KANAGASABAPATHI
Email : kanagasabapathi.k AT gmail.com
________________________________________PRODUCTION/PLANNING/QUALITY ASSURANCE PROFESSIONAL
Seeking challenging Quality assignments across automobiles, batteries, automation, renewable energy companies ________________________________________
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Dedicated & industrious Production & Quality Management Professional offering extensive exposure of over 20 years in the field of Product and Process Improvements, Manufacturing Planning & Quality Control and designing of various types of Batteries (Battery chemistry Ni-CD, Ag-Zn, AGCL-Mg, Fuel Cell & Lead Acid Batteries).
- Presently performing in the capacity of Head Quality for Lead Acid Batteries with High Energy Limited
- Excellent hands on experience in Conceptualizing and designing Instrumentation/Automation using embedded systems & software.
- Have good rapport with ISRO, DRDO laboratories and capable of getting product acceptance and documentation.
- Adept in handling & implementing projects using VB, VB.Net, Java, Macros (office, AutoCAD), C++ & Windows API programming along with designing & customizing COM components including Map objects, MS speech library
Key Strength Areas
Quality Management - Process Management - Strategic Leadership - Cost Rationalization - Defect / Root Cause Analysis - Tool Room Operations - Renewable energy & Vendor development
Career Highlights :
Developed
- Poison gas sensor for Defense research development laboratory. Gwalior
- Battery life cycler, Ampere hour controllers, RTC based switchers.
- Design of jigs, fixtures & template to aid production and inspection using 3D software(Solid Works).
- Built 20kW Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell based power station for NMRL(DRDO)
- Simplified process by Implementing Embedded system & speech response in local language. This fecilitated management to get work done even with illiterate people.
________________________________________PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HIGH ENERGY LTD (A ESVIN Group) since ’88
Deputy Manager Quality -since 1998
- Perform Critical evaluation & life of Current Collector, Binders, Separators, Electrolyte, Containers, Covers, Sealing, Connectors & Vents.
- Handling customers including Air force, Navy, DRDL, ISRO, Railways and NSTL & Civil Aviation.
- Coordinate with NABL approved labs & research institutions for material analysis.
- Implement SQC, FMEA, DOE methods to evaluate design and process control.
- Strategically analyzing, planning & conceptualizing the processing for the product development as well as target fulfillment of the company projects & requirements within the quality parameters while coordinating with the product development & cross-functional teams
- Ensuring all the products have clearly defined specifications with careful & sophisticated quality control measures in compliance to the international standards.
- Preparing and reviewing the test plans, test cases and test reports while performing mutual testing of the processing for any defects in Q/A department
- Assuring the Quality of Raw incoming material according to control plan and Specification and making the presentation of quality control department for monthly operation review
- Responsible for analyzing the reason of process rejection, giving corrective and preventive solution on a daily basis; schedule for process audit for plant according to product wise
- Product after sales failures & Customer complaint analyzing and implementing corrective action
- warranty disposal and customer training.
- Monitoring & control of all local & remote machines using TCP/IP.
- Generating reports using office components.
- Indicating process status using Speech API and securing datas using database programming with Access & Oracle
- Developed software for evaluating design & testing.
- Successfully implemented poko-yoke methods, process control using embedded controllers & software.
Production Supervisor - Engineer 1988-1998
- Successfully implemented new techniques to improve productivity & profitability.
- Negotiated & procured material from alternate sources at low cost.
Vendor Development
- Identifying and developing supplier sources for achieving cost effective purchases of raw materials & processed goods.
- Assessment and performance evaluation of the suppliers.
- Delivery scheduling and follow-up with suppliers for timely deliveries and quality checks.
- Technical costing and price negotiation to achieve lowest Total Cost to Organization (TCO).
- Developing long-term partnerships with suppliers.
- Developing the network and managing supply chain & ensuring timely cost effective deliveries.

Key Contributions :
- Built 20kW Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell based power station for NMRL(DRDO)
- Developed interface software in VB for designing Data logger, Instruments & Machines.
- Provided consulting & designing & manufacturing embedded systems for Automation to achieve reliability in process at low cost using microcontrollers instead of costly PLC’s
- Handled implementation of Microchip’s PIC & ATMEL Micro controller & DSP.
- Worked on SPI, I2C, UART, USB, Memories, Clock IC, Digital pot, A2D, LCD & Sensor interfaces.
- Conceptualized & designed poison gas detector for Defense Research Development Authority
*Pls see annexure for project details
________________________________________EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering elective subjects as Design & Drafting
Seshasayee institute of technology Trichy
CERTIFICATIONS
- Digital Signal Processor Programming, from REC, Trichy.
- Entrepreneur course from Department of Science & Technology.
- Training on Solar cells from SIEMENS-IREDA.
- Trained on QC tools from CARL Kubel institute.
- Received training for PAFC fuel cell manufacturing at NMRL (DRDO).
________________________________________
References : Available on Request

ANNEXURE :
- Developed Silver electrode Charging using high surface area SS mesh instead of plain SS anode. Twice quantity can be charged at the same time.
- Developed electrochemical dissolution of metals resulted in less pollution and better crystal formation.
- Reduced rejections due to operator by easing the work like providing less discomfort and introduction of custom tools and hardware.
- Developed leak detection in containers using insulation method.
- Developed machine vision “stop poke yoke” to block polarity reversal during cell assembly.
- Developed custom software for HP datalogger.
- Developed voltametry method to detect the gaseous potential of lead alloy to detect alloy composition.
- Interfaced weighing balance to monitor and control process output and to implemented “Stop poke yoke” to block heavy & low weights. One more benefit is clear cut costing because of exact weight of raw materials can be retrived used for that particular order.
- Maximized performance of a naval torpedo battery by optimizing chemicals with Design of Experiments.
- Developed Data Logging of machine parameters for monitoring process remotely.
- Developed solid works parts of battery components for simulation of weight & space for design evaluation.
- Developed jigs, fixtures & templates for inspection using solid works software.
- Serial Data storage device for downloading machine data.
- Introduced Oxygen remover catalyst in batteries to prevent deterioration of parts of batteries while batteries under storage.
- Softwares for customer complaints, storage & retrieval of data, reminder like calibration, periodic testing, printing and reporting using telephone.
- Motivated entire factory peoples to work overtime without benefits when company incurred loss.
- Developed VBmacros for repetitive tasks in Autocad & Excel
- Located & Developed alternate indigenous materials for imported materials.
- Developed more reliable methods of process, consulting research institutions and from magazines.
SYNOPSIS
Full Name : KANAGASABAPATHI.K
Present Location : TRICHY
Present Company Name : HIGH ENERGY BATTERIES LTD
Production Experience : 11 Years
Quality Experience : 11 Years
Automation
(Software & Embedded) Experience : 11 Years (combined with Quality)
Primary skills : Quality, Production, Automation (Embedded & Software)
Primary Role
at present company : Head Quality (Lead Acid Batteries)
Role Preferred : MANAGER
Any Other skills :VENDOR MANGEMENT, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, RENEWABLE ENERGY,
GOOD RAPPORT WITH ISRO, DRDO LABORATORIES IN GETTING PRODUCT ACCEPTANCE AND DOCUMENTATION.
Any certifications :EMBEDDED FROM REC(T),
ENTERPRENUERSHIP FROM DST.
SOLAR CELL TECHNICIAN FROM IREDA
QUALITY TOOLS FROM CARL-KUBEL INSTITUTE – CBE.
Qualifications []:3 Years DIPLOMA IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.