U. Karthik Kumar

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Quality System, Team Management
Talents
Work Experience
Team member
Apollo Tyres
Full Time Feb-2011 To present 14 years 2 months
Responsibilities
  • • Production plan model wise & quantity wise after ensuring the availability of BOM
    • Analyzing the:
    o Shortage & ensuring the availability of raw material, in-house & bought-out components for meeting the production requirement
    o Machine centre capacity and working out the details of outsourced material requirement, for inline production
    • Producing daily production report shop wise, component wise capacity / actual
    • Controlling logistics for material availability
    • Organizing the system and procedures for effective inventory control for ensuring availability of materials to meet the production targets; setting-up of the assembly tools
    • Developing a skill matrix for Trainee’s regarding operations and specific technical roles
    • Imparting training to the team members for enhancing their skill levels
Achievements
  • • Successfully served as team member of new ERP programme PIBS implementation, coordinating with Apollo Tyres
    • Assisted in providing support for effective production and technical resource planning
    • Keeping an eye on conducting root cause analysis of problems
    • Preparing effective counter measures by implementing Kaizen
    • Supervising elimination of rejection with the help of using 7 QC tools
    • Reduced the cost by implementing kaizen in the system
    • Improved the production rate from 400 to 450
    • Served as an active member of BBS (Behaviour Based Safety)
    • Implementation & Practices of TPM tools and techniques in shop floor
    • Monitored and controlled scrap
    • Ensured 5S activities in business unit
Engineer
MRF Limited
Full Time Apr-2010 To Jan-2011 9 months
Responsibilities
  • • Involved in the erection & fabrication of structures and Commissioning of equipment (Green field project)
    • Examined the specification of equipment as per the set standards
    • Planning and monitoring the material inventory for production and day wise production planning and control
    • Maintaining discipline and encouraging working of all members
    • Responsible for technical problem solving in production process
Achievements
  • Involved in the erection & fabrication of structures and Commissioning of equipment (Green field project)
Officer
EXIDE Industries Limited
Full Time Jul-2007 To Mar-2010 2 years 8 months
Responsibilities
  • • Handled overall production related tasks, involving, planning, control and troubleshooting in co-ordination with related departments
    • Built a dedicated and alternate vendor source to ensure cost effective purchases and reduction in delivery time
    • Inspected discipline at the shop floor for an accident free & safe work culture
    • Executed methodologies to increase production UPH
    • Involved in the:
    o Analysis of problems reported from field and solve by using QC tools
    o Maintenance of 3C/5S
    o Maintaining TPM activities in the shop floor
Achievements
  • • Played a vital role in:
    o Increasing Production UPH from 25 nos to 35 nos
    o Reducing In-house Rejection by Ensuring Quality Production
Education
Bachelor of Engineering or Technology
Mahendra Engineering CollegeAnna University
2003-2007
Profile Snapshot
U. is based out of Chennai & has studied ME-Mechanical Engineering, BE BTech-Bachelor of Engineering or Technology from Year 2003-2007 in MEC-Mahendra Engineering College, Anna University.
U. Karthik Kumar is Skilled in Quality System, Team Management, TPM-Total Productive Maintenance and other talents.