MIHIR GAJRE
NORTH YORK
Summary
Skilled and self-motivated Production Supervisor with 5+ years of professional experience in process improvement, maintenance and managing various projects. Focused on quality of materials and finished products, as well as accomplishing challenging business objectives. Adaptable and responsive leader with decisive and detail-oriented mindset.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Supervisor
Silcotech North America
03.2023 - Current
- Supervise injection moulding operations for silicone components in a regulated manufacturing environment, ensuring compliance with ISO standards.
- Lead and train production staff to achieve daily targets while maintaining safety and quality standards.
- Optimize molding process parameters for start-ups, first-offs, and trials, reducing scrap and downtime.
- Troubleshoot equipment, robotics, and sensors to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency.
- Utilize LIMBLE CMMS for preventive maintenance, inventory control, and documentation.
- Collaborate with Quality and Engineering teams to resolve process issues and improve product performance.
- Implement Lean, Kaizen, 5S, SMED, and OEE methodologies to enhance efficiency and throughput.
- Oversee changeovers, mold maintenance, and SOP development
Maintenance technician
Axiom Group
05.2021 - 02.2023
- Carry out electrical and mechanical planned and reactive maintenance across the site in an accurate, timely and safe manner. Also respond to and diagnose equipment breakdowns, resolving issues and action repairs.
- Updating CMMS (LIMBLE) for reactive maintenance, ongoing operations also for tooling and parts list for future inventory as well as preventative maintenance tasks.
- Maintaining and inspecting moulds and material for start-ups and trials.
- Performing changeovers for product change. Preforming repairs using written work instructions, blueprints and schematics.
- Troubleshooting and maintaining process. Also, setting up process parameters for 1st offs and trials.
- Communicate across various departments to ensure the right equipment is being used to maximize operational efficiency and assist with planning.
- Analyze data (FMEA) to find solutions to improve MHE performance, reduce cycle time and increasing efficiency.
- Preparing SOPs and troubleshooting guide and updating records of work activities, tasks carried out, parts used through stores and training have given.
- Complete quality inspections to ensure work is completed in a safe standard.
- Monitoring productivity of the injection moulding process and production scrap and optimizing process to increase efficiency, product quality and reduce scrap.
- Analyze data to find sensor’s IOs and status during errors in robots and other MHE to resolve issue effectively.
- Overseeing automation robots FANUC, clearing faults, Also PM of work cells to increase reliability.
- Perform 5s, participate and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
- Assisting with tool sampling, new tooling qualifications and process capability.
- Working with maintenance to identify machine related issues and tool room to identify mold related issues.
- Ensure compliance to IATF systems and procedures.
Process technician
Amhil North America
02.2019 - 05.2021
- Creating process flow maps and ensured process deficiencies are amended for manufacturing by identifying bottle necks.
- Troubleshooting process variances, equipment breakdowns using disciplined problem-solving approach in bringing successful resolution to complex and strategic issues through SMED.
- Troubleshooting and implementing plant related maintenance activities to improve reliability of equipment, which includes maintaining conveyors, electrical sensors and tool alignments and changeovers using proper safety procedures and LOTO.
- Analyze data to find sensor’s IOs and status during errors in robots, machines and also other MHE to resolve issue effectively.
- Performing and documenting process check and work orders, work measurement, instructions, SOPs, all aspects of the production process, from raw material to packaging finished product and to prepare cost estimate and evaluate cost factors.
- Leading continuous improvement, cost reduction and innovations projects in streamlined way according to the business requirements.
- Improvements of OEE by performing DOE reducing downtimes also reducing changeover times implementing Kanban, TPM.
- Improving quality using Lean techniques and Kaizen projects, also developing P&IDs diagrams and design improvements using Solid works and AutoCAD.
- Develop, evaluate, and improve methods of operations to work area design, process flow charts, work methods and workplace design management, also to develop work measurement and work procedure to develop standards for work utilization using 5S.
- Review reports and data accuracy, initiate actions to prevent the occurrence of any quality non-conformances related to the product, process and systems.
- Identifying, evaluating and implementing ideas to improve reliability, safety and cost effectiveness using root-cause analysis.
- Read instrument diagrams for maintenance and changeover activities for achieving on time delivery also instituting planned preventive maintenance schedules to reduce reactive maintenance.
- Applied Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) to facilitate less downtime and scrap while improving throughput by 10-20% using downtime pareto charts, labour variance trends, daily operator performance and GMP.
- Significantly reduced waste and end-to-end production time by leveraging expertise with Statistical Process Control (SPC) methodology.
Education
Master of engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario10.2018
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Gujarat Technological University
06.2017
Skills
- Quality improvement methodologies
- Team collaboration and problem resolution
- Proficient in MS Office and SQL
- Design and analysis using SolidWorks and AutoCAD
- Shop floor leadership
- Safety & quality compliance
- Lean/continuous improvement
- Robotics & equipment troubleshooting
- ERP/CMMS systems
Certification
- Auto cad certification- auto desk
- Lean Six sigma green belt certified.
- Project management certified- agile, Jira.
- Working towards Peng or PMP.
Languages
English
Timeline
Production Supervisor
Silcotech North America
03.2023 - Current
Maintenance technician
Axiom Group
05.2021 - 02.2023
Process technician
Amhil North America
02.2019 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Gujarat Technological University
Master of engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Windsor
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