Prabhakar Gopalsamy
Chennai
Summary
Engineering program manager with over 20 years of experience leading diverse teams to successful project completions. Skilled in strategic planning, resource management, and team collaboration to drive project milestones and deliverables. Strong communicator with a knack for problem-solving and conflict resolution, ensuring seamless project execution and stakeholder satisfaction. Proactively identifies opportunities for process improvement and enhances team performance. Ready to contribute leadership skills to drive organizational success.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Program Manager
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
06.2022 - Current
- Develop product strategies for global dozer portfolio to suit the requirements of customers, regulations and manufacturing footprint
- Define high level machine requirements driven down from marketing and set clear goals, expectations and targets for each systems
- Drive actions through continuous collaboration and ensure machine level targets and each system deliverables are met
- Cost leadership to ensure profit margin targets are met at every GW of the project
- Enable boundary less organization support, stakeholder management and leadership consensus to ensure successful implementation of the project
- Prioritize the customer needs and organization goals based on validation needs and cost to implement the product
- Responsible for the program velocity, quality and cost at each milestone from concept to production and risk mitigation
- Effectively manage the people & resources to align with objectives of the program and deliver as a team
New Sourcing Introduction Project Leader
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Define the strategy, goals and targets for implementing regional development of products
- Drive actions through various value steams on sourcing selection to introduce new source in Asia region
- Collaborate with product development, manufacturing, assembly and validation teams to ensure smooth implementation
- Led engineering teams and drive actions through APQP process for timely delivery and quality of all the regionally developed critical components
- Effectively engaged with regional suppliers in India, China & Thailand to develop components meeting the CAT global quality standards
- Negotiated with suppliers in India, China & Thailand for cost optimization through should cost models/syndication process to achieve machine cost target
- Achieved cost optimization through negotiation with regional suppliers on raw material, utilization rate, process standardization, effective packaging & delivery solutions
- Led the support team for machine pilot/production builds and ensured quality & delivery of the product
Continuous Product Improvement Manager
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2018 - 01.2021
- CPI (Continuous Product Improvement) involves providing resolution to critical reliability issues on machines in the field using 6 Sigma DMAIC methodology
- Led 15+ projects covering 4 manufacturing facilities (France, Brazil, Thailand, USA) and partners (Dealers, Product support, suppliers, customers) across the globe
- Risk management, Stake holder management, Data analytics, Team leadership, People/Resource management & Global collaboration to resolve issues on time
- 6 Sigma tools & techniques to identify root causes & product/process solutions
- Create Field support plan considering both commercial impact and customer pain to implement the solution for field machines
Engineering Team Leader
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Responsible for defining the vision and setting the long term goals & objectives of the Light fab team
- Responsible for the quality, velocity, and cost of the component design
- Coach/Mentor team members on defining the component requirements, DFX
- Responsible for resource and project priority management
Design Engineer
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2005 - 01.2014
- Platform lead design engineer for Dozers and Medium Wheel Loader light fabrications supporting various NPI programs
- Designed custom attachments such as Powered bottom guards, Forestry cab screens, Waste handler package (Dozers), Forestry machine guards (Excavator)
Education
Bachelor’s degree - Mechanical Engineering
Alagappa Chettiar College of Engg & Tech
05-2004
Skills
- Product Design & Development
- New Product Introduction
- Continuous Product Improvement
- Project management
- 6 Sigma Black Belt
- LEAN
- New sourcing introduction
- Cost reduction
- APQP
Timeline
Engineering Program Manager
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
06.2022 - Current
New Sourcing Introduction Project Leader
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2021 - 01.2023
Continuous Product Improvement Manager
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2018 - 01.2021
Engineering Team Leader
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2018
Design Engineer
Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Ltd
01.2005 - 01.2014
Bachelor’s degree - Mechanical Engineering
Alagappa Chettiar College of Engg & Tech
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