About this Candidate
DAVRON CV: Candidate 3808428
MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANAGER | AUTOMATION, TOOLING, WELDING & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Core Expertise
- Leading manufacturing engineering teams across fabrication, welding, machining, and assembly to improve safety and throughput
- Driving continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma tools, DOE, SPC, PFMEA, and structured root-cause analysis
- Delivering automation and capital equipment projects from concept through installation, validation, and performance monitoring
- Designing production tooling, fixtures, jigs, and workholding with GD&T and tolerance-stack analyses for repeatable builds
- Owning production readiness, capacity planning, SOPs, ECO implementation, and cross-functional release management
Project Background
- Implemented robotic welding cell with CMT-style process, reducing weld cycle time by over 25% and raising capacity
- Improved OEE from 51% to 69% through downtime analysis, standard work, and bottleneck elimination
- Led development of an AI-based machine-vision inspection system for in-process threaded-insert verification and validation
- Designed and released production tooling, fixtures, and GD&T drawings using SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor
- Executed capacity and utilization improvements, increasing utilization above 80% and reducing rework by 15%
Key Skills
- SolidWorks | Autodesk Inventor | AutoCAD | Autodesk Vault
- Robotics & automation | collaborative-robot integration | welding power-source integration
- Machine-vision inspection | AI model validation | vision dataset development
- Lean Manufacturing | Six Sigma tools | DOE | SPC | PFMEA | CAPA
- OEE optimization | Capacity planning | Production readiness | SOPs & ECO management
- Epicor ERP | SAP Business One | Smartsheet | Microsoft Excel
Education
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering — California State University, Los Angeles
- B.E., Mechanical Engineering — Gujarat Technological University
Why Interview this Candidate?
Brings a measurable record of manufacturing improvements including OEE gains, utilization increases, cycle-time reduction, and lower rework. Combines hands-on automation and tooling design experience with data-driven continuous improvement and cross-functional leadership. Well-suited to lead production-readiness, automation implementation, and quality-driven capacity expansion initiatives.
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