Kumar Gaurav

Experience

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  Juvenile Care, VIT

  Jan 2015 - Mar 2016

  Student Volunteer

  Juvenile Care is a youth led organization working for child rights and child abuse eradication. The organization was founded on June 10th 2010.It is a project of Juvenile Care Charitable Trust. The organization is based in Bangalore working for child welfare related activities in orphanages, schools, slums, awareness programmes in city.The family also includes centres of child rights in VIT University, Vellore, Bangalore, New Delhi. The mission of the organization is to give a platform to the youth of the country to come forwards and work in for the upliftment of social ailments of the society. Show less

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  ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

  Feb 2015 - Mar 2017

  Team Abhiyant is the official team of ASME VIT Students Chapter which strives to participate in HPVC(Human Powered Vehicle Challenge)-India conducted by ASME every year. The Team had its participation in E-Fest Asia Pacific HPVC -2017 held in the month of March'17 at LNMIIT College in Jaipur and secured an overall design – 2 nd, Innovation – 7 th​, Men Drag – 9 th, Women Drag – 9th,Overall – 8th amidst a whopping 57 different teams coming from all over Asia. Team Abhiyant is the official team of ASME VIT Students Chapter which strives to participate in HPVC(Human Powered Vehicle Challenge)-India conducted by ASME every year. The Team had its debut participation in HPVC India-2016 held in the month of March'16 at VIT Vellore and secured an overall 8th rank in design event amidst a whopping 40 different teams coming from all over India.

  • Vice-Captain-Team Abhiyant

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Engineer- Manufacturing,Materials-Team Abhiyant

    Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
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  Hindalco Industries Limited

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2016

  Vocational Training

  Experience the working culture and tradition of employees at Aditya Birla Group, apply the theoretical knowledge on the practicalities of the power plant, learn about the functioning and organization structure of each and every department as well as machine coming across. An overview of 6*150 MW Captive Power Plant.

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  Vedanta Resources Limited

  Jun 2017 - Nov 2017

  Graduate Engineer Trainee

  Joined Hindustan Zinc Limited- Vedanta Resources Plc as GET and went through induction of 2 months at Head office -Udaipur where learned about company, operations, policies, etc.Undertook a project on "Mechanization of Dross Treatment Plant" , Increasing the Zinc Recovery from Dross , Reduction in the Environmental foot Prints of Dross, Hydro-metallurgical Zinc Process, Crane Operations & Maintenance.

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  Hindustan Zinc

  Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

  Lead Mechanical Engineer (Assistant Manager)

  I Undertook different project at different locations of Hindustan Zinc Limited 1)Chanderiya Lead-Zinc Smelter- "Worked on overloading of Chain conveyors during low stock of calcine", "Worked on Reliability Centered maintenance (RCM) for equipments of Roaster Plant" at Chanderiya Lead- Zinc Smelter-Hindustan Zinc Limited, "Worked on Linear Asset Management (LAM) for Sulfuric acid Plant" at Chanderiya Lead- Zinc Smelter-Hindustan Zinc Limited.2)Rajpura Dariba Mines-Undertook a project '' To Increase the availability of Sandvik Load Haul Dump-7-Tonne from 65% to 75%".I carried out Improvement Maintenance Planned Corrective Maintenance and reduced MTTR and increased MTBF of LHD-307 Machines.Took part in Asset Optimization audit were managed and drive 5S, RCA and support in various improvement Projects.Managed and ensure maximization of predictive and preventive maintenance and reduction in downtime.Further to this i am looking upon the Underground-Maintenance of Heavy Earth Moving Machinery. Show less

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  JSW Steel

  Dec 2019 - Apr 2023

  New Business, Product, Customer Development & Commercialization for both Rajasthan & Gujarat Region. To Initiate Product development, Trials at customer end, Product Stabilization and approvals at targetcustomers & drive and monitor till commercialization. To create annual product development plan with inputs from market. Deals with B2B to B2C Clients for Co-development of the product and application with customer segmentsacross Auto, Non- Auto, OEM, Appliances, Retail to develop new Businesses. Identify new customers and develop through the supply of existing/new products from product basketwhich includes Hot Rolled, Cold Rolled Products, Galvanized, Galvalume Coated, PPGI & PPGL coated,TinPlate, Alloy Steel, Wire Rod & TMT. Feedback in product development to the plant and assist sales team in techno-commercial issues. Publish Monthly, Quarterly & Annual development reports for the region. Promotion and Market Watch. Identify trends in the market related to product usage. Promote new applications for the same product family. Track competition on product development. Represent company on technical seminars. Provide support to branding and image building. Customer Quality Representative and Joint Claim Management. Translate client requirement into actionable proposals for discussion with sales head/technology/product development team. Develop Value Engineering Proposal with key customers. Settle the claims within the process and time frame laid down. Manage customer satisfaction & work with plant to ensure improvements based on claims. Show less Being a mechanical Engineer, my interest lies in QA/QC And Operations in Steel Plant to provide real-time technical Services and solutions at customer end on all products. I do analysis and provide innovative solution, also perform trial at customer end, application tests and provide inputs to plant through reviews to ensure product is satisfactory.I report to Deputy General Manager, to design and re-design effective applications and art of acquiring and analyse customer needs and problems, making recommendations to the engineering team to satisfy needs and develop solutions. I monitor performance and benchmarking with competition and also provide corrective and preventive action (CAPA) against the customer complaints. Show less

  • Assistant Manager - Technical Marketing & Application Engineering

    Oct 2021 - Apr 2023

  • Application Engineer (New Product, Business, Customer Development & Customer Quality Representative)

    Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
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  Henkel

  Apr 2023 - now

  Account Manager

  Taking care of Regional sales & Business Development activity for Eastern India, Western India & BN.Key Responsibilities: 1) Drive and achieve sales targets.2) Understanding Customers business and needs.3) Alignment with Customer & Henkel business needs 4) Organization skills and Value based Selling.5) Focus on short & long term strategy and building strong rapport and trust with customers.6) Key account Management skills7) New business and Product development