Pavan B S

Experience

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  Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2013

  Former Intern

  -Worked in chemical and materials lab of Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) division-Exposure to manufacturing of carbon fiber and other composites for aerospace components-Fabrication and development of new materials for aircrafts.

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  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

  Jan 2015 - Feb 2015

  Former Intern

  -Worked in Foundry and Forgeing lab to cast alloys for the latest fighter jets, drones and combat helicopters.-Mechanical testing of materials-using of analytical tools like Scanning Electron microscope

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  Cipla

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2016

  Production Engineer

  • Reviewed filing of Batch Manufacturing Records and their relevant checklists.• In charge of factory shift to produce Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) for highly regulated FDA approved export plant with supply chains across Europe, Canada and USA.• Maintained the production plant up to regulatory standards of FDA and helped prepare factory for audits.• Handled industrial scale reactors such as GLR and SS reactors, centrifuges, various separation equipment’s like leaf Filters, sparkler filter, different type of highly sensitive distillation process through both PLC and DCS systems.• Initiated, deviation and change control for products which are not up to standards. Show less

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  Enventure Engineering

  Dec 2016 - Sept 2017

  Jr Developer- Material Safety Data Sheet

  • Supported in helping clients on international regulations like REACH, Conflict Minerals, ROHS and SDS requests etc.• Authored Material Safety Data Sheets and maintenance activities. Took ownership to responded for any technical clarifications.• Routinely checked dangerous goods transportation data in the client’s chemical data management system which helped in consumer product and packaging labelling.• Ability to analyze/trace conflict mineral certification for wide variety of products 3TG (Tin , Tantalum, Tungsten and Gold + Cobalt) minerals to ensure supply chains are sourced from ethical sources.• Performed part validation, analyzed components from BOM, provided item description and part coding using Product Lifecycle Management software like WERCS and SAP. Show less

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  3M

  Sept 2017 - Mar 2018

  Product EHS and Regulatory Compliance-Engineer

  • Part of the product stewardship team for New Production Initiation (NPI) to assess regulatory and environmental risks.• Drove awareness training with suppliers, educated suppliers to remediate audit findings and ensured that raw material/inputs/components comply with environment, regulatory and quality requirements.• Assisted in regulatory support to customer/supplier queries both internal and external pertaining to product regulation for entire 3M India portfolio. Interacted and coordinated with teams based across the world to implement continuous improvement projects based on changing regulatory land-escape.• Issued and standardized templates for regulatory queries which have supplier data dependencies like product test report, REACH, RoHS, Conflict minerals, Prop 65 etc.• Co-ordinated with teams based across the world in different domains like product developers, application engineers, OEM’s and sales team in a matrix system to reach project goals. Show less

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  Amazon

  Mar 2018 - now

  • Worked across with multiple stakeholders in a matrix system to define BRD, product roadmap, enable UAT and launch new product features by working along with product-tech teams and business leaders to drive automation.• Lead regulatory risk mitigation initiatives by building new products like Follow on Quality Control, Morpheus/EDA Machine Learning models etc to detect and mitigate potential escalations. • Co-ordinated with operations, quality and program teams to influence on execution of aligned roadmap. • UTC (Unable To Classify) ASIN reduction to mitigate GMS loss, stuck inventory, and reduction of non-compliant products sitting in our fulfilment centers.• Ensure Voice of the Customers are incorporated in product roadmap Show less • Managed a team of five Sr associates, tasked to build products for supplier onboarding process, optimized supply chain processes, increased supplier performance, created a tactical and strategic plan to channelize targeted nudges.• Part of two professional committees in amazon as a safety ambassador and sustainability ambassador. Keeping in mind my north start of having sustainable and safe supply chains.• Created a new centralized WW Escalation framework for 13 Programs by building SIM platform, alignment of SOPs, template for COE, CAPA and RCA trackers, automated reporting to amazon leadership.• Built a new product/process for vendor outreach program in partnership with RBS NIS buy ability team to reduce costs. Show less • Lead multiple process audits, right from managing audit schedule till close looping the deviations identified for the biggest amazon operations teams across the world based in India, Romania and Poland. Identified 44 major and minor deviations, helped align the corrective action and preventive action plans. Also, co-owned business goals.• Worked on a collaborative basis with all stakeholders to set goals, and drive actions to meet international regulatory requirements, quality, safety and environment goals by developing capabilities and establishing management system for semi-automated rules, and also helped continuously improve our existing ML models. • Collaborated with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment to channelize and drive actions. Built 9 EPS ML models for different dangerous goods escalations as a quick solve solution. • Eradicated one of the highest risks – reoccurring escalation of 2020 i.e. safety risk for the product type sparklers through semi-automated way and then structurally solved it with WW SOP update.• Designed and maintained process metrics for leadership review in WBR (Weekly Business Review), and MBR (Monthly Business Review). Show less • Took over the responsibility of quality audits to ensure compliance through adherence of SOP. Understood the weak links and gaps through root cause analysis, 5 why and subsequently mitigated these defects as part of newly designed global defect management.• Built a new program WW Possible undeclared shipment to mitigate potential regulatory risks arising from supply chain.• Continuous improvement through optimization and standardization of the process.a) WW possible undeclared SOP creation and standardization b) SIM process c) Partnering with global compliance for project recall d) creation of escalation dashboard e) SOP update of WW DG manual classification f) Rule based auto classification g) Algorithm correction for DGCS ML.• Initiated multiple biased audits to find and mitigate similar defects in our system. Ensured standards are in line with the requirements. Called out and resolved multiple non-compliance issues. Show less

  • Program Manager - II

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Program Manager - I Compliance Integration Tech

    Nov 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Product Compliance Specialist

    Jul 2020 - Nov 2021

  • Sr Product Compliance Associate

    Mar 2018 - Jun 2020