Harshal Bhajak

Senior Technical Program Manager @Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited

Mumbai, IN

Lead and mentor R&D team in all phases of product lifecycle for NPD and NPI projects to achieve first time right over 90% thus reducing rework, associated cost.Reduced product development time by 19% through use of tools like DFMEA, Tolerance analysis, Flow & Thermal analysis, DFMA, DVP & R, DOE at early stages.Delivered 11 change management initiatives :resulted in decrease of 1.2% in PPM, thus reducing Service Costs by Rs. 36.7Cr. while increasing CSAT Score by 26%.Increased GM by 2.8%(20.6% to 23.4%) in Premium BLDC Segment by reduction in COGS - increasing profits by Rs.31.3 Cr.Led Nucleus program that introduced first Inhouse design and manufactured PCB.Evolved Eco BLDC segment: lead to 1.9% increase in MS by launch of products like HyperJet, Nucleoid, Niteo.Setup Project Governance Framework :standardize all processes. This directs, controls and tracks all projects tasks & ensure consistency of execution across projects.Increased assembly line productivity by 15%(reduction in Takt time) through various methods like poke-yoke, elimination of components, integration, commonization of components.Reduced Warranty costs by 9% by improved product quality through better design, leveraging data analytics for RCA, FRACAS. Participated in 1 Market visit each month.Contributed in consistently achieving 75+% SNOP by interactions with Manufacturing, Procurement etc.Leading and mentoring team of PM\'s by building PM playbook – capture best practices, lessons learnt, RACI, Risk Matrix, RAID logs, EVM (Schedule and Cost Variance), resource allocation in project, trainings.Redesign of products adhering to regulatory compliance e.g. BEE, BIS, RoHS, G-Mark, UL, IS-302.Participate and contribute to resolve technical issues in T0 trials at vendor. Attend product Pilot builds at manufacturing locations.Prepared Business Cases for major 12 NPD projects and aligned with Function Heads (R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Procurement) post which got budget allocated in FAAP.

College of Engineering Pune

Master’s Degree

Central Institute Of Plastics Engineering and Technology

Post Graduate Diploma

AISSMS College of Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree