Jignesh Sutaria

About Jignesh Sutaria

A performance oriented engineering leader with proven team management skills and diverse…

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Panasonic Avionics Corporation

   Jul 2021 — Present

   Leadership • Lead by example and mentor/coach others • Establish well-informed priority guidance for where to focus engineering work • Serve as consultant to upper management in establishing long-range goals and preparing proposals for new business opportunities • Contribute to customer relations and vendor/supplier management activities • Embody a growth / Servant / Transformational mindset to continue developing self and team People / Interpersonal skills • Hire, lead, and manage an interdisciplinary team of engineers • Supervise and coach the engineering and other supporting MFG / Quality / OBS / Procurement team • Being a good judge of character is one of the prime skills & maintaining friendly relationships between colleagues and helping detect toxic personalities • Build good relationships with everyone on the team and with the external teams (customers/clients/partners/vendors); • Interact and effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of each product release Project / Operational / Process skills • Management and successful execution of multiple projects • Ensure that estimates of people\'s needs, costs, and budgets are prepared, established, and monitored; review and evaluate the progress of subordinate activities • Define projects and act as a technical leader, assisting others in the solution of complex problems involving diverse areas of various technical disciplines • Maintain and initiate improvement of HW, SW, and repair shop tester development tools and methods related to design, test, and product maintenance • Set stakeholder expectations and provide ongoing visibility of product initiative status • Collect and report reliability and performance metrics; direct initiatives to improve bottlenecks • Develop and maintain processes with a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) exercise. • Implement Kaizen (continuous improvement) processes with RCA Root Cause Analysis (5-Why / 8D /Ishikawa (fishbone diagram))

Skills

• Leadership
• Analysis
• Testing
• Manufacturing
• Engineering Management
• Management
• Team Management
• Electrical Engineering
• Embedded Systems
• Project Planning
• Engineering
• Product Design