Kinjan Patel

About Kinjan Patel

Kinjan Patel has over 15+ years of combine experiences working as Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager & Value Engineer. Working for Construction manufacturing Company, Automation Industry & Industrial & Commercial Snack Food Industry.As a Mechanical Engineer, he has taken initiatives to lead the projects from Concept to Production.As a Project Manager he has managed multi-million dollar projects from Kick-off to On-Site Installation. Working with various internal and external stakeholders.As a Value Engineer he has rigorously worked to reduce product cost by evaluating cost, qualifying new vendors, evaluating buy vs make, designing & sourcing equipment to increase in-house manufacturing capabilities.Kinjan has been a member of various internal projects where lean initiatives, safety, quality control and value engineering & value analysis where implemented.Kinjan has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineer and is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) for the State of Illinois. Areas of Expertise : Mechanical Design, Product Design, Project Management, Value Engineering (VA/VE), Manufacturing & Process, Computer Aided Design, Customer Facing, Vendor Souring & Management, Material Selection, Design Calculations, Lean Process, Product Testing, Automation Components, Steam Components, Job Costing & Budgeting, Cost Reduction & NegotiationsTechnical Skills: Soliworks 2019 (15+yrs), PDM – 2018 (10+yrs), Solidworks FEA 2015 (10+yrs), DraftSight 2019 (5+yrs), AutoCAD (15+yrs), MS office Suite, Windows, ERP Sytem, Pro E, BOM, Document Control, Risk Assessment – Safety, P & ID Layout, Sanitary Design, Technical Manual, Electrico-Mechanical & PneumaticsFamilarity with: GD & T, HVAC, 2D Beam, Regulatory Compliance (CE, UL, NSF, ASME), Electrical, Controls & PLC, PID, & OSHAPersonal Skills: Results Oriented, Team Building & Leadership, Excellent Communicator, Active Listener, Negotiations, Managing Objections, Avid Learner, Problem Solving

Experience

1. Project Engineer

   Now Foods

   Sep 2019 — Present · Bloomingdale, IL, US

   Initiated and managed multi-million dollar capital projects from Capex to Start-up; including processing & packaging equipment and, construction for the Nutraceutical industry working with cGMP guidelines.

Education

• Northern Illinois University

  B.S., Mechanical Engineer

  2002 — 2004

• Harper College

  Engineering

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Design for Manufacturing
• Value Engineering
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Autocad
• Pdm
• Pro Engineer
• Sheet Metal
• Product Design
• Ptc Creo
• Manufacturing
• Cad
• Engineering
• Testing & Validation
• Finite Element Analysis
• Forging
• Project Management
• Project Engineer
• Solidworks
• Product Development
• Kaizen
• Lean Manufacturing
• Mechanical Engineering
• Casting
• Machining Processes
• Computer-Aided Design (Cad)