Somesh Joshi
Business Unit Manager | Strategic Leadership | Digital Transformation | Change Management | Operations |
- Role
- Business Unit Manager Paint and Facilities at John Deere
- Location
- Pune, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Somesh Joshi
Senior manufacturing and technology leader with 23+ years of experience across manufacturing operations, Industry 4.0, digital transformation, ESG, and large scale program delivery. Proven track record of driving margin improvement ($9Mn) through smart connected factory, global IT/ product portfolio management, new product development, Green & Brownfield projects. Adept at bridging shop floor operations with digitalization, managing across global teams & management, driving strategic initiatives, ESG, and regulatory & environmental compliances.In current role of Business unit lead - paint and facilities operational ownership including productivity, quality, cost, sustainability and technology. Also responsible for new footprints, facility maintenance, statutory & regulatory compliances for the factory. Deliver Margin improvement themes that bring significant bottom line impact through levers like technology integration, digitalisation, overhead optimisation through cyclical business.
Experience
Business Unit Manager Paint and Facilities
Sep 2024 — Present · Pune, IN
Responsible for Paint shop operations delivering to the vehicle plan with distinctive product quality through latest Technology & Digitalization. Responsible for new facilities development based on long term plans and ensuring compliant & efficient operations of complete facility. Leading the Sustainability goals towards RE 30 leap ambitions.
Education
Cornell CXO Leadership Program
Certificate, Business Leadership
Nagpur University
BE, Mechanical
1997 — 2001
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
PGPEX, Manufacturing
2008 — 2009
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
PGPEX, Manufacturing
2008 — 2009
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
PGPEX, Manufacturing
2008 — 2009
Skills
- Team Management
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Kaizen
- Sap
- Value Stream Mapping
- Manufacturing
- Lean Manufacturing
- Operational Excellence
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Strategy
- Supply Chain Management
- Automotive
- Business Strategy
- Theory of Constraints
- Process Engineering
- Six Sigma
- Business Process
- Business Process Re-Engineering
- Management
- Operations Management
- Tpm
- Business Development
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