Vishal Jahagirdar

About Vishal Jahagirdar

Have more than 24 years of experience in Automotive industry. Highlights of my experience. All 24 years experience in Design, Product Development & Project management. 7 years of experience in design of Thermoplastic liftgate (Plastic Tailgate). Exposure to latest trends and technologies. 9 years of experience in in Automotive interiors.(IP Design.) OEM and Tier one supplier (Visteon, Johnson Controls, Mercedes Benz, Tata Motors,). 6 years of experience is in Automotive HVAC design with Tier-1 supplier (Behr India ltd & Visteon India). Worked on German, French, Japanese & Chinese clients. Have onsite experience of these countries. more than 4 years of experience of handling a team of 15 engineers. Hands on experience in designing all Major areas of cockpit, i.e. IP, HVAC, Instrument Cluster. Worked on localization projects for different segments of automotive industry Specialties. Thermoplastic liftgate/Tailgate product design. Worked as resident engineer at Nissan Japan for development of Plastic Tailgate.Working on Global tailgate programs and strategic tailgate business.Have worked on 3 IP design programs from First Class-A surface till Tooling release of CAD data. Have worked in Automotive OEM (Tata Motors and Mercedes Benz), so very well conversant with Car - CAB design process. Complete exposure to Cockpit design. Worked as a PD engineer i.e. single point contact for customer (M&M & Ford) and coordination with all teams i.e. styling, mechanical design, electrical, electronics, software design, purchase

Experience

1. Manager - India Tech Center Bengaluru (Deputy General Manager)

   Plastic Omnium

   Sep 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Managing all activities for India Technical Center Bengaluru. Set up, Ramp up, day to day execution etc