Amit Verma

Sr Director - Engineering Services at Whirlpool Corporation

Summary
Senior leader with global experience in the areas of Product Development , Product engineering ,
Manufacturing operations, Project Management and Process plant engineering .

Experience
Sr Director - Engineering Services at Whirlpool Corporation
March 2016 - Present (1 year)
Global Responsibility , across all the Product platforms for
- Laboratory Operations
- Prototyping
- Simulation Based design
- Design for Safety processes and Regulatory compliance strategies
- Competitive Cost analysis
- Global Engineering and Technology Center in Pune , India.

Chief Engineer - Product Development Capabilities,Product Approval and Lab operations at

Whirlpool Corporation
May 2014 - Present (2 years 10 months)
Global Accountability across all Whirlpools appliance Product categories for
- Product approval and Laboratory operations
- Proactive Product safety engineering
- Prototyping capabilities
- Administering and improving the Product development Processes
- Implementing Lean Product development and continuous improvement practices
-Competitive cost analysis

Chief Engineer - Refrigeration at Whirlpool Corporation

July 2011 - Present (5 years 8 months)
Responsible for the Global Engineering function for the Refrigeration Category for Whirlpool Corporation .
- Design delivery as per product plan to meet schedule , product performance , features , reliability and
cost goals .
- Deliver annual cost and quality improvement goals.
- Responsibility for 7 Product development centers across the globe with a team of ~ 650 engineering
personnel and an engineering expense budget of 95 M $.

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Senior Director - Global Strategic Sourcing at Whirlpool Corporation
June 2010 - July 2011 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for the implementation of the Component architecture management initiative to save 700 M $
from our product costs , by rationalizing the component and material base.
Development and deployment of an organizational model to embed the management of the materials and
components space for our products across all regions.
Coordination of the development of cost management and improvement capabilities for our product line
acoss all the regions.

Director - Organizational capability and Product architecture at Whirlpool Corporation

January 2010 - June 2010 (6 months)
Development and embedment of the capability to develop and manage product architectures .
Development and deployment of the organization structure based on Product architecture.
Development and deployment of the critical competencies across our 4000 technical personnel.
Embedment of a technical ladder for our engineering and technology organization .

Director - Global Product Architecture at Whirlpool

September 2007 - December 2009 (2 years 4 months)
Development and embedment of the capability to develop and manage product architectures .
Development and deployment of the organization structure based on Product architecture.
Development and deployment of information systems to manage product architectures.

Director - Global Refrigeration Technology at Whirlpool Corporation

June 2006 - August 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Design and delivery of subsystems for our refrigeration products worldwide.
Meet the cost and quality goals for the product subsystems.
Develop and manage the intellectual property for the refrigeration product group.
Drive technology development and design leverage between our regional product development centers.
Manage a global headcount of 180 engineers .

Director Global Refrigeration Technology at Whirlpool Europe , S.r.l.

September 2004 - May 2006 (1 year 9 months)
Design and delivery of subsystems for our refrigeration products worldwide.
Meet the cost and quality goals for the product subsystems.
Develop and manage the intellectual property for the refrigeration product group.
Drive technology development and design leverage between our regional product development centers.
Manage a global headcount of 180 engineers .

Vice President & Director - Product development - Asia at Whirlpool Corporation

July 2000 - August 2004 (4 years 2 months)
Lead the development of Refrigerators for the India and Asia Market . to meet the product plans.

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 Delivery of cost and quality improvement goals.
Set up and lead the Global technology and engineering centre , with 75 engineering personnel to support
global projects.

Plant Director at Whirlpool of India Ltd

January 1999 - July 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for manufacturing operations for a No frost refrigerator factory in Pune , India.
Delivery of the factory business plan - availability , cost and quality.
Create the capability to export product to the Asian and Middle eastern markets.

V P Technical operations - Western India at PepsiCo

April 1994 - December 1998 (4 years 9 months)
Responsible for the beverage manufacturing operations for the Western part of India for Pepsico.
Supervised 4 Company owned manufacturing plants , with a strength of 650 people.
Project management for aqcquiring and integrating 2 existing factories , and setting up 2 green field facilities.

General Manager - Technical operations Foods , India at PepsiCo

October 1992 - March 1994 (1 year 6 months)
Responsible for the manufacturing operations for the 2 company owned food processing facilities in Punjab ,
India .
Accountable to deliver on the factory business plans - availability , cost and quality.
Responsible for for managing the Agri- research center in Punjab , in collaboration with the local
Government.

Plant manager & engineer at Pepsico

January 1989 - September 1992 (3 years 9 months)
Project execution for setting up the green field food processing facility in Punjab , India.
Plant engineering and maintenance to support the entire manufacturing facility.
Delivery of the factory business plan - availability, cost and quality.

Maintenance Manager at Unilever

July 1984 - December 1989 (5 years 6 months)
Responsible for the plant maintenance and project execution of the premium soap facility at Calcutta , India .
Responsible for a central maintenance workshop and spare parts department.
Cordination of the planning of statutory maintenance for the entire factory.

Skills & Expertise

Product Management
FMEA
Product Development

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Manufacturing
Engineering
Project Management
Product Design
Project Engineering
Six Sigma
Management
Project Planning
Business Planning
Product Innovation
Procurement
Cross-functional Team Leadership
DFMEA
Lean Manufacturing
Design of Experiments
Global Sourcing
Design for Manufacturing
R&D
Mechanical Engineering
Pro Engineer
Continuous Improvement
APQP
Product Launch
Supply Chain Management
Industrial Engineering
Value Stream Mapping
Kaizen
Engineering Management
Injection Molding
DMAIC
Black Belt
Manufacturing Engineering
SPC
PTC Creo
Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
B Tech, Mechanical Engineering., 1977 - 1982

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Amit Verma
Sr Director - Engineering Services at Whirlpool Corporation

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