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Work History
Education
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Certification
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K S DRUVARAJ

Pune

Summary

Experienced Sustainability professional with vast knowledge in Life Cycle Assessment, Product Stewardship, Project Coordination. Skilled in Ecodesign by improving the environmental performance of a product through analyzing the products/processes environmental impact and gave suggestions based on the hotspot analysis and literature reviews.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Ecodesign Engineer

Eaton India Innovation Centre
Pune
05.2022 - Current
  • Extensively worked on the eMobility products portfolio like Power Distribution & Protection units, Inverters, Power connectors etc; and implemented Design for Environment for all the New Products
  • Ensured compliance of all these products by listing the environmental regulations, communicating these lists of regulations to our suppliers, conducting preliminary BOM assessment and gave feedback to our engineers
  • Assisted in the Product Stewardship Assessment of the Eaton products and ensured that all the components are compliant to the regulations that are sold in the region of sales
  • Assessed the Sustainability requirements for the customers and communicated to the product team
  • Ensured that key sustainability requirements are captured as the CTQ's and tracked till end of the project and these CTQ’s are met
  • Conducted benchmark study to compare and assess the key sustainability attributes of the Eaton’s New products vs benchmark product of similar category and function in order to guide the product team to focus on these sustainability attributes
  • Conducted life cycle assessments to analyze environmental impacts of products and established a baseline for all the product category
  • Researched and recommended environmentally friendly materials and manufacturing processes
  • Understood the duty cycle of the vehicle in application with the Eaton product and derived the use phase calculations and modelled for the Life Cycle Assessment in GaBi
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate eco-friendly practices into product development
  • Created awareness in our office regarding the Eco friendly water consumption during the World Environment day.

Global Project Engineer

Whirlpool India Ltd
Pune
01.2018 - 05.2022
  • Worked within the DfE team to develop tools that help in the eco- friendly design
  • Coordinated with the design engineers and understood the product attributes and functions and helped them understand what LCA can offer to improve the Environmental scorecard
  • Analyzed the Environmental Impact of cross-category products and helped the design engineers to make a design change by choosing the eco friendly options
  • Performed detailed LCA along with the LCA report and had critical review of the LCA in accordance with the ISO 14044
  • Conducted survey to understand the appliance energy usage trend by the consumers and analyzed the impact by comparing against the best practice
  • Developed an excel based tool to collect the scope-3 data and to calculate the Scope-3 emissions of the appliances sold globally and maintained the tool every year
  • Reported the Scope-3 emissions to the stakeholders and helped in setting the target to reduce the emissions
  • Helped the GIS team with automating the Scope-3 emissions in its continuous improvement
  • Actively involved in the sustainability branding both internally through regular meetings to give knowledge about LCA as well as externally by advertising our sustainability story with colleagues and friends
  • Assisted the CSR team by including the LCA projects and scope-3 emissions in the yearly report
  • Conducted benchmarking study to understand the performance gaps and enable continuous improvement.

Design Engineer

Pioneer CAD & Design Solutions Pvt Ltd
Pune
05.2017 - 12.2017
  • Understood the different compliance related regulations like REACH, RoHS, Conflict minerals, Prop65
  • Followed up with the suppliers for the disclosure of Raw materials
  • Closely tracked the declarations from the suppliers for any restricted materials mentioned in the Restricted Materials List prepared by Whirlpool
  • Reported back the restricted materials to the suppliers and ensured that the materials will not be further included in the composition
  • Learnt about the Environmental Impact Assessment tool and started performing the LCA
  • Coordinated with the design engineers and the stakeholders to collect the LCA data and model the life cycle.

Project Coordinator

Supangita Engineers Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2016 - 05.2017
  • Directed all phases of project from NPD to production
  • Recommended process and systems improvements such as developing a process manual, automation
  • Supervised the work of 12 members team, offering constructive feedback on their work performance
  • Coordinated design meetings and decisions across internal departments and teams
  • Reviewed customer concerns and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning meetings.

Internship

Mercedes Benz Research and Development India(MBRDI)
Bangalore
11.2014 - 08.2015
  • Successfully completed my thesis in 'Analyzing the effect of forming process on fatigue analysis of a suspension member'
  • Had a hands-on experience on NxCAD and Hypermesh
  • Used python programming in mapping the forming results to the preprocessing software to achieve my thesis goals.

Education

M. Tech. - CAD/CAM -

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.E - Mechanical Engineering -

Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering

Skills

  • LCA tools : GaBi, Simapro
  • ISO 14044:2006
  • Environmental compliance
  • Tableau
  • MS Excel
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Work & Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Time Management
  • Strong communicator
  • Self-motivated
  • Strategy and plan development

Certification

I have successfully completed the NPTEL course on "Sustainable Engineering Concepts And Life Cycle Analysis"

Accomplishments

I have been awarded E-Star for my contribution to all the DfE activities in all the eMobility projects I have worked.

Languages

  • Tulu, First Language
  • Kannada, C2 - Proficient
  • Telugu, C2 - Proficient
  • Hindi, C2 - Proficient
  • English, C2 - Proficient
  • Tamil, A1 - Beginner

Timeline

Ecodesign Engineer

Eaton India Innovation Centre
05.2022 - Current

Global Project Engineer

Whirlpool India Ltd
01.2018 - 05.2022

Design Engineer

Pioneer CAD & Design Solutions Pvt Ltd
05.2017 - 12.2017

Project Coordinator

Supangita Engineers Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 05.2017

Internship

Mercedes Benz Research and Development India(MBRDI)
11.2014 - 08.2015

M. Tech. - CAD/CAM -

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.E - Mechanical Engineering -

Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering

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