Atik M Desai - Vice President at Hazira Manufacturing Complex
1981 - Mechanical Engineering
Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer at Hazira Manufacturing Complex since 17th September 2015.
Atik M. Desai is a Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer at Hazira Manufacturing Complex since 17th September 2015. He was VP-Process Plant Internals Business & Vadodara Heavy Engineering Works at Larsen& Toubro, Heavy Engineering IC, Vadodara at Ranoli, Vadodara operations include products from exotic materials for Advanced Composites and Process Plant Internals / Reactors from Stainless Steel, Haste alloy and other advanced materials prior to coming to Hazira. He has been inducted as a Trustee of L&T Public Charitable Trust (LTPCT). He was Chairman - HR & Trg. Committee at The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry (2018-19, 2019-20) and Member of Governing Council, The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Earlier, he worked as General Manager- Manufacturing at HES (Heavy Equipment & Systems), Hazira Manufacturing Complex, Larsen & Toubro Limited till November 2014. Heavy Engineering is state of art facility for manufacturing & supplies precision custom engineered critical static hi-tech equipment & systems for the hydrocarbon sector including Oil & Gas Refinery, Cracker, Petrochemicals, and Fertilizer etc. apart from meeting the requirements of Defense, Aerospace and Nuclear Power sectors.
He was Head- HR & Administrative Services, responsible for HR, IR, Welfare, TQM, Training, EHS, Transport, Security, Medical Centre and Canteen areas at L&T, Hazira Works between 2004- March 2010.
He worked in manufacturing shops and planning areas & handled critical assignments like Nuclear End Shields, Steam Generators, EO Reactor Tube sheets as well as Critical Special projects components manufacturing as Machine Shops Manufacturing & Planning Head at L&T between 2001 to 2004.
Before joining L&T, Hazira Works in September 1991, he has spent 9 years in area of Production Planning & Industrial Engineering Machine Tools Division in reputed organizations Batliboi & Rallis India Limited.
He is Graduate in Mechanical Engineering passed out in 1981 from L D Engineering College, Ahmedabad. He has done Diploma in Business Management from IICM, Ahmedabad.
He has been instrumental in launching TQM / Change Initiatives at L&T, Hazira Works like Kaizen based Employee Involvement System, “5S” Housekeeping, JQI, TPM, IQRS, Departmental Process Parameters Monitoring etc. and ensuring Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle through TQM Council Meetings. Presently he is member of TQM Council and plans, organizes, co-ordinates and facilitates TQM related activities at L&T, Hazira Works.
Few additional feathers in his cap are:
o Certified Six sigma Black Belt from Quality Council of Indiana
o “Gemba Kaizen (Workplace Management), “5S Housekeeping”, “Total Productive Maintenance” and “Strategic Management” courses from JMA Management Center Inc., Japan
o Certified Facilitator for Quality Improvement (CFQI) and Certified Trainer for Quality Improvement (CTQI) from Qimpro College, Mumbai
Participation in other External Bodies:
o Member IMC – IIT, Majura Gate & Chairman IMC – ITI, Gandeva(07-08, 08-09,09-10)
o Member on two committees by GOG – ‘BM Tech Education in Gujarat’ and ‘Improving Infrastructure and Skilled manpower for SEZ’ (07-08)
o Chairman – HRD Committee at SGCCI, Surat (07-08, 08-09)
o President of IIIE – Surat Chapter (Since 2010) & recipient of H K Firodia Award for year 2016-17
o Appointed Judge at Qimpro Convention (09-10)
o Member of Quality Improvement & Technology Committee- Indian Merchants Chamber, Mumbai (2016-17)
o Director – Hazira Area Industrial Association (HAIA)
o Member of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) two years from 7th October 2020 Recognition to HED-HZMC in last few years:
o CII Western Region HR Excellence Commendation Certificate (08-09)
o Achieved IQRS L 8(07-08) – An International Business Excellence Model
o British Safety Council Award (07)
o L&T Campus Ambassador
o Silver award from EMS by FAST – NGO(Jan’07)
o Awards- Frost & Sullivan (2004,2012), SGCCI- Export Performance (05-06)
o SGCCI Award to L&T HZMC for “Outstanding Achievement in Social Welfare Programmes by a Business House” (2015)