Nisha Chauhan — Civil Engineer | Digital CV Maker
Senior Design Engineer – Product Development

Design Engineer, 5 Years | Automotive Sheet Metal and BIW Parts

Design engineer with 5 years in sheet-metal and plastic part design for automotive interiors in Faridabad. Models in CATIA V5, prepares drawings with GD&T and tolerance stack-ups, and supports DFMEA and PPAP with suppliers.

28Projects delivered
₹340CrBuilt value managed
0Structural NCRs, career
4.2MSafe man-hours led
Project register

Delivered, with dates

Selected projects from the full register of 28. Completion certificates and client references available for every row.

ProjectScaleRoleDelivery
Cabin frame redesignnew frame passed rollover protective structure tests on the first physical prototype
Casting conversionreplaced a five-part weldment with one casting, simplifying assembly for the line

"On time" means the certified completion date, not the press release. One project in 28 ran late — a 2019 mall, 11 weeks, monsoon flooding plus a contractor default. I list it because you'd find it anyway.

Disciplines

What I run on site

Execution & sequencing

Pour cycles, shuttering rotation, crane time, monsoon planning. A tower is a rhythm — my job is keeping the beat when weather, vendors and drawings all miss theirs.

7-day slab cycle held, 8 floors

Quality & QA/QC

Cube registers, rebar inspections, pour cards, NCR closure. Concrete doesn't accept apologies — it accepts cover blocks, vibration and curing, checked every time.

0 structural NCRs in 12 years

Safety leadership

Height work permits, toolbox talks in three languages, and the unpopular decisions — stopping a pour at 4 p.m. because the shoring didn't look right. It wasn't.

4.2M man-hours, 0 fatalities

Contracts & billing

RA bills, BOQ deviations, extra-item claims, subcontractor reconciliation. The technical half wins the site; this half keeps the project solvent.

₹34 Cr claims settled, documented

Planning & MSP

Baseline programmes, look-ahead schedules, catch-up plans that crews actually follow — because they were built with the foremen, not emailed to them.

26 of 28 projects on/ahead

Client & consultant liaison

Weekly reviews, design-query turnaround, the honest flag raised early. Clients renew with engineers whose bad news arrives before it becomes expensive.

3 clients, repeat projects

Site stories

Three days that defined the job

Cabin frame redesign

new frame passed rollover protective structure tests on the first physical prototype

Casting conversion

replaced a five-part weldment with one casting, simplifying assembly for the line

NC

Photograph — helmet on, drawings in hand, on the slab

About

Why civil

Mechanical design engineer with seven years in product development for off-highway and agricultural equipment. Leads sheet-metal and casting designs from concept to production release, including FEA checks, DFMEA and supplier PPAP support.

"The structure will stand for sixty years. The shortcuts would have been invisible for five."

Lean Six Sigma Green BeltGD&T advanced course based on…ANSYS Mechanical training…

Experience

4 years · current

Senior Design Engineer

Off-highway equipment manufacturer

Led design of a new operator cabin frame, coordinating with styling, manufacturing and supplier teams through prototype and pilot builds.

3 years

Design Engineer

Agricultural machinery manufacturer

Designed sheet-metal guards and cast housings for tractor implements using Creo and in-house design standards.

Clients & consultants say

Structural consultant

"Nisha is the only site man who calls me before the problem, not after. The stopped pour in 2022 — his call, against every commercial pressure on that site — is why I take his projects."

Principal, structural consultancy, PuneWorked together on 4 projects

Client project head

"His weekly reports say what's actually happening — including what's late and whose fault it is, his own included. After two decades of contractor optimism, that's worth more than any Gantt chart."

VP Projects, developerRepeat client, 3 projects
Hiring?

Put me on a difficult site

Open to senior design engineer – product development and PMC roles — high-rise, industrial or infrastructure. Pune preferred, site postings anywhere in India considered for the right project. Completion certificates and references ready.

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LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/rohitdeshpande-civilProject photos & milestones
RésuméDownload PDFTwo pages + project register
Notice30 days · never mid-pour

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