About

Prateek Kakkar is a Lead Engineer at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd with over 10 years of experience in product design and development, product life cycle management, and program management. He is proficient in project coordination as an Engineering Manager for complete vehicle systems, studio engineering prospects, and product specification and features. He works within a global team environment by regularly interacting with teams in various locations. Currently, he is working as a PEL for the EV domain for E&E. Prateek is an insightful professional with notable success in full product lifecycle activities, including concept preparation, prototype testing, design management, engineering change management, issues control and resolution, cost management, vendor management, manufacturing, quality management, and various other cross-functional activities. He has strong experience in ensuring that all newly developed products have represented the maximum quality and reliability attainable by establishing effective quality control inspections, tests, and corrective procedures. Previously, Prateek has worked as a Lead Engineer and Lead Engineer/Manager at Mahindra & Mahindra. His responsibilities included ensuring that new products are developed with agreed quality and within stipulated time as per cost target, interacting with PP and Marketing to freeze on the product scope and specifications, ensuring robust design through reviews necessary to achieve the agreed targets of time, cost, and quality for projects, collaborating with COE, Manufacturing, and CDMM teams to meet vehicle quality targets, and closely working with CFT to meet program targets along with MPDS gateway deliverables. Prateek has a B.Tech in Automotive Design Engineering from the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies. He also has a background in Senior Software Engineering, testing, and product design. With a relevant experience of 10.79 years, Prateek is a result-oriented professional who has the ability to work in a team and deliver quality results.