Padmaja Muralidharan, Claims Engineer

Padmaja Muralidharan

Claims Engineer

Eaton

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Experience
10 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 0 Months

Claims Engineer at Eaton
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2015

Management Capacities Chronology:
Estimation Engineer May’ 2015 - Sep’ 2015
Order Management Sep’ 2015 - Mar’ 2016
Claims Engineer Sep’ 2015 - Present
Logistics - Direct Shipment Apr’ 2016 - Sep’ 2018
Reporting on Behalf of Order Apr’ 2016 - Jun’ 2019
Management Team

Current Responsibilities:
• Responsible for streamlining all activities related to electrical engineering, including estimates for commercial projects, claims administration, order management, shipment & logistics.
• Currently serving as a Claims Engineer for the Middle East region; provide services to all business requirements and ensure optimal handling of all the claims related to logistics, commercial, and quality as per the defined technical & functional specifications.
• Execute customer centric operations & ensuring customer satisfaction by achieving delivery & service quality norms; attend to clients (corporate) concerns and undertaking steps for resolving them.
• Investigate issues in coordination with warehouse, management, and plant; resolve the customer issues, includes issue free of cost replacement and facilitate repairs and maintenance as required.
• Work with the Product Team for in depth analysis of repetitive claims.
• Manage an average of 1000 claims worth USD 500K per year; evaluate & maintain KPIs set by management for claim resolution & closing.

Earlier Responsibilities:
• Monitored order performance and compliance as per the order & risk management plan and organizational policies and procedures.
• Coordinated with the Order Management Team for the formulation of various reports such as daily order and sales flash, weekly order intake, daily countdown, daily pick and pack report.
• Liaised with the Finance Team to finalize the month-end sales figures.
• Managed distributor portfolio of Qatar and Oman included warehousing, logistics, material management, freight negotiation, shipping process, accountability, documentation & reporting.
• Streamlined all activities related to Dispatch of goods in coordination with the Outbound Team.
• Spearhead direct shipment operations from various plant across Europe and US; successfully handling huge volume of shipments; managed documentation.
• Managed technical specifications of international transportation such as conformity certificates, multiple modes, and varying custom regulations.
• Analyzed the financial impact of proposed logistic changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or mixes or carriers.
• Collaborated with the Shipper, Forwarder and Consignee to ensure timely collection of shipments; successfully managed on an average 60 shipments of worth $ 3 Million per month.
• Carried out all in-house coordination for preparation of quotations, discount calculation, obtaining management approval, assigned price of items in system in coordination with the Pricing Team.

Estimation Engineer at Disano Illuminazione
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2014 to April 2015

Key Responsibilities
• Acted as an Estimation Engineer; performed comparison studies and technical evaluation of suppliers/sub-contractor’s RFQs as per tender requirements; negotiations with plants.
• Ensured that the Estimate Basis is on “Current Costs” and escalation was properly covered.
• Made quotations and proposed light fixtures in accordance with the required specifications.

INTERNSHIP

Organization Future Power Sheds Manufacturing L.L.C.
Duration 1 Month (Jun’ 2012)
Role Electrical Engineer Trainee
Description Provided support in maintaining the switchgear & protection of equipment and gained effective technical and managerial skills.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • at National Institute of Technology
  • December 2013

B.Tech. (Electrical & Electronics) | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagpur, India | Secured 5.45 CGPA - (2013) Designed touch sensitive remote controller as a part of Robotics workshop conducted by Axis‘09.

Specialties & Skills

Freight Forwarding
Budgeting
Team Management
AutoCAD
Cost Controlling & Budgeting
Quality Assurance
Logistics Claims Management & Documentation
Team Management
Process Enhancement
Design Execution/Reviews
Documentation
Cross-functional Team Management
Value Engineering
Stakeholder Management
AutoCAD
Material/Inventory Management
Techno-Commercial Operations
Progress monitoring & Reporting
Risk analysis & Management
Innovative and Creative Solutions
Freight Forwarding
Price Estimation & Evaluation
Problem Solving Skills
Effective Negotiations
Supply Chain Optimization
MS Office
ERP Software (SAP & Oracle)
Dispatch Management
Resource Estimation
Regulatory Compliance
Liaison & Coordination
Electrical & Electronic System

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Aptech Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2012
Valid Until:
May 2013
CMS Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013
Certificate Of Completion By Autodesk (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Valid Until:
March 2014

Hobbies

  • Reading, Traveling, Dance