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Fitchburg, Wisconsin, United States

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Spearheading operations information gathering across 7 sites to develop standard cost and optimize current processes. Comprehensive operations centered multi year strategic planning. Focusing on facilities and capital equipment purchases that align with companies strategy.Development and training of manufacturing best practices across multiple sites and functional groups within the company.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Designing, training and implementing Oracle cloud at 17 different locations under Astec. Working with upstream and downstream functional teams to develop best solution for all sites. Identify and recommend process flows that will enhance the system's performance. Define best business processes specifically in the areas of manufacturing execution and production planning.

Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, United States

Manufacturing fixture design and implementation. Design for manufacturing review on new and current components from design engineering. Project lead on multi-million dollar capital equipment purchase. Development and deployment of an application for operations to submit change orders, non-conformance, workplace improvements, OEE, and maintenance requests. Create and maintain SOPs and work instructions. In charge of equipment capital budget for following year and planning spend down to the month.

Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin

Developing design standards to streamline the design process and create standard documentation for manufacturing. Developing drawing standards to streamline drawing creation and minimize shop inquiries. Developing and streamlining the ECO process to improve change completion rate, history tracking, and employee notifications. In charge of all SOP and work instruction creation for the entire plant. In charge of ROI’s for major equipment purchases for the plant. Coordinate with multiple companies under Astec Inc. in order to standardize and optimize the process from design to manufacturing. Oversee and troubleshoot all manufacturing IT related items. Oversee and troubleshoot all IT related questions from engineering. Fill in for engineering when assistance is needed in order to hit deadlines. In charge of all jig and fixture design and implementation. Introducing and implementing a lean environment within engineering. Supervise all designers and engineers in the engineering department. Operational Excellence champion in charge of implementing a lean environment in the entire facility.

Prairie Du Chein, Wi

Design and implement jigs and fixtures to streamline our manufacturing process. In charge of all SOP's and process documentation. Implement all lean principles throughout the plant. ROI's on new equipment that will create quality parts in an efficient manner while keeping safety number one priority. In charge of and troubleshoot all manufacturing related IT issues. Oversee maintenance and finalize all decisions. Report and approve all maintenance financials. Head of the implementation of a total productive maintenance program culture throughout the entire company.

Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin

Design asphalt plant components using Solid Works, specializing in sheet metal and weldments. Part of the Feeder and Storage group and leader of the slat conveyors. Worked on implementing standardized field prints and shop drawings. Worked on standard logical subassemblies that followed the manufacturing process flow.

Lynn Center, Il

Developed an owner’s manual and parts manual for new corn heads. Designed and fabricated stands to show a comparison with OEM parts. Designed welding fixtures to optimize production and quality. Welded frames and assembled new corn heads. Traveled around United States troubleshooting and repairing corn heads.

Fichburg, Wi

Designed fixtures for Kulhmeyer sanders for new parts. Developed 3D models and drawings of existing fixtures. Designed new tool holder for metal sheet punch machine. Developed and integrated new racking to hold Kulhmeyer fixtures. Conceptualized then headed the fabrication of a stainless steel part laminating machine. Organized and catalogued all the break press tooling. Created work instructions for various operations. Created multiple layouts to determine best placement for new machines. Catalogued all prototype parts and quality check parts.

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial And Product Design