Andy Buckland Email & Phone Number

Clarkston, Mi, Us

Michigan, United States

Leading a highly skilled team of engineers in Product Management and Applications for robotics products. Focused on controller hardware and software.

Warren, Mi

Responsible for management of the Manufacturing Advanced Technology Work portfolio and funding processes. Supporting linkage to Global Product Development and R&D innovation teams and activities. Driving creation of strategy and projects to enable the manufacturing 4.0 transformation of GM’s business. Leading and enabling a small team to cultivate innovation, connect engineers with ideas and resources to test and implement new technologies. Actively helping the manufacturing enterprise to look past today’s problems and fixes and generate new innovations that will change the way we build vehicles and propulsion systems enabling true competitive advantage. Providing project management and execution support for new technology proof of concept and pilot deployment projects.

Warren, Mi

Vehicle Systems Global Strategy and Planning Group Manager.Leader of diverse engineering team with SME roles supporting quality, financial management, training, IE, as well as business process support. Helped develop and implement strategies at a center level and provided direct support to executive director center lead. Devised and implemented global processes for technology development management and resource planning. Lead center level communications and events.

Business Manager for Vehicle Systems Department within Global Manufacturing Engineering. Leading Business Processes group in support of department business goals and activities.

Responsible for the creation and maintenance of GM’s Global Robotic Standards documentation. Providing daily support to all regions on the understanding and implementation of the standards as well as the globally common robot designs. Also responsible for managing GM’s Strategic Robot Supplier relationship. Lead Technical Engineer for negotiation and validation in the global sourcing of robots.

Responsible for Program level controls processing, design, build, and installation follow-up. Covering all areas of the Body Shop, my duties included coordination of all zone level controls work, managing project timing and expenses for material and engineering labor, coordination of work and problem resolution with the plant including responding to breakdowns and participating in the throughput improvement process.

Responsible for controls design, build, and installation follow-up. Covering the several assembly lines as well as various project scoped tasks including robotics, software, and tool build interfacing and issue resolution. Authored several guidelines for clarification and direction as related to standard build practices.

Controls Engineer for body shop tooling.

Experience in: Manufacturing Controls Engineering, Controls Safety Systems, Reliability Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, supplier quality, network infrastructure installation, maintenance tracking, computerized torque control systems, fuel system validation and development testing, and skilled trades supervision.

Bsee, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude Graduation Honors, Dean’s List eight terms, Vice President, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering.

Mba, Masters Of Business Administration

Mba, Masters Of Business Administration

Transferred from Cardean to Ellis College - NYIT