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Greenville, SC, US

Specializing in professional and executive recruitment across manufacturing, engineering and construction, Better Than Found was formed with the mission to leave companies, careers and lives better than we found them. Based in Greenville, SC our firm does nationwide recruitment for companies in the Upstate of South Carolina and throughout the.

Greenville, SC, US

The Kidder Group, Inc. represents clients who are proven leaders in their industry; they insist on an engaged and passionate workforce, are strong financially, and have a management team that leads by example. Client companies must be committed to excellence, set world class standards, and believe in Continuous Process Improvement as a way of life. These.

Greenville, South Carolina, US

• Conducted design engineering on numerous process/mechanical systems for both design and EPC projects in the automotive, process chemical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and pulp and paper industries.
• Pioneered industrial engineering consulting services for O’Neal by providing root cause analysis, SMED studies, cycle time reduction studies, and Lean facility layout designs for our clients
• Championed the quality control and coordination of issuing over 80 process equipment packages for purchase on a schedule critical EPC project, totaling over $15M in equipment purchased
• Developed, validated, and trained engineers and designers in a alternative workflow solution for developing engineering drawings that proved to reduce costly plotting by an estimated 50%
• Provided engineering, design-prepare process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), process control strategy, equipment/performance specifications, equipment general arrangements, and piping.

Greenville, South Carolina, US

• Delivered design-engineering projects for Michelin North America, one of O’Neal’s longest standing clients in the automotive industry. Projects varied in scope, with design budgets ranging from $750 to $350,000.
• Accountable for Profit and Loss, quality control, and delivery to client schedule
• Coordinated preparation and delivery of project designs, service proposals, reports, and bid packaged with engineering, architectural, and operations teams

Spartanburg, South Carolina, US

• Project management from concept through commissioning of capital design-build projects ranging from $25K – $2.4M in the automotive, apparel & specialty products, contract fabrics, and military fabrics divisions. Plant.
• Directed the design of manufacturing processes and facility layout utilizing Lean manufacturing principle
• Generated project execution plans, schedules, preliminary estimates, and performed project feasibility and cost benefit analysis
• Facilitated pre-construction activities including scope of work development, value engineering, bid package preparation-tabulation, and contractor selection
• Coordinated procurement efforts including issuing purchase orders, tracking project spending, and receiving and inventory of equipment on-site.
• Supervised and coordinated multiple construction projects involving mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and controls integration contractors within an operational manufacturing environment

Spartanburg, South Carolina, US

• Directed design, product/process engineering, sample manufacturing, and production scale-up of Ford Motor Companies knit automotive body cloth fabrics.Plant Locations: Gayley, Enterprise
• Successfully linked manufacturing, business functions, sales, and design teams to quickly respond to Ford’s high demand for new products at lower prices
• Collaborated with Ford’s teams to design and engineer products for each new model opening
• Developed 85% post industrial polyester fabrics for Ford’s Eco-Friendly Fusion Hybrid automobile
• Responsible for sourcing, pricing, on-time delivery, profit and loss, physical testing, and production scale-up performance

Spartanburg, South Carolina, US

• Led shade development of nylon and polyester fabrics at four dye house locations in the Southeast, interacting directly with the Milliken and OEM designers.Plant Locations: Gayley, Enterprise, Abbeyville, Elm City
• Served as shade specialist on a cross-functional team organized for a Six-Sigma DMADV project chartered with the successful launch of Milliken’s YES Essentials® automotive body cloth product line.
• Developed and implemented a shade quality management system across all manufacturing locations that improved process visibility and customer response time. This system employed automatic data acquisition, database.

Spartanburg, South Carolina, US

• Responsible for continuous improvement and quality management for a continuous Thermosol polyester/cotton fabric dye range primarily supplying the uniform apparel market.Plant Locations: Magnolia
• Utilized quantitative shade measurement along with statistical and SPC software to ensure repeatable and reproducible products
• Developed a database to utilize historical averages of run data by product type resulting in optimal start-up set points and yielded better within run shade consistency (Kaizen Project)
• Led a Focused Improvement Project on a continuous changeover process resulting in a 67% reduction in off-quality for an estimated annualized savings of $63,000
• Improved overall quality by 52% during tenure resulting in record machine performance