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Operations:•Coordinating and overseeing daily plant and manufacturing operations and within departments.•Managing production staff including hiring new employees.•Directing plant operations remotely when on customer site.•Purchasing of commercial parts.•Implemented purchasing department personnel for daily purchasing and inventory system.•Implemented production work orders to improve workflow and department coordination.•Managing department personnel to meet production deadlines.Project Management:•Managing individual projects from concept to commissioning to ensure deliveries are met.•Assisting customers with IQ/OQ Validation for pharmaceutical equipment applications.•Testing equipment in preparation for Factory Acceptance Tests.•Interacting with customers and establishing relationships during the project cycle.Engineering:•Providing technical sales support for the sales department.•Providing equipment layouts for sales quotations.•Contribution of ideas for new equipment concepts.•Writing technical manuals for all equipment.•Implemented quality inspections for equipment before shipment.•Coordinating ESA & PHSR machinery inspections.Service:•Service Manager•Technical support: Troubleshooting equipment on site and remotely.•Service technician: Installation, training and commissioning of new equipment.•Coordinating equipment shipments & installation/ commissioning.•Trade Show Set-Up: Machinery Demonstrations and technical sales.•Coordinating outside vendor on-site service for peripheral equipment training and tuning on site.

•Design of custom friction feeding and collating equipment from concept to completion.•Communicating with sales department and customers regarding machine requirements and integration.•Technical sales support including system proposal layouts for quotes.•Assembling and testing equipment in preparation for FAT tests.•Configuring and integrating peripheral devices (printers, vision systems, labelers, bar code scanners).•Machine operational function diagrams & schematics for manufacturing and service manuals.•Service support including schematics, component and set-up diagrams for service manuals.•Service installation, commissioning support and training.

•System proposal layouts for various types of packaging/ process equipment.•Equipment design: case erectors, case packers, case sealers & product handling systems.•Engineering assistance/ support for machine assembly and troubleshooting (on site).•Design of change part tooling for existing machines.•Service support for existing equipment.•Technical sales & marketing support.

•R & D design of new line of flexible pouch case packing and erecting machinery.•Managing all flexible case packing and erecting projects from start to finish.•Management of separate flexible case packer assembly department and manufacturing.•Hiring of millwrights for assembly department.•Initial project evaluation and order acceptance through correspondence and in the field.•Design of flexible pouch change-part tooling with vacuum systems.•Coordination of customer factory acceptance testing, delivery and installation.•Service support including installation and line start-up.•Engineering/ manufacturing cost analysis for completed projects.•Attending trade shows for technical support.

•Design of case packing, erecting, closing lines including conveyor design and integration.•Design of custom product handling equipment from concept to completion.•Design of custom change-part tooling for case packing machines.•Coordinate standard engineering drawing revisions to improve tracking and shop flow.•Correspondence with customers regarding machine requirements and integration.•Proposal layouts for quotes.•Implementing UL, CSA, and PHSR standards for specific machine orders.•Service support including schematics, component and set-up diagrams for service manuals.•In-house IT maintenance and data backup.

•Design of paper collating and conveying lines with product surge & batch-count feeders.•Design of card folding machinery with scanning, printing, mail loading and integration.•Machine process function diagrams & schematics for manufacturing and service manuals.•Communicating with customers regarding machine requirements.•Creating system quote proposal layouts.•Service Support.•Ensuring specific machine orders meet CE Safety Standards.

•Design of case packing/ erecting equipment and conveyor systems.•Design of custom product handling equipment.•Design of Custom pick heads for case packing machines.•Creating new drawings and updating drawings of existing parts and assemblies.•Part identification drawings, electrical and pneumatic schematics for machine manuals.•Coordinating shop operations and stock organization.•Creating database for manufactured stock parts.•Creating system proposal drawings & sales videos of machinery.•Selecting & purchasing design office computer systems and installing office network.•Managing design office operations.•Hiring of mechanical designers.•Correspondence with customers regarding machine requirements.•Attending trade shows for technical support.