Bryan Hacker Email & Phone Number

Fontana, Ca, Us

• Manage the engineering team to support the improvement and growth of the physical infrastructure across all company entities and facilities.• Prepare fiscal capital budgets and coordinate all spending on approved purchases/projects satisfying business efficiency needs. Maintain spending forecasts and schedules in excess of $20M/year.• Negotiate and finalize all contract management with vendors and suppliers on routine support and growth opportunities.• Provide critical troubleshooting support to the production and maintenance teams when operational challenges occur.• Involvement in long term future planning on available real estate to include planning with civil team, local government, utility companies and contractors.

Fontana, Ca, Us

• Oversight of all engineering and capital projects from initial design to systems testing and production rollout.• Integration of multiple new construction direct chill aluminum casting pits, melting furnaces, homogenizing ovens, finishing saws, and small/large diameter lathe cell to support growth in value added markets.• Completed greenfield facility to encompass a 2500 metric ton indirect extrusion press and 10 stand non-twist rod rolling mill with extruded forge stock line.

Fontana, Ca, Us

• Design and development of direct chill aluminum casting pits and related equipment to include all foundation/shoring work and underground/aboveground utilities.• Billet and Slab Tooling Systems that feature "in-house" designed mold assemblies and consumable packages. Turnkey system was designed and built “in-house” to be exclusive to the products we produced.• Development of In-Line Degassing Systems to surpass customer quality requirements in higher humidity environments. Design to include inert gas metering stations, mixing housings, heating system, and refractory lined fabricated shell.• Construction and project management of multiple large capital expansion projects including aluminum lithium casting facility.

- CAD preparation of flat pattern parts for laser cutting ad water jet. - Suspension and chassis design for new off road platforms.- Maintained inventory and handled all purchasing of all chromoly/mild steel tubing, flat patterned hardware, aluminum sheets, welding rod/consumables/gases, and tools.- Supported the growth into the market to become the largest manufacturer of custom off road vehicles in the industry.