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Sparta, Michigan, United States

Lead a team of manufacturing and controls engineers and maintenance technicians to improve safety and reduce equipment downtime and improve throughput.

United States

Responsible for launch of prototype labProject manage equipment delivery, layout and utilities for 4,000 sq labDevelop processes for trial requests, material ordering and sharing resources with productionWork with product development team to define test plansDevelop standard documentation for trial reports Work with product developers to run pilot trials for new product concepts

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

6 Direct Reports 90 IndirectManage production operations including metal fabrication, plastics processing, sew, upholstery and assemblyManage safety activities including incident review, corrective action and implementationCreated labor planning tool to predict overtime percentages and show headcount needs/overagesDeveloped a training matrix for production associates to allow better flexing of work forceReduced assembly defects by tracking assembler errors and initiating feedback conversations

Hudsonville, Michigan, United States

6 Direct Reports and 28 Indirect ReportsManage operations to meet efficiency and quality goals for 24 molding machines and supporting staffDeveloped uptime metric and lead a cross functional team to improve availability of two automated cells from 60% to 70%Created forecasting tool to understand labor needs and staff appropriately Managed customer quality issues from cradle to grave: certification of materials, root cause analysis, corrective action, implementation, verification and read across

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

9 Direct Reports and 24 Indirect Reports• Manage engineering team, tool room supervisor and maintenance supervisor with open action item lists and weekly prioritization reviews to improve safety, quality and delivery on the shop floor• Developed departmental metrics to drive support teams to fix key issues within plant; examples of impact:o Increased availability of assembly equipment from 85% to 93% by assigning engineers to work with maintenance staff to develop action items from pareto charts of equipment downtime o Decreased scrap as a percent of sales from 1.4% to 0.4%, across the plant by daily, weekly, and monthly monitoring and delegation of actions• Coordinated and tracked plant continuous improvement activities across plant to recognize over $300k per year in savings• On time launch and start of production for three assembly cells including:o Lead a cross functional team to develop floor layouts and transfer of machines from buildero Prepared lines for run at rates and developed relationships with customer representativeso Ensured 100% on time delivery of preproduction shipments• Lead multiple root cause analysis teams to permanently fix persistent manufacturing and quality concerns• Developed and improved multiple foundational processes

Burlington Ontario Canada

4 Direct Reports - 7 Material Handlers under supervisor• Manage material planners, logistics, export compliance, and warehouse supervisor to ensure materials are received, warehoused, picked and shipped correctly • Planned and executed the transition of $5M of inventory from Texas warehouse to Ontario factory with no disruption in service to our customers. Trained employees on new MRP system shipping procedures to ship high volume USA orders• Applied Lean principles; focusing on flow, visual management to improve warehouse processes and communication• Pareto charted perceived warehouse errors to determine root cause; Found 50% of reported errors to be from caused outside the department - worked with engineering and production to reduce• Lead cross functional kaizen activity to improve flow of shipping and packing area• Provide manufacturing engineering support to operations team

Houston, Tx

7 Direct Reports• Manage material handlers, logistics, QA and material planning personnel• Responsible for monthly shipments, export compliance, and quality from a parts distribution center• Developed a forecasting tool for financial reporting of parts shipments; executed monthly shipments within 5% of forecast• Lead dramatic improvement of distribution center performance in a short time period; Trained employees on urgency of spare parts; who our customers were and drove quality and shipping improvements - Reduced shipping errors from 10 per week to 1 per month within 2 month period and improved on time delivery from 60% to 80%• Implemented daily start of shift meetings with warehouse staff to review and discuss safety, quality and performance issues• Trained warehouse staff to investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies• Improved operations by updating manual forms and working with IT to automate ERP processes

Houston, Texas Area

10 Direct Reports• Managed team of fabricators, machinists, and assemblers to build seawater lift equipment and reciprocating pumps• Transitioned necessary equipment for production of reciprocating plunger pumps into facility from closed factory; executed on time and under budget• Launched reciprocating pump production; including assembly, pressure test and performance testing• Executed culture change on the shop floor; including: safety initiatives, start of shift meetings and communications between functional areas

Battle Creek, Mi

8 Direct Reports• Continued responsibilities for manufacturing engineering team• Managed QA team responsible for disposition of NCRs, material certifications, welding program and inspections• Issued corrective actions and worked with responsible parties to develop robust solutions • Collected non-conformity data and communicated with monthly quality newsletter - Assigned manufacturing engineers to identify root cause and implement corrective action• Maintain compliance and improve quality manuals for ISO 9001 and nuclear 10CFR50B programs

3 Direct Reports• Developed a flexible and responsive team that maintained 100% on time delivery of routings, tooling needs, CNC programs and raw material structures to a 100k sq ft production shop• Created process routings and raw material structures for pumps and parts to meet customer requirements and ensure shop efficiency; processed engineering and process change requests• Wrote departmental work instructions to streamline and standardize processes throughout AS/400 to SAP transition• Trained as an SAP a super user; supported multiple departments throughout transition

• Collected engineering and customer information to create assembly routings and work instructions• Lead multiple kaizen activities to increase utilization, standardize layout, and work flow• Challenged current process to drive improvements on the shop floor and in the office• Designed tooling and layouts using AutoCAD for work areas to ensure safety and efficiency• Assisted and led job hazard analysis teams to detail and reduce risk in work areas• Justified capital expense and project managed implementation of high density vertical storage unit; worked with inventory team and IT to reduce footprint and improve picking and transaction times• Programmed turned parts for CNC lathes and CNC vertical turning center• Replaced aging Applicon Bravo software with CamWorks CNC Programming Software; worked with machinists and reseller to validate machining strategies and post processors• Implemented machining process improvements to save over 2,000 hrs per year of machining time

Responsibilities:- Communicate with new and current customers regarding best possible panel design for their application.- Handle customer concerns and quality issues- Program CNC router- Design and create technical drawings for new orders- Specify manufacturing processes for custom panels Notable ProjectsEvent marketing wall and office system- A 120’ x 120’ event marketing exhibit consisting of 180 panels with many rooms and enclosures - Worked with customer to design wall system using our panels from quote to shipmentImplementation of new machining center and punching machine- High volume automotive parts - cell processed 1500 panels per day- High speed machining center- Learned G-Code to program machine for customer changes- Instated cutter compensation to provide cost savings of $500/week- Redesigned clamping fixture to allow for another customers parts to be ran on machine- Punching machine- Installed hard guards to make machine safer and allow for reprogramming of machine to free up a person while machine cycled- Installed proximity sensors to ensure panel is correctly loaded into machine before cycling to poka yoke process

Graduate, Manufacturing Operations

Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Bronco Motorsports, Theta TauIn addition to studies spent all of my college career with a student run road race.