Brandon Schele Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Franklin Park, IL

• Rebuilt project management team across multiple locations to improve NPD execution.
• Forecasted and managed capital and expense budget for NPD department.
• Led PLM transformation across the company driving best practice digital processes, replacing 30+ year old manual processes, improving transparency and productivity.
• Trained and led DFMEA and Design Of Experiments (DOE) best practice adoption across the engineering organization.
• Redesigned NPD process to improve… Show more
• Redesigned NPD process to improve structure, deliverables, and adherence and drive effective risk mitigation throughout project execution.

Franklin Park, IL

• Lead cross functional teams as project manager through NPD development projects from inception to completion worth $10M+ annually.
• Mentor, pulse, and vet all New Product Development projects across all functions within all product lines to mitigate risk at product launch and meet project schedule.
• Establish and manage capital and expense budgets for NPD department.

Oak Creek, WI

• Lead NPD projects through Engineering tasks and utilize design tools such as DFMEA, DFA, and DFM to mitigate development risk and ensure product launch meets the project schedule.
• Implemented best practices Corporate wide for DFMEA and PFMEA development and trained key engineering, manufacturing, and quality team members across the corporation on process.
• Lead Manufacturing projects utilizing LSS methodology to improve SQDC of a product line.
• Led cross functional continuous… Show more
• Led cross functional continuous improvements efforts of existing products to improve quality and performance. Show less

Union Grove, WI

• Mentor, pulse, and vet all New Product Development projects across all functions within the Mechanical group to mitigate risk at product launch and meet project schedule.
• Identifying areas for improvement to speed up execution within the NPD process, and implementing solutions for overall process improvement.
• Led Industrial Mechanical team to 37 Phase Gate reviews and 16 total product launches (vs. goal of 11 product launches) in 2012, and 13 Phase Gate reviews and 3 product… Show more
• Led Industrial Mechanical team to 37 Phase Gate reviews and 16 total product launches (vs. goal of 11 product launches) in 2012, and 13 Phase Gate reviews and 3 product launches in 2013.
• Project leader of NPD projects, completed projects worth up to $2M annually. Show less

Union Grove, WI

• Mentor, pulse, and vet all New Product Development projects across all functions within the Mechanical group to mitigate risk at product launch and meet project schedule.
• Identifying areas for improvement to speed up execution within the NPD process, and implementing solutions for overall process improvement.
• Led Industrial Mechanical team to 37 Phase Gate reviews and 16 total product launches (vs. goal of 11 product launches) in 2012, and 13 Phase Gate reviews and 3 product… Show more
• Led Industrial Mechanical team to 37 Phase Gate reviews and 16 total product launches (vs. goal of 11 product launches) in 2012, and 13 Phase Gate reviews and 3 product launches in 2013.
• Project leader of NPD projects, completed projects worth up to $2M annually. Show less

• Completed Black Belt projects that reduced end of assembly line leaking gearboxes by over 90% and reduced shop wide machine changeover time by over 9,000 hours/year.
• Mentored Green Belt and Design for Lean Six Sigma projects, including 5 to completion.
• Conducted training of Lean Six Sigma Awareness for nearly 200 employees.
• Led and participated in over a dozen continuous improvement activities (i.e. Kaizen Events) across the corporation that encompassed multiple business… Show more
• Led and participated in over a dozen continuous improvement activities (i.e. Kaizen Events) across the corporation that encompassed multiple business functions. Show less

• Designed high efficiency speed reducers for customer applications.
• Supported Oracle transition and Product Unification efforts.
• Led material cost out steel consolidation project to transition to mill steel usage.
• Project support for large redesign projects.

• Redesigned valve actuators for ease of manufacture and cost savings.
• Performed static torque, sealing, and functionality tests on actuators.
• Completed LSS Green Belt project with $40k in savings.