Chris Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Westfield, Indiana

Manage Seat belt restraint Projects for Off-Highway Vehicle division

Evansville, Indiana Area

Develop Injection molded products in the Rigid Open Top Division. Responsibilities include -financial cost justification, product design drawings, dimensional and physical test specifications from customer functional requirements, tooling design review, bill of materials, packaging, automation linkage for part removal, offset printing, shrink sleeve.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Lead Engineer for new French-Door Bottom Mount freezer with 7/2012 production launch in Amana, Iowa Provided PA test plans to product design engineers that must meet specifications for Codes & Safety, Thermo Performance, Structure, Ice & Water, Features, Cab & Doors, Electrical & Controls, Packaging, Sound, Service and Consumer Usage

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Worked on a new global SxS Refrigerator platform design with 5/2010 production launch and manufactured in Saltillo, Mexico Product awarded a “Best Buy” rating by Consumer Digest in Feb 2011 Provided quality function input to project tollgates for over 100 model SKUs in several phases of implementation for selling regions in the US, Canada, Australia.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Managed Built-In-Refrigerator (BIR) Technology department of 20 engineers with budget of $2.3M Major projects included:o Industry-first BIR 42” French-door bottom-mount 1Q06 that was rated #1 by Consumer Reporto New “flush” exterior ice & water dispenser 2Q07 that was rated #1 by CU and bronze award winner by Appliance Design magazineo Transferred the.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Worked on the KitchenAid 2003 Built-In Refrigerator models and 18 OEM models for Bosch’s Thermador brand; started production 9/2003 Supervised four engineers, two Lead CAD Designers and a BOM Technician in delivering these new model launches from Industrial Design & Marketing Concept through production Capital spending for the projects totaled $6.7M

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Led the Procurement Features Component Value Team Responsible for managing three engineers and CAD Designer in Evansville and one engineer at Ft. Smith, AR division for driving major cost and quality improvement projects – plastic parts (molded, blow-molded, thermoformed extruded), metal roll-forms & extrusions, glass, nameplates, fasteners, etc. By.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Worked on the Nexterior project, which was to develop a totally new plastic door assembly for side-by-side refrigerators Responsible for leading the project management of four engineers and one CAD Designer as the core team of individuals to develop a set of doors that met the objectives of Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing: sculptured exterior.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Promoted to serve on project team to develop new foamed door construction for SxS models to meet DOE 1993 energy standards Responsible for the product design of the ice & water dispenser assembly for the Foamed-In-Place new foaming process Received US patent for a new conductive-ink flat heater for the ice door Used project management skills to meet.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Worked in Product Support group responsible for interior components of SxS refrigerators at Ft. Smith, AR division Major accomplishment was being credited with $1.9M in cost savings using pricing and design improvements

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Senior Engineer in the Whirlpool Brand Engineering function, responsible for releasing new models for Sales Releases from Marketing Worked with Industrial Design to develop new components that met Engineering and Codes standards and released the drawings and parts in the BOM in time to meet Procurement and Manufacturing schedules Major accomplishment.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Assigned to Special Quality Improvement Team responsible for implementing design improvements that would reduce major service incidents Major accomplishment was a US patent for a transformer/heater design that eliminated 840 annual product replacements by reducing external sweat complaints

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Project Engineer in the Engineering Support group responsible for the design of interior components of top-mount refrigerators and vertical freezers Worked with Resident Engineer, Manufacturing and hourly employees to redesign the parts to increase productivity during the initial production start-up of a new model design Major accomplishment was credit.

Evansville, Indiana Area

 Responsible for managing the labor standards on a newly designed plastic liner refrigerator that was unique construction to the division and industry Major accomplishment was having the highest score when becoming trained in the new MOST computerized time study method and setting the most work standards on the entire assembly line Became familiar with.

Princeton, IN

 Served in a corporate function and responsible for the justification, design and implementation of major automation projects for electro-mechanical relays; major accomplishment was managing the development, purchasing, implementation and employee training of a new pad-printing process for marking on the relays produced at all divisions Selected to a.

Princeton, IN

 Responsible for the investigation of new technologies available and product redesigns to improve productivity

Princeton, IN

 Responsible for the development of labor standards with part routings and special cost reduction projects; selected to supervise the implementation of new 4M computer-aided time measurement at every division and audit the results

Princeton, IN

 Responsible for establishing and auditing time studies after creating workplace layout and methods improvements for increased productivity

Bsie, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Student Council, Theta Chi Fraternity officer

Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program

Activities and Societies: Varsity Wrestling, Honor Roll