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Advance Manufacturing Operations• Create validations and reports for new production machinery for prototyping. (Weld, Press, Crimp, and Electrical Stations)• Verify/create new tooling and windows of parameters for machinery• Improve/optimize prototyping/manufacturing operations and procedures• Consultant on plant processing and welding issues with the engineering and plant• Create new weld specifications for new products and equipment• Worked with vendors obtaining quotes on new equipment and technologies• Investigate new technologies for future lines and improvements

Quality Department• Worked on Process Flow and Control Plans for Products and Deviations, Process Change requests• 8D’s and 5 why’s for root causes analysis of issues • Shop floor evaluation and online inspection and created a Non-Conforming material report• Create prototype build packages for both customer PO’s and engineering builds• Audit/inspect prototype build packages and inflators to blueprints and specifications• Perform 17025 internal audits for test and chemistry labs to find nonconformities and create corrective actions and opportunities for improvements• Create prototype traceability sheets and control plans for new inflators that prototype will build• Make supplier deviations, internal deviations, CAR’s, NCMR’s, and Quality Alerts as needed• Created CPK’s for Press and electrical check equipment. • Performed incoming inspection on components and created RMA and NCMR’s if needed• Responsible for gagetrak and calibration for site

Application Engineering Department• Setup new IPG weld stations and performed weld DOE’s on stations at plant• Help adjust weld specs for inflators by performing weld studies• Build engineering inflators for current and future inflator development• Perform engineering studies and created reports based on data• Support manufacturing line validations and plant weld issues• Recall/Investigate• Recreation of field failure parts and weld investigations• Create studies to test leak paths/moisture intrusion• Analysis of field data and recreation testing to find trends• Became a member of the sites Laser Weld Team to help commonize the weld process

Prototype Department• Oversee and train technicians on build processes and procedures• Create work instructions/process flows for processes, machinery and maintenance• Perform maintenance on all prototype machinery (laser welder generator/station)• Design inflator tooling (Solidworks essentials), validate tooling• Inspect completed parts to blueprints and specifications• Ensure quality is controlled during build processes• Designed schedules and build schedules for customer and engineering requests.• Create customer/ engineering builds from PO’s and verified LAT ballistic performance of Inflators• Installed with vendor new laser station cell created work instructions, and tooling lists.• Create weld programs for all inflators and ran weld trials/validations for station and weld tooling• Performed audits for TS16949 site audits, make corrective actions on findings and opportunities for improvement• Implement Kaizen into the build processes• Perform quality inspections of finished goods, measurements and check parts to print

Prototype Department• Manufacture prototype inflators from drawings for customer shippers and engineering design intent• Perform and record Weld Seam Analysis per specifications• Maintain, order, and forecast the inventory of explosives and initiators• Ship and unpack propellant shipments, and manage area propellant waste