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Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

• Organized the activities of all departments within the delegated reporting structure through planning and motivating to accomplish objectives while implementing change initiatives.
• Prepared annual budgets and held monthly budget review meetings
• Managed staff levels, wages, hours and contract labour to ensure profitability
• Chaired weekly internal project meetings and external customer meetings to ensure projects were within planned scope and budget.
• Oversaw with site visits the timely completion of project installations at customer sites
• Collaborated with the CEO in setting and driving organizational vision, operational strategy along with capital and human resource requirements.

Windsor, Ontario

• Coordinated, managed and monitored various organizational departments involved in sales, costing, engineering, project management as well as manufacturing and maintenance.
• Managed capital and operational budgets by analyzing historical purchasing data in developing cost saving strategies while building forecasting models for future operational spending.
• Identified managed and mitigated business risks through regular management review meetings.
• Lead cross functional teams to discover and track the implementation of correction action measures to lower the recurrence of non-conformances.
• Improved the existing divisional system process and policies to support corporate growth targets with the use of Kaizen and similar processes by lowering operational costs.
• Liaison with executive management while assisting in the development and implementation of divisional business strategies that align with overall corporate directive.

Windsor

• Lead weekly program reviews with cross-functional resources, using Risk andOpportunities matrix to the extent that mitigation is employed or opportunities are realized.
• Championed weekly manufacturing reviews with cross-functional resources to the extent thatopen issues are closed in an effective manner.
• Lead monthly work in process reviews with cross-functional leadership.
• Utilize SAP software to discern program costing forecast to complete and define costtrending.
• Employ effective situational management techniques to maintain objectivity and teamfocus on program related goals.
• Executed effective negotiation skills so as to protect corporate commercial interests and/orenable satisfaction of Customer related requirements.

Windsor, Ontario

• Attended customer line-up meetings and provided technical assistance to the sales team.
• Formulated complete mechanical and controls costing.
• Reviewed customer scope of work and prepare proposal documents in Office Software
• Prepared sequence of operations, cycle time analysis, line balancing and conceptual drawings.
• Prepared, conducted and assisted in technical presentations to customers.
• Assisted in developing new products, existing product improvements along with costing standards.

Windsor, Ontario

• Analyzed customer product drawing sets and developed costing models in Excel.
• Developed product manufacturing concepts and timelines for review with internal team.
• Analyzed and developed capital tooling requirements to determine project cost return feasibility.
• Championed order release meetings to line up the project team on orders received.
• Monitored all current projects and quoted project changes as necessary.
• Familiar with customer specifications for Caterpillar, John Deere, Skyjack & AxleTech

Windsor, Ontario

• Please see description from same position April 2015 to April 2016.

Windsor, ON

• Reviewed customer requirements and created proposal concepts by sketching various design ideas.
• Developed costing and written proposals.
• Hosted proposal review meetings and championed project launch meetings.
• Created and maintained proposal and estimating standards.
• Developed and implemented new costing worksheet to accurately outline projected profit margins.

Windsor, ON

• Attended quote lineup meetings at customer locations throughout North America.
• Reviewed customer statement of requirement packages and compiled questions to be answered by the customer buyer on any pertinent information which was missing.
• Contact and meet potential vendors to acquire pricing on quote specific components.
• Prepared Microsoft Word and Excel based proposals in formats provided for customer submission.
• Once approved by Sales and the Executive group, delivered quotation to Sales Department for customer submission.
• Notified appropriate personnel of quotation acceptance/non acceptance

Windsor, ON

• Please see description from same position April 2015 to Current.

Windsor, ON

• Utilized Catia and AutoCad in the design of automotive assembly machines.
• Projects worked on include cross-transfers, End of Arm Tooling, Conveyor Systems, Shear Stations, Closure lines, Spot Welding Automation, Elevators, Dunnage Systems, and many more.
• Detailed prints, created layouts and assemblies using models and sessions.

Windsor, ON

• Interpreted blueprints and programmed CNC machines.
• Performed advanced millwright and toolmaker skills utilizing drill press, radial drill, lathe, band saw, shear, mig and arc welding, knee milling, surface grinding, assembly and teardown.
• Supervised teams of millwrights in the installation and re-assembly of equipment.

Bachelor Of Commerce (Honours), Management Science, Major Gpa 87

The Management Science discipline is designed to prepare you for a career with focus on quantitative business skills. You will study.

Masters Certificate, Project Management

The Atocrates’ Centre for Project Sciences is the principle architect and producer of Canada’s number one Master’s Certificate curriculum.

Mechanical Engineering Technologist, Automotive Product Design, 3.6 Final Term Gpa