Supervise and streamline overall day-to-day operations of engineering team along with overseeing all facets of budget, performance, and quality. Contribute to completing engineering projects as per contractual obligations by meeting desired safety, quality, productivity, and throughput goals. Complete, test, archive engineering designs, programs, and drawings in an accurate manner. Rationalize quality and accomplish success through staff coordination/satisfaction, continuous process improvement, and proper documentation. Develop significant initiatives for improving productivity and throughput.• Administer a multi-million-dollar yearly capital project budget, submit new projects, assign resources; ensure compliance with budgetary, quality, time, and scope constraints, thereby producing a 98% spend of the capital budget in 2020-21, despite a major reduction in staff due to the pandemic.• Partner with plant and corporate management teams in dealing with business priorities, new capital projects, and all customer requirements. Completed over 30 critical capital projects totaling $12M in 2021.• Ensure a 95% on-time completion of assigned projects by evaluating and improving operations of outside contractors.• Determine and meet production requirements, including equipment installation, testing, upgrades, and maintenance along with all other production requests in conjunction with operations and maintenance teams.• Assure appropriate focus and support for a 24/7/365 titanium melting operation by directing engineering team/contractors in prioritizing and executing facility/equipment projects.

Spearheaded overall routine activities of customer service and electrical engineering teams, including managing budget, performance, and quality. Provided a leadership role for the management of service projects, quoting, and profitability. Directed all activities of the electrical engineering team, focusing on supporting production and service schedules while ensuring designs, programs, and schematics completed, tested, and archived.● Supported customers with equipment installation, test, and up-gradation along with responding to all other service call in a friendly manner, thereby achieving 10% growth per year in customer satisfaction.● Led all aspects of parts business aimed at ensuring on-time shipment of customer parts that reduced lead time and grew revenue, which resulted in expanding business by >20% per year.● Attained client satisfaction and improved purchasing experience in partnership with management team.● Scheduled new product testing for ensuring quality, including providing recommendations for improvement.

Strategized, set up, and managed a new engineering and manufacturing division, comprising developing significant initiatives for accomplishing success. Provided a leadership role for the management of engineering activities, including quote/customer review, design/development, manufacturing process/test support, product specification, service/installation support. Ensured compliance of overall operations with the contractual obligation in conjunction with Engineering VP. Controlled department budgets, finance/cost accounting, department goals setting, metrics development, strategic planning, people management, and performance improvement. Strengthened enduring relationships with top management, stakeholders, and engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service business groups. Carried out required administrative functions, such as reviewing/writing reports/presentations, approving expenditures, meeting company guidelines/values, and making effective decisions.● Attained business growth to more than $20M per year with a circa 20% yearly return.● Built, established, and chaired a >20-membered team of electrical, mechanical, and software engineers with industry-leading expertise in user interface (GUI), embedded system control (RTOS/PLC), electrics and mechanics of new and >5K installed systems worldwide.● Lessened design complexity, parts usage, and assembly time for multiple product lines through the utilization of lean techniques, thereby deriving 20% cost reduction and expediting customer delivery.● Determined and prevented products defects via six sigma DMAIC methodologies, thus optimizing build processes and rising product quality by ~30%.● Introduced ISO 9001 process maps for engineering design and development, quote, customer support, ECO, and on-time issue resolution.● Implemented required changes for rationalizing engineering structure aimed at scaling business as per goals.