Dan Goray Email & Phone Number

US

Mason, OH, US

• Reports to the president, responsible for a team of 75 people including manufacturing engineers, quality inspectors, maintenance team and production. Directs manufacturing engineering, facility management, maintenance.
• Proposes, plans and executes capital expenditure strategy to improve safety, efficiency and maintenance.
• Improved metal utilization from 55% to 75% resulting in annual savings of $400k in material.
• Implemented two fully AI welding robots to offset 5 welders, resulting in a $250k decrease in payroll expense.
• Implemented a computerized maintenance management system to manage all preventative maintenance operations for all critical equipment eliminating machine downtime due to a lack of preventative maintenance.

Mason, OH, US

• Provides daily manufacturing and quality leadership and support. Provides design guidance to design engineering for manufacturability. Manages a team of manufacturing and quality engineers, quality inspectors and.
• Established and staffed a new manufacturing engineering and quality department
• Implemented poka-yoke and inspection procedures that reduced external quality issues by 85%.
• Managed multi-million capital expenditure annual budgets to improve capabilities and capacities.
• Managed manufacturing integration projects after acquisition of other fan companies.
• Visit customer sites for design development and quality assurance

Mason, OH, US

• Provided daily manufacturing and quality support for a $40M production facility. Collaborated on a daily basis with Sales, Design Engineering, and Production to ensure the requirements of the customer are met and.
• Managed $5M project for facility expansion that included building design, construction oversight, equipment definition, procurement, installation, and training.
• Implemented and trained personnel on new powder coat paint system to replace liquid coat system.
• Implemented manufacturing program to incorporate the use of a CNC mill to replace outdated manual machines which reduced cycle time by 90% and provided annual cost savings of $53k. This included machine specification.
• Implemented a daily tier meeting system to improve communication from factory personnel to supervisors to upper management.

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Provided daily support for 14 production lines and 6 CNC machines including multiple productivity and safety improvements. Provided project leadership for various capital expenditure projects resulting in productivity.
• Managed Blackbelt project to implement 4 CNCs with quick changeover fixtures to replace outdated conventional machining equipment and reduce changeover by 85% and cycle time by 35%
• Deployed a vendor managed inventory for CNC tooling to reduce on-hand inventory and minimize downtime from lack of tooling
• Directed project to introduce an automated test fixture that increased productivity by 25% and reduced scrap by 40%

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Provided daily support for 11 production lines including bill of materials and routing updates/maintenance. Managed and maintained the most production lines of any engineer in the plant.
• Executed Line Architecture Design Methodology for 6 production lines to follow a one piece flow scheme, decreased building footprint by 10k sq. ft., and increased productivity by 25% through better raw material flow.
• Lead cross functional 2 year project to relocate 500k sq. ft. production facility cross country and lead in design of new plant layouts, coordinating with contractors, and ensuring minimal downtime to customers.
• Created innovative concept and design for a newly patented intelligent energy control valve.
• Implemented overhead oil pumping and dispensing system to centrally locate all oil used within product and eliminate barrel changeover

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Provided daily support for 2 production lines. Created new assembly test fixtures to replace outdated equipment. Provided field return analysis for all return product and implement corrective actions accordingly.
• Managed 1 year project to minimize plant footprint and layout by 25% to reduce building lease overhead by $1M dollars.
• Completed Blackbelt project to incorporate new hydraulic assembly fixture that reduced scrap by 85% and $85k and prevented missing $150k in customer orders.
• Deployed 3D laser scanning program for complex parts where conventional measurement methods weren’t feasible

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Design Test Engineer I (2009-2010) Loves Park, ILPerformed comprehensive pilot tests for prototype product. Prepared daily test reports for Design and Manufacturing engineering projects.
• Streamlined design creation process with the implementation and evolution of 3D prototype printing for quick which reduce prototype creation timeframe by 50%
• Created test plan database to streamline access and storage for all test reports for new design projects
• Designed new test cells and test standards for newly released products