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, safety and quality functions for the site production facility. Provides ongoing guidance to design engineering to support design for manufacturability goals. Oversees production and personnel within our Fabrication Integrated Process Team to ensure daily output meets the quality standard expected by the customer. Teamed with the president and other senior management to support the sale of the privately held company in 2021.• 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.

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 maintenance to ensure daily output meets the quality standards expected by the customer. • 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

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 defined new manufacturing processes for new projects. • 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 and quick change poka-yoke fixture design.• Implemented a daily tier meeting system to improve communication from factory personnel to supervisors to upper management.

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 improvements totally $150k. Managed multiple tool designers, CNC programmers and Interns on several productivity projects.• 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%

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

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

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