Dave Buechler Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Primary point of contact for the customer and production department for the main product at SKF. Produced and maintained the manufacturing drawings, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and assembly documentation as the.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to ramp up to full-scale production of 40 units per week.
• Hands-on prototype development through complex mechanical system design, calculations, assembly, verification testing, tuning, and troubleshooting of systems.
• Demonstrated success in project leadership by achieving system levitation in only 18 weeks of schedule after receipt of customer purchase order, setting a company record.
• Training, mentoring, and development of internship students, up to eight in one year.
• Local administrator and trainer of 3D CAD software and database systems for the mechanical engineering team.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Support of new and existing products as an Engineer in Training. Collaboration with the production department to transform the floorplan layout to optimize the manufacturing of the main product at SKF.
• Analysis of vibrations and natural frequencies for high-performance rotating payloads to enhance reliability and adapt control algorithms for multiple bending modes.
• Demonstrated design ownership by designing a new test bench system used by the rotodynamic department at Sao Paulo University.
• Produced the drawings and assembly documentation for new development projects and prototype designs.
• Supported existing products by maintaining and improving assembly documentation, test plans, troubleshooting, and product failure analysis.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Developed the original 3D model concepts of the main product at SKF and drafted most of the required manufacturing drawings and documentation for the prototype. During my fourth year of engineering, after internship.
• Inspected machined parts using calipers, outside micrometers, depth gauges, height gauges, and other metrology inspection tools.
• Built, tested, troubleshot, and re-built new prototype systems.
• Polished, painted, and assembled the new marketing models used at trade shows to demonstrate magnetic bearing technology.
• Made complex part and assembly models and drawings for new development projects.

Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

• Wellsite inspector for the summer out of the Red Deer office. Independently drove around central Alberta to inspect shut-in wellsites for safety and environmental compliance. Excellent introduction to many aspects of.
• Operated a company truck to independently travel across central Alberta to inspect wellsites.
• Developed excellent map reading and navigational skills to find locations based on the Legal Subdivision (LSD) addresses without GPS.
• H2S Alive, Standard first aid, and AMA driver training.