Dave Hoyne, Cmq/Oe Email & Phone Number

Spring Grove, IL, US

Elgin, Illinois, US

• Responsible for maintaining numerous industry and customer accreditations and improving on time delivery and other KPIs across thirteen facilities across North America in the aerospace, oil & gas, chemical processing.
• Maintains AS9100D / ISO9001:2015, ISO 17025, Nadcap Materials Test Labs and Nadcap Heat Treat accreditations across all facilities
• Participates in numerous customer and industry audits
• Transitioned Quality departments of all locations from siloed configuration to one umbrella organization encouraging increased efficiency and information sharing
• Implemented QT9 QMS software to better track all areas of Quality Management System
• Implemented continuous improvement throughout production facilities via active engagement with upper management and local work areas

Elgin, Illinois, US

• Responsible for designing and optimizing precision cold rolling and annealing processes for Nickel, Cobalt, Titanium, and Stainless Steel alloys in order to optimize properties and improve shape and yield of finished.
• Strong interaction between customers and sales team in order to ensure timely delivery of product, proper material selection, and helps with customer manufacturing questions.
• Performs metallographic testing in captive lab in order to approve material.
• Actively seeks process improvements via gemba walks throughout manufacturing facility.
• Supervises and coaches other process engineer as well as other plant engineers.
• Lead member of Material Review Board.

London, GB

• Managed employees of Metallurgical Engineering and Failure Analysis / Reverse Engineering Departments. Responsible for improving on-time delivery, first time right, and maintaining strict quality standards for all.
• Through training and development, led department to become the most profitable department in the Daleville location.
• Ensured all team members are qualified to perform testing to Nadcap and A2LA (ISO 17025) requirements.
• Implemented LEAN / 5S initiatives in order to improve process flow in both Metallurgical Prep room and in Metallurgical Analysis room. Held several Kaizen events in order to optimize work flow in different areas of.
• Helped to upgrade safety program and keep safety first on all employee’s minds. Redesigned mounting presses in order to increase safety by eliminating a cause of frequent lacerations.
• Dramatically reduced lead time on larger projects by implementing an "Own It" strategy from sample arrival through reporting. Focus on communication with customers, staff, and other departments helped to reduce errors.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Designed new refractory insulation for high temperature hydrogen pusher furnaces increasing uptime by a factor of six and saving $500,000 annually in energy savings.
• Designed new fiber insulation system for high temperature hydrogen batch furnaces reducing cycle times by 50%.
• Communicated with sales staff, customers, and production to insure optimal product selection and delivery.
• Provided cost estimations / quotations for production parts, which included obtaining, evaluating, and recommending quotations from outsource vendors, reviewing, amending, and creating AutoCAD Inventor drawings for.
• Development of new materials and powder blends to optimize material properties of existing and new materials. This also entailed troubleshooting existing material processes and solving material related production issues.
• Database management and development of new software, including Cold Fusion, MS Access and SQL databases.

Springfield, IL, US

• Tested aggregate materials from local quarries both on site and in lab to qualify material lots.
• Performed laboratory tests on soil samples to determine moisture content and plasticity index.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Worked as a member of a large team to improve production efficiency by reducing failure rates of production parts.
• Designed and performed tests using photolithography, etching, scale modeling, plating, current-voltage testing and other methods to analyze and determine the behavior of PTC resettable devices.

Auburn Hills, Michigan, US

• Trained on all aspects of float glass plant operation.
• Designed and performed tests to increase furnace efficiency by experimenting with air/fuel ratios, batch composition, and temperature profiles.
• Performed Quality Control Tests on finished product.