Eric Murdock Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Rosemont, IL, US

• Lead a pre-cooling fuel consumption reduction initiative by working with the markets, identifying and documenting methods to detect reasons for excessive fuel usage, building a Power BI dashboard to facilitate.
• Developed and implemented new Out of Service Tracker for internal and third party maintenance teams, allowing markets to identify units that are currently out of service.
• Built and implemented Smartsheet forms and automations to support the asset lifecycle, and wrote playbooks and job aids to provide documentation to users and stakeholders.

56 Rue Charles Martel, LU

Oakland, CA, US

• Using Power BI and DAX, created loss tree report to communicate top operational efficiency opportunities, then develop and lead improvement projects.
• Lead both capital and process improvement projects to replace equipment, resulting in $1.8 million in annual savings.
• Created standard operating procedures for changeovers, resulting in an annual savings of $800,000.

Oakland, CA, US

• Supervised 25 employees and developed new maintenance program to optimize operational efficiency, and reduce downtime and mean time to repair.

Oakland, CA, US

• Developed and codified internal quality hold procedure and templates to streamline process for starting and clearing holds.
• Transitioned plant from local documentation to electronic quality management system.
• Created hierarchal repository to allow for site to be audit ready.

Maumee, Ohio, US

• Designed sealing solutions for high horsepower diesel engines and transmission applications.
• Acted as forward facing technical liaison for customers and sales team.
• Provided program management support from concept to release.
• Acted as department liaison for transition of quality standards from ISO/TS 16949 to IATF 16949.

Bolingbrook, IL, US

• Managed orders of medium distribution electrical switches, coordinating customer concerns with relevant departments within the company, and closely managed high priority orders
• Developed standard process for factory acceptance tests
• Improved visibility of re-dated orders for Customer Service team by 30%, and created VBA script to generate status report to be easily viewed by higher management

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• Improved wind noise and air leakage aspects of vehicles, focusing on minimization of manufacturing process variability
• Worked with Development team to implement design improvements to reduce wind and road noise of 2016 Explorer by 20%, incorporating both plant process improvements and design changes

Lisle, IL, US

• Managed current product 11 and 13L engines as systems engineer, focusing on design and project management of current model year
• Lead project management and design changes of resourcing efforts, resulted in $10 million in savings and increased manufacturing capacity
• Improved GD&T on critical powertrain components to improve quality
• Developed release process training, reduced average Engineering release time by 2 weeks

Lisle, IL, US

• A specialized rotation program geared toward introduction to many major departments within the company. Near the end of the series of rotations, both the company and the engineer further collaborate in order to find a.
• Coordinated testing and replacement of high visibility component with customers and dealerships
• De-contented several service kits, resulting in annual savings of $150,000 per year
• Lead and coordinated after-treatment component testing focusing on long term efficiency
• Statistically analyzed engine parameters and high frequency impact using MATLAB

Champaign, IL, US

Partnered with 2 other Mechanical Engineering students to design a machine that would reduce an 800 lb bale of corn stover to 6-18 mm particles within 15 minutes with a manufacturing cost of less than $75,000. Tested certain mechanical properties of corn stover and interacted with multiple departments and companies, including Packer Engineering, UIUC.

Lisle, IL, US

• Interned for 5 years in various departments of a fortune 500 company as part of program to allow select group of University of Illinois engineering students real world experience
• Analyzed data from builds and teardowns of engines, noting wear of components
• Researched engine technical specifications of major manufacturing companies
• Tore down engines and coordinated with high school staff to create engine displays for technical high school class