Erin Lowe Email & Phone Number

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Us

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

As a lean, six sigma and agile coach, I help Engineering continuously improve while reducing defects, increasing productivity, and improving employee engagement, all while delivering products faster to the customer. My years as a trainer and facilitator allows me to help teams develop a feasible and realistic path to meet their goals.

United States

As a Quality Project Manager I provided continuous improvement support too all the NextEra wind sites in the United States. Mentoring, coaching and training team members at the wind turbines as well as in the classroom to empower them to identify their problem, collect and analyze data, determine root cause, test possible solutions and ultimately make changes that improved efficiencies, improved cycle times, collected better or correct data and usually saved some money.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Manage/lead projects to improve all types of products and processes, maintain metrics, mentor co-workers on lean six sigma tools Support and lead continuous improvement projects across multiple departments to continuously improve the abilities to meet/exceed internal and external customer demands Support ISO-9001 and quality management reporting Develop, lead and/or manage cross functional teams on process improvement planning, projects and auditing (GAP analysis, Root Cause analysis, Kaizen events, 5S evaluations, etc) Provide regular reports to all levels of management and external customers Develop the Six Sigma program for Clipper Windpower, Inco Define the processes of determining projects, selecting trainees, the training program, certification requirements and expectations of the trainee after certificationo Train the process owners on their roles and responsibilitieso Mentor Six Sigma Green Belt traineeso Assist in Green Belt trainingo Administer the certification exam

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

 Manage the RCA Leads (Root Cause Analysis) and the Field QA Inspectors Ensure RCA’s follow the DMAIC process using Lean and Six Sigma Tools as necessary Define, Assign and Approve RCA’s to improve a product/process Support Field QA to meet Field and Customer demands Maintain weekly and monthly reports and KPI’s Communicate RCA updates to customers on a regular basis Participate in customer financing, site kick-off and lessons learned meetings

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

 Manage the Receiving and In-Process Inspectors (2 shifts) Ensure quality approved products are provided to production to ensure production schedules are maintained Address quality issues that occur on the production floor Maintain weekly and monthly reports and KPI’s Lead process improvement and Lean projects Reduce Non-Conformances and improve response time

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

 Project Manager for quality issues causing service issues Root cause analysis project leader using Six Sigma tools Support manufacturing lines when quality issues develop Develop efficient packaging for large components Warranty recovery and cost reduction projects

Amana, Ia

Quality representative for design engineering, first point of contact for the manufacturing line when quality issue were identified, quality representative for new product development Project Manager for quality issues causing service issues Support refrigeration manufacturing lines when quality issues develop Develop resolutions to reduce service call rates as well as warranty spending Mentor and teach classes to Green and Black Belt candidates Quality project leader for new product development

Hiawatha, Ia

Crystal Group produces industrial computers for the telephony and telemarketing industry Mechanical design of industrial computer chassis, computer racks, rack adapters and mounting brackets in 2-D & 3-D using AutoCAD Material experience: Sheet metal, Milled Aluminum & extruded chassis Heat Analysis: Studied methods to remove or distribute heat in the chassis Source heat sinks for high speed processors

Hiawatha, Ia

Crystal Group produces industrial computers for the telephony and telemarketing industry Mechanical design of industrial computer chassis, computer racks, rack adapters and mounting brackets in 2-D & 3-D using AutoCAD Worked directly with the sales department on custom customer request Contributed to unique designs and earned a patent, Patent #6,563,700 Prepared design approach documents for new projects Lead mechanical design review meetings Researched vendors for new and existing parts

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Project Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering