Jacob Geistweidt Email & Phone Number

Belton, Tx, Us

Temple, Texas, United States

Temple, Tx

• Implement change to align the Manufacturing Engineering team's SMART goals related to the 2020 business strategy • Worked in collaboration with the Manufacturing Engineering team to ensure daily and project commitments are honored.

• Developed and implemented new processes and improved current processes using LEAN concepts to meet the needs of the business by positively impacting cell safety, quality, efficiency, capability, and capacity.• Led capital projects from concept to completion with million-dollar annual budgets for a variety of manufacturing departments.• Engineered, designed, and manufactured complex part holding fixtures for precision part alignment and retainment in CNC and manual machines. • Responsible for stretch goal and gap analyses of the entire manufacturing facility for both capability and capacity opportunities for exotic prototype prospects in new markets.• Administered training events to develop employees on lean ideologies and THI specific manufacturing processes.• Spearheaded the design review evaluations and offering alternative designs, blueprints, and concepts for the ease of manufacturability.

• Developed and updated failure mode effect analysis (PFMEA), process flow diagrams, control plans, and standard work instructions to meet the customer’s production part approval process (PPAP).• Reviewed all prototype cylinder assemblies for manufacturability, tooling needs, and routings• Maintained assembly and machining standard work instructions, PFMEA’s, control plans, and manufacturing notes. • Addressed production issues through the use of strategic disciplines, including fishbone analysis, 5-Why investigations, and the development of project overviews and scopes. • Performed machining cell capacity, routing, workflow, and quality analysis to propose complete machine cell replacement with an alternate machine process.

• Co-led machining Kaizen events targeted at reducing set-up time and cycle time while driving tool standardization.• Designed and implemented lean layouts and 5S workstations to support the achievement of the company’s CI/5S goals and objectives.• Administered training events to develop newly-hired and long-standing employees on assembly methods, processes, safety considerations, quality requirements, and general hydraulic system, component attributes.• Led in prototype design reviews for manufacturability and the review of the current product line for manufacturability-driven design improvements. • Leveraged root-cause analysis and other six sigma tools to identify and eliminate both internal and external non-conformances. • Developed process methods and controls to sustain corrective actions and designed, fabricated, and installed innovative fixtures, tools, and equipment into the value stream.