James Devlin Email & Phone Number

Southfield, Michigan

• Responsibilities:
• Bring major tooling programs back under control and into schedule to achieve program deliverables
• Global coordination of plastic injection mold build programs and tooling engineers throughout North America, Mexico, China, and India
• Working in concert with procurement team to access, develop, and source tooling packages to global suppliers
• Review and approve prototype, production, replacement, and capacity molds for center stack commodities
• Provide tooling support to engineering and product design team as a subject matter expert for feasibility studies

• Responsibilities:
• Multi plant management and control of $42,000,000 USD of plastic injection and water injection molds
• Review, approve, and source all prototype, production, replacement, and capacity molds for North American market
• Participate in new product feasibility studies, Technical Design Reviews (TDR’s), and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Reviews (DFMA’s), and LOR/SOW/APQP definitions
• Provide on-site support domestically and internationally for mold design reviews, tool builds, tryouts, first article inspections, mold tuning, corrections, process validations, troubleshooting, run at rate trials, and.
• Manage catastrophic mold and/or equipment failures to facilitate repairs and limit downtime losses

Belleville, Michigan

• Responsibilities:
• Manage complex multi-tool Class “A” interior-exterior production, prototype, replacement, and capacity mold build programs in the USA, Mexico, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region
• Review and approve all prototype, production, replacement, and capacity mold designs for injection molds, 2-shot rotational molds, and over molds for climate control modules, radios, bezels, ICPs, IPs, and consoles
• Manage suppliers and PD to ensure tool build timing is met 100 percent of the time with quality targets achieved
• Develop and aggressively manage risk and recovery plans for troubled tool builds
• Provide expert evaluations for product feasibility in Technical Design Reviews (TDR’s)

Detroit, Michigan

• Responsibilities:
• Day to day management of the engineering, design, CNC programming, CNC machining, and EDM departments
• Conceptualize, direct, and approve all single shot injection, 2 shot rotational, over-mold, compression, and blow molds for decorative plastics, Class A interior-exterior, IP’s, door panels, under the hood, seating.
• Provide tooling feasibility studies, Moldflow analysis, gating suggestions, and product-tooling improvements
• Build and manage cross-functional teams via staff recruiting, training, mentoring
• Administer departmental budgets, performance reviews, salary increases, promotions, and terminations

Washtenaw Community College, Mechanical Engineering

Wahtenaw Community College, Manufacturing Technologies

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