James Downs Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

London, GB

Senior Engineer with a with a can do attitude that specializes in creative thinking, but enjoys keeping things simple, effective and flexible. Lead Engineer on NPD projects while maintaining Sustaining role for legacy products. Have a knack for solutions to issues and knows how to get products implemented.

Product Engineering responsibilities are to evaluate and investigate design change requests from internal/external customers, taking action and making changes to improve product quality, reliability, manufacturability and cost. Compile, prepare and present data on project updates and provide technical presentations to staff and management on engineering.

While continuing as Product Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, I also have taken on the roll as Quality Process Coordinator at Aquion, Inc. My focus is to drive quality to the source. Enable / empower employees to focus on quality production and for those employees to take responsibility for their own outputs.Quality Team / QA Technicians Manager, ISO.

Manufacturing / Quality engineering responsibilities are to assess process improvement changes, examine Corrective Actions Requests, complete root causes analysis, and implement temporary / permanent corrective actions and verify effectiveness. Work with both internal and external resources to justify and implement new equipment and processes. Determine.

- Ensured Continuous Improvement initiatives were implemented thru completion, by developing work instructions of component assemblies and continued 5S implementation throughout production.- Improved production by designing new fixturing for Pines Bending Machines, designed and built assembly table that combine assembly and testing of Quick Connectors.

Des Plaines, IL, US

- Developed process FMEA’s on factory machined components and created work instructions on faucet and sub assemblies produced in the Des Plaines facility for transfer to the Milwaukee and Michigan City facilities.- Key member of team that facilitated transfer and closure of Des Plaines facility to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin facility for machining, and.

Addison, IL, US

- Production improvements by completing plant layout changes to improve material flow that led to a decreases in material handling. Modified machines with custom designed components for decrease in machine setup and change over times and reduction of machine cycle times.- Developed production and machine time tracking metrics to properly gage daily.