James Scime Jr. Email & Phone Number

Batavia, New York, United States

Orchard Park, New York, United States

• Engineering leader overseeing product improvement and revitalization efforts, leading key product portfolio expansion, and interfacing with all function groups to drive increased market penetration, sales and.
• Restored discipline and accountability to the Engineering group.
• Founded a peer-review system of engineering design release, resulting in a 15% reduction in manufacturing hours due to reduced errors/rework.
• Standardized the ECR/ECN process to better incorporate change notices and drawing revisions.
• Began weekly Engineering team meetings to discuss short term/long term goals and wins/losses, whichresulted in a monthly average of 14 new design improvement initiatives.
• Lead a department-wide effort to standardize designs, codify engineering design decisions, and error-proof the product development and approval process.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Engineering executive responsible for improving and maintaining performance in the Engineering department, driving cost reduction and on-time project completion, and promoting better integration and teamwork between.
• Reorganized the Engineering department to achieve the following goals:
• Provide better visibility and accountability for project goals, timelines and potential issues.
• Streamline completion of day-to-day Engineering tasks by grouping engineers by skill group and assigning work accordingly.
• Embrace an Engineering Economy of Scale by focusing individuals on specific tasks, product groups and problem types to bundle multiple tasks into a single exercise and raise overall throughput.
• Create clear points-of-contact for other function groups to increase responsiveness and reduce duplication of work.

Wilson, NY

• Engineering department head and company senior in charge of new product development and continuous improvement of company’s product portfolio in response to market changes, new technologies, customer feedback and.
• Led a team of engineers and support staff away from decades-long, “this is the way we’ve always done it” attitude toward a more collaborative, supportive, and open environment where finding solutions is the core focus.
• Reduced Engineering lead-time 25% by:
• Improving accuracy of Sales documentation.
• Holding pre-design meetings with Sales to ensure quotes are accurate, and questions are answered rapidly.
• Initializing the post-mortem process, with Sales, Engineering, Production and Service present to discuss wins, loses, and areas of improvement.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Senior engineer tasked with cross-functional management of new product designs and existing product improvements in the industrial and pharmaceutical markets. Coordinated design and manufacturing across several sites.
• Supervised team of engineers in researching, designing and developing new medical devices for large pharmaceutical corporations in Europe and the United States.
• Coordinated transfer for $1m+ in product from German subsidiary to the US, involving engineering, sales, marketing and management in organizing and executing transfer while minimizing customer impact.
• Designed injection molded products for industrial and pharmaceutical companies from a variety of elastomers, polymers and engineering resins.
• Led new product development teams using a stage-gate process and in the framework of ISO 13485 and FDA compliance.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Lead engineer responsible for system design and costing, with a focus on optimization, customer requirements, safety, cost and project timing. Responsible for providing Engineering group with specification-driven.
• Acted as head designer for new industrial systems, providing designs based on customer specifications, cost and safety considerations, and project timing, to within 10% of final equipment cost.
• Lead team of international engineers to develop and make suitable for manufacturing a multi-million dollar sub-fab vacuum system installation at a strategic semiconductor OEM.
• Traveled extensively nationally and internationally to provide technical and manufacturing readiness support to ensure company's large OEM contract would meet customer expectations, project timelines and budget, while.
• Analyzed and interpreted stress analyses of key system components for Engineering group, allowing for increased confidence in initial designs and direct customer feedback for key product design initiatives.
• Developed new product designs for vacuum steel degassing units, providing increased speed of assembly via modular design, to obtain leadership position in US and European markets.

Wayne, NJ

• Designed and fabricated custom PTFE-lined bearings for customer product trials. Sought new product opportunities outside traditional markets and developed in-house environmental testing capabilities to increase.
• Conducted durability and environmental testing for current and future products to ensure compliance with customer benchmarks and OEM specifications.
• Designed low friction, low wear PTFE-lined bearings for specific customer applications in the automotive industry.
• Evaluated and determined appropriate electroplating for bearings by developing and conducting company's ASTM B117 salt-spray corrosion testing policies and procedures.
• Researched and tested new and alternative low friction materials to achieve better performance in durability, wear and tribological tests based on competitor and all-metal bearing performance benchmarks.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Lead local cost reduction team through several cost reduction initiatives, generating over $250,000 in annual product savings, while also increasing manufacturability.Selected Accomplishments:
• Collaborated with a team of company-wide engineers and customer engineering teams to develop cost-reduction prototypes.
• Coordinated scheduling, assembly and quality assurance of prototype axles for OEM test programs.
• Utilized analytical and production sampling techniques to improve manufacturability and quality of axle and linkage assemblies and components.