Jason Ayers Email & Phone Number

Tacoma, WA, US

Amsterdam, NL

• Responsible WL GA tooling and program launch
• Accountable for tool design, build, installation, equipment start-up and launch support activities
• Responsible for program financial budget
• Management of Tooling Supervisors and Tooling engineers

Amsterdam, NL

• Responsible for Chassis, Final, Certification and 9190 tooling areas.
• Responsible for tool design, build, installation, equipment start-up and launch support activities
• Tooling Engineer supervision.

London, England, GB

• Tool Process Engineer for BIW, Paint and TCF components for Baltimore, Venezuela and Egypt.
• Lead manufacturing engineer for Baltimore Transformation Center – VM ProMaster City.
• Responsible for water test equipment and process for VM ProMaster City.
• Financial responsibilities include: interaction with FCA purchasing, bid package creation, supplier technical capability reviews, investment evaluation, PSAP requisitions and PO follow-up.
• Manage and procure purchase service manpower resources for the department.
• Implemented large scale body sealing conveyor line and process responsible for in Venezuela.

• Technical Writing
• Sales Brochures
• White Papers

London, England, GB

• “Warranty Swat Team Member” – Hand picked by Senior Management for this assignment.
• Reduced customer buy backs, resulted in saving $2M for the corporation.
• Led problem solving and corrective action activities, resulted in a quality improvement of 20% in one year.
• Analyzed warranty data to spot emerging Customer Quality Concerns, resulted in savings of $10 per vehicle.
• Developed 12 repair procedure manuals for dealer network to correct quality issues in the field.
• Instructed repair training sessions at Dealerships and Business Centers for 1500 people throughout the Nation.

London, England, GB

• Designed, Engineered and developed prototype and post production phases of inside and outside mirrors, roof racks, wiper systems and nameplate exterior components.
• Provided “Lean Manufacturing” activities to reduce assembly time and improve production process.
• Executed product cost reduction activities, resulting in a savings of $250,000 - $ 400,000 per year.
• Led program team to ensure all cost, performance and specifications were met and under target.
• Developed, executed and analyzed environmental and durability test reports.
• Led root cause analysis and corrective action activities at assembly plants and supplier facilities.

Aurora, Ontario, CA

• Managed and launched exterior trim programs of $45M in sales.
• Obtained $10M of new exterior trim business.
• Worked with customer to resolve open financial issues, recovered $2.5M in unpaid program costs.
• Provided Program Management for 4 internal manufacturing divisions.
• Scheduled program milestones and reinforced deadlines.
• Facilitated advanced quality and process sign off activities with customers and internal divisions.

London, England, GB

• Designed, Engineered and developed prototype and post production phases of roof rack systems.
• Provided “Lean Manufacturing” input to assembly plants to reduce assembly time and improve the process.
• Executed product cost reduction activities, resulting in a savings of $150,000 - $ 300,000 per year.
• Provided launch engineering support to assembly plants, during body launch.
• Performed root cause analysis and corrective action activities during body build phases.
• Developed and executed durability test plans and reports.

London, England, GB

• Designed, Engineered and developed front-end sheet metal, dash and other body components.
• Provided launch engineering support to assembly and stamping plants, during body launch.
• Performed root cause analysis and corrective action activities during body build phases.
• Interfaced with suppliers to execute APQP, PPAP and PSO quality activities.
• Provided analysis of dimensional data to resolve body build issues.
• “Jeep Million Dollar Contest Finalist” - Developed new top material that reduced wind noise 50%.

• Performed dimensional root cause analysis and corrective action activities on product and assembly tooling.
• Maintained product library and distributed data to suppliers.

• Developed robot and sheet metal component manufacturing process simulations utilizing RobCAD.
• Designed automated welding system tooling and material handling operations in CATIA & RobCAD.

• Developed robot and sheet metal component manufacturing process simulations utilizing RobCAD.
• Project Manager for sheet metal assembly system plant installation drawings.
• Created plant layouts for vehicle assembly systems.
• Developed work cell and machine layouts for plant assembly systems.
• Designed and detailed sheet metal assembly system layouts in AutoCAD.
• Implemented and instructed AutoCAD 2D and 3D training classes for 60 employees.

US

• Designed and detailed automated welding assembly system tooling components.
• Developed manufacturing processes for sheet metal assemblies.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration

Associate'S Degree, Applied Science - Cad Mechanical Design