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Fort Wayne, IN, US

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Engineering Manager for Division Engineering

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

• Utilize professional knowledge for the design and recommendation of machinery to improve wire drawing quality and processes.
• Lead project activities with plant maintenance personnel and contractors on installation of wire drawing equipment.
• Improved extrusion line scrap rate from 15% to 3% as well as increased output by 22%.
• Maintains trustworthy relationship with plant maintenance personnel and suppliers to troubleshoot wire drawing equipment.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

• Responsible for the design and validation of projects to ensure quality and cost targets are met.
• Use time management and leadership to direct teams to a 100% on time release completion.
• Utilize professional knowledge to author Design Requirements Documents, PSDM’s, test requests, concept sheets, and dFMEA’s to improve the quality of released products.
• Reduce cost by coordinating activities to transition hydraulic brake hoses to a new supplier.
• Maintains trustworthy relationship with plant personnel and suppliers to troubleshoot evacuation and fill equipment for the hydraulic brake system.

Middlebury, IN

• Managed structural design, validation, and assembly activities for all Class A Motor Homes ensuring communization and quality of products.
• Guided and mentored 3 team members in professional and personal development encouraging continual learning and development of job related skills.
• Obtained $500,000 annual cost savings on metal fabrications through supply base consolidation, competitive bidding and design improvements.
• Adapted new procedures to improve the assembly and engineering processes for slide outs, chassis, floor, and laminated components resulting in higher quality and lighter components.
• Compiled data and wrote test reports for durability and seat belt testing ensuring compliance with standards.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

• Responsible for all release, warranty improvement, quality, and cost reduction activities within Medium Duty Brake Systems. Supervised performance and training of 6 direct reports for quality of work and continued.
• Mediated among product center, engineering, and test group to remove roadblocks and reconcile issues to keep programs on schedule.
• Supported others with coaching and feedback to accomplish over a 95% on time release rate.
• Interviewed prospective employees hiring candidates best suited for the position.
• Prepared manpower reports for the budgeting process by planning organizational needs to ensure enough staff to complete projects.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

• Lead product development for brake systems for Blue Diamond, launching a new vehicle in our Mexico assembly plant. Directed a team of contract engineers, staff engineers and designers to design and validate the brake.
• Authored validation plans, concept sheets, warranty improvement plans, dFMEA’s, Design Requirements Documents, and PSDM’s.
• Summarized information in design reviews for Blue Diamond Product Center resulting in concept approval.
• Corresponded among multiple functional areas to complete projects on time and under budget.
• Maintained strong rapport with plant personnel at Navistar’s Escobedo, MX assembly plant.

Mba, Business

B.S.M.E, Mechanical Engineering

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