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La Junta, Colorado, Us

Coordinate and direct various engineering projects to accomplish the goals. Direct, review, and approve product design and changes.Assist and implement engineering standards. Confer with Top management and Manufacturing to further develop current product line. Direct and support new product development. Improve manufacturing processes and support day to day manufacturing needs. Customizing of new and legacy product to meet the customer needs.Engineering technical support for lab testing and standardization. Sales and Marketing technical support.Identifying and allocating manpower and resources to assure completion of established objectives within budgetary and scheduled guidelines while upholding high technical standards.Work as liaison between Engineering and various other departments.Working with Vendors and customers to innovate and lead future products development.Allen Bradley and ABB PLC & HMI control platform development and support.

La Junta, Colorado, Us

Lead a team of Manufacturing Engineers and Drafting personnel. Directs engineers and drafting technicians for effective problem solving and projects completion.Identifying and allocating manpower and resources to assure completion of established objectives within budgetary and scheduled guidelines while upholding high technical standards. Lead and facilitate all plant-manufacturing engineering activities. This involves process and material supply activity and determination of manufacturing criteria with the customer. Also team involvement in solving product issues, both internal and external customers. Interface with customers and develop solutions to meet customer needs. Recommend new equipment and manufacturing technologies for material flow and plant design.Manufacturing and Industrial engineering Advisory committee Member at CSU Pueblo. Mutual coordination with colleges and Colorado Stem program. Lead Internship program for various Associate graduates.Acting as the champion for cross-functional initiatives while working closely with Design, Production, Quality Management teams. Provide technical expertise and leadership when developing and /or improving upon manufacturing processes.Implementing production improvements and working with the R&D Engineering Team to release designs that are suitable for production.Develop, plan, and implement manufacturing strategies for process improvement and product development. Address issues as they arise on the shop floor, engineering and inspection. Responsible for Machine Layout drawings and getting drawing approvals from Customers. Custom design & manufacture to customer requirement and delivery high standard finished product.Lead training in GD&T for assembly and weld shop.Lead Risk assessment and machine safety team for CE compliance.

La Junta, Colorado, Us

Lead new product development and continuous improvement efforts for Sizer Product line. Responsible for complete product line from design, manufacturing and customer care.Conducted Failure mode effect analysis as part of Internal and External Customer Quality program.Reduced Lead time by 200% in Sizer cylinder by designing and manufacturing in-house.Lead ‘6s Initiative’ for entire facility to improve work place organization and safety.Implementing and maintaining Lean Manufacturing strategies. Develop and maintain a culture of continuous process improvement. Work with other high level managers to create and execute company business plan. Implemented Kaizen, Five Whys and Value Stream Mapping to identify non value adding events and bottlenecks in order to reduce cycle time.Design Facility layout and Product flow. Lead activities involved in developing optimal production processes and/or improvements including: plant layout, machine selection, tooling management and standard work.Provided manufacturing support to Fab Shop, Weld shop, Assembly and testing areas.

La Junta, Colorado, Us

Performed engineering duties from sales to final product shipment & service.Conferred with engineers, sales and operations personnel to implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, and provide technical information.Documentation of engineering designs such as drawings, work instructions, bills of material and parts manuals.Responsible all the Parts Manual at Oliver Manufacturing Co. Updated and maintained all the Parts manual.Effectively used design tools like Solidworks and AutoCAD for quick design changes and implementation.New process design and in-house production. Increased production yield/output from 10% to 35%.

Quality and Continuous Improvement Team Problem resolution - identification, data collection, and trend analysis, reporting and initiation of corrective/ preventative actions.Statistical process control and implementation for continuous improvement.Online quality corrective action database, quality standard and procedures attracted new customer like Pepsi Co.

Planned and established sequence of operations to fabricates and assemble parts and products and to promote efficient utilization of resources.Time-study analysis for various customer products.

M.S, Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering

B.E, Mechanical Engineering

Mathematics And Science