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Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Melbourne Beach, Indialantic, Florida, United States

Newnan, Georgia

Indianapolis, Indiana

Newnan, Ga

Work with cell leaders to reduce TAT, inventory and quality escapes while increasing OTD. Drive KPIs while implementing lean manufacturing techniques. Maintain thermal spray department by supporting robot programing, application methods, masking design, fixturing and reducing recycles. Produce capacity models, product flow charts leading to piece part flow.Developed repair processes to salvage components. Developed and/or introduced new repair processes by linking new product lines with existing cells where applicable. Designed and modeled tooling to support the overhaul processes. Trained operators and leadership to support new products being introduced while working with operations teams to ensure proper fit and execution within the cell. Maintained oversight of support service departments such as thermal spray, furnace, and high pressure waterjet stripping.Provided engineering shop support for multiple value streams and product lines. Drove Quality, OTD, and TAT improvement at the operation level. Supported the overhaul of HPC stators, blades, vanes, airseals and cases. Documented repair development opportunities to salvage customer components and increase sales opportunities. Developed repairs in conjunction with customer's engineering groups to reduce replacement component costs. Assisted repair development with new product introduction by interfacing between the shop and repair development. Oversight of the metallurgical lab, thermal spray, shot peening, furnace, chemical line, high pressure waterjet striping departments. Drove compliance to AMS standards.

Newnan, Georgia

Newnan, Ga

Associate Degree, Engineering Focus

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering