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Muncie, In, Us

Muncie, Indiana, Us

London, Gb

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Manage assignments for engineers, designers and lab technicians to support NPI, VE, and engineering changes. • Responsible for annual departmental budget, including cost control, resources and capital.• Responsible for all hiring to meet departmental goals.• Responsible for lifecycle management of products in terms of design and performance.• Work with Marketing to identify new market/technology opportunities.• Responsible for driving invention disclosures and follow-up for new patents/applications.• Responsible for ECO/ECN engineering changes.• Responsible for VE (Value Engineering) savings.• Responsible for managing global product agency certifications for safety shut-off valves, air-fuel ratio controls, and industrial flame monitoring products (UL, FM, CSA, CRN registration, IECEx, ATEX, CE, AGA, SIL, KTL, Inmetro, CCOE, CCC, EAC, EU RoHS, and China RoHS 2), supporting new approvals as needed, and maintaining ISO 17025 certification for a valve laboratory. • Served as company technical lead and US delegate on CSA and ISO standards technical sub-committees for Automatic Gas Controls. Chaired several ad-hoc working groups to develop working drafts for new ISO standards.• Participate in site lean objectives and projects.• Responsible for developing new processes and maintaining existing departmental procedures while looking for opportunities to reduce waste. • Responsible for employee skill development and career planning.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Developed an improved corrosion resistant valve trim for dirty service applications on electro-mechanical and electro-pneumatic safety shut-off valves. Served as project manager, design/development lead and test lead. Updated all agency approvals with new design changes and added NACE self-certification. • Developed a fire safe valve trim to meet API 6FA, improved valve position indication, and extended minimum ambient temperature from -40C to -50C on electro-pneumatic safety shut-off valves. Served as project manager, design/development lead and test lead. Updated all agency approvals with new design changes and added API 6FA self-certification. • Six Sigma Green Belt certified.• Responsible for engineering changes on assigned products including design concept, product testing, drawing/BOM/configurator changes.• Identified and completed Value Engineering (VE) savings projects.• Provided engineering and application support for internal departments as well as customers.• Responsible for troubleshooting product or performance problems on field issues, return valves, customer complaints, audit valves, etc., identifying root cause and corrective action.• Responsible for global agency certifications for all Maxon products (FM, UL, CSA, AGA, CE, IECEx, SIL). • Coordinated a testing program to certify Maxon’s valve laboratory for CSA Category Certification, later converted to an ISO 17025 certified laboratory. • Planned and coordinated all ISO-9001 activity for Maxon (1998-1999). • Served as engineering lead for a new JDEdwards business software launch in 1998. Converted 80%+ of all end products from BOM’s to configured products.• Managed multiple projects with competing demands on a daily basis, working with people in cross functional roles to problem solve issues. Communicated with people globally in all areas of the company from shop floor personnel to executive staff.