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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

Plymouth, Minnesota

- Review incoming, active, and completed work. Adjust department resources and priorities as needed. - Manage mechanical engineering work needed to support the continued manufacturing of mature product lines.- Manage redesign efforts to improve aged or problematic products lines.- Design and implement Workfront work management system according to department needs.- Core member of mechanical engineering planning team responsible for structuring corporate wide engineering training and development.- Function as administrator across corporation to support all aspects of Workfront work management system.- Member of traveling team responsible for periodic visits of Asian vendors to review QA, development, and strategic projects.

Plymouth, Mn

• Provided training and support for engineering personnel in Banner Engineering's China division. Engineering support was focused on, but not limited to; component qualification, part design and modeling, production line interruptions, manufacturing defects and maintaining vendor relationships.• Key member of team responsible for touring China and Hong Kong to directly interface with Asian vendors. Tasks included discussion of open projects and issues, establishing quality standards and product expectations and aiding in quality audits of vendor plants.• Provide project support to Quality, Purchasing and Manufacturing departments.• Aid in hiring and training new engineering personnel into the Continuation Department.• Manage and assign all mechanical engineering projects and tasks within the Continuation Department.

•Supported the manufacture of photoelectric sensor products by investigating problematic design and revising the product or assembly as needed.•Completed measurements, testing and engineering analysis to qualify new product components for commercial use.•Managed multiple concurrent projects and maintained accurate documentation of project history.•Evaluated design issues related to ultrasonic welding, NEMA 6P sealing, optical lens spacing, tolerance stack-up, overmolding, and thermal cycling.•Held regular design review meetings to acquire project input from engineering teams. •Evaluated, revised and updated engineering drawings, routings and bills of material.•Coordinated projects with purchasing department, manufacturing and both domestic and international vendors.•Visited manufacturing plants to gain insight into assembly issues to avoid production line shutdown.

•Used DOE software to conduct root-cause analysis of cracking during film insert molding.•Designed and modeled molding tool parts and assemblies in Solid Works.•Set-up, operated, and troubleshot plastic injection molding on 110 - 880 ton presses. •Performed advance thermoforming, pressure forming and film insert molding techniques and presented regular project updates to the management team.•Analyzed defects related to optical molding and presented findings to the management team.