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Southfield , Michigan, Us

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Gill Industries200+ personnel company, manufacturer of stampings and welded assemblies for automotive and furniture companiesManufacturing Engineer• Multi-field responsibilities including Manufacturing Engineering (Lean concepts), Quality (supplier and customer), Project Management, Launch Engineer and Controls Engineer to support maintenance activities and equipment troubleshooting.• Identify root causes of rejects (internal and external) and implement corrective actions to reduce rejects by 85%.• Process development based on Lean concept before launch to reduce capital investment and waste.• Continuous improvements projects that resulted in 15%-40% increase in pieces per man hour• Co-engineering with customers to successfully implement VAVE projects for reducing manufacturing cost and product cost. These projects ranged from $15k annualized savings with 1-month ROI to $160k annualized savings with 8-month ROI.• Justified the purchase of capital equipment to support production during new products launches.

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Manufacturing Engineer (Ford business unit)• Identify root causes of rejects and implement corrective actions to reduce rejects by 75%.• Continuous improvements to processes and products reducing manufacturing cost by 10%.• Utilizing knowledge of PLC’s, sensors and automation, implemented process tracking, data acquisition and process fool proofing to reduce customer issues and processing cost.• Justified the purchase of capital equipment to support production and new products.

Manufacturing Engineer • Designed and built assembly/inspection equipment to save capital equipment cost of $50,000.• Implemented foolproof techniques to reduce customer rejects.• Performed continuous improvements to processes and products to reduce overall reject rates, increase efficiency and reduce changeover times by 30%.

Sr. Process Engineer (Assembly)• Justified the purchase of capital equipment to support production increase of 300pcs/day to 3000pcs/day• Implemented foolproofing techniques to reduce customer reject rate by 90%• Refined gauging techniques of production equipment to increase First Time Yield from 50% to 90%• Performed continuous improvements to process and product to reduce overall assembly reject rates by 80%• Through equipment design and improvements, maintained equipment uptime of 98%• Maintain process documentation for manufacturing operations for QS9000 compliance

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer (Assembly)• Facilitate the purchase of assembly equipment and/or equipment retrofits $2.1 million in one year• A member of teams for 9 new product launches for automotive customer including Chrysler, Mercedes, Ford and General Motors.• Supported production floor activities, automated process controls, equipment maintenance and troubleshooting• Supply the following companies caliper assemblies: Ford (Mercury/Nissan), Chrysler, Mercedes, GM medium/heavy truck, FreightLiner and Navistar

Test Equipment Technician• Supported assembly and test equipment of anti-lock braking systems through preventative maintenance and troubleshooting for equipment up-time of 90%• Ensure quality control through calibration of pressure transducers and other various instrumentation devices used in testing equipment for a first-time yield of 95%.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Automated Manufacturing Technology

Associate Of Science - As, Electronics Engineering Technology