Michael Boks Email & Phone Number

Grass Lake, Michigan, United States

Grass Lake, Mi

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Engineer products for the Maintenance-of-Way (MOW) machinery, the equipment used by railroads to lay, clear, and maintain railroad track structure.• Supervise or manage technical, design and engineering support.• Lead contact for suppliers, purchasing and manufacturing on issues related to product design.• Develop test methods and requirements, schedule testing and analyze results.• Head up project teams to develop and launch major projects.• Create and maintain design manuals and engineering bill-of-materials.• Identify and implement design improvement projects directed at reducing cost and improving performance.• Produce system and chassis drawings, component detail drawings, and process engineering changes as required.• Coordinate design requirements, application review and engineering releases with other departments and suppliers.• Create highly complex production assembly documents.• Develop product costing analysis and option pricing.• Implement customer requested product changes with sales and engineering.• Efficient in the operations of 2D and 3D solid modeling design software.

Advanced Innovation Group• Engineer products that fall outside the Spartan Motors core market groups of ER, RV, and Delivery.• Supervise or manage technical, design and engineering support.• Lead contact for suppliers, purchasing and manufacturing on issues related to product design.• Develop test methods and requirements, schedule testing and analyze results.• Head up project teams to develop and launch major projects.• Identify and implement design improvement projects directed at reducing cost and improving performance.• Produce system and chassis drawings, component detail drawings, and process engineering changes as required.• Coordinate design requirements, application review and engineering releases with other departments and suppliers.• Complete design analysis for responsible systems.• Create highly complex production assembly documents.• Develop product costing analysis and option pricing.• Implement customer requested product changes with sales and engineering.• Efficient in the operations of 2D and 3D solid modeling design software.

Fire Truck Engineering• Supervise or manage technical, design and engineering support.• Develop test methods and requirements, schedule testing and analyze results.• Head up project teams to develop and launch major projects.• Create and maintain design manuals and engineering bill-of-materials.• Identify and implement design improvement projects directed at reducing cost and improving performance.• Produce system and chassis drawings, component detail drawings, and process engineering changes as required.• Coordinate design requirements, application review and engineering releases with other departments and suppliers.• Complete design analysis for responsible systems.• Work proactively with customer service and production to identify and resolve issues with product assembly and/or warranty, including traveling to the customer’s site to resolve the issue.• Create highly complex production assembly documents.• Develop product costing analysis and option pricing.• Implement customer requested product changes with sales and engineering.• Efficient in the operations of 2D and 3D solid modeling design software.• Spartan Chassis product lead on the following items: o Engines o Transmissions o Transfer Cases o Power Take Off o Fuel Systemso Hoses and Fittings

Fire Truck Engineering• Lead project teams to develop and launch moderately complex projects.• Develop and maintain design manuals and engineering bill-of-materials.• Delegate and supervise design detailers on the completion of detail drawings.• Identify and implement design improvement projects directed at reducing cost and improving performance.• Schedule and analyze systems testing.• Complete moderately complex design analysis for responsible systems.• Create production assembly documents.• Produce system and chassis schematic drawings, component detail drawings, and process engineering changes as required.• Coordinate design requirements, application review and engineering releases with other departments and suppliers.

Fire Truck Engineering• Produce system drawings, component detail drawings, and process engineering changes as required.• Coordinate design requirements, application review and engineering releases with other departments and suppliers.• Complete simple design analysis.• Identify and resolve problems with production and warranty.• Assist in the creation of simple production assembly documents.