Mike Fox Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Vancouver, Washington, United States

Brea, California, United States

General Manager of Goodrich Hoist & Winch business

Brea, California, United States

Accountable for P&L, strategy, and programs for Goodrich Hoist & Winch product line

Brea, California

Santa Ana, CA

• Operational responsibility for facility producing composite and metallic aerospace tooling.
• Develop short and long-term growth strategy with regard to hiring, training, capital equipment, and technological development.
• Take an active role in annual goal setting. Regularly report out to corporate leadership on financial, operational, and strategic goal progress and performance.
• Sponsor lean events and coach current and future leaders to initiate and lead continuous improvement efforts in their areas of responsibility.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts between engineering, quality, and production to facilitate collaboration and minimize disruption during build process.
• Technical support to sales and estimating for composite tooling bids.

Anaheim, CA

• Manage Coast’s composites facility in carrying out one of the largest tooling contracts in the history of the company (787 Section 47/48 composite tooling)
• Oversee and provide direction to a 60+ person team.
• Manage work content that includes prepreg layup, ply cutting, wet tie fabrication and application, bagging, curing (oven and autoclave), bond prep, drilling, assembly, cleaning/releasing, and composite repair.
• Responsible for allocating resources, meeting aggressive customer schedules, controlling overtime and material use.
• Developed composites training for new employees – majority of current employees had no composite experience when hired.
• Set up visual control system that facilitates daily management by giving shop employees clear goals for their shift.

Santa Ana, CA

• Led or collaborated on all Lean/Kaizen events, resulting in cost/time savings.
• Developed Lean manufacturing training class and manual. Facilitated training class and trained over 150 employees over 1.5 year period.
• Collaborated with shop employees to develop a work cell-based 5S program in all Coast facilities.
• Helped set up new composites facility with Lean principles in mind (minimal inventory, one-piece flow).
• Attended Lean training course for key suppliers at Goodrich Aerostructures.

Santa Ana, CA

• Responsible for quality plan and oversight on Boeing, Airbus, ATK, Goodrich, Bell Helicopter, Spirit, AASC, and EADS tooling jobs.
• Interfaced with customer quality reps and buyers regarding quality requirements, non-conformances, corrective actions, and final buyoff of tools.
• Generated in-process and final inspection criteria for shop based on customer-specified quality requirements.
• Performed root cause analyses and implemented corrective actions on recurring non-conformances.
• Reviewed dimensional reports, material certs, vacuum certs, and heat treat charts.

Santa Ana, CA

• Over 5,000 hours experience with Verisurf metrology software (used in conjunction with Faro laser tracker).
• Performed final metrology inspections and generated dimensional reports per customer specifications.
• Responsible for final assembly of tools including installation of hardware, plumbing, thermocouples, machined details.
• Proficient in using Catia and Unigraphics to analyze models.
• Basic mill and lathe experience.
• AWS certification for MIG and TIG welding of steel and invar.