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Lake Zurich, IL, US

Lake Zurich, IL, US

Stockholm, SE

• Managed capital expenditure budget and projects for 15 locations across North America.
• Lead on projects for facility consolidations, relocations, acquisitions, and facility closures.
• Developed and deployed a standardized process for equipment acquisition, including standard machinery requirements, request for quote, and a gate checklist process.
• Point person on latest technologies in the market that can be used to manufacture our products.
• Strengthened equipment supplier relationships and standardized on common equipment across locations.
• Communicated best practices across locations to improve quality, throughtput, and efficiency.

Lagrange, Illinois, US

• Provided Manufacturing Engineering services to a worldwide manufacturer of Diesel Engines at a 750,000 sq. ft. UAW facility. Accomplishments include:
• Improved a 40 year old manufacturing transfer line by increasing machine uptime and reliability. Throughput increased 54%, quality first-time yield increased by 12%.
• Project Mgr. for a $1.1M project replacing 30+ year old machinery with new CNC machines and a robot. Responsibility over project budget, process development, training and release to production.
• Led a Six Sigma project to improve cylinder liner first time yield in the brazing operation. First time yield improved from 95% to 99.5%. Received company-wide recognition for project’s success.
• Taught courses on Six Sigma for Green Belt Certification

• Managed Design Engineering, Tool Room, and Quality Departments while building a Manufacturing Engineering Department.
• Design and Implementation of Engineering Change Process and New Product Development Process, and assisted with quoting $17M of new business.
• Instructed employees on proper time study techniques and taught Standard Work principals.
• Throughput improvements in 2 major areas resulting in a 100% increase without addition of resources.
• Reduction of scrap on a high scrap rate job from 15% to below 0.3%.
• Facility layout of Furniture Value Stream to achieve material flow, and implementation of pull systems

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Completed PMA and DER Repair Packages for a FAA Repair Station.
• Developed standard processes and templates to reduce the development time for DER Repair Packages from a month to days.
• Trained and managed a team of Engineers to complete DER Repair Packages.
• Implemented various Lean Manufacturing methodologies to increase throughput including 5-S, SMED, Cellular Manufacturing and Pull Systems.
• Developed and implemented a material pull system for packaging materials, resulting in an 80% decrease of inventory.
• Completed a project in scrap separation, which resulted in a 300% increase in revenue generated from scrap material.

Des Plaines, Illinois, US

• Design and Implementation of a Company Quality System
• Level IV PPAP, FMEA, Capability Studies, Process Control Plans, Process Checklists, and ISO 9001 document preparation.
• Reviewed customer returns using root cause analysis, including on site customer support with various quality issues.

• Led 8-D Teams to reduce a variety of internal and external quality issues. Bull Block Oversize Rejects reduced 66%, Patenting Phosphate Rejects reduced 89%, and Connector Wire External Rejects reduced 85%.
• Developed and Implemented FMEA which identified inadequate process controls for several processes. Developed Process Checklists as a result.
• Completed over 100 customer corrective actions using 8-D methodologies, which reduced and eliminated external rejects from over 3% to less than 0.8%.
• Performed DOE's in conjunction with connector wire customers to improve throughput and reduce variability. Resulted in 41% reduction in customer downtime.