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Manchester, Iowa, United States

• Identifying and leveraging best practices in Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement-related processes• Assisting in development of our 'everything done with a process' strategy and identifying opportunities for improvement across the organization• Evaluating and interpreting both industry requirements and internal Quality Management Systems (QMS) requirements with the goal of developing robust XL procedures and instructions.• Helping site Quality teams and / or senior Quality leadership as subject matter expert (SME) to investigate and correct quality issues and establish continuous improvement opportunities• Lead and facilitate projects generated from our High-Performance Team Board process.• Lead and facilitate installation and implementation of ISO-9001 quality management systems.

Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States

Champion of Key Performance Indicators for Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost in value stream inside of operations. Lead a team of Managers, Engineers, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Production Scheduler, and production employees to deliver external gear pumps to our customers. Processes include HMC's, Lathes, Grinding, stockroom, assembly, pump testing, inspection, process validation, UV Paint, and packaging.

Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States

Oversaw Manufacturing Engineering and Continuous Improvement Teams. Led capital investments for machine shop facility. Leadership of Continuous Improvement for all Viking Pump Machine Shop and Foundry.

Cedar Falls, Iowa

Leader of Continuous Improvement Program for Machine Shop, Iron Foundry, and Alloys Foundry Location. Present and train Lean Concepts to Management and production employees. Plan and coordinated Kaizen Funnel to impact critical business needs. Leader and Facilitator of Rapid Improvement events, report outs and Kaizen Newspaper items. Lead and mentor problem solving teams for safety, quality or production issues.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Make process and quality improvements to high volume assembly line.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Lead WPS Lean improvements in all areas of manufacturing and assembly. Develop team of lean techs to coach lean skills and implement Standard Work, Quick Change Over, TPM, Visual Management, 5S, Materials Standard Work, and 1 x 1 problem solving.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Facility planning. Relocating machines, installation of new machines, equipment or conveyors. Creating a more efficient facility be cutting down travel time of forktrucks and WIP by improving factory layouts. Work with the FMP team to create 1, and 5 year plans for projects and carry out those plans.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Process Support Engineer over Powder coat, E-coat, Liquid spray applications, Pretreatment and Washer systems, Fluidized Sandbed , Acid cleaning, Facility Painting, Production Touch up Applications, Responsible for process improvements, equipment and maintaining labor standards for Paint , Tubing, Press room and Door and Cabinet Fabrication processes. Scope and install all conveyor systems for Fab support systems including High speed vertical lifts, belt conveyors, roller conveyors, gravity roller conveyors, Monorail conveyors, and Power and Free systems.

Newton, Iowa

Fabrication Intern, Created CAD drawings of all die's, Sorted and organized all dies