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Mankato, Mn, Us

North Mankato, Minnesota, United States

North Mankato, Mn

North Mankato, Mn

Oversees the quality assurance of alternators manufactured for the United States Navy by ensuring quality documents, manufacturing processes, procedures, and parts comply with quality requirements, engineering drawings, military specifications, and contractual requirements.• Develops technical quality documents, plans, and inspection procedures for government-witnessed inspections/tests.• Supports the development and maintenance of operation method sheets, in-process test documents, and inspection documents.• Supervises government-witnessed Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), dimensional inspections, final acceptance tests, and final documentation review inspections. • Coordinates internal and vendor Material Review Board (MRB) meetings for major and critical non-conformances. • Documents non-conforming material by creating non-conforming material reports (NCR) that capture the disposition, justification, root cause, and corrective action. • Investigates non-conformances and implements preventative action plans/measures to reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence. • Reviews internal and vendor quality document packages to ensure part conformance, test results, inspection results, and part traceability are properly documented to military/government expectations. • Issues Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR) to suppliers and reviews their response to ensure all requirements are met.

Pompano Beach, Florida

Orchestrated the design, research, development, and implementation of cutting-edge high-performance protective solution products for the United States Military, Department of Defense, federal agencies, and both domestic and international law enforcement professionals.• Designed protective products for government, military, and police personnel both domestically and internationally while ensuring compliance with contract specifications using Solidworks 2016, AutoCAD 2017, and Accumark software.• Developed and monitored project schedules using Microsoft Project and conducted time studies to estimate project effort and task duration.• Identified and addressed quality and support issues with quality engineers and other members of the operations team.• Created product information and bill of material forms using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.• Maintained product records as well as product revision control of prototypes and samples while ensuring compliance with ISO 9001:2015 quality management standards.• Solved engineering design issues during the research and development stage, production part approval process (PPAP), and final production runs.• Collaborated with industrial designers and analyzed competing products to identify and capitalize upon potential opportunities in the market for new merchandise.• Assisted quality, production, and military departments, as well as sub-contractors, with the implementation of new products.• Trained and updated engineers, production supervisors, inside and outside sales personnel, and plant managers both domestically and abroad on new product release information.

Kasota, Minnesota

Managed, designed, and developed automation projects and assisted machinists with computer numerically controlled (CNC) programing and machining.• Managed and monitored project progress from conception to delivery.• Collaborated directly with customers to determine the scope of the project, concerns, requirements, potential downfalls, and helped conceptualize possible designs to ensure customer satisfaction.• Calculated quotes for projects using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel to describe and outline the components, design time, material cost, and overall price of potential automation projects.• Designed three-dimensional (3D) parts, assemblies, weldments, sheet metal components, bill of materials, and engineering drawings using Autodesk Inventor 2015 computer-aided design (CAD) software.• Generated CNC G-code programs using Autodesk Inventor HSM Pro 3D computer-aided machining (CAM) software.• Machined 6061 aluminum, 303 stainless steel, polycarbonate, acetal, and polyethylene parts using Hurco VM10i 3-Axis CNC Vertical Mill, Hurco TM8i 3-Axis CNC lathe, and other manually-operated equipment.

Kasota, Minnesota

Efficiently completed tasks assigned by senior mechanical engineers and assisted in the design and development of robotic end-of-arm tooling, assembly fixtures, and various other types of custom industrial automation.• Created 3D automation designs using Autodesk Inventor 2014 CAD software.• Assembled completed automation projects.• Delivered completed projects to customer facilities.

Mankato, Minnesota

Shakopee, Minnesota

Worked with a team of senior-level manufacturing, industrial, and mechanical engineers to standardize operations of new equipment and procedures in the fiber-optic cable division. • Maintained, tested, and documented accuracy of calibrated lab equipment.• Optimized and organized layouts of work stations.• Standardized documents used in the manufacturing process of fiber-optic cable connections.