Robert Kulp Email & Phone Number

Auburn Hills, Michigan, Us

- Manage the Design, Estimation, Purchasing, Building, Acceptance Testing and Installation of specialized automated Capital Equipment used in automotive engine timing systems.- Oversee modifications to existing manufacturing equipment to meet new product requirements.- Proven record of bringing projects in on time and within budgte.- Titled as Site Packaging Engineer - Chair of Plant Safety Committee.- Specialist for International Material Data System

- Managing 4 sites involved with a variety of manufacturing processes; supervising quoting, sales, program management, manufacturing engineering, scheduling, and personnel.- Intimately involved with the design and layout of manufacturing lines to integrate the developmental disabled with production staff and maintain a cost efficient and productive environment. - Directed the purchase of capital equipment and staffing changes that increased production capacity for company’s major customer by 30% resulting in 18% increase in sales in 2016 and additional 10% in 1st qtr. of 2017.

- Manage 8 Departments, 5 Supervisors and upwards of 140 associates.- Oversee Executive Steering Committee which determines and implements activities, events and projects to reduce labor cost and increase efficiencies across the facility.- Manage Phase Gate Projects for Manufacturing Engineering.- Direct Safety Committee resulting in TCIR of 1.28 and last lost time accident at over 575 days and counting.- Directly involved with acquisition of production equipment.- Developed and implemented scheduling process to reduce ROG Assembly Dept. leadtime from 8 to 6 weeks. - Trained Event Facilitator

Primary customer contact for this contract manufacturer with responsibility for DO and DX rated military contracts for companies such as Lockheed MS2, Sikorsky, L3 Space and Navigation, L3 Ocean Systems and SELEX Galileo.Managed programs contracted for over 18 million dollars per year and responsible for organic growth sales over all assigned programs resulting in RFQ's for an additional 23 million dollars per year being received. Coordinated activities with the program team and customers to ensure performance criteria and standards were met while achieving cost, quality, and delivery metrics.Provided recommendations and monthly reviews to company executives; drove decision making at all organization levels to ensure program success.Managed all aspects of product development and new product introduction including cross functional team formation and direction of team members from Engineering, Production, Procurement, Quality and Proposals. Trained in the Consultative Process by Wilson Learning.

Responsible for all business functions including P&L for this contract machining and assemblies company servicing customers such as Lockheed, BAE, and the U.S. Military.Turned net income losses of 21% into an 8% profit within first 5 months of employment.Decreased lead-times by an average of 18% using 5S and lean manufacturing tools.Intimately involved with upgraded of quality system from ISO to AS-9100.

Estimated, engineered and managed contracts for this contract manufacturer of metal fabrications.Developed and documented for production the processes for the manufacture of machined and fabricated parts using knowledge of material, equipment and labor.Implemented raw material usage and process changes that reduced manufacturing costs on one project by an average of 16.4% on over different 250 manufactured components.Increased component assembly rates by over 175% with the acquisition of state-of-the-art insertion equipment.

Complete operations and P&L responsibility for this contract manufacturer including business planning, sales, project management, purchasing, proposals, resource management, programming, accounting as well as manufacturing.Working with sales department, developed marketing and strategic growth plan that increased company sales 300% in less than six years.Specified and installed ERP system along with hardware and Ethernet system and acted as Database administrator.Directly involved in Customer and Vendor relations.Implemented and trained staff on an ISO based Quality Control program resulting in exposure to quality issues dropping to less than 0.02% of sales.

Developed, documented and implemented procedures and processes required to manufacture fabricated components and assemblies.Managed fabrication projects up to 1.2 Million dollars that were shipped to Europe and Asia.Responsible for the successful combining of two separate manufacturing sites into one new facility with minimal impact to production and no delays to deliveries. Created spreadsheet software used for estimating at the component or project level.Wrote Dbase computer system used to control order entry, process travelers, scheduling and create shippers to supplement existing accounting system.

Programmed all CNC equipment at the facility and supplied detailed prints.Researched, specified and purchased state of the art CAD and CAM software systems and computer hardware.Worked with customers on their designs to reduce materials and manufacturing cost while increasing manufacturability.