Robert Meier, P.E. Email & Phone Number

United States

Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Led the design of tanks, conveyors, work platforms, and specialty food processing equipment in a fast-paced environment. Partnered directly with customers to ensure equipment would seamlessly fit in their facility and serve its specific need. Also, collaborated with vendors to source parts quickly and recommended alternative solutions as needed based on cost and lead time.

Houston, Texas Area

Chosen to lead the development of a new technology that is focused on meeting customer operational needs related to shearing pipe in a blowout preventer. Gained valuable insight into managing a large-scale engineering project that began with only an idea/concept to creating a detailed project and design plan within a strict budget. Responsibilities include:• Researching new technologies, and designing small scale tests to steer the project with minimal resources.• Networking with other professionals to enhance knowledge and find business partners/suppliers.• Collaborating with suppliers to reduce cost and/or develop alternative solutions.• Developing and implementing a project plan including; budgeting, design, prototyping and testing phases of the project.• Mentoring/Training engineers in the technology to assist with the project.• Objectively analyze business cases to evaluate the risks/returns of business choices and communicate those risks/returns to Engineering Leadership.• Leveraging experience to assess existing technologies using vision to see what could be and calculating risk to make sound judgements upon which technologies to pursue.

Pressure Control Group

Promoted to project engineer which consisted of designing and managing multiple large-scale engineering projects for global customers. Gained valuable skills in having difficult conversations with internal and external customers.• Designed and implemented 30+ projects within scheduled project plans.• Worked with our Engineering Services business partners to re-write our scope of supply documents to ensure key design aspects were agreed upon on the front end to ensure customer satisfaction was at top of mind which prevented re-work towards the end of a project.• Tracked and implemented change orders to ensure customer satisfaction of a project.• Regularly collaborated with shipyards, drilling contractors, as well as NOVemployees all over the world to ensure all industry and customer specs were met and that interfaces came together.• Created manufacturing drawings, general arrangement drawings and Bill of Materials, and developed engineering procedures for customer review and approval.• Supported continuous improvement by actively adhering to lean principles, design of experiments, failure mode effect analysis, Design for Six Sigma, design for Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)• Troubleshot and proposed alternate engineering solutions to resolve Nonconformance Reports (NCRs) on the shop floor.• Point of contact for factory acceptance tests.• Mentored new hires and trained them on NOV’s processes and equipment, and provided guidance to them when problems arose on their projects.

Houston, Texas Area

Assigned to the new product development group to redesign components susceptible to field issues or cost prohibitive to manufacture. • Analyzed and integrated trends and patterns to determine the root causes of problems and identify solutions while evaluating short- and long-term implications of decisions. • Proven track record troubleshooting numerous field issues both at the customer’s site (travelled across the globe) and at NOV’s lab with the ability to evaluate multiple options and alternatives and effectively determine the appropriate action based on available information. • Applied lean principles to redesign a mechanism prone to misuse and collaborated with vendors to choose the best manufacturing application to reduce cost. • Recommended and implemented changes to standard processes and design of a hydraulic cylinder that reduced cost of materials by 35% and lessened assembly time and significantly reduced rework.• Designed a mechanism that improved the reliability and functionality of a standard product greatly reducing the risk of a blowout.

Recruited from a competitive group of undergraduate students for one year Next Gen Rotational Program gaining design engineering experience across multiple divisions.• Troubleshot and tested a prototype to prepare it for production.• Designed various structural and hydraulic components. • Collaborated with vendors to design and test a new hydraulic damper to control the swing of a 40,000 lb. head.• Partnered in the development and testing for a first of its kind piece of equipment for Samsung Heavy Industries and traveled to Korea to assist in installation and commissioning.

Raymond, Ohio

Re-located to Raymond, Ohio and took a semester off from school to gain valuable work experience with Honda. • Supported ATV Chassis Design Team • Modeled chassis components such as: a-arms, swing arms, differential cases, drive shafts, rims, brakes which were used to create drawings, strength analysis, layout checks• Setup kinematic simulations that were used to check clearances and dynamic interaction of the parts• Analyzed new ideas to save cost and weight

Master Of Science - Ms, Operations Analytics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.47

Activities and Societies: Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honors Fraternity, TreasurerAIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition • Gained.