● Manage department staffing, training, and production over multiple shifts.● Drive increases in sales, OTD, and productivity.● Provide hands on technical support for the development of new processes.

● Technical lead supporting annealing, carburizing, induction, normalizing, nitriding, PWHT, through hardening, and solution annealing processes.● Assist customers with failure analysis, DFM, quoting, R&D, process design, and other material engineering issue.● Develop new processes for parts with unique requirements.● Lead and support CI projects including statistical analysis of process data.● Perform, train, and specify internal and external metallurgical standards

● Responsible for managing the installation and launch of two multi-million dollar automated induction hardening cells for axle tubes and axle shafts ● Recruited and developed rotational co-ops on AAM and department operations ● Monitor, maintain, and improve production systems for induction tempering, induction hardening, carburizing, Zinc Phosphating, Manganese Phosphating, shot peen, and eddy current testing ● Respond and react to internal material and heat treat issues and supplier quality concerns● Developed several process improvements to reduce cycle times and reduce quality risks● Recruited full time personnel to department● Utilize quality systems including 8D, Fast Response, PFMEA, and Control Plans to drive continuous quality improvement ● Support product engineering and quality with testing and analysis of trial, new supplier, and suspect parts

● Managed 6-8 skilled trades pyrotechnicians and co-managed 6-7 skilled trades met lab technicians. Scheduled vacations and overtime, hired new employees, assisted in evaluation of apprentices, procured supplies and equipment, and prioritized efforts ● Led efforts to maintain and expand TPG certifications for induction hardening, carburizing, pyrometry, heat treatment, and shot peening acting as quality designate and internal auditor ● Managed calibrations for SAT, instrument calibrations, TUS, and hardness testing ● Performed everyday production part disposition to customer and internal specifications ● Provided shop support including, writing and changing heat treat specifications, resolving furnace cycle issues, determining loading fixturing, training, and process improvement ● Assisted design engineering and test lab with failure analysis and reverse engineering ● Evaluated heat treat equipment OEMs for capital purchases of new equipment and retrofitting of existing equipment ● Visited and met with outside vendors for audits, process development, and PPAP ● Interacted with customers to resolve product issues and assist with new part launch and PPAP

● Tested ability to meet possible new customer heat treatment specification ● Programmed Met Lab part tracking system to gauge turnaround, evaluate machine usage, and select the optimal machines to run ● Created and implemented standardized furnace loading procedure and prints