Stephen Post Email & Phone Number

Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States

Lead technical aspects of acquisition programs.

Destin/Fort Walton Beach, Florida Area

Provide metallurgy support to the Direct Attack Division in the area of warheads and weapons structures. Support includes supporting new weapons development and failure analysis and corrective action recommendations associated with fielded weapons.

Peoria, Illinois Area

• Held key role in Tier4 Final New Product Introduction programs for Motor Graders and Large Wheel Loader transmissions. Managed project lifecycle for design engineers, manufacturing engineers, operations, and purchasing.
• Maintained supply base and manufacturing to implement and deliver required changes on time.
• Launched weekly meetings with suppliers driving program success. Ensured pilot transmissions available on time for builds including durability improvements.
• Actively communicated program status and escalated significant issues to upper levels of management.

• Provided supervision for eight design engineers. Managed new Hybrid design team to select, build, and test electric hybrid system for construction equipment application. Liaised with process partners in many different.
• Proactively coordinated new team members to design and develop an electric hybrid transmission system.
• Unified and led the team to articulate facts and data demonstrating the technology paths selected.

Optimized quality improvements and APQP implementation through effective management of Italian supplier on-site. Provided on-site manufacturing quality leadership for axle assembly operations at locations in Italy and Poland. Secured business needs negotiating significant changes to the joint development agreement.

• Acted as lead design engineer for cylinder heads and blocks component team. Provided new emissions requirements by outlining new product introduction activities on five dynamic design programs. Key Highlights:
• Managed program timing to achieve newly designed components on time. Worked closely with foundry and machining operations resolving issues delivering cost reductions.
• Traveled to Canada and Mexico to support supply base development.

Mapleton, IL

• Supervised 15 UAW employees. QS-9000 coordinator for Lab initial certification. Maintained the procedures needed to manage the successful completion of all operational data transfer. Guided chemical lab operations.
• Established quality goals and success criteria for quality control operational activities. Worked with melting department to optimize charge makeup to control both cost and quality.
• Conducted defect analysis and failure analysis to determine root causes of defects. Utilized advanced design of experiments methods.

Corinth, MS

• Responsible for all metallurgical and non-destructive testing in diesel engine remanufacturing facility, NDT processes and training classes for technicians. Handled failure analysis of service returns and prove design.
• Created and documented laboratory testing of welding and heat treating processes.