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Pella, Iowa, United States

Collaborating closely with executive leadership, department heads and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, implement best practices and achieve measurable results.

Goes, Zeeland, Netherlands

Pella, IA

• Continued engineering manager – product development responsibilities
• Developed a team of leaders to execute on Vermeer's COE strategy
• Oversee the collective strategies related to the overall Vermeer partnership with Iowa State University
• Provide leadership for team members and students working at or interacting with the Vermeer’s Applied Technology Hub, creating consistent opportunities to effectively connect, collaborate and drive progress in the best.
• Drive increased value out of Vermeer investments made at Iowa State University, specifically through talent and technology value realizations

Pella, IA

• Developed Vermeer engineering’s COE strategy
• Intentional leadership development focusing on team member engagement
• Roll-out of Digital Assembly Instructions
• Created an engine application team focused on engine selection, cooling efficiency, sound, and vibration reducing product development time by 8 weeks
• Led the control system teams to develop a common control and program architecture
• Integrated industrial design into Vermeer's product development process

Pella, IA

• Lead a team of 45 engineers responsible for new product design and product support of a $350 million product line
• Intentional coaching of leadership team to focus on engineering development and empowerment through servant leadership
• Leveraged Agile project management process for electrical systems and software development
• Successful launch of 8 new products in a 12-month period

Pella, IA

• Lead a team of 15 engineers responsible for new product design and product support of a $60 million product line
• Emphasized engineer growth and empowerment in developing leadership team
• Developed a standardized product development process leveraging the company's phase gate process

Pella, IA

• Leveraged servant leadership to work with area managers to deliver on safety, quality, and productivity goals
• Developed a new employee suggestion process for safety, quality, and productivity ideas
• Executed plan to drive $500,000 in annual savings in a year

Pella

• Leadership of 16 service groups in plant of 230 employees with annual budget of $19MM. Over 20,000 hours of out of town support provided each year to 12 locations across nation
• Maintained a recordable injury rate below 1.6
• Increased capital equipment build from $5.5MM to $7.9MM in 4 years, reducing build team by 19% and improving on-time completion from 83% to 98%
• Developed a value stream map for plant to help drive over $1.2MM in productivity in 9 months

Pella

• Led technical team of 150 team members focused on machine and die fabrication, moulder tooling maintenance, and construction crew maintenance including engineers, technical trades, and managers
• Production of over $5MM in capital equipment
• World class safety award for 3.14 recordable incident rate and 0 lost workdays

Pella

• Coached and mentored the engineering and support groups creating a team environment that focused on customer satisfaction and execution of projects
• Established a metric system for the maintenance group reducing average age of work orders from 46 days to 12 days
• Researched alternative designs for conversion of two ripsaws to hydraulic closed loop control. Led the $400,000 conversion project converting one ripsaw in two weeks and the second ripsaw in 1 week. Project had a.

Pella

• Utilized a lean process development methodology to develop Pella’s manufacturing process used to produce entry doors
• Developed process concepts and specifications. Coordinated the build and qualification of $1.2MM of capital equipment in 9 months

Pella, IA

• Established evaluation plans for all product changes. Determined acceptable performance of product designs
• Developed standardized test methods and test descriptions for product tests
• Facilitated cross-training of 8 lab technicians aligning with product teams
• Developed an automated product evaluation system using Word and Visual Basic to simplify the request and reporting system
• Developed a process repeatability qualification system for manufacturing

Pella, IA

• Design, program, and debug custom equipment qualifying to a 1.33 Cpk
• Specify and procure equipment