Thomas Pollauf Email & Phone Number

Moraine, Ohio, United States

Service engineer at Chrysler Assembly in Toledo, Ohio.

Lead daily start up meetings, assign hourly tasks as needed, schedule skilled trades on break downs, follow up on quality issues, maintain safe working environment, schedule training and maintain training records.

Supervised the machining operation for the Ford 3.5L engine block and Ford Focus 2.0L cam. Maintained a well disciplined and safe working environment.

Review CMM reports daily prior to start of #2 shift. Review out of tolerance conditions, disposition stock and submit route cards to die room for corrections. Green Belt projects: reduced water leak scrap on 2.3L Electronic Throttle Body. Interface with tool and die room to improve die cast part yeild and quality. Process engineering lead on alternator and wiper dies. Support production by filling in with supervisor duties as required. Drive safety behaviors and rules compliance in the die cast engineering team. Use TPP disciplines and 6 Sigma projects to reduce scrap and sorting costs. Maintain a marketplace based on operating plan.

Inspect areas for unsafe conditions, maintain safety procedures during emergencies, (fire, bad weather, evacuations). Coordinate between production and shipping to insure expedites get shipped on time. Schedule maintenance and production personel to maintain line production as needed. Review nightly production with plant manager.

Reduced cracks 70% in rear alternator housing by redesign of the trim die base. Solved current model cast and trim problems by process optimization and troubleshooting. Attained green belt certificate. Reduced throttle body leaks by 85% by redesign of the throttle shaft core.

Inspected areas for unsafe conditions, maintained safety procedures during emergencies. Coordinated between production and shipping to insure expedites get shipped on time. Scheduled skilled trades to accomidate production needs within the whole plant. Reviewed nightly production with the plant manager. Supervised five production supervisors.

Trouble shoot die casting problems on midnight shift. Maintained quality procedures in the die cast department. Responsible for quality, cost, and delivery in the die cast department on midnight shift. Scheduled machine priority for production and maintenance repair. Worked with engineering to follow up on PPAP's on midnights. Scheduled hourly work force for overtime hours.

Inspect areas for unsafe conditions, maintain safe procedures during emergencies (fire, bad weather, evacuations). Coordinate between production and shipping to insure expedites get shipped on time. Schedule trades/production personel to interact between departments to maintain production in areas that are short handed. Review nightly production with the plant manager.

Troubleshoot die casting problems on midnight shift. Maintain quality procedures in the die cast department. Responsible for quality, cost, and delivery in die cast on midnight shift. Work with engineering on follow through on PPAPs on midnights. Schedule priority of machines and dies for maintenance repair.

Work with product engineering to design products that are easily castible (fill out better, less rejects). Establish processes, write control plans, write PFMEA's and submit PPAP's.

Worked with product engineering to design products that are easily castable. Establish processes, write control plans, write PFMEA's and submit PPAP's.

Redesigned the die to reduce leaks and raise FTT to 95% at Ford Transmission Plant. Introduced vacuum die casting to Doehler-Jarvis plants. Troubleshoot floor casting problems. Maintained a die maintenance program for the AODE transmission case dies. Correct dimensional issues with transmission cases. Installed the first chlorine-nitrigen system in the aluminum foundry to clean metal.

Trouble shoot die casting problems for the Ford AOD and AODI transmission cases on the floor. Set up processes and control plans for the Ford transmission cases. Review quality issues with customer. Schedule rebuilds for die casting dies for a 16 die program for Ford Motor Company.

B/S, Mechanical Engineering

Associate, Mechanical Engineering