Thomas Sargent Email & Phone Number

Camden, Arkansas

Senior facilities Engineer performs a full range of professional facilities engineering assignments in a full-functioning capacity.

Responsible for supervisory and managerial support of all engineering activities to provide safe, reliable, and efficient facilities, equipment and process in support of manufacturing operations. Additional responsibly to include Maintenance and Blend Operations for Esterline Defense Technologies Flare Countermeasures

Senior Project manager for a new $130M highly automated wheel manufacturing facility in Chihuahua Mexico. Responsible for all aspects of the project from the initial concept through the production startup.•Directed and coordinated activities of the project management team to insure all areas of the project were completed in a timely manner. •Directly involved in all equipment specification, technical contract negotiation and equipment installation and start up. •Managed vendor and equipment selection•Developed and implemented policies and procedures for the construction phase. •Ensured that the project objectives were accomplished in accordance with the outlined priorities, government regulations, engineering drawings, and contractual specifications. •Coordinated outside vendor activities. •Insured vendors met or exceeded the quality standard and project timing requirements.

Industrial Engineering Manager with responsibilities tied to all aspects of the manufacturing process within nine wheel manufacturing facilities with locations in three countries.•Responsibilities included design/start up of new product processes, manufacturing techniques, quality standards, facility layouts, and tooling for cost reduction and manufacturability. •Provide costing to the marketing department for current and developmental products. •Determine/calculate labor cost for new and/or existing products using standardized methodology that accounts for variances in local wage rates•Improved accuracy of cost estimate and quotation through the roll-out of a standardized cost estimate template and adding cost accountants to the team•Development of templates and define standardized processes for use in future projects by company•Developed and standardized corporate work procedures for all plant industrial engineers•Documented current and developmental production processes. •Interfaced with product engineering to insure development wheels are manufactured in the most efficient method. •Designed and implemented a compressed air balance system in 6 plants that resulted in a 15% energy savings.•Designed plant layout and product flow for new manufacturing facilities and plant expansions.

Worked directly with General Manager to provide improvement in all areas of production. •Designed facility layout, labor utilization and equipment requirements. •Maintained Process Routings. •Provided justification, requisition, installation, and start up of new capital equipment.

Responsibilities included start up of new product processes, manufacturing techniques, quality standards, and tooling for cost reduction and manufacturability. •Interfaced with customers on new products / specification changes to existing products, and provided quotes for these changes. •Aided customers with statistical tolerancing problems and key quality characteristics in the design of their product. •Performed process capability analysis and Design of Experiments for various products, processes, and raw materials.•Managed plant expansion and equipment rebuild project.

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