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- Direct and coordinate manufacturing activities so that approved products are manufactured on schedule within quality and cost objectives. - Implement company manufacturing policy, establish manufacturing operating policy and direct/supervise the application of such policies to the manufacturing operations. - Supervise installation and maintenance of all processing equipment used in manufacturing. -- Coordinate the execution of manufacturing schedules based on sales requirements and plant capacity. - Prepare cost control reports, cost estimates, and manpower/facilities requirement forecasts. - Control cost of production, warehousing, receiving and shipping of raw materials through appropriate subordinates. -Ensure prompt and economical receipt of needed materials, supplies, and delivery of finished products to customers. - Direct the preparation of specifications for purchases on quality, quantity, delivery, and service required for purchase of plant equipment, supplies, and materials to meet production schedules. -- Establish and maintain inventory controls/levels to conform to budgets and forecasts.- Receive plans from Program Management Office, translate the plans into an executable tactical operations plan and provide hands on management to insure execution. - Develop and use production metrics to constantly improve product throughput and quality while working to drive down production costs.- Direct the daily activities of technicians and manufacturing engineers.- Develop and update manufacturing operating policy. Ensure processes are followed and that all audit corrective actions are complete.- Develop and maintains training plans for technicians and manufacturing engineers.- Ensure required shop tools, equipment and supplies are available and maintained.- Ensure that the calibration program is executed per policy.-.Ensure incoming inspection priorities are met and that inspections are completed on a timely basis.- MRB.

- Direct and manage all company operations maintenance, including staffing, equipment, processes and structures, in a reliable and efficient manner minimizing interruption to production.- Manage, develop, and monitor annual departmental budget.- Develop and monitor preventive maintenance program to ensure production is not interrupted. - Develop new and unique approaches to complex problems and advance technology beyond previous company involvement.- Plan/develop engineering projects concerned with unique high-profile problems which have important effect on major organization programs.- Liaison with individuals and business units within and outside the organization with responsibility for acting independently on technical matters.- Review and approve Engineering drawings, layouts, change orders and specifications. Reviews test procedures and plans prior to implementation, conducts failure analysis and inspection on products, processes and materials.- Plan, schedule, conduct and coordinate detailed phases of the engineering work and major projects.- Drive tooling and equipment project focusing on manufacturability while improving yields.- Lead and implement new approaches to problems encountered. Leads the continuous improvement and lean implementation efforts.- Participate and lead cross-functional project teams. Influences others in implementing creative solutions.- Develop and Execute validation protocols and conduct appropriate inspection/testing products, processes and materials.- Support test function for system hardware, software and test data manipulation projects. Provide accurate estimations and reports of all test processes.- Prepares all necessary paperwork, change requests and documentation for all projects undertaken.- Investigate, develop and implement new process technologies of major scope.- Lead Capital Acquisition projects. Develop Equipment Specification and validation protocols - Mentor and lead work of lower level Engineers

● Management duties associated with supervising two manufacturing engineers, a senior manufacturing technician, and rolling co-op position.● Proven analysis and reconfiguration of manufacturing processes, equipment, and facility layouts that meet manufacturing system design requirements resulting in increased utilization by 80-105%, while providing the potential for increased capacity after the reduction of an entire manufacturing shift.● Saved $100,000+ per year by re-designing of a critical consumable component used in the battery filling process.● Facilitator of Lean Kaizen events, Manufacturing System Design workshops, and cross functional teams● Demonstrated ability to effectively lead project teams and manage multiple projects concurrently for periods spanning the course of a year or more. ● Design systems and processes that improve the quality and productivity of the organizations business activities, while employing a strong base of fundamental engineering, and management skills to effectively integrate people, technology, machines, and money, in a way that creates positive change, and meets the needs of our customers.● Develop and manage cross functional team to update and implement a compliant record retention and retrieval process in addition to the master validation plan for operations initiatives to reduce regulatory compliance risks

● Innovation of the year award for the design and in-house manufacture of custom production equipment needed to meet unique customer requirements.● Successful objective implementation of the GMP documentation, PFMEA, safety and training initiatives for creating, standardizing, documentation for all Lithium metal Finishing and Pack cells for the Moderate Rate product line, with identification and correction of 98% of all potential safety hazards identified.● Performed all assigned internal audits to the scheduled timeline in support of the quality management system.● Implementation of various continuous improvement activities for dry room equipment such as the vacuum cold trap utilized to protect facility support systems.

● Reduced the design cycle time of Lithium metal cell products by 26% utilizing Lean Manufacturing principles. ● Maintained the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) database to drive 85% equipment effectiveness, and implement equipment improvement initiatives.● Increase basic cell filling capacity 100%● Developed and documented the standard processes, supporting work instructions, fixtures, and tooling for all of the basic cell assemblies in the Moderate Rate product family. ● Performed all functions required to introduce new Lithium metal cell product types generated by the design group.● Initiate ECO's to improve documentation throughout the facility that is not in compliance with current company standards or best practices. ● Create mechanical assembly and sub-assembly documentation packages.● Manage and modify manufacturing processes, standard work, and lean initiatives, by analyzing developed metrics.● Design systems and processes that improve the quality and productivity of the organization's business activities, while employing a strong base of fundamental engineering and management skills to effectively integrate people, technology, machines and money, to create positive change that meets the customers requirement.● Perform and improve process capabilities on production floor using an array of manufacturing tools.● Increased manufacturing and processing technology knowledge and expertise through introduction of enhanced documentation and innovative tooling / equipment upgrades.● Establish process capability in order to facilitate production handover. ● Generate objective evidence of production readiness through process validation and qualification.● Experience supporting low-volume, high-mix production environments.● Experienced with planning and orchestrating new facility set-up and plant move.

● Equipment and tooling design and fabrication for product development, process evaluation to increased throughput, project management for lean initiatives, technical support for all product lines, and vendor qualification for automation projects.

● Lean manufacturer experience with field work and design processes involved in cutting edge wind technology development.● Manufacture of data loggers for precise wind resource assessment, mounting booms and hardware assemblies for both Tilt-up and TallTowers®● Field installation of towers atop mountains and customer specific locations.● Packaging of customer orders and freight containers.

● Re-design of the internal components for the EQUATOR® 5000 Convective Warming System (to reduce noise levels below that of our competitors).● Increased gain of 80% market share.● Special acoustic noise testing with National Technical Systems.● Design of a "black body" radiation table for monitoring heat profiles of the Snuggle Warm® blankets that were designed for effective and safe patient warming and comfort using analytical techniques to determine optimum location of perforations to ensure effective heat delivery and reduce the risk of hot spots.● Developed methods for chemical joining of dissimilar materials, performed process validations and implementation.● Design and manufacture multiple fixtures for product transfer to Mexico.