• Designed and built custom machinery to manufacture products for electrical transmission, distribution, and other mechanical components of the electrical grid• Developed new and improved machinery and processes to improve operator ergonomics, reduce scrap, and increase throughput• Overhauled existing legacy machinery to meet manufacturing goals, safety requirements, and budget constraints• Created high quality technical drawings for part fabrication to ASME Y14.5 standard• Responsible for development and improvement of high-speed wire forming machines, wire cleaning systems, andwire cutting and subsetting machines• Synthesized layout of new machines and processes to fit within existing plant layout and machine configuration• Managed budgeting of new equipment and scheduling of machine assembly and downtime• Supervised mechanical and electrical assembly, parts procurement, and machine testing• Updated electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic schematics, PLC programming, and electrical cabinet layouts• Improved fatigue life of shafting and rotating equipment through analysis and observation of failure modes• Responsible for building requested machines for Arkansas, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, and Thailand plants• Commissioned machines for deployment in Albemarle plant or shipment to PLP manufacturing plants worldwide• Promoted standardization of machinery, processes, and tooling across multiple manufacturing plants

• Worked as a technical mentor to assist teams with mechanical design, electrical systems, and coding of robotic crane• Assisted in conducting design reviews to evaluate designs and analyses

• Served as Project Lead for Senior Design Team of five engineering students• Developed instrumentation system to capture strain data from end windings of generator rotor• Responsible for all correspondence with Siemens engineers and for all documentation of project

• Created Job Breakdown Sheets in Airend Assembly and trained operators• Worked with QE to create PFMEAs for Airend Assembly to bring Mocksville into BOS compliance• Assisted in fixing BOM and drawing issues to prevent unnecessary cost and line downtime• Developed fixtures and tooling to reduce build time, improve ergonomics, and ensure repeatable assembly

• Worked alongside professor to prepare and mentor new freshmen to be engineering students• Graded and gave feedback for all assignments in the course

• Selected and distributed tooling for new product builds and assembly line needs• Assisted with Manufacturing Assessment Builds to evaluate line readiness for new products• Developed fixtures, tooling, and processes to improve assembly lines for new products