Industrial Engineer Resume Lewiston, ID - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Industrial engineer with over 6 years of experience in manufacturing environments functioning as a manufacturing engineer, a manager, and a continuous improvement engineer.
Experienced in bringing new products from concept to full scale production as well as revitalizing existing processes through the use of lean principles and tools.
Plastic & Rubber MoldingProject LeadershipChange over reduction / Kaizen
Compression and Injection ToolingTime / Motion StudiesLean / Continuous Improvement

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lewiston, ID

Industrial Engineer

Responsibilities:

Brought in to be a technical resource for the continuous improvement department.
My outside experience and willingness to think outside of current practice has allowed me to increase the productivity of the continuous improvement team.
Greatly reduced the wastes associated with the value stream mapping process by implementing a new software package and working each year to further enhance the process to aid management in identifying opportunities for improvement.
Identified, purchased and began using dynamic simulation software to assist plant managers in making capacity decisions.

Confidential, TX

Value Stream Team Leader

Responsibilities:

Promoted from the manufacturing engineer to the value stream team leader a year value stream supporting a team of 3 supervisors, 2 engineers and 30 production employees.
As manager I had the responsibility for all metrics and financial performance.
Focused on improvements through day to day engagement of the workforce as well as conducted multiple kaizens bringing together cross functional teams from other areas of the plant.
Increased sales by 20% by reducing waste in the system while reducing the cost of poor quality by 30%.
Lead a team in the research and design of a semi - automated cell for metal cleaning.
Proposed and implemented the use of the first magnetic platens in the plant reducing the cycle time of that machine and opening the way for future use of the technology to further reduce cycle times across the plant.

Manufacturing Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Reduced scrap from 13% down to 3%.
Standardized how new products were quoted based on customer requirements.
Key contributor in multiple lean kaizen events for continuous improvement based upon the strategic goals of the company.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

Started off working the small automated seal lines where I worked with automated equipment as well as automatic vision inspection systems.
I was then assigned to the newly growing offshore platform drilling side where I worked with tool designers and fabricators to bring new products into production.
Collaborated with application engineers and outside vendors to develop manufacturing processes and enhance design; brought two major product lines from concept to production.
Reviewed and approved tool designs for new product.
Responsible for process control of two plastic injection cells including cpk analysis.