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Department Manager Resume

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Department Manager

Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan

  • Manage 12 Engineers/Technicians
  • Responsible for reviews of employees and hired new technical staff
  • Managed Profit/Loss for durability, flammability, and packaging testing departments
  • Drafted and executed Capital Expenditures for growing department to meet industry needs
  • Actively participate in writing and implementation of ANSI/BIFMA furniture standards
  • Active participant in ISO Furniture Standards harmonization
  • Draft custom test plans and quotes for clients and account managers
  • Interact daily with clients helping them problem solve issues

Engineering Team Leader

Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan

  • Managed 9 Engineers/Technicians
  • Responsible for reviews of employees and hired new engineers
  • Managed Profit/Loss for Technical Services department
  • Managed employees at customer sites and interacted with customer management
  • All tasks completed while still performing Validation Engineer role

Validation Engineer / Project Manager

Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan

  • Performance and reliability testing of office furniture to industry standards (ANSI, BIFMA, EN, BS) and customer - defined specifications
  • Procedure formulation, test design, setup / tear-down, inspections, data analysis / reduction; all with high attention to detail and solid understanding of concepts integral to many different fields of study
  • Technical reports with a wide variety of testing data
  • Contributed in all stages product life and testing: research & development, materials, design, verification & validation, packaging, and sustainability
  • Managed teams of up to 4 technicians
  • Conducted experiments and trouble shooting on site services to client

Project Engineer

Confidential

  • Managing high-end home wood furniture projects from prototype to production
  • Creating all scheduling plans, procured materials, and coordinated build times
  • Programming CNC machines for all appropriate cuts, parts, and layouts
  • Performing GD&T on completed parts; ensured quality according to clients’ specs
  • Interacting effectively with floor workers, customers, sister companies, and staff

Associate Manufacturing Engineer

Confidential

  • Modifying plant layout to include updates to production line
  • Updating and created assembly procedure sheets for production line workers
  • Assisting evaluation of run-at-rate for new product

Associate Product Engineer

Confidential, Troy, Michigan

  • Managing instrument panel builds for testing
  • Coordinating Tier 2 parts procurement for builds and testing
  • Assisting in set up and data collection for design validation (DV) testing

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