Project Manager, Senior Quality Engineer And Senior Project Engineer Resume
Indianapolis, IN
SUMMARY:
Specialist in growing profits through program management, lean implementation, new projects and new plant startups. Progressive experience including leadership positions in Program Management, Operations, Project Management, Engineering, and Quality. Demonstrated ability to think creatively to produce results and achieve desired organizational change, resulting in improved response time, improved customer satisfaction, and decreased operating costs.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
New Plant Start - UpsTurnaround Operations
Lean Operations / Toyota Production SystemOperations Management
Program ManagementProject Management
Engineering ManagementQuality Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
PROJECT MANAGER, SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER and SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
Confidential, Indianapolis, IN
Responsibilities:
- Contract engineering and program management company providing services to their clients Confidential aircraft engine development and manufacturing division. Also contracted with Confidential .
- Support Confidential Program Management
- Write and publish Engineering Change Proposals and Cost Effectiveness Analysis.
- Led cross functional teams to implement supplier quality verification systems.
- Performed financial analysis for Confidential .
- Perform quality analysis and throughput analysis for Confidential .
- To get both Confidential and their suppliers to improve.
- Perform various legal tasks, perform various Program Management tasks, and perform various leadership roles in Operations tasks.
PROGRAM MANAGER and ENGINEERING MANAGER
Confidential, Norwalk, OH
Responsibilities:
- Started with finishing the underbody and shipped Bodies - In-Black.
- Program Manager for launching Autocar s first self-developed program.
- Coordinating efforts of two Confidential plants and tier 2 suppliers to build pre-production vehicles.
- Developed program management policies and procedure
- Implemented lean, quality systems, and KPI s such revenue per square feet.
- Performed site risk analysis with a mitigation plan resulting in capital plans and budgets
Confidential, New Castle, IN
Engineering Manager
Responsibilities:
- Successfully managed 14 new product launches across 2 plants.
- Led 2 Program Managers resulting in improved margins.
- Ensured accuracy of all manufactured parts; exceeded ISO - TS standards and customer specifications through maintaining automated gauging, automated CMM s, and digital gauges in 2 plants.
- Spearheaded emergency project to write/edit 98 FMEA s and control plans for two plants.
- Wrote and published Confidential s, SPC charts, etc. and other quality documents.
CHIEF ENGINEER
Confidential, Troy, MI
Responsibilities:
- Simultaneously led teams in Ontario, Alabama, and Michigan.
- Developed policies and procedures to optimize all business functions
- Participated in Mercedes design reviews
- Directed engineering (product, facility, process, product change, …) MRO purchasing, and maintenance organizations.
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Confidential, Corydon, IN
Responsibilities:
- Directed all engineering, paint department, and maintenance functions in highly automated frame assembly plant.
- Responsibility for program management for all 3 product streams.
- Oversaw project to design new parts and fabrication process.
- Made frames for two Ford assembly plants.
OPERATIONS SECTION DIRECTOR (PLANT MANAGER)
Confidential, Lafayette, IN
Responsibilities:
- Communicated and coordinated activities with internal and external customers
- Launched two new (Outback and Baja) vehicles using program and project management skills in a multi-cultural setting.
- Actively developed and implemented lean manufacturing and continuous improvement in manufacturing and within the office.
- Improved quality as evidenced by perfect JD Powers score.
MANAGER - FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE
Confidential, York, PA
Responsibilities:
- Managed 103 person department comprised of union skilled trades, contract personnel, non-skilled labor and supervisors to support armored vehicle production (machining, painting, assembly, and testing), capital construction and site improvements on 14-acre site comprised of 47 buildings and an on-site recreation center.
- Multiple positions growing in leadership and responsibility across the entire assembly plant including plant’s Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
- Implemented TPS / lean process to change manufacturing processes from being a fixed cost to a variable cost.
- Part of a crisis team to re-construct a plant after its roof had fallen.
- Led plant’s Tooling and Manufacturing Engineering Departments.