Profile:
• Manufacturing Engineer with more than 5 years of fast paced manufacturing environment experience, and extensive training and involvement in lean manufacturing. Proven track in process improvement and waste reduction projects.
Overall skills:
- Estimate product cost and analyze capital equipment, capacity, and capability requirements.
- Leads and participates in projects, involving cross-functional teams, using project management methodologies.
- Facilitate, verify, and conduct appropriate training for employees (including but not limited to troubleshooting, lean manufacturing, and safety)
- Experience identifying, planning and executing value improvement projects.
- Recommend and develop process control systems.
- Analyze and improve assembly-line methods using lean methodologies.
Accomplishments:
• Total savings of $2.7 M for past employer in materials, labor and overhead.
• Trained and developed 7 structured CI teams for past employer, with projected savings of +$250K in following year.
• Improved the design of two assembly lines for current employer, increasing the lines efficiency by 35%.
• Used SMED techniques to engineer new designs on 9 forming presses. The OEM adapted the proposed designs to improve the original designs.
• Completed cost savings project to in-source printing plates manufacturing in the facility, giving total actual savings of $283,100 in 2009 and projected annual savings of $314,900.
• Accepted proposed product design changes to an existing product to reduce the assembly labor cost. Projected savings of $60,000 in FY10.
Experience:
American Greetings Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI
Project Engineer, Design Ware Division, March 2008- Present
• Manage capital investment projects in the facility’s manufacturing and distribution center.
• Investigate and propose effective process improvement projects in the plant to eliminate waste, improve quality and promote safety.
• Instruct and train manufacturing and distribution personnel on lean manufacturing techniques and waste reduction.
• Lead continuous improvement teams and propose team initiatives to generate operations cost reduction.
• Support new equipment acquisition and existing equipment modifications and improvements.
• Propose and investigate cost reduction projects with total annual value of $120,000.
• Act as a dynamic change agent to drive lean manufacturing and waste reduction throughout the facility.
Leggett & Platt, Middlebury, IN
Continuous Improvement Coordinator, Store fixture Div., January 2007-February 2008
• Planning, establishing, training and coordinating the L&P Continuous Improvement System.
• Assist the Branch Management Team in all facets associated with driving Continuous Improvement efforts and reporting on associated key indicators.
• Provide Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, LP-9000, and Total Production Manufacturing expertise for manufacturing, quality and safety departments.
• Instruct Continuous Improvement techniques and build and facilitate teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Developed and maintained the 6S (5S+1) program and raised the plant average audit score to 96.9% from 93% in 2006.
• Designed the layout for a major manufacturing department using lean and visual factory techniques.
• Analyzed the root causes of scrap that lead to 22% reduction in the scrap costs per sales $ in 2007.
• Performed Value stream analysis on 5 high volume products, which led to reduce the non-value added and lead-time.
Industrial Engineering Tech, Syndicate Systems Div., July 2005-December 2006
• Support production with Lean Manufacturing Techniques, Problem-solving analysis.
• Perform time studies and line balancing on existing and new manufacturing lines.
• Standard data editing & work measurements to define labor costs.
• Value stream analysis for current and new products.
• Designed and implemented Kanban pull systems on 5 lines.
• Designed the layout of 2 manufacturing lines that reduced the labor costs by +$180K/yr.
• Submitted and implemented material reduction proposals that saved total of $120K.
New Marine Co., Alexandria, Egypt
Junior Chemical Engineer, June 2003-April 2004
• Perform inspections on the 5th quarter of the cargo ships and develop solutions for the surface corrosion due to seawater, research and develop new corrosion control techniques, quality control and SPC studies.
• Proposed new procedures to the small marine parts maintenance that changed the department strategy and reduced the operating costs.
• Delivered accurate inspections and developed best corro...
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