Altec

Primary Responsibilities

- Responsible for assembly manufacturing engineering for the following areas:

- Responsible for fabrication manufacturing engineering for the following machine types:

- Maintaining quality metrics and innovating solutions to improve benchmarks.

- Reviewed all product designs, both existing and new, for manufacturability.

- Participated and lead interdisciplinary teams for Kaizen events.

- Designed and fabricated jigs and fixturing.

- Integrated and re-designed production layouts for process improvement and production area expansions.

- Calculated and reduced takt times.

- Launched concurrent processes with teams from other production facilities.

- Trained technicians on standard operating procedures.

- Created changes to standard processes for improved quality and production metrics.

- Participated in quarterly safety, environmental, and cost savings events.

Lead and participated in about 100 week long Kaizen events.
Multiple events were held every week with a team wide kick off on Monday and wrap up on Friday.
Events centered around various activities, everything from lean activities to new product implementation
Quarterly events for safety, cost savings, and Gemba Walks.
Events were held for products that were new, highly custom, or long runs

Designed various assembly and fabrication areas for a large plant expansion.
Included a re-created specialized cell to increase output and stay in time with newly added assembly lines.
Specific signals created via existing processes to handle new ceiling WIP holding area and new production areas.
Additional operations formulas created to auto-balance fabrication machine parts loading, reducing takt time.
Assessed and implemented new manufacturing equipment.

Designed and fabricated a pneumatic lift table to lift and move new aluminum bodies without scratching panels.
Created jigs and fixtures for welding and assembly processes.
Drafted and built facilities equipment, rails, tv/monitor stands, work stations, etc.
Implemented a custom RFID system to allow for floor technicians to know detailed information about parts carts.
Assisted in manufacturing of Kaizen event components such as, safety rails, cages, facilities equipment, etc.

Lead and worked with a small team of engineers that designed and built a custom facilities software named Ethos.
This software is directly responsible for millions of dollars of cost savings.
Automated and allowed for custom signals to be sent interdepartmentally.
Introduced the ability to remove all hard copy paper from all production areas, saving on paper and red lining prints.
Gave machine operators an auto-generated heads up on parts that had higher defect rates, in real time.
Allowed for assembly lines to order frames from a specialized frame cell on a FIFO system based on frame build time.
Created a specialty "Assembly Start" signal to act as a new start signal for the "Dressout" area to reduce WIP.
Built a daily electronic PM check list for all major manufacturing equipment, press brakes, laser cutters, etc.
Planned and implemented a cycle time maximization software tool that considered upcoming fabrication parts and auto-suggested a "as near perfect" as possible job assignment list based on fabrication machine limitations.
Implemented multiple auto-reports for metrics such as defects, FPY, "Hot Parts", machine utilization, etc.
Handled staging, "part picking" slow downs by creating a system of stack lights to automatically notify stagers in specific area when parts were ready in other area required for a local type of part cart.