Tier 1 Electric Power Steering systems supplier to customers Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Subaru. Responsible to plant management to provide technical leadership to set up increasingly automated production lines and provide documentation and continuous improvement.:Saved $131,000 annually by leading a cross-functional action team that drove assembly improvements for sub assembly manufacturing.:Set (3) new $1.5 million product lines with cross-functional team members to establish assembly lines to meet customer needs and deliveries.:Worked closely with Quality to develop ME group document control system. Show less

Responsible to Cell Manufacturing Manager to provide technical and qualitative support to production line, provide rework and repair planning and directed product design improvements to meet regulatory requirements. Worked with cross-functional team of designers to investigate product test failures resulting in increased product performance success by 17% according to Dade County standards. Lead quality initiatives across (6) product lines improving quality measures 15% and reducing order errors resulting in $43,000 annual savings to COPQ. Show less

I held multiple positions and roles here at Rain Bird. This corporation typically starts its staff at Supervisor but will not hire anyone without engineering degree. As Quality Engineer, I was responsible to Director of Quality to maintain ISO compliance. Upon acquisition of local molding plant, merged two quality systems into a single process. Reducing MRB system processing times by (3) days and was awarded divisional I.Q. Award. As Supervisor, I co-managed a team of (57) full time associates with up to (300) contract associates to build irrigation products on (20+) injection molding machines. Monitored team performance and eliminated waste in processes and procedures as Lean Manufacturing Coordinator. Employed Lean concepts that saved $93,000 annually. (Promoted) As safety Coordinator, I stepped up efforts to provide a safe and productive work environment through coordinated efforts with management and supervision as the safety coordinator (voluntary role). Customized and implemented Safety Buck program reducing accidents 91%.

Managed Rigid Cargo Barrier for Air Bus during Cell Manager's medical leave of absence (about (6) months).-Provided manufacturing engineering support to build flight control surfaces for aircraft such as F-15, F-16, Airbus and Harrier. Each line was set at least once with my involvement either during start-up or during the move from Parker Hanafin site to Riverside site after company mergers with TOLO divisions.-Worked on composite developmental control surfaces for the FY-22 (we did not get the contract but what an aircraft!)-Cut my teeth on weld design with the KC-130 fuel lines and de-swirlers. Show less

Quality for Power Components for electric transformers.Utilize DMAIC and 8-D problem solving programs to implement improvements and solutions in manufacturing.Updated system to ISO 9001:2015 and implemented internal audit training.Implemented quality improvements in leading resin electrical bushings gaining a 97.8% yield rate.Eliminated $529kUSD in defects by applying Lean 6 Sigma problem solving.Improved product quality to achieve 98% pass rate.Developed manufacturing plan to maximize capacity for new product line doubling output. Show less