Charlie Cummins P.Eng
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Residence: 905-***-****; Cell: 905-***-****
E-mail: actfd4@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Over 20 years’ experience in manufacturing, project, and maintenance engineering, working on:
-All manner of projects from pure mechanical to electrical to chemical to environmental
-Management of Engineering and maintenance personnel
-Supervision of outside contractors
-Budgeting and Strategic planning
-Factory design
-Productivity up-grades to plant.
-Technology training
-Continuous Improvement using Six Sigma methodology, 5S, lean manufacturing, and “work-out”
-Design of mobile and industrial machinery
-Automation of manufacturing processes
-Hydraulic circuit design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
President Barrett-Cummins Inc. 2007- Present
Provide mechanical engineering services to a diverse range of customers.
-Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) technical reports
-Project Management
-Manufacturing technology
- Tooling Design
- Hydraulic Power Pack design
Accomplishments
-Provided manufacturing technology to FAESA in Argentina to improve quality, increase productivity, and reduce scrap.
-Designed and built large scale test machinery (for an Aurora firm) that delivered increases in part capacity, throughput, finer temperature control, and reduced energy consumption.
-Trouble shooting services for a Swedish manufacturer which ensured a $500K equipment sale.
-Tooling design and CNC training to General Electric
-Hydraulic design for embossing press
Engineering Manager Cummins Hydraulics 2001-2007
Partner in Cummins Hydraulics, a family owned business.
Cummins Hydraulics was established in 1989, has 20 employees and $4.5 million in annual sales.
Responsible for the industrial and construction accounts. Worked on heavy industrial equipment, mobile construction machinery, and the design and fabrication of industrial power packs.
Accomplishments:
-Designed and managed the construction of a 12,000 sq ft facility, custom built for hydraulic repair, sales, and service.
-Grew the business ….Employment doubled… revenue tripled
-Built a high torque (40,000 ft-lbs) machine for the assembly/disassembly of hydraulic cylinders.
-Designed and built specialty equipment to increase productivity at customer factories. Examples:
oBuilt a water jet system to selectively cool large dies, used in the manufacture of aluminum transmission cases.
oBuilt a hydraulic clamp mechanism for box building plant
Engineering Manager GE Canada, Tube Plant 1984-2001
The Arnprior tubing facility manufactures highly engineered zirconium tubing for Candu reactors. The tubes are made on robust tube forming machines, heat treated in vacuum anneal ovens, and ultrasonically tested for dimensions and defects before delivery to the customer.
Started out as a project engineer doing mostly productivity projects under the guidance of a senior engineer, then advanced to tooling design for the whole factory. After a few years was also put in charge of the maintenance department and then advanced to Manager of Manufacturing Engineering
Responsibilities
-Supervisor in charge of maintenance and engineering
-Responsible for machine set-ups and tool design
-Productivity and process improvements
-New Equipment design, sourcing, and installation
-Design upgrades to existing equipment
-Automated processes, PLC’s, and instrumentation
- Environment (waste reduction, water treatment, cleaning systems, emissions)
Accomplishments
-Put together a lean and focused manufacturing engineering team that handled all the maintenance, equipment set-up, and productivity projects.
-Tripled productivity by introducing better work methods, eliminating steps in the process, upgrading existing equipment, and installing new machinery.
-Reduced scrap by designing and building automated cut-to-length systems and by using six sigma techniques to reduce flaws and defects.
-Designed and built an automated cleaning system to clean 2,000,000 tubes per year. The machine doubled cleaning productivity, eliminated hand work, improved quality, used environmentally friendly chemicals, and reduced liquid waste by over 90%.
-In charge of the transfer of tube manufacturing technology from GE Canada to the Faesa tube plant in Buenos Aries, Argentina. Traveled to Argentina with tooling and GE technicians, and worked directly with Faesa engineering and production staff.
-Designed a new 45,000sq.ft factory and coordinated the equipment move from the old site to the new building. The project was done without a single unit of lost production. The move was staged and seamless, and the whole project came in on time and under budget.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering: University of Toronto 1980, P.Eng.
SKILLS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Systems Hydraulics, Toronto, Ontario
GE Six Sigma Brown Belt, Arnprior, On
CNC training, Eskilstuna, Sweden
GE Management Course in Applied Creative Thinking, West Virginia
Tube Reducer Tool design Course, GE Wilmington, North Carolina
Word, excel, power point
PLC programming, ladder logic
Member Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
A.D.D.S. (Adult Disabled Downhill Skiing); Specialize in sit-ski training for paraplegics and quadriplegics. In charge of the maintenance, repair, and upgrading of all adaptive ski equipment.