Eugene Bruesehoff

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Innovative and pragmatic Senior Manager with a successful record of streamlining operations and improving quality with positive impacts to bottom-line business results.

Operations Management: Experience in planning, implementing, and measuring results for manufacturing operations. Excellent skills in contingency planning, trouble shooting and responding to day-to-day operational issues.

Process Improvement: Keen observational skills and the ability to evaluate, identify root causes of problems, apply lean principles, and institute changes leading to significant business results.

Quality: Leverage tools such as SPC, DOE, Lean, Six Sigma and other methods to improve quality, customer satisfaction, and increase profitability.

Staff Leadership: Excellent skills in motivating, coaching, and training engineers and manufacturing staff to contribute to improvements and work as a cohesive team.

Technical and Business Knowledge: Successful application of formal and continuous learning in engineering and business to solve problems and achieve results.

Professional Experience

Key 3 Minneapolis Die Casting, Minneapolis, MN

VP of Quality and Continuous Improvement 2012 – August 2015

Reduced external PPM by over 80% for both die casting plants

Reduced internal PPM by over 42%

Improved customer corrective action cycle time by over 75%

Removed Key 3 from business hold status at a major customer

Reported to the President of Die Casting

Director of Operations 2010 – 2012

Improved labor efficiency by 15%

Installed metrics to assure efficiency tracking throughout the month

Reduced scrap by 10%

Worked with Six Sigma team to reduce water consumption by 66% and compressed air by 22%

Installed new die temperature control units that improved uptime and reduced leakage

Reported to the President of Die Casting

Kurt Manufacturing, Minneapolis, MN

Division Manager 2009 – 2010

Reported to the President and included full P&L responsibility, business planning, and supervision of management staff for a division of 73 people and 12 million in sales.

Created annual business plans integrating sales forecasts, profit estimates, including the underlying assumptions and metrics.

Based on sales forecast and input from die cast management staff created capital and maintenance plans for the die cast division.

Improved operating efficiency 16% within six months.

Twin City Die Castings, Minneapolis, MN 1992 – 2009

Plant Manager, 2006 – 2009

Reported to the Operations Vice President

Developed annual business plans, integrating sales forecasts, profit assessments, and defining underlying assumptions. Created metrics to evaluate results related to the plans.

Based on input from operations and sales staff, created capital plans for equipment maintenance and purchases.

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In a difficult economic climate, led the manufacturing plant through changes that reduced unit costs by 27%, improved operating efficiency by 43%, raised sales per employee by 34%, and improved on time delivery by 25%.

Initiated lean training for all manufacturing staff and began the process of implementing lean principles within the organization.

Technical Director, 2000 – 2006

Provided technical leadership for activities including: investigating and purchasing new vision, gauging and cast technology, transition planning and upgrades, purchasing, and installation of six axis robots and associated peripherals for five existing cast and trim cells.

Established planning parameters which minimized downtime, maximized space utilization, and coordinated installation.

Specified and managed the installation of two new Buhler fully automated cast/trim cells.

Managed, justified, and coordinated installation of a new reverbratory furnace that reduced dross loss 50% and decreased energy consumption 33%.

Quality Assurance Manager, 1994 – 2000

Led the quality function including staff management, customer relations, defining quality metrics, and specifying equipment.

Created and justified capital plans for major equipment purchases including CMM’s, spectrometers, and real time digital x-rays. Specified and evaluated equipment and selected vendor.

Through quality reviews and implementation of corrective actions, achieved 75% reduction in external rejects and 65% reduction in internal rejects. Reduced staff by 33%, consolidated roles, and improved efficiencies.

Collaborated with casting supervisors on process engineering. Increased productivity on selected jobs over 40% through a combination of cycle time and scrap reduction.

Quality Engineer, 1992 – 1994

Defined customer requirements and process parameters, determined measurement system design and purchasing.

Visited customer sites to troubleshoot defective product and determine appropriate corrective actions.

McMillan Electric, Woodville, WI 1991

Quality Assurance Manager

Kohler Company, Kohler, WI 1987 – 1990

Senior Quality Engineer

Inland Steel, East Chicago, IN 1980 – 1987

Production and Project Manager

Education and Training

Mini MBA Technical Seminar, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN, 2001

Operations Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1993

Taguuchi Design of Experiments, 1989

Design of Experiments, Lakeland College, Sponsored by Kohler, Company, 1989

SPC and Statistical Inference Instructor Training, Inland Steel, 1984

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1980

Honors and Affiliations

NADCA Member, 1992 – Present

Chairman Chapter 16 NADCA, 2011 - 2012

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