Van Beck

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CAREER SUMMARY

Manufacturing/Production Leader with significant experience leading people and processes in a wide variety of settings.

Strong experience with metal and plastic products from both a tooling/manufacturing standpoint as well as assembly

operations. Excellent combination of skills managing production in high volume and fast pace environments, primarily in the

consumer goods and automotive industries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stanadyne Corporation Washington, North Carolina United States

Senior Manufacturing Engineer /Project Manager

(Manufacturer of Fuel pumps and Fuel filters) Apr 2013-Present

• Capital projects (including equipment, infrastructure, quality, logistics, and P&E)

• Change agent teaching the Lean culture to a facility who has had very brief exposure

• Leverage knowledge and extensive supplier relationships to bring projects in on time and under budget

• Review all team members projects, approve and supervise other Junior level ME’s and PM’s

James Hardie Building Products Pulaski, Virginia United States

Plant Manager / Plant Engineering Manager

(Manufacturer of concrete house siding) Oct 2012 – Apr. 2013

• Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing

requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.

• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.

• Hire, train, evaluate, or discharge staff or resolve personnel grievances.

• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure

finished products are of prescribed quality.

• Brought into company the culture of lean manufacturing and management

• Prepare and maintain production reports or personnel records.

• Institute employee suggestion or involvement programs.

• Develop budgets or approve expenditures for supplies, materials, or human resources, ensuring that materials, labor, or

equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.

GE Home and Business Solutions Louisville, Kentucky United States

Director of Operations / Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager

(Manufacturer of Household Appliances) Oct 2010 – Oct 2012

• Developed brownfield operations within multiple factories, starting with demolition of existing infrastructure, new

advanced equipment, assembly lines, infrastructure to startup

• Create Molding Center of Excellence, where the internal use of 75 mold presses to bring back $12.5 million dollars from

normally outsourced plastic injection molded parts( within a union environment)

• Managed multiple million dollars projects simultaneously, from new equipment, tooling, construction, and infrastructure

of brownfield facilities. Concentration of the continuous improvement all existing production cells, as well as the new

created.

• Developed new Injection mold builders to build 1000 injection molds for GE

• Extensive use of PLCs, Allen Bradley, Fanuc, etc. electronics used in the designing and building equipment

• Introduced vibration and ultrasonic plastic welding of parts downstream from injection molding presses. Also brought hot

stamping of plastics parts into GE.

• Oversee activities directly related to making products or providing services inside expected cost window, and deliver to

customers JIT.

• Used Solid works, ProE, to design Injection molds, stamping dies, manufacturing equipment. Including specifications to

the minute detail.

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• Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties. Brought in outside experts at processing injection

molds, material specialists, mold builders, setters, and mold makers, to train staff and hourly team members to insure our

program had the best knowledge base available.

• Worked along with Six Sigma black belts to implement Lean manufacturing at GE, while working toward my own Black

Belt

• Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, conferring with board members,

organization officials, and staff members as necessary.

• Introduced the use APQP, as a tool to track the progress of all extensive projects. Which allowed new project to eliminate

50% of project time

• Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes.

• Monitor businesses and agencies to ensure that they efficiently and effectively provide needed services while staying

within budgetary limits.

• Revitalized current CNC equipment and incorporated these machine tools back into the new factory production

environment.

• Manage the movement of goods into and out of production facilities.

• Recommend locations for new facilities or oversee the remodeling or renovating of current facilities.

• Plan store layouts or design displays.

• Implement or oversee environmental management or sustainability programs addressing issues such as recycling,

conservation, or waste management.

Electrolux Major Appliances Kinston, North Carolina United States

Manufacturing / Engineering

(Manufacturer household Appliances) Sep 2004 – Sep 2010

• Identify opportunities or implement changes to improve products or reduce costs using knowledge of fabrication

processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, or product design, materials

and parts.

• Determine root causes of failures using statistical methods and recommend changes in designs, tolerances, or processing

methods.

• Provide technical expertise or support related to manufacturing products safely, with first time quality, reducing

production costs, and insure on time delivery to customers. While always looking to continuously improve all production

cells.

• Extensive use of CATIA V5 to design tooling, fixtures, production, and manufacturing cells.

• Incorporate new methods and processes to improve existing operations PPAP, FMEA, and APQP. thru the use of the

before mentioned worked with other facilities to develop Electrolux’s version of TPS, by teaching all team members the

basics of these quality control systems, a culture of quality was established and driven by hourly team members

• Expanded the Lean manufacturing culture within the Electrolux group, where cost saving of multiple projects equal to 7.5

million USD.

• Observe machines on trial runs or conduct computer simulations to ensure that programs and machinery will function

properly and produce items that meet specifications. In injection molding plant with 60 injection molding presses

• Supervise technicians, technologists, analysts, administrative staff, or other engineers. Provided training to all team

members to help advance Injection molding plant

• Troubleshoot new or existing product problems involving designs, materials, or processes.

• Review product designs for manufacturability or completeness.

• Communicate manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, or other information to facilitate production processes.

• Apply continuous improvement methods such as lean manufacturing to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or

cost-effectiveness.

• Implemented structures PM regime on all equipment with fabrication group as well as entire plants maintenance

• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, participate in educational programs, attend meetings, attend workshops, or

participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in the manufacturing field.

• Prepare reports summarizing information or trends related to manufacturing performance.

• Develop sustainable manufacturing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, minimize raw material use, replace

toxic materials with non-toxic materials, replace non-renewable materials with renewable materials, or reduce waste.

• Brought in new CNC equipment to generate world class performance.

ASMO Toyota Greenville, North Carolina United States

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Tooling Manager / Manufacturing Engineer

(Manufacturer of Automotive components) Jun 2000 – Sep 2004

• Oversee activities directly related to making products or providing services. Involving extensive injection molding, metal

stamping, die casting, and CNC machining of all parts produced

• Primary responsibility was to work with production lines to improve safety of all operators, including all ergonomic

improvements that help improve employee’s moral and make their jobs less susceptible to over worked body structure.

• Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.

• Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes.

• Use Unigraphics for injection molds, aluminum die cast, progressive stamping dies, and equipment needed in the

production of many automotive parts and assemblies.

• Cost saving Kaizens saved company no less than 1.6 million USD

• Produced layouts of production cells, and built new production cells to maximize productivity and eliminate down time

• Implement or oversee environmental management or sustainability programs addressing issues such as recycling,

conservation, or waste management.

• Observe machines on trial runs or conduct computer simulations to ensure that programs and machinery will function

properly and produce items that meet specifications.

• Write programs in the language of a machine's controller using Espirit programming software and store programs, for 3

axis mills, lathes, wire EDMs, and EDM sinkers

• Cross trained all CNC operators based on type of equipment, set up procedures, editing programs, and quality control.

• Analyze job orders, drawings, blueprints, specifications, printed circuit board pattern films, and design data in order to

calculate dimensions, tool selection, machine speeds, and feed rates.

• Managed with TPS, APQP, FMEA, and Lean manufacturing tools

Kinston Neuse Corporation Kinston, North Carolina United States

Tool Maker / Fabricator/ CNC machinist

(Manufacturing of material handling Equipment) Dec 1993 – Jun 2000

• Determine the sequence of machine operations, and select the proper cutting tools needed to machine work pieces into the

desired shapes.

• Principal responsibility was design of CNC fixtures and jigs.

• Generated value stream maps of machining cells, presented proposed cellular layouts and received funds to purchase

equipment to build production cells throughout CNC production shop.

• Analyze job orders, drawings, blueprints, specifications, printed circuit board pattern films, and design data in order to

calculate dimensions, tool selection, machine speeds, and feed rates.

• Determine reference points, machine cutting paths, or hole locations, and compute angular and linear dimensions, radii,

and curvatures.

• Observe machines on trial runs or conduct computer simulations to ensure that programs and machinery will function

properly and produce items that meet specifications.

• Write programs in the language of a machine's controller using various MasterCAM software.

• Enter computer commands to store or retrieve parts patterns, graphic displays, or programs that transfer data to other

media.

• Prepare geometric layouts from graphic displays, using computer-assisted drafting software or drafting instruments and

graph paper. Multiple versions of AutoCAD

• Sort shop orders into groups to maximize materials utilization and minimize machine setup time.

EDUCATION

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UNC CHARLOTTE Charlotte, North Carolina United States

• Masters of Science in Engineering Management 2012

MERCER UNIVERSITY Macon, Georgia United States

• Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering 2007

PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE Winterville, North Carolina United States

• Associates of Science in Machining Technology 1997

• Associates of Science in Electronics Engineering 1997

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Toyota Production Systems training

• Lean Management Certification

• Lean Manufacturing Certification

• Zinger Miller Management certified

• Zinger Miller Frontline Leadership certified

• General Electric Production Systems certified

• Six Sigma Greenbelt thru Toyota

• Six Sigma Black belt thru GE

• Certified Project Manager

• Tool and Die journeyman Federal and state of North Carolina

• Certified welder using stick, MIG, and TIG

• United States Army Ranger

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