Engineer Project Manager

JOEL MALIN

SUMMARY

Experienced Engineer with a wide scope of assignments and responsibilities able to quickly adapt to new

work environment and produce results.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Alliant Technical System, Plymouth, MN

Operations Engineer, Medium Caliber Ammunition July 2012 – Present

• Coordinate ammunition building and testing including first article and lot acceptance testing, held

build readiness reviews for production of fuzes, test rounds.

• Manage contract details associated with building ammunition including specifications, test plans,

drawings, boms, routings, engineering changes, oversee and tracked details as they progress.

• Applied mathematical modeling skills and problem solving abilities to improve success rates in

lot acceptance testing.

• Designed and coordinate the building of test fixtures.

Silver King, Plymouth, MN

Senior Design Engineer May 2008 –

March 2012

• Developed refrigeration and dispensing equipment for both domestic and international markets.

• Primary inventor for design patent US20120325859, Liquid Dispenser Pinch Valve.

• Created mathematical model that improved dispensing accuracy, used in multiple product lines.

• Managed UL/ETL 3rd party test lab, coordinated calibration and repair of test equipment, was

point contact in audits for safety, sanitation, energy compliance and test lab certifications.

• Conducted equipment performance testing and life cycle testing for refrigeration equipment.

• Programmed PLCs, familiar with PIC embedded controllers, Labview software and data logging

equipment, able to troubleshoot and fix electronic and mechanical systems.

• Interfaced with assembly personal to ensure assembly conformity on shop floor.

BOC Edwards, Chanhassen, MN

Customer Support / Design Engineer October 2006 –

May 2008

• Customer support and design engineer for liquid flow controller product line.

• Worked with customers and suppliers to create solutions for technical issues, providing training

for customers on new products.

• Designed products and produced engineering drawings using Solidworks.

• Evaluated components supplied by different suppliers using statistical methods.

• Designed test fixtures for testing liquid flow controllers.

• Created work instructions for test engineers and electrical assembly personnel.

• Experienced at troubleshooting electrical-mechanical components.

Bolt Industries, Shakopee, MN

Project Engineer January 2002 –

July 2006

• Project Manager for large projects involving weldments and sheet metal parts.

• Created manufacturing methods and BOM’s using Job Boss software.

• Worked with Pro-E and Solidworks solids and drawing, good with geometric toleranceing.

• Familiar with sheet metal forming tooling and bend allowances.

• Created paperwork for first article approval by customer.

• Liaison between shop floor and customer for questions on manufacturing details.

• Designed and supervised construction of assembly and welding fixtures.

• Provided process improvements for internal manufacturing processes.

• Programmed Laser flats for CNC laser cutting and punching.

Exlar Corporation, Chanhassen, MN

Manufacturing Engineer October 1998 -

October 2001

• Provided real-time engineering support for production personnel, process troubleshooting, tool

design, process improvement, quality control and process R&D.

• Developed semi-automated brushless stator manufacturing process, including winding, assembly,

testing, potting and soldering.

• Managed assembly development for servo motor assembly and repair operations, including

process improvement changes, purchasing of tools, making drawings for machined parts.

• Demonstrated the ability to find and remove the root cause of production problems.

• Improved production testing efficiency by designing servomotor test equipment, set up computers

on shop floor with wireless network for sharing test files with network, decreased set up time by

75%.

• Directed assembly of servomotor prototypes, designed prototype production tooling, researched

alternative assembly methods.

• Wrote assembly and testing work instructions for key processes, incorporating digital

photography to simplify instructions.

• Specified new equipment, including CNC equipment and software.

MVE Inc, New Prague, MN

Manufacturing Engineer January 1995 –

October 1998

• Supported shop floor in the area of Part Routing, Facility layout, Process improvement, Tool &

Fixture Design, CNC Programming, and Line Balancing.

• Coordinated facility move, designed layout for new building, specified utilities and supervised

moving and set-up of all inventory, stock racks, tools, and work areas.

• Conducted time studies using video to break down tasks into individual elements, used resulting

data for line balancing techniques.

• Analyzed Individual part routings and bill of material structure.

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota

B.S. Industrial Engineering, Minor: Mathematics, 1994

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