Richard Gaddis

**** ******* *** / ********, ******* 47374

765-***-**** Home / 765-***-**** Cell

Top-performing, highly-motivated professional with 50 some years experience with a strong track record

of demonstrable success with suppliers on meeting the quality level that is required. Self-starter with

experience managing, injection molding, castings, machining, stampings, inspection, and process control

as needed to meet QS and TS and ISO quality requirements. Offered help & suggestions to suppliers on

how to meet quality requirements, cut costs, and work out delivery problems. Reviewed all suppliers

rejected parts to decide if they were a supplier problem or ours.

- Professional Experience-

General Motors – Dmax Moraine, Ohio 9/1/13-3/15/14

Contact-Supplier Quality Engineer

Duties:

I was to clean up over 100 suppliers PRR,s and list their top 10 non-conformers. Ship samples of rejected

parts back to suppliers with information on what is wrong. Review sorting house and parts they rejected.

Designed and had built special hand tools to aid the assembly line. Other duties as they were short on

quality personal.

General Engine Products, Subsidiary of A.M.General, Franklin, Ohio 2000- 2012

Supplier Quality Engineer

Developed and maintain supplier-related procedures and requirements in compliance to QS 9000, TS, ISO

requirements including evaluations, audits and visit all operations to review process.

Directed and supported supplier-related inspections, control plans, corrective actions, run at rate (supplier

and /internal) non-conformances.

Manufacturing suppliers I worked with gray iron and aluminum sand casting, injected molded aluminum

and plastic, powered metal, stampings, machining of blocks, heads, pistons, rings, pumps, gaskets,

bearings, cranks.

Worked with suppliers on problems to determine the root cause and the preventative actions to reduce or

eliminate non-value waste to non- conformance .

Designed and had built special test gages and fixtures to check high level supplier parts.

Worked with suppliers on cost reduction and delivery, reviewed all new tooling request.

Traveled 75 % of the time in th U.S, Canada and Mexico.

General Motors, Moraine, Ohio 1997-2000

Manufacturing Engineer - contact

Worked in the crank, cam, blocks, departments with the operators, tool room and maintenance personal to

improve the quality output as well as safety. Instruct operators on how and when to change tools and the

proper way to check parts. Work with and direct the tool room personal on all repairs needed on tools and

fixtures in house. Direct outside tool house suppliers on repairs and approve their payment. Worked with

maintenance on needed repairs and improvements and all safety items. The scrap rate in the crank

department when started was 40% after one year it was cut to 2%.

Delphi Brake Plant – Dayton, 1995-1997

Manufacturing Engineer –contract

Worked with the operators to improve quality and reduce scrap, design new fixtures on which you could

produce more than one style of brake shoe on each machine. Explain to department supervisors their

weak areas and the reasons for their high scrap rate. Worked on improving the safety items that had been

removed by the operators and working with maintenance department on performing regular maintenance.

Delphi Interior- Vandalia, Ohio 1991-1995

Manufacturing Engineer- contract

Worked on the design and development molds and tooling needed for the production of I.Ps We worked

with the mold makers and tool makers and run the first parts off, after approval we shipped the equipment

to Mexico re-set up the equipment and trained the operators. Visited the assembly plants when they

complained about the quality and find root problem.

Cummins Engine -Atlas Crankshaft- Fostoria,Ohio 1988-1991

Manufacturing Engineer - contract

My job was to train operators on new rotary broaching machines used on large crank shifts and the

automatic inspection unit and how to use the information it was giving on each crank. As they had two

suppliers for crank forgings I had to work out the changes need in machine setting to get parts. We ended

with zero rejects after broaching and only 7% after finish grind.

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