Engineer Manufacturing

BRIAN SNYDER

Home Phone 630-***-****

E-mail: ***********@***.***

SUMMARY

Accomplished Manufacturing Engineer with extensive experience in assembly,

process improvement, and design. Highly motivated team player with

exceptional communications skills tailored for all levels. Well respected

and consistently recognized for superior performance and exceptional work

ethic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ECOLAB - Elk Grove Village, IL October 2009 - Present

Manufacturing Engineer

. Oversee new product launches including contributing to new product

design, process improvements, work instructions, and new assembly

processes. Sign off approval of all Engineering Change Notices and all

new and revised ISO documents.

. Develops assembly parts and labor standards and is responsible for

product cost estimating, and the processing of engineering changes

. Responsible for all machinery and facility reliability and

maintenance including direct report of all maintenance employees.

Planning, scheduling, budgeting, and implementing reliability based

maintenance program.

. Responsible for managing all Capital Projects including

developing and maintaining the capital Budget.

. Key member of Safety, Green, and Continuous Improvement Teams.

. Key Team Member in resolving quality issues including 8D.

Coordinate Engineering activities between corporate engineering,

marketing, and manufacturing.

. Member of several LSS Teams and contributed to 5S and process

improvements.

. Responsible for maintaining UL and NSF dock reports and maintaining

certifications.

ALLEGHENY LUDLUM. Carol Stream, IL 2004 -2008

Manufacturing Engineer

. Responsible for all machinery and facility upgrades and design changes

including safety improvements. Provided technical and engineering

advice for facility performance improvement.

. Key member in leading the Lean-manufacturing efforts including visual

manufacturing, Kaizens, 5S, SMED, Value Stream mapping, daily

management boards, and visual manufacturing. Responsible for

implementing Daily management Boards at all production lines.

. Responsible for all Facility and Machinery Maintenance including

management of over 20 outside contractor organizations.

. Responsible for managing and maintaining maintenance budget for

180,000 square feet facilities.

. Implemented Total Reliability Centered Maintenance Program (RCM)

including Predictive, Preventative Maintenance, FMEA, and Root cause

analysis. Reduced maintenance cost and work orders by over 50 percent.

. Managed all capital and major maintenance projects from cradle to

grave including pre approval and appropriation stages. Implemented new

fully automated stretch wrap line reducing packaging labor cost by 60

percent.

. Implemented electronic tracking system used to monitor and record OEE

at all key production lines by utilizing PLC technology and new

operator interface stations. Allowed real time feedback of machine

speed and line uptime for tracking history and continuous improvement.

. Coordinate removal and reinstallation of machinery and production

lines from other corporate facilities. Evaluate existing machinery at

Allegheny Ludlum facilities providing recommendations to corporate

leadership for disposition.

. Troubleshoot Mechanical, Hydraulic, Pneumatic, and Electrical

machinery and processes. Investigated all maintenance and safety

requests before approval and assignment to individual work group.

. Responsible for all building permits, village fire safety requirements

including NFPA, and liaison to tenant management. Coordinate all

facility upgrades and repairs.

. Maintained scheduled, preventative, and predictive maintenance

tracking program.

. Key Member Safety Cross Functional Team. Presenter at Allegheny Ludlum

safety conference on examples and industry standards for machine

guarding.

. Attended NFPA 70E, Allegheny Ludlum Project Management, Reliability

Centered Maintenance (RCM), MAXIMO, Basic Oil Analysis, Safety

Training, and several Lean Manufacturing courses.

BORG WARNER AUTOMOTIVE, Bellwood, IL February 2004 to August 2004

Production Facilitator - Departmental Manager

Departmental Manager of thirty three (33) hourly and three (3) shift team

leaders for the production of steel blanking/metal stamping operations.

Responsible for production troubleshooting, scheduling, process monitoring

and improvements, safety, employee training, and staffing responsibilities.

. Trained and certified 90 percent of department employees.

. Supervised Lean-Manufacturing 5S, and provided daily updates of

departmental management boards. Daily reporting of departmental

productivity, status, and safety concerns at plant management

meetings.

. Conducted 8-D investigations and audits for safety improvements.

. Trained and used MAXIMO maintenance tracking software

DEPLOYED TO UNITED STATES NAVY - SEABEES (Construction Battalions) 2003

Utilitiesman (Seabee Combat warfare Specialist) - Member of Seabees Project

Management Team, operational responsibilities in planning, estimating,

manpower requirements, bid projects, Safety, Quality, and Schedule tracking

of two Major construction Projects. Update Construction Drawings - AutoCAD

and CBCM project management software.

. Project coordinator to base facilities engineering, construction

supervisors, and material suppliers. Direct supervision up to 15

personnel.

OMRON AUTOMOTIVE, St. Charles, Illinois 2002-2003

Production Engineer

Responsible for secondary assembly, manufacturing processes, and back end

automation.

. Designed Jigs and fixtures for secondary assembly on new and existing

products. AutoCAD

. Selected, implemented, and cost justified new capital equipment.

Coordinated and oversaw installation of new custom production

machinery and manufacturing processes.

. Participated in new product design reviews, PPAP, and several new

product launches.

. Designed and coordinated installation of new manufacturing cells and

production lines.

. Kaizen Team participant and lead

TELLABS, Bolingbrook, Illinois 2000-2001

Design for Manufacturability and Assembly Engineer (DFMA) - New Product

Introduction - Senior Member Technical Staff

Key member of New Product introduction (NPI) teams including mechanical,

electrical, quality, manufacturing, and deployment organizations.

. Led the Global Manufacturing effort to define and drive Design for

Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA), ensuring that the final product

was designed for efficient testing, installation, repair, with a

minimum number of parts and able to be assembled using a minimum

number of processes.

. Participated in mechanical concept generation and formal and informal

design reviews. Consult and advise during entire design process

including sheet metal and plastic enclosures, cable harnesses

assemblies including fiber optics, connectors, back planes, and all

mechanical components and assemblies.

. Reviewed all mechanical component and assembly drawings. Researched

part alternatives, advised on preferred components, evaluated new

components, and preferred assembly processes.

. Designed Universal Rack Dolly used in all Tellabs Illinois

manufacturing centers.

PCT AUTOMATION SYSTEMS, Addison, Illinois 1997-2000

Manufacturing Engineer / Mechanical and Electrical Design Engineer -

Capital Automation Machinery

Responsible for Mechanical, Electrical, and Pneumatic design improvements

on new and existing products. Correct engineering drawings utilizing

AutoCAD. Monitored Bill of Materials (BOM's) and tracking Engineering

Change Notices (ECN). Design of Custom and Semi-Custom Automation Machinery

. Quality Assurance Supervisor, Responsible for ensuring final product,

purchased parts, and all required quality procedures consistently met

engineering requirements and customer expectations.

. Communicated and resolved manufacturing and quality issues with

outside vendors including sheet metal fabricators and machine shops.

. Researched, specified and cost justified design implementation of

alternative parts resulting in an overall component cost savings of up

to 40 %. Implemented part and assembly communization initiative

reducing overall product cost.

. Wrote and implemented machinery quality final check off sheets and non-

conforming parts procedure.

. Implemented nameplate engraving process-reducing component cost by 80

%.

NETCOM, Northbrook, Illinois 1995- 1997

Manufacturing Engineer/ Electrical Engineer

Responsible for writing test and production procedures, maintaining route

sheets, and updating technical specifications.

Designed, fabricated, and maintained department test and manufacturing

fixtures. Specified new components test equipment, and implemented all

departmental process improvements. Troubleshooting and repair of

manufactured products.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering,

Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Associate of Applied Science Degree in Automated Manufacturing Systems

College Of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Advanced Hydraulics, Tech Mechanics, Machine Shop I, II, III,

Programmable Controllers I, II, NEC, Welding, SPC, AutoCAD, Solid

Works, Pro-E, CNC and NC programming, Technical Mechanics, Statistical

Process Control (SPC)

Continued Education in Industrial Technology

Wabaunsee Junior College

Basic HVAC, PLC, Metrology

MILITARY

1988 - Present

U.S. Navy - Navy Reserves, SEABEE/ UTILITIESMAN (Construction Battalion)

Work with plumbing, boilers, pumps, compressors, HVAC equipment,

residential electrical, water purification and sewage sanitation.

Direct supervision of nine department heads and up to 65 personnel.

Senior Utilitiesman, Battalion Operations Division - Planning and

Estimating, Manpower Requirements, Safety, Quality, Project Execution, and

Logistics for 600 member Battalion.

Graduate Seabee Project Execution and Seabee Project Planning Courses

SEABEE Combat Warfare Specialist (SCWS) -Qualified

Professional Affiliation

Member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

Working on SME Bronze Level Lean Manufacturing Certification.

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