Engineer Quality

STANLEY C. SLATES

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Boyne City, Michigan 49712 E-mail: *******@*******.***

CAREER SUMMARY

Results oriented, Engineering Professional with a solid background in

Supplier Quality and Development, Manufacturing, Gauges, Auditing for the

Automotive, Aerospace, Diesel injectors, and Defense department.

Demonstrated ability to lower supplier rejections, deliver quality

products, and multi-task in a fast paced manufacturing environment.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

. Finding, Selecting, and Developing Suppliers and Supply Chains.

. Manufacturing Processes such as investment castings, springs, stators,

fasteners, stampings, fine blanking.

. Interpretation and application of ANSI, MIL, and DIN Standards, as

well as customer requirements.

. Lead Auditor to the ISO 9000 quality system with experience in leading

audits worldwide.

. Interpretation and application of DFAR's.

. Inspection plans and procedures.

. Process improvement through root cause analysis and lean manufacturing

techniques.

. Quality tools: Control Plans, FMEA's Capability Studies (SPC), Source

Inspection, Supplier Ratings, PPAP's, First Article Packages.

. Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, Access, Oracle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL Boyne City, MI 2004 - 2009

A leading manufacture of Precision Aerospace Products for Commercial

Aerospace and Defense Programs.

Supplier Quality Engineer

Ensured customer satisfaction by providing products that met or exceeded

the expectations. Prepared, reviewed, maintained, and controlled First

Article Packages. Worked with Purchasing and Suppliers in reduction of

lead times, Kan ban's, meeting On Time To Request, and resolving

customers concerns with quality, delivery, and costs. Utilized continuous

improvement plans with suppliers to improve their manufacturing

processes.

. Managed project team in developing a new supplier. As a team we took a

investment casting process from 10% delivery to 85% delivery.

Utilization of Capability studies to drive Engineering changes,

tooling improvements, fixture requirements, and new tooling resulting

in customer satisfaction and less rework.

. Led presentation of procurement activities, and supplier quality

activities to Boeing with zero findings.

. Directed project with purchasing in reduction of connector caps saving

$1,000/yr.

. Guided project with purchasing moving bobbins to new supplier in

savings of $42,000/yr.

. Sponsored supplier two supplier Kaizen events, working with the

production teams to have suppliers better understand how their product

is used, what improvements could be made and what other opportunities

were available for them to produce for us. Resulting in improved

quality and lower lead times.

. Implemented First Article requirements per AS9002 to all suppliers

increasing customer retention.

. Reduced PPM ( Parts per Million ) from 6500 to 1400 for all suppliers,

while the increase of purchasing inventory went from Five million

dollars to over Twelve Million dollars / yr.

ROBERT BOSCH / DIESEL TECHNOLOGY, Kentwood, MI 1995 - 2004

Global supplier of diesel fuel injector systems for large over the road

trucks, locomotive, mining, ships.

Supplier Development Engineer

Directly responsible for 50 million dollars in purchased goods for raw

materials, proto-type, and production components for quality, delivery,

and cost from a world wide supply base.

Technical advisor to the product engineering and purchasing teams

advising them of suppliers capabilities. Managed four supplier

development engineers and five receiving inspection auditors. New

product development, advanced quality planning, FMEA's, control plans,

developed product and processes. Led supplier audits to ISO/QS standards

worldwide. Conducted capability studies, gage R&R's studies, product

audits. Managed supplier corrective action and supplier ratings. Worked

with suppliers to improve their manufacturing processes, and to develop

and train suppliers on PPAP packages.

. Worked with Supplier's engineering team using, flow chart, capability

studies, product audit, and accelerated failure testing for analysis

in finding and correcting spring end tip failures by 80%.

. Led project in moving Aluminum Screw Supplier resulting in lowering

PPM by 20%, lead time reduction of two weeks, and cost savings of

$65,000 / yr.

. Established SPC on compression springs resulting in improved

acceptance rate of 70% for first time build of components, reducing

labor cost by five minutes per assembly.

. Worked with Procurement in rationalization of fastener products

increasing delivery performance, quality, and driving down overall

fastener cost by 18%.

LOBDELL-EMERY MANUFACTURING CO., Alma, Michigan 1988-

1995

Tier One Manufacturer of Stampings & Weld Assemblies to GM & Ford

Corporate Quality Assurance Engineer

Assuring Corporate Quality goals in Five manufacturing plants, along

with maintaining

Customer Quality requirements being meet. Responsible to GM & Ford on

Control Plans,

FMEA's, Measurement Labs, and overall Quality. ( Q-1 & TFE )

Quality Engineer

Facilitated Fixture and gage layouts, gage R&R's, Buy off for gaging

fixtures, approval for

design changes to gaging, created and reviewed PPAP's to Ford & GM.

Supported

manufacturing in Inspection, procedures, corrective actions, and part

layout.

EDUCATION

A.S. Quality Assurance and Reliability, LCC, Lansing, MI 1989

Degree in Quality Control / Reliability

Member of American Society for Quality

ASQC Certified Quality Technician

SPECIAL TRAINING

Certified ANSI-RAB ISO /QS Lead Auditor Training, Green Belt / Honeywell,

Effective Negotiation Bay Group 1, FMEA and FMEA Moderator, Access Level 1,

APQP, Global 8-D Training, PPAP, ISO/TS 16949, QFD, Kepner Tregoe

Analytical Trouble Shooting Honeywell HOS, Oracle

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