Engineering Manufacturing
Resume:
RICHARD A. PETROSKY
Niles, Ohio 44446
ablf0o@r.postjobfree.com
CAREER SUMMARY
Engineering Manager with experience and expertise leading high performance
teams and managing processes with outstanding results. Global
responsibilities with a Fortune 500 automotive component supplier.
Effective in establishing and maintaining a positive and productive work
environment. Maintains high levels of honesty and integrity. Certified
Six Sigma Green Belt.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DELPHI ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE, Warren, OH, 1979 to 2008
Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor, Mold Design, 2001-2008
Designed plastic injection mold tooling. Maintained current designs.
. Led a cross-functional team in developing a mold design standards manual
allowing designs to be common globally. Highly specialized designs allow
manufacturing to meet 90% machine utilization metric.
. Developed a data management system to control over 3,000 mold designs,
ensuring toolmakers and designers world-wide have updated tool designs
available on demand.
. Incorporated Computer Aided Engineering into the normal mold design
process resulting in fewer mold development and manufacturing process
changes.
. Globalized mold engineering by setting up a common design and debug
procedure in each global region and transferring North American expertise
to all regions requiring it.
. Championed the effort to adopt simultaneous engineering, resulting in
fewer product development changes.
. Implemented Lean Manufacturing Principals into engineering operations to
eliminate waste.
Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor, Equipment & Processing, 2000-2001
Specified, delivered and certified molding equipment and production
processes to manufacturing.
. Purchased, installed and certified 120 Hydraulic molding machines.
Project yielded savings against a $15M installation budget.
. Specified and sourced 120 electric molding machines. Purchased machines
well under a $19M budget by using on-line bidding.
Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor, Mold Build, 1997-2000
Selected tool build suppliers. Delivered certified tools on time and to
the print.
. Delivered 150 tools per year operating under a capital budget of $14M.
. Authored engineering operating specifications leading to a divisional
certification to the automotive industries Quality Management
Specifications (QS 9000 and TS 16949).
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Product Engineering Supervisor, Component Design, 1985-1997
Designed and validated automotive components.
. Coordinated successful component model changes leading to flawless
launches at vehicle assembly plants.
. Implemented a component release system incorporating tool/part
relationships and component validation data eliminating the need to mail
paperwork to manufacturing.
. Conducted terminal interface studies driving the optimization of cable
gage size.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AT DELPHI
Application engineering contact for Chevrolet.
Ignition cable design and contact engineer for non GM customers.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
AWARDS
- Recipient, 2 US Patents
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