Nathan Lawrence Whaley

**** ******* ***** . **********, ** 37814

865-***-**** . abm1tt@r.postjobfree.com

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Professional Profile

Over 14 years of progressive experience in industrial engineering,

operations management and quality. More than seven years of total

management experience directing engineers, supervisors, hourly employees

and quality facilitators. Emphasis on strategic planning, production cost

control, production staffing, production scheduling, capacity analysis,

inventory control and quality assurance including PPAP, APQP and customer

support. Fully computer literate in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project,

SAP and Minitab.

Professional Experience

MAHLE, Inc. - Morristown, TN February 1997 -

October 2009

Automotive supply company with headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany

Quality Engineer / Warranty Engineer (May 2008 - October 2009)

Managed SPC department for 21 production lines. Served as warranty

engineer for North American operations of heavy duty diesel and automotive

industries. Provided all quality assurance activities for three heavy duty

diesel customers.

. Obtained certification as TS16949/ISO9001 internal auditor.

. Maintained gold certification for Caterpillar Supplier Quality Excellence

Program.

. Improved on time completion of Gauge R&R and capability studies to over

95%.

. Completed two new warranty contracts for Navistar and Caterpillar.

. Completed all PPAP submissions for machine line conversions to new

equipment.

Production Area Manager / Team Coordinator II (Promoted January 2006 - May

2008)

Production Area Manager / Team Coordinator I (Promoted January 2004 -

January 2006)

Managed all operations activities for three high volume production lines

with a total controllable expenses budget of $5.9 million. Managed five

direct salary employees and 47 indirect hourly employees. Established

productivity improvements, operating goals and planned, assigned, directed

and appraised employee work performance.

. Served as Six Sigma black belt project leader for two projects saving

$296,000 annually. First project reduced consumable tooling cost by

utilizing design of experiments to determine optimal tool change

frequencies. Second project reduced changeover time by 58%.

. Maintained on time customer delivery and operating costs within

department goals while converting production lines from manual to

automatic loading and unloading with robot installations.

. Improved scrap rate by 40% resulting in lowest scrap levels in department

history.

. Developed new scrap rate and tooling cost reports in SAP improving

reporting accuracy for Director.

Senior Industrial Engineer (Promoted January 2002 - January 2004)

Directed functions of the industrial engineering and prototype groups and

managed three direct engineering employees. Accountable for completing

quotations determining labor, tooling, fixturing and capital equipment

requirements. Reviewed and approved time studies and operating procedures.

Served as project manager for new program introductions and led cross-

functional teams while developing project schedules to ensure timelines

were being met for all phases of APQP process.

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. Scheduled and coordinated all prototype machining activities for over 130

prototype orders per year with annual sales over $300,000.

. Reviewed and approved over 20 PPAP submissions for next generation major

product design change.

Industrial Engineer (February 1997 - January 2002)

Developed material master data, bills of materials, work centers and labor

routings through the use of SAP software. Completed product cost

calculations for potential new business. Performed time studies and

analyzed work samples to develop standards for labor utilization. Liaison

engineer for tracking and communicating design changes to operations.

TechnoTrim, Inc. - Maysville, KY October 1995 -

February 1997

Industrial Engineer

Trained employees twice per month in Kaizen activities. Evaluated employee

performance in relationship to following standard work procedures.

Conducted weekly work audits on employees and made recommendations for

improvements.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

Tennessee Technological University, August 1995

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