Engineer Manufacturing

Jack Grooms

**** *. ***** **. * Rockford, IL. * 815-***-**** * ********@***.***

Objective

To secure a challenging and rewarding career in manufacturing that

fosters continuous improvement in a team based environment which is

driven by a "Customer first" mission through quality, delivery and cost

with a focus on areas of Manufacturing Engineering, Process

Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, and Production Supervision.

Experience - Qualifications

Furst Professionals Division/Furst Staffing, Rockford, IL (8/08-3/09)

@GE Water and Processing Technologies, Rockford, IL

A leading global supplier of water treatment, waste treatment and

process systems solutions.

-Manufacturing Engineer (contract)

-Provide manufacturing engineering support during transition of

plant closure

-Developed manufacturing work instructions for assembly and

machining cells that encompassed CNC machining and final

assembly of flow valves in a detailed format including tools used, quality

checks, step by step photograph and text instructions

utilizing Microsoft Publisher

Danaher Motion (Danaher Corp.), Marengo, IL (25+ Years to 5/07)

A manufacturer of electro-mechanical actuators, ball screw systems

and linear shafting.

-Sr. Manufacturing Engineer - Ball Screw and Linear Shafting Product

Line (2006 - 2007)

-Responsible for machining, assembly and heat treat processes

from top/down.

-Provided CNC program edits (G/M code) for CNC milling and

turning centers.

-Led lean manufacturing improvement teams in set-up reduction

and one piece flow.

-Operations Manager - Ball Screw Product and Linear Shafting Product

Lines (1998 - 2006)

-Product line manager of team that included production

supervisor, production associates,

manufacturing engineering and production planner for machining

and assembly processes.

-Coordinated manufacturing activities based on Danaher Business

Plan.

-Responsible for controlling operation costs per the P&L

statement.

-Lean Manufacturing implementation including Value Stream

Mapping to determine priority of implementation.

Implementation led to set-up reductions up to 90%, process lead time

reduction from 3-5 days to 1 day and pre-tax profit

improvement from 3% to 18%.

-Hands on management, used experience as CNC programmer (G/M

Code) and tool designer for improvements.

-Manufacturing Engineer - Ball Screw Product Line (1988 - 2005)

-Capital equipment justification, processing, costing, supplier

capability, ISO, problem solve, root cause

identification, kaizen teams, training, CNC programming (G/M Code), work

instructions for machining and assembly processes.

-Implemented CNC machining of ball nuts which resulted in

quality improvement that reduced rejects 50%.

-Managed manufacturing projects from top/down.

-Tool Designer/Tool Maker

-Designed and constructed assembly and machining fixtures and

tools.

Jack Grooms

1803 N. Court St. * Rockford, IL. * 815-***-**** * ********@***.***

Skills/Knowledge

Lean Tools - Kaizens Other

-Value Stream Mapping (Identifying Potential Kaizens)

-Certified Supervisor (Dana Corp.)

-Kanban -Capability

Studies, Gage R&R, SPC

-Set-up Reduction -PFMEA

-Standard Work (Cell Concept, One Piece Flow)

-Root Cause

-Variation Reduction (Quality Improvement)

-Geometric Tolerancing

-5S (Organized Workplace) -Microsoft

Office

-Poka Yoke -AutoCad

-Visual Management -ISO

Education

-A.A.S. Industrial Engineering, Rock Valley College

-A.A.S. Machine Design, Rock Valley College

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