Engineer Manufacturing

Kathi A. Piergies, PE

**** *** ****** **** . ****** Pike, Ohio 44124

216-***-**** abna0x@r.postjobfree.com

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

. Strong experience in project management

. Experienced in plant engineering and maintenance

. Versed in multi-year strategic planning for investment

. Strong experience in industrial construction

. Determined cost estimates for projects and plant-wide implementations

. Strong leadership and experience coordinating corporate and plant

personnel

. PE license and Six Sigma Black Belt certification training

. SAP and Microsoft Office

WORK HISTORY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Educational Sabbatical for MBA Global Management

2008- 2009

Focus on supply chain management, strategic planning for business growth

and cross-border business opportunities

Lamson & Sessions, Cleveland Ohio

500 million dollar manufacturing company - injection molding and plastics

extrusion

PVC and HDPE

Manager Manufacturing Corporate Engineering (Nine manufacturing locations)

2005 to 2008

. Supported manufacturing standardization for three business divisions

using SAP system

. Developed PVC material engineering programs and cost savings

opportunities with material substitutions

. Developed and implemented 12 million annual budget for major capital

improvements for nine manufacturing plants

. Consistently met 4% yearly reduction in production costs to compensate

for increase in labor costs and raw materials

. Required staff to develop and submit annual goals for personal

growth. Developed annual department goals supported by staff

commitments

. Responsible for delivering products to maintain on time fill rates as

defined by customer

. Developed manufacturing plans and production for new product

development

. Provided direction, supervision, communication, support and

evaluation to plant management

. Accomplished the development of a new product, first in industry for

corrugated products using the 100 day Rapid Development program

. Project leader responsible for developing comprehensive relocation

program for an 80,000 sq ft green field facility

. Conducted international outsourcing from China producing a 20%

reduction in annual tooling replacement costs

. Visited Shanghai China to evaluate vendors for equipment and for

producing finished product

. Summarized outsourcing activities in a comprehensive financial impact

analysis of outsourcing initiative authored by engineering department

. Established improvement projects with production metrics

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Senior Facilities Engineer

1997-2005

. Responsible for developing teams with plant personal to implement

manufacturing improvement projects

. Designed and built new manufacturing facility addition including

manufacturing processes in Nazareth, Pennsylvania resulting in $1.2

million annual savings

. Responsible for specifying and installing plant equipment and

utilities such as product packaging, injection presses, chillers, air

compressors, power distribution, air dryers, compressors and

industrial ventilation

. Designed and built bulk PVC powder compounding facility to store and

blend additives for manufacturing lines

. Evaluated natural gas generation installation for Sacramento facility

to establish independent power supply from California power market

. Designed and built new facility including all manufacturing processes

in Woodland, California resulted in $800,000 annual savings

. Upgraded cooling water and waste water facilities in Gainesville

Florida facility. Preventing an EPA action and improved line speed.

. Decommission 75,000 square feet facility in Pasadena, Texas moving

operations to other locations

. Negotiated with local electrical utilities addressing brownouts,

blackouts and demand shift.

. Implemented new maintenance software program MP2 for preventive

maintenance programs

. Responsible for care and maintenance of the electrical systems in nine

factories.

. Project leader on robot installation for picking and placing product

reducing workman comp claims from back injuries in two facilities

. Controlled projects funds and performs ROI follow-up reviews on major

capital intensive projects

. Maintained current knowledge of OSHA, EPA, building codes, and other

regulatory requirements

McLaren & Hart Environmental Consulting Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio

Supervising Engineer

1994 to 1997

. Designed and built air, water and remediation control systems for

major industries.

. Designed industrial ventilation systems and incinerator for fiberglass

manufacturer

. Designed and built water remediation with ground wells to collect

industrial fluids for Ford

Q-source Environmental Consulting Engineers, Dayton, Ohio

Director of Process Engineering

1988 to 1994

. Turn-keyed industrial manufacturing process support and control

systems with in-house forces

. Designed and built 50,000 square feet heat treating facility for tier

1 Honda supplier, gas carburizing and cyanide dip

. Designed and built 3000 gpm cooling system and wastewater treatment

system for aluminum die cast operation for UBS a tier 1 supplier to

General Motors

. Designed industrial ventilation for chrome dip tanks at General Motors

. Designed and built wastewater treatment for DuPont facility Kokomo

Indiana

LICENSES:

Professional Engineer in Ohio, Indiana and Florida

EDUCATION:

BS in Building Construction, Purdue University, Indiana

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Wright State University, Ohio

MBA Global Management, University of Phoenix

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