Engineer Project

Kurt F. Hemmert

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Hilliard, OH 43026

Mobile: 614-***-****

Phone: 614-***-****

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OBJECTIVE: Proven professional seeking an engineering position where I can apply my 10 years of experience in

mechanical design and manufacturing to contribute to my employer’s success.

EDUCATION: University of Dayton, Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE:

TIGERPOLY MFG., INC. Grove City, Ohio

January 2001 – October 2009

Manufacturing Engineer (Plastic Injection & Blow molding)

Managed and coordinated enterprise-wide new projects, including cross functional team planning and

management, and reporting overall project progress to upper management.

o Contributed to capital expenditure budgets for multi-million dollar projects as well as process

improvement activities.

Specified and ordered project specific secondary equipment and other tooling and managed vendor activities.

Provided business cases for expenditures and their implementation.

Maintained equipment build standards for purchased equipment.

Participated in internal product manufacturability design reviews.

Implemented Lean Manufacturing techniques to maximize efficiency for new and existing product lines.

o Identified and led a new line layout at no additional equipment cost with considerable savings.

o Generated concept to redistribute work assigned to associates and modifications to a production layout

saving $100,000 annually (increase of 20% parts/labor hour).

Performed process audits to evaluate mass production lines and was responsible for corrective action follow-

up.

Designed and maintained plant layout and production work cells using AutoCad.

Created and revised detailed drawings of custom tooling and/or fixtures using AutoCad.

Designed, built and implemented robotic arm end tooling to extract molded parts from injection molding

machines.

Participated in the creation and revision of Process Work Instructions and Quality Check Sheets.

February 1998 – December 2000 GREEN TOKAI CO., LTD. – Brookville, Ohio

Process Engineer (Plastic Extrusion)

Refined processes for scrap reduction, quality improvement, and production throughput.

Responsible for integration of extrusion machines with existing assembly lines.

Revised tooling for higher quality products.

Worked directly with customers to resolve quality issues.

Managed team of extrusion technicians.

Responsible for tooling maintenance and spare tooling for specific production lines.

Supported production members with new model project start up activities.

TRAINING AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Proficiency in AutoCad, with exposure to Solidworks

Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Project

Trained in Japan for an air cleaner assembly process.

Attended a seminar focused on extrusion process screw design.

Trained in Japan for a sunroof extrusion process.

Attended Machining and Fabricating of Plastics conference hosted by Society of Plastic Engineers.

Completed cooperative education with Clopay Building Products during undergraduate study.

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