Engineer Manager

James Lorenz

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Madison, Ohio **057

Phone 440-***-****

Objective An engineering position in your company that will allow me to contribute to the design and development of new and existing product.

Employment 9/2006 – 4/2012 Pentair Water Treatment Chardon, Ohio

Senior Product Engineer

• Designed and developed new water well tank air cell that will eliminate

$500k in warranty claims.

• Designed new style quick disconnect fitting to be used on a water tank,

patent pending for fitting.

1974 – 9/2006 Perfection Corporation Madison, Ohio

Product Development Engineer

• Implemented a Phase Gate design process that ensures that the projects would provide adequate return with acceptable risks. The program is organized into logical stages with a management review and decision at

each phase gate. This process allow new product to be developed faster

and reduce time to market.

• Lead the new product design group, which included two engineers, model shop and interns.

• Designed, developed and patented an all plastic large diameter valve for use in natural gas main lines. Product line gave the company presents in a new market generating $1.5 million in new sales.`

• Designed and patented a new line of plastic to metal transition fitting that added $2.4 million in new sales.

• Coordinate testing schedules with quality lab for validation and

qualification testing. Developed and administered budgets and capital expense requests for new product group.

• Proficient in SolidWorks, ProE and Microsoft Office.

Plant Manager

• Managed all operation processes and production work for Gas

Distribution plant.

• Responsible for ensuring that all production, shipping, cost, quality

and safety goals were met.

• Reviewed production schedules to determine work force requirements

and monitored production to ensure customer requirements were met.

• Established standards to measure production performance.

Facilities Manager

• Managed maintenance actives relating to company wide three plant operations. Directed ten man maintenance department.

Product Support Engineer

• Project leader for the design, development and release of new product

from initial concept through Manufacturing pilot run.

• Assist in the design and building of tooling required to implement new concepts.

• Coordinate testing schedules with quality lab for qualification testing.

Plant Tooling Engineer

• Designed a board range of tools, dies, jigs and fixtures for use in

production.

• Liaison between manufacturing and design engineering, particularly during product start up.

• Conferred with shop personnel to resolve design problems related to

material characteristic, dimensional tolerances and manufacturing

procedures.

Education Lakeland Community College Kirkland, Ohio

A.S. Science, Engineering

Hiram College Hiram, Ohio

B.A. Business Management

Patents and publications • Currently hold five U.S. patents

References Available on request

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