Engineer Project

James Ludwig

Email: abpf6z@r.postjobfree.com

Address: ** **** ****

City: Fleetwood

State: PA

Zip: 19522

Country: USA

Phone: 484-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: 120

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Career Summary:

20 years experience providing consultation and solutions to the telecommunication, automotive, medical, service, engineering, construction, and aerospace industries. Served as a line manager, engineer, consultant, and operations manager and with responsibilities for up to 1800 people. Led organizations large and small, high-volume and job-shop, and represented and non-represented. Also have significant experience working both nationally and internationally. B.S., Industrial Engineering from top-five engineering program

Areas of Excellence:

* Continuous Improvement * Lean Six Sigma * Change Management

* Quality Control & Reliability * Project Management * Capacity Modeling

* Methods Engineering * Personnel Training * Layout Development

* Simulation Modeling of Systems * Production Engineering * Engineering Economy

* Plant Start-ups and Shutdowns * Capital Planning * Costing Methods

* Process Mapping * Computer Applications * Logistics & Supply Chain

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal JEL Solutions, LLC, Fleetwood, PA 2012

* Provides periodic Director of Continuous Improvement Services for smaller businesses; companies who are not in a position to have full-time services of this type.

* Coordinates and empowers the continuous improvement efforts of a client's employees by providing leadership, teaching, coaching, facilitating, and hands-on solutions to their challenges

Sr. Consultant Xstrata Copper, Santiago, Chile 2011

Xstrata Copper ($40+B (billion), 50,000+ employees), 4th largest producer of copper in the world

Responsible for developing work standards for Las Bambas Project (world`s largest copper concentrator)

* Largest project in South America, $4.2 B, over 10,000 employees at project`s height

* Providing Project Procedures to support all key work activities; built in conjunction with project Senior Staff, EPC contractor and other key vendors.

Director, US Lean Operations FLSmidth Inc., Bethlehem, PA 2008 - 2010

FLSmidth ($4B, 10,500 employees), a global supplier of cement and minerals equipment

Responsible for establishing Lean efforts for five US sites; ~1800 employees; $1 MM (million) budget.

* Developed vision and roadmap for Lean transformation in US

* Provided sites with coaching, training, personnel, and project support

* Trained over 500 executives, managers, engineers and office personnel in Lean

* Developed and implemented the FLS FastBreak (Kaizen) Program resulting in $10 MM savings

* Deployed the FLS TaskForce (Green Belt) Program which identified an additional $5 MM savings

Corporate Industrial Engineer Iron Mountain, Inc, Collegeville, PA 2007 - 2008

Iron Mountain ($3B, 20,000 employees), assists >140,000 clients in 39 countries to protect their information

Provided senior-level industrial engineering support to operations in North America )

* Introduced Lean concepts to Iron Mountain. Trained 450 managers and executives

* Developed and Implemented an operational reporting system for the 26 plants in North America which helped to increase output and balance work flow

* Used MOST to improved efficiency of 900+ storage centers from 53% to 95%; saved $16MM annually in labor costs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONT`D):

Industrial Engineer Agere Systems, Inc (Lucent), Allentown, PA 2000 - 2006

Agere ($6B, 17,500 employees) produced integrated circuits and Optoelectronics

Methods Specialist for Finance Organization

* Established systematic approach to Asset Disposal that increased Asset Sales by $50 MM

Industrial Engineer for Optoelectronics Laser & Detector Chip Manufacturing

* Provided project management to move chip fab twice; on-time, on-spec, and on-budget for both

* Increased manufacturing output by 2X in 6 months using Lean concepts

Sr. Methods Engineer Mack Truck, Allentown, PA 2000

Mack ($2B, 8,500 employees) manufacture service and long-haul trucks; Owned by Volvo

Member of the Corporate Manufacturing Engineering group

* Designed and constructed corporate Capital Expenditures Database

Process Engineer Garden State Tanning (GST), Fleetwood, PA 1998 - 2000

GST ($500 M, 3000 employees) automotive leather supplier to Toyota, Ford, Honda, Nissan

Full range of engineering discipline responsibilities

* Developed Master Plan for new Leather Finishing Facility in southern US using Lean

Mfg. Systems Engineer Diamonex, A Unit of Monsanto, Allentown, PA 1995 - 1998

Diamonex ($200 M, 250 employees) Class I medical devices; Deposition coating in class 100 cleanrooms

Lead member of Manufacturing and Automation Engineering

* Designed and implemented the manufacturing system for a medical device operation

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Previous positions include roles such as Production Coordinator (Wind-Lock Corporation); Construction Supervisor (The Weber Group); Industrial Engineer (Pratt & Whitney); Process Engineer (East Penn Mfg. Co.)

EDUCATION:

B.S. Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993

Master Certificate, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Villanova University

Change Management Certification, (ADKAR), Colorado State University

MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence Technique) Certification, Accenture

COMPUTER SKILLS:

* Super-user of MS Office Suite of tools and have used these tools to develop numerous sophisticated solutions to manufacturing and business issues in a variety of industries.

* CAD, SPC Software, Discrete Event Simulation, MRP, ERP, Website Design, SharePoint, Etc.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

* Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

* Assistant high school basketball coach

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