Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Vincent N. Arcuri

*** ***** ***** • Broadalbin, NY 12025 • 518-***-**** (H) • 518-***-**** (C)

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STRENGTHS • Outstanding leadership and motivational abilities

• Able to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

• Excellent organizational, problem solving, and negotiating skills

• Self-motivated and goal oriented team player

PROFESSIONAL General Electric Corporation, Schenectady, NY

EXPERIENCE

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer – Technical Program Manager 6/16-Present

• Develops and drives high level process improvement initiatives based on industry bench marking, researched best practices, and knowledge of lean manufacturing principles, with keen focus on schedule, cost, and safety.

• Manages and leads multiple, mixed teams of hourly and salary personnel to successfully complete large capital improvement installations and analysis of new process outputs.

• Responsible for development and presentation of multiyear plant and equipment capital improvement projects, budget requirements, and project implementation schedules to site manager and executive staff.

• Acts as a Sr. liaison for the GE AME Generator Group and (Western) European equipment manufacturers to plan and manage payment schedule milestones, equipment technical specifications, acceptance testing requirements, OCONUS shipment activity, physical installation of large equipment, and final operational testing.

• Successfully tracks and controls multiple budgets for capital equipment purchases and plant infrastructure upgrades totaling in excess of 11 Million dollars in fiscal year 2017.

Lockheed Martin Corporation (MFC CLSS SOFSA), Lexington, KY

Production Engineering Manager (Rotary Wing, Fixed Wing, & Ground Mobility) 12/13-6/16

• Provided leadership and guidance to a team of more than 35 multidiscipline manufacturing

engineers supporting a highly diverse range of multiple Special Operations Forces programs.

• Developed, championed, and implemented new process strategies, platform based quality

improvement plans, and machine requisition proposals based on industry bench marking.

• Tracked and managed department associated program budgets to adequately support staffing

levels for successful program support and task order fulfillment.

• Regularly developed and reviewed executive level, full spectrum Production Engineering estimates

in support of customer RFQ’s which encompassed required engineering staffing, special tooling,

specific task breakdowns, required technical design data, “non-recurring” engineering tasks, and

population of assumption and risk reports.

• Regularly communicated and actively engaged with other functional department (Quality, Design,

Program Management, Configuration Management, etc.) leaders to ensure a cohesive operations

team strategy and uniform approach to business unit goals and corporate objectives.

• Engaged in customer meetings to define master schedule milestones, discuss estimate pricing, cost

drivers, general technical data needs, define subcontract requirements, and clarify SOW/SOO’s.

• Supported department tasks associated with new hire resume review, implementing employee job

requisitions, hire/termination conversations, temp employee review, and overtime approval.

Lockheed Martin Corporation (MST), Syracuse, NY

Manufacturing Engineer Sr. (Sub-Assembly & Special Programs) 10/10-12/13

• Responsible for creating Sub-Assembly and Final Assembly build plans to support the manufacture

of Ground Based and Airborne radar systems by assembly personnel, test technicians, and

integration specialists as well as value add suppliers.

• Provided multi program support acting as technical liaison between Design Engineering,

Manufacturing Program Managers, Production Control Personnel, and Quality Engineers to ensure

team understanding of manufacturing plan and its path to meeting customer requirements.

• Acted as one of the four on site Administrators for the LYNX Chemical Management System with

full review/approval rights for the Syracuse, Niagara, and Owego plants.

• Provided work area specific ROM estimates inclusive of tooling cost, head count,

process flow, floor space, equipment, and production time (value add / non value add) in support of

upper level management contract negotiations and work agreements.

• Designated as a review authority for Ground Based Radar technical documentation pertaining to

engineering data such as job specific manufacturing instructions, mechanical refurbishment plans,

and CR creation/implementation.

• Initiated effective communication between design engineering and manufacturing to continuously

Implement new technology, design, and production methods to facilitate increased quality,

productivity, and safety using lean six sigma methodology.

• Typical project responsibilities included defining process capability, manufacturing process

development, tool design, planning for integrated schedules, sourcing technical support,

quality qualifications, planning of test support, P&E, and PL review.

• Supports research and procurement of all required manufacturing tooling and equipment used by

the Syracuse Sub-Assembly Shop, Paint Shop, and many Final Assembly programs.

General Electric Corporation, Schenectady, NY

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer 8/08-10/10

• Responsible for cradle to grave project planning and management of large scale, capital investment projects with keen focus on increasing productivity by implementing new methods & materials and improving existing processes.

• Acted as technical manufacturing floor liaison between GE Generator Services Group, sourcing, and supporting production cells for quick turn stator bar rebuilds and for emergency forced outage orders.

• Often supported in-house GE Generator Services team as Technical Expert in field of stator bar manufacture, general GE generator insulation methods, generator slot preparation/core punchings, hi-potential bar testing, stator winding/wedging, and connection ring manufacture and winding.

• Designated as a reviewer with approve/disapprove authority for technical documentation pertaining to GE engineering data such as job specific manufacturing instructions, drawing revisions, and special test requests for generator rewinds, generator rebuilds, and unit up-rate requests.

• Typical project responsibilities included calculating process capability, manufacturing process development, tool design, integrated schedule review, design to cost, sourcing technical support, P&E, and BOM/supply chain review.

• Supported and researched manufacturing engineering projects which support the GE Services Group, and Manufacturing Cells requiring development of specifications, purchase, installation and qualification of manufacturing equipment such as mechanical wedge drivers, insulation repair/curing systems, stator bar insulation taping machines, autoclave control systems, and specialized electrical short tracing equipment.

• Basic shop knowledge of high pressure/low pressure turbine assembly.

• Regularly supported technical project proposals that include goal/objective summaries, test plans, line by line cost estimates, cost/benefit studies, tooling designs, required assumptions, and vender pricing from internal and external sources.

Methods Engineer 8/06–8/08

• Responsible for ensuring capability, programming, and maintenance of all robotic and manual stator bar insulating equipment supporting the stator bar production cell (15 stations) was sufficient to meet manufacturing schedule demands.

• Technical expert in all aspects of GE stator bar and connection ring manufacture and shop test procedures.

• Expert in the programming of 8 axis FANUC robotic tape machines.

• Supported all shop robotics training and qualifications for new operators.

• Regularly worked with maintenance teams to trouble shoot and repair faulting work stations.

• Retrofitted robotic controls with a new insulation heating system and associated software changes. System successfully reduced rework by 15%.

• Responsible for managing the Bar Shop tooling budget.

• Comfortable working with all levels of the organization. Respected by hourly work force for strong communication and team building skills.

• Co-designed a new heating control module allowing for greater flexibility in application of different insulation systems.

• Subject matter expertise used in developing the specification for the next generation of stator bar forming and insulating machines.

• Improved manufacturing methods and inspection procedures resulting in a seven percent decrease in defects over eighteen months.

• Implemented a new robot program backup system.

• Designed and purchased custom tooling, gages, and fixtures for various shop applications.

• Responsible for the calibration and maintenance of more than 300 precision gages.

New Hartford Sheet Metal, Utica, NY

Sr. Estimator/Purchasing Agent, Full-Time 9/03–8/06

• Planned and regularly reviewed long and short-term goals and objectives for business growth with company CEO and VP.

• Assigned weekly tasks and requirements to two salaried Jr. Cost Estimators and two sourcing personnel.

• Estimated part and job pricing for extensive and highly varied array of customers in industries such as commercial transportation, rail, and aviation.

• Quoted and aggressively negotiated prices with customers and venders.

• Routed jobs and provided overall supervision of job flow through shop requiring excellent communication with shop operations leader.

• Designed part flow process in an extensive shop computer network.

Cell Leader - CNC Punch & Press Break Area, Full-Time 9/00–9/03

• Directly responsible for managing all aspects of a 15 machine, CNC manufacturing cell to meet weekly and quarterly production demands.

• Managed approximately 30 hourly reports

• Lead weekly cell leader meetings to discuss and plan strategies for meeting forecasted production demands and simplify processes.

• Scheduled machine maintenance duties with outside venders.

• Worked with finance and top management to plan and implement capital improvement projects.

CNC Programmer, Full-Time, 11/99–9/00

• Programmed Trumpf CNC press brakes, punches, panel machines, folders and lasers.

• Worked with detailed blue prints and layout drawings to program for best results.

Turret Punch & Press Break Operator, Part-Time, 11/98–11/99

•Operated 130 Ton Trumpf hydraulic press breaks and 200 Series turret punches.

•Calculated and carried out regrind operations on worn punch tooling.

EDUCATION State University of New York Institute of Technology, Utica, NY

Bachelors in Applied Science in Industrial Engineering

• Graduated as valedictorian from the Industrial Engineering Dept. at SUNYIT

• Course load has included Quality Control, CAD, Quality Improvement, and Technical Writing

CERTIFICATIONS Six Sigma Green Belt - certified

Level II Lean Manufacturing - certified

United States Government Security Clearance (inactive)

Cost Account Manager - certified

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