Engineering Technician

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Jose Luis Duran

+1-602-***-**** **.*********@*****.***

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Fremont, CA 94538

Objectives

To obtain a position where I can utilize my extensive leadership qualities, communication values and strength of motivation to its full capacity while obtaining and furthering the innovative advancement of the company.

Education

Electronics and Communications Engineering Bachelor August 2006 – June 2012

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México

Experience

Seats Engineering Technician August 2017 – Current employment

Tesla Inc

Launching the production line for Model 3. Developing and improving the PLC logic (Studio 5000) and robot programs (Fanuc material handlers, Remote Laser Welding and bolt runners). Improving machines cycle time, updating and creating spare part list and Preventive Maintenance for new equipment. Work with Engineers and Production team to meet quality and the numbers required in our products and new projects. Contacting suppliers to check parts prices and machine improvements. Changing DSC zones and creating new ones, modifying material handling functions (payloads, collision guard, collision skip, updating safety I/O’s, disassembling and assembling robots, etc).

BIW Equipment Maintenance Technician January 2016 – August 2017

Tesla Motors

Launching a production line for Model X hand to hand with suppliers (Comau and Hokuto). Keep the equipment running, analyze breakdowns and give a summary to my supervisor to avoid them. Train my peers in the different machines in the area, robots and processes. Preventive maintenance implementation, improvement ideas troubleshoot production line with PLC Allen Bradley 5000 and Fanuc robots (Spot welding, Material handlers, Torque, VRSI vision, Hexagon and INOS). Work with Engineers and Production team to meet quality and the numbers required in our products and new projects. Contacting suppliers to check parts prices and machine improvements.

Maintenance Supervisor April 2015 – December 2016

Gestamp Solar Steel

Lead a group of 3 technicians and 1 engineer. Develop the weekly preventive and corrective maintenance. Schedule and approve every weekend maintenance overtime. Review and discuss every week with Operations team about every department KPI s (in this case maintenance MTBF and MTTR). Analyze what spare parts needed to have in stock order at the warehouse. Implement and analyze improvements projects for the production line and equipment. Manage the department budget and see for cost reduction projects. Troubleshoot and perform changes in Fanuc MIG welding robots.

Maintenance Supervisor September 2012 – March 2015

Lear Corporation

Lead a group of 7 technicians and 1 team lead in a production plant for the front and rear frames seats (Fusion and Lincoln). In charge of planning every week Preventive Maintenance and create the work orders for new equipment. Track maintenance KPI s and review them with operations team monthly. Equipment down time review with the technician and leader group. I was also responsible to adjust the welding parameters the welds wouldn’t meet the quality requirements or when there wasn’t meeting the quality requirements. Modify and improve the tooling machine, with the implementation of better materials per the process (ampco, nylamid, different kind of steels and lubricants). Troubleshooting and supporting the production line with RSLogix 500 and 5000, adding changes to the PLC logic and HMI’s (Panel View) and Motoman MIG welding

and Spot welding robots as well. Rear seats were with GMAW and Spot welding processes and the front seats were with Nd:YAG Laser (IPG 6KW). Spare part quotes, deal with suppliers and the implementation of better maintenance techniques.

Intern September 2011 – March 2012

Schneider Electric

I did an internship in an apartment called TSM (Technology Standardization Management). I

was the one who had to deal with a service called Part Change Report, which consist to check all the changes that the Schneider Electric database electronic components could had suffered (Motorola, Texas Instruments, NXP Semiconductors, Fairchild Electronics, etc.) and to seek for any component change (wire bond, electric specification testing, package, thermal, mechanical ratings, etc.). Once that I have all the components changes, I had to elaborate a file with all the data base components changes and send it to all Schneider Electric design engineers around the world.

Intern March 2011 – July 2011

NXP Semiconductors Germany by Phillips

I was member of a department called “RF Design and Service”, for a period of five months. The company line of business is automotive. I accomplished at NXP the following projects:

Design and layout of a customer demonstration PCB for NXP’s RF Transceiver IC’s

Embedded software adaptation of the customer demonstrator PCB

Design of 3 different amplifiers for a 125 KHz PKE (Passive Keyless Entry)

Administrative & Technical Competences

I can management and lead personnel. I m able to teach and train personnel. I can handle stressful situations. I m self-learning person. I really love challenges, because I consider that it s one of the ways that you can learn and growth as a professional and as human being.

GMAW knowledge (Gas Metal Arc

Welding)

GTAW knowledge (Gas Tungsten

Arc Welding)

SMAW knowledge (Shielded Metal

Arc Welding)

Spot Welding (WTC)

Robot programming (Yaskawa

Motoman DX100 and Fanuc RiB)

PLC programming and troubleshooting (PLC Allen Bradley, RSLogix 500 & Studio

5000)

HMI Programming (Allen Bradley)

Miller Auto Axcess 300 DI

Blue print diagram reading

Butt welding

Projection Welding

Remote Laser Welding (IPG

Nd:YAG 6 KW)

Roll forming

AWS D1.1 Code

Microsoft Office

Leading2Lean PM Sotfware

SAP

Lean Manufacturing

5 S

5 Why s

Maintenance KPI s

8D s

TPM (Total Productive

Maintenance)

Languages

2 • Spanish – Mother tongue

• English – Advanced

• German – B2/C1

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