Engineer Manufacturing
Resume:
Markus P. Gohring
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
*************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE: Vice President / Director / Senior Program Manager / Project Manager
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
18 years, Industrial Manufacturing Engineer (assembly plants)
18 years, Senior Project / Program Manager (manufacturing)
PASSPORT: United States Citizen (03/11; Expires: 03/21)
WORK PREF.: Hampton Roads, VA; Willing to travel: Willing to relocate.
EXPERIENCE PORTFOLIO:
04/17 – Present, CEO / Founder
Atlantic Bay LLC, Virginia Beach, VA
Salary: $650-$1,050 daily (hourly consultant); Average hours weekly: 50.
Supervisor: Self; Phone: 757-***-****
Permission to Contact Supervisor: Yes
Security Clearance level (if any) during tenure: NA
Oct. 2017 to Aug. 2018: SMP Automotive Cottendale, Alabama– Tier 1 supplier to Mercedes Benz Tuscaloosa. Program management for AMG exterior commodities Front and Rear Bumper, Rocker panel and Wheel house covers. Daily communication and reporting to the costumer. Leading 2 project managers and 6 development engineers.
Sep. 2018 to Nov. 2018: HFI Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. Tier 2 interior seats and arm rests, sowing and laminating. Factory process flow optimization, project management for new product lines and layout concept for future factory move.
06/15 – 04/17, Project Manager / Industrial Manufacturing Engineer
Stihl Inc., Virginia Beach, VA
Salary: $92,000 annually; Average hours weekly: 40
Supervisor: Whitney Pendelton; Phone: 800-***-****
Permission to Contact Supervisor: No
Security Clearance level (if any) during tenure:
Responsible for engineering, incorporating, and implementing new products (and/or product lines) into machinery and tool layouts for line assembly valued at >$5M / construction budget of ~$3M
Responsible for planning, testing, quality assuring, for assembly line layout within a manufacturing plant of ~3,500 square feet, ensuring tightest specifications, and optimum (including worker safety) use of space using quality management methods, including: Sorting, Simplifying, Sweeping, Standardizing, and Self-Discipline (5S), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), and conducting Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) processes
Research, analyze, and identify assembly ‘line balance’ for multiple station and worker task station to achieve a highest efficiency and productivity, including material flow to quality assure materials on the line have no cross-tasking and minimum operator disturbance in completing tasking at each station; implemented automated packaging machinery with a ROI of 25% and use of collaborative robots with a ROI of 50%
Identified cost reductions via Conditional Pre-payment Rate (CRP), resulting in project savings of >$500K by researching and implementing an idea software package, implement automation, saving man-hours and a return on investment (ROI) of ~20%
Trained five learners (manufacturing operators and technicians) per class, for a total of about three classes over 1 year (15 total)
07/13 – 05/15, Program Director / Industrial Manufacturing Engineer
The Productivity Team (TPT), Lake Orion, MI
Salary: $125,000 annually; Average hours weekly: 50
Supervisor: Bill Currence; Phone: 419-***-****
Permission to Contact Supervisor: Yes
Security Clearance level (if any) during tenure: None
Managed process optimization program for plant layout design on the Ford Transit Closure Line, including the cycle time optimization (09/14 – 05/15; United Auto Workers (UAW) Ford Assembly Plant, Kansas City, MO)
Initialized program for process optimization, documentation control, and quality walls for plant layout design (07/14 – 09/14, as Program Director / Industrial Manufacturing Engineer, for client Varroc Lighting, Pune, India)
Managed plant consolidation program, including plant layout and design, warehouse layout, and determination of inventory losses (03/14 – 06/14, as Program Director / Industrial Manufacturing Engineer, for client Cooper Standard, Goldsboro, NC)
Managed plant layout design and process optimization, as Senior Consultant Industrial Manufacturing Engineer, for client Cooper Standard, Rockford, TN
Managed project for design of mold tooling and process for plant layout design projects (07/13 – 11/13, as Supplier Development Senior Consultant Industrial Manufacturing Engineer, for TRW in Koblenz Germany)
02/11 – 06/13, CEO / Founder / Industrial Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer
Gohring Consulting, Munich, Germany
Salary: $650-$1,050 daily (hourly consultant); Average hours weekly: 55
Supervisor: Self; Phone: 757-***-****
Permission to Contact Supervisor: Yes
Security Clearance level (if any) during tenure: NA
Managed / supported five project engineers responsible for ‘catching-up’ for a behind schedule project, an automotive dashboard, which required coordination, cooperation, and communication with client executives for creation of task force documents (progress, components); create / share task force documents with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM); developed progress milestones for presentation in ‘war-room’ within gate reviews for a $4.5M project; researched, analyzed, and contacted vendors for requests for bids (RFB) on gauge changes, including functionality; performed logistics for ordering, shipping, scheduled deliveries (Just In Time), and progress (01/12 – 06/13, as Project Manager / Industrial Manufacturing Engineer, for client Faurecia Innenraum System GmbH Scheuerfeld, Germany)
Researched / analyzed production plant and cost structure for increase in profitability project and potential optimization (VW Passat interior trim assembly line) via redesign of the plant layout / design, to optimize production and reduce manufacturing time and man-hours, resulting in the reduction of fixed production costs by 30% and variable costs by 12%, saving ~$500K annually, reduced warehouse inventory via Just in Time (JIT) delivery of raw materials, also reducing one of two necessary warehouses (10/11 – 12/11, as Project Manager / Industrial Manufacturing Engineer, for client Key Plastics LTD, Emden, Germany)
08/07 – 06/09, Sales and Business Development Engineer
AKE Knebel GmbH & Company, Ballingen, Germany
Salary: $70,000 annually; Average hours weekly: 40
Supervisor: Alexander Knebel; Phone: 49 7433 2610
Permission to Contact Supervisor: No
Security Clearance level (if any) during tenure: NA
Business development and contract procurement in Scandinavia and Great Britain, performing technical research, analysis, identification, and development of specific, cost-efficient saw blades for the customer’s manufacturing and product line, as well as cross-sell other products from manufacturer’s product catalog, obtaining sales of ~$500K
Trained learners on sharpening of wood working tools at circa three learners per class, for two classes annually for ~15 total
11/99 – 08/07, Project Manager / Plant Manager
The Productivity Team (TPT), Lake Orion, MI
Salary: $80,000 annually; Average hours weekly: 70
Supervisor: Varied; Phone: Varied
Permission to Contact Supervisor: No
Security Clearance level (if any) during tenure: NA
Responsible for six client projects for building sawmill plants throughout Europe, primarily in Czechoslovakia and Germany, for plant layout design projects with plant and contract values of up to $100M each (completed, up-and-running), including the following plants:
oBinder Holz Deutschland GmbH, Kösching DE, Einsteinstraße 9 -85092
oMayr-Melnhof Holz s.r.o. Paskov 73943 Staríc 544, Czech Republic CZ
oHolzwerke Wimmer s.r.o. Ždirec (now Stora Enso timber) Nádražní 66, 58263 Ždírec nad Doubravou CZ
oHeggenstaller GmbH, Unterbernbach DE, (Pfeifer Holz GmbH Mühlenstraße) 7 D-86556
oUnterbernbach DE
oRettenmeier GmbH Hirschberg DE Ullersreuth 61 D-07927 Hirschberg
Managed / supervised staff of >80 employees, including construction and production managers, supervisors, and construction laborers
Conceptualized sawmills, researched and analyzed product output and assembly lines, identified appropriate equipment, purchase, and installation inside the sawmill plant physical space, and optimized equipment to most productive and practical layouts
FORMAL EDUCATION:
1997, Master of Engineering, Industrial Engineer, WAWK University, Hildesheim, Holzminden Gottingen; Courses: Engineering, Physics, Statistics (Calculations), Civil Engineering
CAREER TRAINING / CERTIFICATIONS:
05/09 – 11/09, Solution Consultant SAP NetWeaver 2004s, Business Intelligence WBS, Munich, Germany
02/04 – 04/09, REFA, Industrial Engineer, Munich, Germany
HARDWARE / SOFTWARE / TECHNICAL / COMPUTER:
AutoCAD
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
Microsoft: Project
SAP
TurboCad
PATENTS / LANGUAGES:
English (proficient)
German (native language)
REFERENCES:
Reference: Al Mumby
Company: Johnson Controls
Job Title: VP & GM, Global Interiors Operations
Phone: 734-***-****
Email: *******@*******.***
Type of reference: Professional
Reference: Douglas Swick Email: ******.*****@***-**********.***
Company: SMP Automotive Type of reference: Professional
Job Title: Executive Vice President of the Americans BU
Phone: +1-734-***-****
Reference: Jens Schott Email: ******@***.**
Company: SMP Automotive GmbH Type of reference: Professional
Job Title: Global Director Program Management
Phone: +49-761-***-*****
Reference: Martin Henne Email: *****.******@****.**
Company: IBMH Type of reference: Personal
Job Title: President
Phone: +49-176-********
KEY & TRANSFERABLE SKILL WORDS: 5S, Analysis / analyze, assembly plants / assembly station, Auto / automotive, Automated / automation, budget, Calculations, components, Conditional Pre-payment Rate, consolidation, construction, Consultant / consulting, contract, cost / costs / cost-efficient, cross-tasking, dashboard, design / development, Director, Engineer / engineering, Equipment, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Ford Automotive, functionality, gauge, implement, industry, installation, inventory, layout, Lean Six Sigma, Line assembly, logistics, machinery, Management / Manager, Manufacturer / manufacturing, Manufacturing work station, Mechanical Engineer, milestones, mold, optimization, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), planning, plant layout, procurement, product / production, Productivity / Profitability, Program, Program Manager, Project, Project Manager, Quality Assurance (QA), redesign, reduction, Request for Bid (RFB), research, Return on Investment (ROI), safety, sawmill, Solution, Sorting, space, specifications, Standardizing, supervised, Team, technicians, testing, tooling, Trained, Transit, vendors, war-room, warehouse
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