Engineer Manager
Resume:
Edwin A Blaszak
Portage, IN *****
Phone: 219-***-****
******@***.***
Objective
I am looking to contribute to an organization the respects its employees
and customers. I want to apply my skills and abilities to make my employer
profitable and enjoy doing it. I expect to spend at least ten years growing
with the company.
Ability Summary
I am a degreed Industrial Engineer with over 20 years' experience in
Manufacturing and Production management. I have developed a successful
Quality Management System as well as established Safety policies. I am
proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
Employment History
Technical Governance Manager
04/2006 - 01/2014 SGS Mineral Services, 16130 Van Drunen Road, South
LABORATORY QUALITY SERVICES Holland, IL
INTERNATIONAL (LQSi)
LQSi offers a wide range of proficiency testing, and performance improvement
services.
- Director of Proficiency Test Programs for over 400 clients in 80 different
countries.
- Managed staff to prepare samples and reports monthly for each of our clients.
- Provided technical assistance to all clients worldwide.
- Created and documented a Quality Management System that led to accreditation by
the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA)
- Produced a 20% profit for our department annually
- Oversee www.lqsi.com website.
- Participated in technical conferences with international recognized standards
organizations
Production Manager - Architectural Glass Division
08/2003 - 11/2005 SKYLINE DESIGN 1240 N. Homan Ave, Chicago, IL
Skyline's Architectural Glass Division creates signature glass to define, and
redefine architectural appearances.
- Direct supervision of 25 to 35 production and production support employees
including shipping and receiving.
- Schedule all production orders.
- Issue daily dispatch sheets.
- Locate and relieve production bottlenecks.
- Use production data to calculate monthly employee bonuses.
- Hire and fire employees.
- Reduce overtime by 15 percent.
- Maintain Skyline's on time delivery record of 98 percent.
- Review production jobs that did not meet profit goals.
- Conduct daily information meetings with key production employees.
Production Manager
10/1996 - 01/2003 MAGNEQUENCH, INC 405 Elm St, Valparaiso, IN
Manufacturer of magnets used in automotive, pump and other industries
- Supervise precision grinding, plating, and painting -- key work cells -- with up
to 50 union employees on three shifts; set daily, weekly, and monthly schedules,
resolve quality issues, write monthly review of key production measures, monitor
inventory, write preventive maintenance procedures and work instructions, create
shop floor work packets, design tooling, and review capacity planning.
- Led work cells to achieve premium pay and quality integration status within first
year of assigned duties.
- Reduced Coating labor 25% and all overtime 28% annually without affecting
throughput.
- Reduced Coating's throughput time by half, and raised the on time delivery to 70%
from 50%.
- Cut rotary grinder set up time by half, and trimmed Motors' scrap an additional
25%.
- Achieved uptime goal of 70% on ID slicing machines
- Increased profile grinding machine efficiency to 85% from 70% and rotary grinding
machine efficiency to 100% from 85%.
- Implemented cross training of employees.
- Assumed Master Scheduler duties in October 2002 to implement new manufacturing
software.
- Upgrade product quality sufficiently to eliminate final inspection in half the
work cells.
- Reduced expenses of manufacturing supplies 29%.
- Create company's first shop floor status reports for management and customers.
- Institute KPI measures on key pieces of equipment.
- Integrate all shop floor management functions into manufacturing.
10/1996 - 01/1999
Project Engineer
- Design work cell layout, coordinated building improvements, investigated and
implemented equipment improvements; managed projects, justified costs, worked with
outside contractors and suppliers to support plant modifications, and coordinated
relocation of equipment to Singapore.
- Develop and implement plan to transform traditional grinding shop into
product-driven work cells, and managed transition -- on time and under budget.
- Developed rough capacity estimates for slicing machines.
Manufacturing Engineering Manager
04/1989 - 10/1996 Fashion Bed Group (Leggett & 5950 W 51st St, Chicago, IL
Platt)
Largest supplier in North America of metal fashion beds, daybeds, futons, and bunk
beds.
- Supervise up to ten engineers, maintenance, and tool room personnel; laid out
plant, designed and built fixtures, determined methods, implemented process
improvements, product costing; instructed employees on team building and managed
maintenance for a 200,000 square foot facility under roof.
- Planned 1993 Plant Consolidation Project
- Collaborated on a "fish bone" cell that reduced lead time to two days from six
weeks.
- Standardized product costing, and reduced telephone related expenses 20%
04/1989 - 04/1993
Industrial Engineer
- Perform time studies, set labor standards, product costing, detailed new product
tooling, and assisted shop foremen and employees on day to day manufacturing
activities.
- Supervise outside contractors and maintenance employees on daily activities of the
1991 new plant relocation and start up.
- Handle the layout of the consolidation of two plants into one.
- Developed work cells to reduce lead time on welded product to less than one day
from six weeks.
- Achieved bill of material accuracy of 95%.
Industrial Engineer
02/1984 - 03/1989 TOASTMASTER (Middleby Corp.) 1400 Toastmaster Drive, Elgin, IL
Major manufacturer of conveyor ovens and other commercial food service equipment.
- Performed time studies; set new labor standards, maintained part routings,
relocated production lines from California to Algonquin, and later to Elgin,
- Liaison between design engineering and shop floor, and a member of MRP II
Implementation Team.
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - BSIE
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