Project Manager Engineer

René Kaiser Address: ***** Sourwood St. Oregon City, OR 97045

Citizenship: German Phone: 503-***-****

Status: Legal Permanent U.S. Resident Email address: *******@*******.***

Summary:

Experienced manufacturing professional (various industries) with a 17+ years successful track record

in process engineering and operations management. Strong believer in relentlessly improving the

performance and quality of the organization I am supporting. Data and results driven. “Can do – team

will win!” attitude.

Specialties: Plant operations, project leadership/management facilitating cross functional teams,

applied statistics, 6 Sigma, structured problem solving, data analysis, Continuous Improvement

(LEAN design & implementation, changing the associated work culture to support and sustain

improvement gains).

Work Experience:

Nov ’10 – Present: Stanley Black&Decker Hydraulic Tools, Milwaukie (OR)

Jan '13 – Present: Plant Manager/Site Leader

Approximately 100 direct and indirect reports within the operation, including

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manufacturing, manufacturing engineering/maintenance/R&D, quality, materials/supply chain,

logistics, and EH&S. As site leader dotted line functional reports including HR, AR, CS, and

Engineering. Close partnership with Finance/Plant Controller.

Responsible for safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and cost of the operation.

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Responsible for plant P&L.

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First 6 month initiative: Lead the organization to improve on time delivery from mid upper

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80% range to >95% target in the first 4 months, and >96% in the following 2 months while

maintaining DSI goals and controlling cost.

Lead time reduction (order to ship date) by 21% for average lead time and by 18.5% at 90th

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% ile.

Driving/sustaining Continuous Improvement in the organization, with ongoing focus on a

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(structured) problem solving and waste elimination culture. Improved total labor efficiency

from mid to upper 40% level.

Feb ‘12 – Jan ‘13: Operations Leader

Supervisor, managing daily activities in the machine shop, assembly and the shipping &

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receiving department.

Driving problem solving and waste elimination into the work culture. Performance

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managing hourly associates.

Lead cross functional teams improving key performance indicators (Safety, Quality,

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Delivery, Inventory, and Cost). Improved total labor efficiency from low to mid 40% level.

Developed and implemented capacity analysis and capability matrix to better manage the

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machine shop (resource allocation, bottleneck management), thus enabling the shop to

increase velocity by ~50%.

Sep ‘11 – Feb ‘12: Logistics Leader

Managed the Receiving & Shipping department.

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Standardized and streamlined the processes and physical layout, improving labor efficiency

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(>15%) and reducing errors by ~50%.

Nov ’10 – Jan '13: Continuous Improvement Leader

Developing and driving the Continuous Improvement roadmap. Facilitated and executed

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Kaizen events. Coached and trained team members (leadership staff and operations) on lean

principles/tools, building LEAN into the work culture, empowering the workforce.

Implemented various LEAN programs and Work Center level metrics to facilitate GEMBA

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management and drive significant labor efficiency improvements (3.6% overall within 1

year).

Oct ’09 – Nov '10: SolarWorld, Hillsboro (OR)

Oct ’09 – Nov '10: Sr. Process Engineer

Lead yield sustaining efforts in the Wafering department. Dealing with yield/quality issues

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in a very dynamic environment where production processes are still changing.

Increased manual ingot mounting productivity by >40%, through waste elimination (process

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re engineering, work instruction improvements, operator training) and area layout changes.

This enabled the operation to meet aggressive ramp up requirements in a timely manner.

Improved the manual ingot mounting process, achieving a >25% reduction in epoxy

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consumption (main consumable).

Tested and specified process consumables, and worked with vendors on quality issues.

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Increased free wafer release (glue to Si interface) from ~30% to >99%, improving both

yield and labor efficiency at the wafer pre clean operation.

Jul ’05 – Oct ‘09: Tektronix Inc. (a Danaher Company), Beaverton (OR)

Jul ’05 – Oct ‘09: Process/Industrial Engineer III

Global service facility design, including workflow analysis & facility requirement

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specification (USA, Germany, China, India).

Lead teams through the lean design and implementation process (Kaizen events), achieving

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30 to 50+% productivity improvements and meeting previously unachieved delivery

goals. Converted large portions of the Beaverton service operation and the entire European

service center (Germany) into lean cells, including definition of the required metrics (+QDIP)

and hourly productivity measures. Supported service operation managers with daily

management of lean cells and staff training.

Worked with contractors and network IT, implementing facility changes.

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Driving continuous improvement at the shop floor level through SOP reviews/rewrites, waste

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reduction and applying statistics to improve decision making at point of execution.

Sustaining process support for service depot (e.g. BGA repair), including new repair

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equipment acquisition.

Achieved increased efficiencies and market competitiveness on the customer facing side of

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the operation.

Improved productivity/response times on the service center support side.

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Provided performance indicator analysis and tools to management, driving improvements

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of KPI results.

Aug '96 Jun ‘05: Siltronic Corp., Portland (OR)/Wacker Siltronic AG

(Germany)

Jul ’01 – Jun ‘05: Process Developer (Line Eng. III) at Siltronic Corp.

Jun ‘99 Jun ‘01: Process Developer at Wacker Siltronic AG

Aug ‘96 May ‘99: Process Technology Engineer at Siltronic Corp.

Additional Job Related Training/Skills:

Various seminars, including: Lean Fundamentals, 5S, DOE, Six Sigma (green belt), FMEA,

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Project Manager’s Course, Coaching & Team Building Skills for Managers and Supervisors,

Enlightened Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Self Management, DISC.

College graduate level course: Advanced Machining (at Portland State University).

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Computer skills: MS Office (including VBA coding, highly skilled in Excel), various

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programming languages, manufacturing simulation, Minitab, Statistica, other.

Education:

Sep ‘94 Jun ‘96: Oregon State University (USA)

Master of Science: Industrial Engineering with focus Computer Science & Application.

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Fulbright scholarship. 2nd year with teaching assistantship. GPA 3.95.

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Sep ‘93 Feb ‘94: FHT Esslingen (Germany)

Diplom Ingenieur (FH): Production Engineering with focus Cutting Processes.

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Sep ‘92 Aug ‘93: Sheffield Hallam University (UK)

Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical + Manufacturing Engineering with focus Automation.

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European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) scholarship.

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Sep ‘89 Aug ‘92: FHT Esslingen (Germany)

Major in Production Engineering.

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References: A list of references is available upon request.

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