ERIC HILTON

**** ****** ** * *

East Sparta, OH *4626

Cell: 330-***-****, Home:330-***-****

E-mail: (acem2e@r.postjobfree.com)

Abundantly experience mechanical engineer technologist seeking globally prominent company. Focus

of career has been to drive internal and external company productivity with equipment improvements

complimenting flexible manufacturing; and mechanical machinery design improving automation in material

handling between assets for the purpose of reducing work in process and excess inventory. Other career

initiatives have included facilitating human resource involvement with “eight disciplines to problem solving”

and define, measure, analyze, improve, and control six sigma technologies which also include cause and

effect analysis. Project managed manufacture of equipment parts, machinery, and process improvements.

These practices have lead to machinery design and process improvements, furthering production and

quality to heighten levels of productivity. Advocate of geometric tolerance in design and drafting for

production machinery, and support and promote “part design for manufacture” ideology to reduce

manufacturing cost and increase productivity. Have contributed in and enjoy hands on engineering with

team involvement from engineering, production, sales, and the customer to develop production

performance. Have participated and enjoyed traveling to different cultures domestically to communicate

and share knowledge in mechanical and process improvement with vendors and customers.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2011-2014, Fives Bronx, North Canton, Ohio

Sales / Engineer

• Managed OEM Aftermarket mill parts and solutions in engineering and sells to tube producing

customer’s steel mill operations.

• Facilitated customer inquiries and solicited requests to vendors in quotes, proposals, scopes of

work, and work breakdown structures to ensure clear communication and understanding of

engineered drawings, designs, and mechanical components.

• Provided and developed new relationships with machine and component manufacturing companies,

service providers of fabrication, machining, assembly, casting, and components to facilitate

competitive vendor pool.

• Assisted customer engineering and maintenance with engineering service, instruction, and

education that promoted sales of parts and equipment.

• Solicited, evaluated, selected, and hired vendors for material, fabrication, machining, component

parts, and assembly work on projects. Provided engineering support and inspection interaction with

vendors to ensure quality of service.

• Visited customers to discuss machinery problems and needs on aging equipment and processes,

and provided customer with insight on potential equipment improvements that will lead to

heightened expectations in machinery and equipment productivity and quality.

• Drove new technology improvements through discussion with internal and external customers on

manufacturing process enhancements and expectations of future business trends in manufactured

products.

• Reviewed and researched engineering history, documents, and prints to conceptualize, modify and

design parts, components, assemblies, and equipment. Provided manufacturing and process

engineering and inspection to customer in resolving manufacturing issues associated with OEM

brand equipment.

• Project managed all the mill aftermarket sells and purchases through to completion. Processed and

managed order entry, vendor purchase orders, project cost, engineering and manufacturing issues,

and manufacturing schedules for delivery.

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ERIC HILTON

5045 Martin Dr S E

East Sparta, OH 44626

Cell: 330-***-****, Home:330-***-****

E-mail: (acem2e@r.postjobfree.com)

• Sales Record:

Year Total Sales Gross Profit Margin

July-Dec 2011 $ 1,076,324.00 44%

2012 $ 2,125,166.00 54%

2013 $ 880,408.00 50%

Jan-Mid June 2014 $ 711,787.00 52%

2006-2010, PTC Alliance Midwest Tubular, Alliance, Ohio

Industrial Engineer/Mechanical Engineer/Six Sigma Green Belt

• Engineered, modified, altered and drafted mechanical parts, assembles, drives, and structures of

medium heavy conveyor systems, gravity tables and other steel processing equipment to connect

process cells and eliminate wasted operational process movement of man, method, and machine.

• Retrieved and developed supporting data and justification on capital improvement projects.

• Lead and project manager capital improvement projects from start to completion.

• Headed a six sigma project focused at increasing finished tube straightness, isolating x and y

factors and process constraints, and identifying “in and out of specification” limits. Identified

many other quality issues in the full cycle of coil sheet to finished tube manufacture related to

machinery and man improvements in the process.

• Identified “work in process” bottlenecks that could be eliminated by production schedule which

increased production rates by16 percent in an 8 hour shift.

• Reduced existing project purchase prices proposals to capital improvements by 35 percent.

• Exposed process and machinery direct time efficiency on certain units at 75 to 85 percent direct in

an 8 hour period while the operators on these processes were 115 to 135 percent efficient in direct

time.

• Identified 25 to 35 percent human resource availability in certain processes to established

increased uptime in other processes by verifying that the fastest operating machinery allows

operators time to feed downstream processes; then, the operators must move to other downstream

processes to increase direct labor in an 8 hour period.

• Wrote and modified shop operating procedures and work instructions to modified job descriptions

and classifications in reduce operating cost and redundant human resources resulting in 80,000.00

dollars per year.

• Defined benchmark layout and process variations. Constructed and assembled machine and

process model layouts for future capacity needs and capital improvement justifications.

• Developed process unit charts of production flow and arranged lean value stream layout capitalizing

on material handling improvements.

• Shopped and qualified vendors for proposals, drafted work scopes and negotiated purchase details.

Provided advance mechanical inspection on product and repair of machinery.

• Drove reduced operation cost using mechanical and industrial improvements to enhance safety and

quality, which produced cost savings on capital improvements using value stream mapping,

process charting, asset cell sequencing, and machinery modifications and alterations.

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ERIC HILTON

5045 Martin Dr S E

East Sparta, OH 44626

Cell: 330-***-****, Home:330-***-****

E-mail: (acem2e@r.postjobfree.com)

2004-2006, Butech, Salem, Ohio

Estimator Sales Engineer

• Initiative and focus was to provide an experienced industrial mechanical communication link that

understood and related to customer’s every day events that translated customer’s machinery and

process into Butech job shop services in design and manufacturing project profit.

• Expended the outside service of engineered customer project base relationships by communicating

concurrent engineering, developing quotation estimates, negotiating proposals and purchase

agreements, and administering quality assurance to customer specifications.

• Project managed manufacturing with expertise in part routing, production scheduling, material

procurement, and process technicality in fabrication, welding, machining, assembly, and inspection;

furthermore, provided quality assurance of verification, validation, and documentation to

specifications.

• Provided design and drafting assistance on outside engineered projects. Designed fixtures as

needed for custom fabricating and machining of projects sold.

• Solicited and strengthened existing and new external services from vendors, and then qualified

vendors to use on projects.

• Filter comments into tactical conversation with customers to express value of potential changes

affecting manufacturing cost. Offered possible alternatives to customers that directly reduced

internal manufacturing cost and raised internal profitability.

• Networking and facilitating communication provided results in future return business, customer

confidence, increased supply chain interaction, and associate worker compliance and satisfaction.

2003-2004, Lockard Mill Services, Canton, Ohio

Production Manager

• Increased production capacity of a small job shop by 22 percent using all the existing resources.

• Supervised all activities relevant in safe design and manufacturing of quality engineered equipment

and machinery and customer facility service defined in customer contacts and agreements.

• Project managed all activities in estimating, fabricating, machining, assembly, maintenance and

quality inspection to contract and purchase agreements in steel equipment manufacture and

service.

• Manage human resources on a daily bases; hired new personnel as required; and balance work

force resources in slow business cycles.

• Solicited and developed new vendor relationships for needed outside services not provided internal

by company.

• Assessed sales with customer visitations bonding and strengthening relationships.

• Targeted goal was to organize more efficient production allowing sales growth.

• Organized and conducted departmental meetings to expose manufacturing issues, explain future

initiatives, and motivate the work force with challenge to help provide substance for decision

making.

• Tactically developed teams in manufacturing knowledge pools that aligned with process, quality,

and safety variances to reduce out of specification event and bring process back into control.

• Lead and assisting team direction to mapping existing manufacturing flow. Enabled work force to

take ownership in mapping new value stream manufacturing flow.

• Prepared and presented capital improvement project to ownership for approval.

• Results optimized initial project launch by reducing lead time to three days. Worker involvement

provided worker ownership and commitment to implementation of change.

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ERIC HILTON

5045 Martin Dr S E

East Sparta, OH 44626

Cell: 330-***-****, Home:330-***-****

E-mail: (acem2e@r.postjobfree.com)

2000-2002, Gradall Company, New Philadelphia, Ohio

Sr. Industrial Engineer

• Methods and standards engineer strategizing concurrent engineering; routing fabrication,

machining, and assembly processes; processing engineering changes; performing time studies to

develop work time standards and instructions; conducting internal ISO audits; and monitoring

production scheduling and MRP.

1994-2000, Alliance Machine Company, Alliance, Ohio

Administrative Supervisor, Engineer

• Mechanical Engineer executing concurrent engineering methodology to internal and external

designed projects, machinery, and equipment lines.

• Lead customer engineering interactions and relationships as manufacturing project manager.

• Managed and scheduled vendor services and internal production processes of fabrication,

machining, and assembly.

• Engineering coordinator between in house engineering and outside engineering and manufacturing

processes to drive increased speed of product by best practice process in production with

relationship to design intend.

• Proof reviewed all construction prints for content, intent, and quality.

• Identified sales and engineering mistakes before entering manufacturing. Several incidents were

worth combine cost of 345,000.00 dollars, but discover before any real cost was incurred.

• Procured raw materials and accounted for stock materials.

• Converted hand construction prints into AutoCAD files and developed CNC programs in Smart CAM

which resulted in a direct labor savings of 220,000 dollars a year..

• Supervised fabrication activities in shipping and receiving, overhead crane, plate burning, template

making, material handlers, bending-forming, shearing, rolling, cutting, fitting, and welding.

EDUCATION

BS, Technology, Kent State University, New Philadelphia, Ohio, 2003

AAS, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Stark State College, 1994

Advanced Training

Certificate, Six Sigma Green Belt, Mini-Tab Software, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 2007

Time study & Methods Procedure, Industrial Time Study Institute, Barberton, Ohio, 2001

Technical Skills

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCAD2007-3D, Pro-E, Smart CAM, Minitab Statistical Software, 8D,

Lean, 5S, CFM, JIT, Six Sigma, DMAIC, FMEA, OEE

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