Scott Gorton
Sales Manager at WS Steel Structures
******@****.**.***
Summary
Management, design, engineering, sales, and installation of buildings and manufacturing systems.
Direct supervisory management of up to 40 employees
Justification, estimate, bid, scheduling, and project management of projects $50 to $5 mil
Take-off, estimate labor & material costs, justify, bid, schedule, & manage projects $50 to $15 mil
Establishment of production tooling, fixturing, procedures, and maintenance (TPM) programs
Assembly line (Hays, Yale, York) experience: time standards & mfg operation specifications
Project justification & management in excess of $7 million; six sigma team member
Justification, installation, training, and procedure establishment for new manufacturing processes
Project completion geared to just-in-time, DFT, & Kanban production environments
New equipment bid specification (qualification) writing and evaluation,
Support of three shift 7 day work environment; knowledge of TAS (Texas Accessibility Standards)
Specialties: Experience with Autocad LT, MS Project, MS Office, eJe, Catia, Machine control, SPC, & MRP
software
Experience
Sales Manager at WS Steel Structures
April 2013 - June 2014 (1 year 3 months)
Project development, budgeting, estimating, Sales
Lead Estimator at Optimum Steel Fab
March 2012 - March 2013 (1 year 1 month)
Sales Manager at WS Steel
January 2011 - February 2012 (1 year 2 months)
Project development, budgeting, estimating, Sales
Sales/Project Manager at Quality Fence & Welding
January 2009 - April 2010 (1 year 4 months)
Structural & misc. steel fabrication/installation; Sales, estimating, bid preparation, project management
Project Manager/Sales at Trans-Tex Fabrication
February 2003 - September 2008 (5 years 8 months)
Project management and Sales/estimating
Project Manager at Sullivan Construction Company
May 2002 - December 2003 (1 year 8 months)
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Applied for and Obtained City of San Antonio building permit for manufacturing addition
* Scheduled and coordinated trades for manufacturing building construction project
Production Project Manager at Kuest Corp
April 2001 - March 2002 (1 year)
Custom dust collection system manufacturer; Project management and material requisition specification
* Material & process expediting
* Quality assurance and production schedule resolution
Manufacturing Engineer/Capital Budget Coordinator at York International/Johnson Controls
August 1991 - February 2001 (9 years 7 months)
Chiller system manufacturer, 85 to 2500 ton cooling capacity; Capital Budget Coordinator: cost tracking,
scheduling, annual capital budget preparation
* Justification & management of projects in excess of $2 million & paybacks less than 6 months
* Managed & justified several building extension & capacity improvement projects; Six sigma team
* Environmental projects TCEQ (TNRCC); Initial ISO 9001 team Audit Inspector, ASME code welding
* Established preventive maintenance programs; Continuous Improvement Team member
* Mechanical & Electronic/Electrical assembly, welding, presswork, machining, paint and plant engineering
Manufacturing Engineer at Yale Security
September 1989 - June 1991 (1 year 10 months)
Door closer manufacturer- Yale, Norton, Rixson brand lines; Revised departmental layouts for cost savings
by decreasing material handling requirements
* Justified and managed capital projects for cost and quality improvements
* Experience working Root cause analysis of quality variance through histograms and Bar charts
* Justified & Installed SPC computerized local area network (LAN) for Quality Assurance Dept. Six sigma
* Combined press and assembly operations for savings; automated punch/broach/press operations
* Mechanical and Electrical/Electronic assembly, presswork and machining engineering
Manufacturing Engineer at Hays Division of Romac
November 1988 - July 1989 (9 months)
Installed, designed foundry sand recycling system
* Foundry, environmental, assembly, and machining engineering
Structural Production Manager at Capital City Steel CMC
October 1985 - September 1988 (3 years)
Supervised 40: production, sales, estimating, purchasing
* Devised estimating format for increased accuracy
* Implemented labor-tracking system by category for estimate comparisons
* Customer service & problem resolution
* Increased production levels
General Manager at Puralloy, Inc
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July 1981 - September 1985 (4 years 3 months)
Custom equipment design, fabrication, machining, and assembly; Supervised 22 to 30 Precision machining,
fabrication, and assembly
* Achieved consistent profits
* Manufacture and design of custom machinery & tooling, structural & miscellaneous steel fabrication
* Food Service equipment, electronic ass'y workstations, bulk handling equip, D.O.D.& oilfield equip
Production Team Leader, Quality Assurance, Engineering at Boyce Iron Works
January 1979 - June 1981 (2 years 6 months)
Plant Draftsman, maintenance at Aztec Ceramics
June 1976 - January 1979 (2 years 8 months)
summers
Skills & Expertise
Purchasing
Electronics
Customer Service
Contractors
Continuous Improvement
Six Sigma
Value Engineering
Project Estimation
Program Management
Steel
Machining
Lean Manufacturing
Project Planning
Engineering
Leadership
Construction
Manufacturing
Subcontracting
MRP
Metal Fabrication
Process Scheduler
Sales
Validation
Automation
Construction Management
Materials
Contract Management
Kanban
Microsoft Office
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Languages
Espanol
Education
Texas State University-San Marcos
Bachelor of Science, Manufacturing Engineering Technology, 1976 - 1987
Activities and Societies: SME Chairman
The University of Texas at Austin
Electrical Engineering, 1978 - 1980
Boerne H S
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Scott Gorton
Sales Manager at WS Steel Structures
******@****.**.***
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