Steve Sabella
Professional Objective: To acquire a position utilizing my Supervisor,
Engineering, Quality Control, and Manufacturing background.
Related Experience:
Gateway Disc Sports (October ' 11 - Present)
Production Supervisor
. Responsible for production, Maintenance, Quality control and new
product development.
. Daily Mold set-up, Process Control, and Tooling repair.
Alpla (May '10 - September '11)
Process Technician
. Responsible for all aspects of change overs, tooling changes, mold
changes, head changes, take away tooling including - all downstream
equipment as well as processing in a quality bottle to our customers
specifications.
. Daily documentations of process conditions and production inventory.
Graham Packaging (June '09 - April '10)
Molding Shift Supervisor
. Lead man on first shift.
. Responsible for managing 5 employees as well as maintaining,
processing, quality control, production, and documentation of four
Super 14 station Graham Engineering blow molding machines and all
downstream and secondary production equipment.
Pro. Plas Inc. (September '08 - November '08)
Molding Shift Supervisor
. Responsible for production, all quality specifications, documentation,
processing and general maintenance of 14 Toyo Injection Molding
Machines ranging from 120 to 500 ton presses and coordination of 12
employees.
Continental AFA (February '97 - August '08)
Senior Process Engineer
. Was responsible for all Processing activities for a 50 Injection
Molding Machines facility ranging from 75 to 500 ton presses.
. Performed and documented hourly inspections, dimensional, and visual
as required by each component.
. Worked with scheduling to effectively manufacture all components
necessary to meet our Assembly department requirements.
. Implement cost savings solutions for the molding department including
molded part modifications for component weight reduction, functional
improvements and cycle time gains.
. Maintain Process/Production monitoring system of over 1700 process
programs (Mattec).
. Work with tooling to maintain our goal of 95% cavitation.
. Coordinate training of process technicians on new processing
techniques.
. Assist R&R and Tooling Department with part and mold design.
. Was responsible for manufacturing and performing DOE testing on all
new and existing prototype components.
. Make recommendations from DOE testing for material alternatives for
possible cycle time gains, mold ability and overall product
improvements.
Reckitt/Coleman (July '96- February '97)
Process Technician
. Was responsible for production, quality, processing and general
maintenance of 24 Injection Molding Machines ranging from 200 to 500
ton presses.
Continental Sprayers (June '92 - July '96)
Lead Process Technician
. Was responsible for process optimization, maintenance and production
of 45 Injection Molding Machines.
Advanced Custom Molders (July '90 - April '92)
Process Technician, Shift Supervisor
. Was responsible for the production, quality inspections, processing,
material handling and management of at 20 employees in a 42 Injection
Molding Machine facility ranging from 25 to 1000 ton presses.
Mid-State Plastics (August '89 - July '90)
Process Technician, Shift Supervisor, Quality Control
. Maintained production, maintenance and quality control in a medical
clean room environment of 35 Injection Molding Machines facility.
Eagle Plastics (October '88 - August '89)
Process Technician
. Ran 8 injection and Blow Molding Machines
Advanced Custom Molders (May '84 - October '88)
Process Technician (December '85 - October '88)
. Ran 10 Injection Molding Machines and responsible for all quality
control of primarily medical and military components.
Setup Technician (April '85 - December '85)
. Was responsible for all mold installation and secondary equipment
including Robotics, Sprue Pickers, Temperature Control Units, punch
presses, hot stamping, and assembly in a 42 Injection Molding Machine
facility.
Material Handler (May '84 - April '85)
. Was responsible for mixing, drying and inventory of over 55 different
general purpose and engineering grade resins.
Utility Person - Sony Division (April '83 - May '84)
Machine Attendant - Sony Division (February '83 - April '83)
Accomplishments:
. Completed Scientific Molding Course (John Bozzelli).
. Completed several DOE seminars pertaining to quality control
specifications.
. Completed RJG Master Molder and Decoupled Process Techniques.
. Processed PP, PE, TPE, ABS, Nylon, PC and most Engineering grade
resin.
. Qualify, create and maintain all process, quality control and molding
parameters for over 200 molds in the Mattec process, and production
monitoring system.
Equipment Experience: Operation Programming and general maintenance
. The following molding machines: Sumitomo, Engel, Van Dorn,
Cincinnati, Reed, Toshiba, Husky, KM, JSW, Toyo and HPM.
. Secondary Equipment: Temperature Control Units, Chillers, Box
Erectors, Indexers, Sprue Pickers, Robots, Grinders, Conveyors
etc