Engineer Quality

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W. Barney Beasley

O bjective

Utilize 37 years of automotive body manufacturing experience in production, maintenance and engineering to achieve

local and corporate goals of high quality, high volume assemblies.

E xperience

2012 - 2014 General Motors Spring Hill, Tennessee

W eld/Manufacturing Process Group Leader

Wrote local procedures to meet corporate quality compliance requirements in a non traditional automotive

manufacturing facility.

Regularly exceeded corporate quarterly goals for destruct weld quality by 4%.

Maintained closed loop weld water cooling system.

Reduced particulates/bacteria by defining chemical treatment program. Bacteria count reduced from 106 to 100

Redesigned chemical delivery system. Installed removable commercial injectors, moved injection from high

pressure weld water supply to low pressure weld water return, replaced displacement type pump with reliable

peristaltic pump, enclosed entire pump station, and added a spill containment drain back line to a chemical

containment pit.

Prolific author of Task Instruction Sheets, e.g., weld cap change, weld destruct, filter change, in process inspection,

manual tip dress, tip dress inspection, tip dress cutter blade inspection, and many more.

Acted as Subject Matter Expert/troubleshooter on numerous styles of welder controls, densification packages,

cooling issues, weld quality issues, and pumpable dispensing issues.

Defined, supervised and reviewed required quality repairs.

Acted as Supervisor for Production, Maintenance, Quality, and Zone. This assignment was concurrent with other

responsibilities with the longest period being six months.

Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills across production, maintenance, engineering, and management.

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2010 - 2012 General Motors Fairfax, Kansas

M aintenance/Weld Engineer

Increased corporate internal audit score for joining and dispense processes by 20%.

Maintained closed loop weld water cooling system. Specified and supervised trades for cooling tower sump tank

boil out, specified and purchased replacement expansion joints for the system, specified and supervised corrections

to existing errors in sand filter installation, drove installation of bag filters, specified filtration level, and supervised

repair of heat exchangers.

Diagnosed and corrected chemical treatment problems. Determined that Tier II chemical supplier was using the

wrong chemistry for the closed loop weld water treatment. Forced change to the proper chemicals and drove

selection to a new Tier II supplier. Drove specifications on what quality measurements were to be monitored to

determine weld water quality. These improvements allowed the water saver hardware to function properly.

Removed legionella bacteria in the laser chilled water generator.

Retrofitted obsolete welder controls to maintain current production and insure parts availability at a significant cost

savings, roughly 75%.

Acted as Subject Matter Expert/troubleshooter on numerous styles of welder controls, densification packages,

cooling issues, weld quality issues, and pumpable dispensing issues. Defined, supervised and reviewed required

quality repairs.

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W . Barney Beasley

1994 - 2010 General Motors Spring Hill, Tennessee

M aintenance/Weld Engineer

Developed standards for water cooling connections of air cooled shunts. Shunt temperatures were reduced from a

high of 500 F plus to a maximum of 115 F when combined with proper thermal sizing.

Developed flash shield for drawn arc welding on laminated steel which eliminated frequent flash shield cleaning

and quality call back repairs in General Assembly. Received a Manufacturing Award.

Engineered and installed weld water cooling system improvements.

Developed standards and specifications for welding and utilities for the new Body Shop for Saturn. This standard

package was used on three new tooling launches. Some of these standards were adopted by corporate.

Responsible for all gun designs from 1997 through 2007 with a total value of over $10M.

Shared responsibility for weld control selection and purchase with a total value of over $3.8M.

1991 - 1994 Saturn Spring Hill, Tennessee

C urrent Vehicle Engineer

Acted as a liaison between Product Engineering and the manufacturing facility.

Wrote Saturn Production Activity Authorizations (SPAA) for deviations from ideal build norms.

Designed and supervised Plant Trial Runs (PTR) to address quality and warranty issues.

Assisted in model changes.

Assisted in standard repair procedures.

1987 - 1991 Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC Warren, Michigan

W eld Engineer

Assigned to Welding Group at CPC Headquarters.

Wrote/updated standards such as weld flange widths.

Enforced weld standards on tooling design houses.

Reviewed and approved weld studies.

Travelled as a corporate welding troubleshooter, Parma, OH, Doraville, GA, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Fairfax,

Kansas, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Worked with Design Houses on weld tooling selections.

Performed Weld Tool Verification.

1982 - 1987 Fisher Body/Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC Hamilton, Ohio

W elding, Electrical, Machine Repair (WEMR) Supervisor

Supervised up to 22 employees in multiple trades such as WEMR, Mechanical Device, Pipefitter, Welder,

Maintenance Driver and Machine Cleaner.

Worked in all areas of assembly, doors, seat backs, seat bottoms, floor pans, and roofs.

Responsible for maintaining dimensional quality.

Responsible for weld quality.

Supervised new tooling installations.

Designed and supervised installation of new part assembly ejector to eliminate production downtime.

Drove more strict attendance guidelines for employees who reported directly to me. Reduced absenteeism.

E ducation

1977 until 1982 General Motors Institute Flint, Michigan

B achelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Process Option

R eferences

References available upon request.

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