Manager Engineering

Dean R. Seaman

*** ***** **** ****, ***********, PA 717-***-**** **********@*******.***

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Leadership over Engineering providing reliable processes to support production needs and overall production

rate.

As an innovative engineering leader and business professional, I am experienced in manufacturing engineering,

operations, quality, and purchasing in manufacturing with companies including, TRW, Chromalloy, Amercon and Pratt &

Whitney Amercon. I have a history of strong leadership skill, entrepreneur, streamlining key business units, and

stimulating significant increases in business profitability. My strengths include:

• Providing strong tactical leadership

• Technical knowledge of machining & inspection processes

• Overall business functions, knowledge and program management

• Initiating solutions that enhance revenues and improve profits

Career History and Selected Accomplishments

Engineering Manager, Amercon & Pratt & Whitney Amercon, 1998 to 2015

Amercon was founded by me and 4 other co-workers along with venture capitalists in 1998. Working together and

leveraging our knowledge of the business, we quickly grew into an independent small business as a major supplier of

gas turbine airfoils for Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Snecma, and MTU located in two facilities in downtown

Harrisburg. Each facility size was 40,000 sq. ft.. In 2005, Amercon was procured by Pratt & Whitney as a 100%

subsidiary and moved to a single site in Middletown, PA. Now called Pratt & Whitney Amercon, the 140,000 sq. ft.

facility manufactures gas turbine blades and vanes that go into today’s most advanced commercial and military jet

engines. PW Amercon’s processes include 5 axis CNC grinding, EDM (sink & wire), welding (manual tig & robotic),

brazing, heat treat, shot peen, Digital X-Ray, FPI, and 5 axis milling, robotic polishing, airflow testing and CMM

inspection.

PW Amercon is an ACE Gold site, ISO9000 certified, an OSHA VPP STAR site and has won Leadership Awards in

2010, 2012 & 2013.

My responsibilities include:

• Provide the technical leadership over the manufacturing engineering group for this facility which includes

troubleshooting and resolving technical problems in production by directing necessary actions with relevant areas.

Develop and implement technical training for direct engineering personnel resulting in an annual sales output of 25-

30 Million dollars value added from this site.

• Managing and directing a staff of 11 direct/indirect reports, supervise the planning and establishing of engineering

schedules, managing performance against estimates. Maintained a FTY of 98% towards a goal of 97%, annual

productivity gains of 5 – 7% towards a goal of 3%,

• Design and develop manufacturing processes from component drawing. Raw material was received as a casting,

then machined, deburred, inspected and delivered per drawing requirements. Also responsible for defining

requirements and purchasing of all tooling for new products. 3 – 6 new products introduced each year. Tooling

budgets for each new product ranged between 100 – 200K.

• Responsible for work instructions for all processes across the site, which includes process planning and technical

support to production activities and coordination and implementation of product changes.

• Develop, optimize, monitor, maintain and change CNC machine programs to decrease machine cycle times by 5%.

• Develop Standard Work across the site

• Develop six Standard Work events per year targeted at improving and synchronizing flow with goal of one piece

flow thru cellular cells, removing any turn backs and increasing output by 5 – 7%.

• Organize and Manage Continuous Improvement/ Kiazan events. Responsible for completion of activities from

these events with results being reduced set up times by 8–10%, reduced operator movements by 10 – 12%.

• Annually manage between eight to fifteen capital projects. From determining capital needs to incorporation of the

equipment onto the shop floor. Typical capital projects would be: new equipment, upgrade of existing equipment,

new process/technology, robotic integration, etc. Annual capital expense at this facility averages at about 5 – 6 M

per year.

• Ensuring this location is utilizing the latest and best technology for its processes including robotic integrated

solutions, automated welding, inspection integrated into machine control for continuous feedback.

• Responsible to fully eliminate non-conformances out of the product with the goal of 100% FTY. This was done by

daily reviewing any non-conforming product with a team (quality, engineering and manufacturing) and drive to find

the root cause of the nonconformance. Monthly meetings held to track quality improvements and to track progress

to completion.

• Review and disposition of non-conforming hardware daily with the intent to determine root cause. Tools used are;

fishbone diagrams, 5 why’s, and DIVES. Corrective actions from the use of these tools where then implemented.

Results from this process maintained our FTY above 98%.

• Participate in Environmental, Health and Safety Council; led the Green Team at this site. Results from this team

were YOY reductions in green house omissions, annually a 3 – 4% reduction in energy use and 5 – 8% reduction

in plant waste.

• Led efforts using process certification and all the ACE tools resulting in FTY’s of greater than 98%.

• Managed as many as 2 – 6 contractors required for 8 – 20 machine (grinding machines, mills, furnaces, inspection

equipment, EDM machines etc.) moves and new machine installations annually.

• Participate as a member on the ACE council; provide leadership to maintain our ACE Gold status. ACE stands for

Achieving Competitive Excellence and is the operating system for all Pratt & Whitney sites. Gold is the highest level

that can be achieved.

• Supported HR department by attending job fairs to recruit technical personnel.

Engineering Manager, TRW/Chromalloy – 1980 – 1998

Continuous growth in manufacturing disciplines such as quality, operations and as the manufacturing Engineering

Manager, at the million sq. ft. facility in Harrisburg PA. This facility was a major independent supplier of gas turbine

engine airfoils for Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Rolls Royce, Snecma and MTU and employed over 500 people.

• Possess a complete technical understanding and application knowledge of manufacturing, assembly and

tooling.

• Possess a working knowledge of ISO/AS regulations

• Proficient with MS Office, SAP, AutoCAD and Solid works.

Education:

Associates Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Harrisburg Area Community College

B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Kennedy-Western University

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