Eddie Mitchell
PO Box *** * Lynwood, CA ***** * 318-***-**** * ************@*****.***
Industrial/Process/Liaison/Cognizant Engineer/Project Lead – Aerospace Industries
Perform at a managerial level within the engineering field, utilizing applied knowledge, skills, and expertise
to achieve goals and objectives in a professional an effective manner.
Executive Profile
Diverse, background exposed and experienced in various engineering disciplines
Adaptable, flexible, people orientated, able to deal with personalities and behaviors without
conflict
Capable of providing on time deliveries to meet management goals and objectives
Conscious of continuous process improvement, quality, safety, and cost reduction
Approach each project applying business and engineering practices and procedures
Philosophy, success is accomplished with a can do attitude, whether individual or team effort
Self motivator and self starter, where there is a will, there is a way to achieve and succeed
Take pride in my work, and try to motivate others to accept each task with and I can do attitude; chose not to
back away from a challenge for within each, there is potential growth. My position allow me to work closely
with the various work centers, sort of a hands on person dealing with shop personnel and the every day issues
and problems that they face in their work environment.
Highlight Synopsis
Proposal writing justifying cost reduction applicable to the Apache (AH 64) Helicopter.
Provide source data to support process improvements and cost reduction using various
techniques, technologies, time studies, and general industrial engineering and estimating
practices and procedures.
C17 Sustaining Program, assigned one of the several Modules to work up cost justification for
off sites, define Statement of Work, Level of Effort, and perform calculations showing how
man hours were derived
Team member, assist in the automation of production shop, layout equipment, determining
man hour requirements and machine capabilities
Purchase casting to support production lines, negotiate prices and delivery dates. As a buyer
responsible for not allowing prices to exceed cost beyond a $ 5,000,000 limit
Developed non touch labor standard for office personnel
Established shop standards and created Manufacturing Orders (travelers, routers) for shop
floor machine operations and cleaning processes
Application of MOST to establish work standards in the implementation of development,
production, assembly/disassembly in the work process
Cost justification of capital equipment using cost analysis and feasibility studies to determine
business impact; defining reasons, purpose, goal, and implementation cost associated with
equipment.
Assign the position of a Component Engineer on call 24/7 during the Delta and Saturn space
flights in the early seventy
Education
Master Human Resource Management Keller Graduate School Long Beach, CA 26 Oct 2003
Master Project Management Keller Graduate School Long Beach, CA 02 Feb 2002
Master Quality Assurance CSUDH Dominguez Hills, CA 26 May 2000
Bachelor Industrial Management CSUDH Dominguez Hills, CA 19 June 1978
Bachelor Industrial Technology Southern University Baton Rouge, LA 31 May 1971
Previous Position
Job Title Permanent/Contract Years of Experience
Product Engineer Contract 0.25
Industrial Engineer Contract 5.00
Process Engineer Contract 1.00
Manufacturing Estimating Specialist IV Permanent 11.00
Industrial Engineer Permanent 5.75
Buyer Casting Permanent 1.00
Manufacturing Engineer Permanent 2.00
Liaison Engineer Permanent 0.50
Cognizant Engineer Permanent 0.50
Scientist & Engineer US Army 2.00
Component Engineer Permanent 1.50
Professional Work Experience
Bell – Production Engineer (Contract March 2012 – May 2012)
Identifies opportunities for product improvements through evaluation of manufacturing practices, process
flow and assembly methods; coordinate activities to implement solutions.
Develop essential line documents (work instructions, sketches, and other documentation) to support
manufacturing processes, modify existing processes/products to resolve quality problems. Performs other
duties as assigned (report preparation, etc) and verifying and validation to ensure production readiness.
Bell – Industrial Engineer (Contract December 2010 – July 2011)
Perform time studies to determine actual hours required per defined task description within various sequences
of operation. Document all data, recommendations for streamline operations using best practice to establish,
cost savings and cost avoidance.
Conduct environmental studies, dealing with human interaction within the production work place;
explore the relationship between people and the totality of their environment, encumbering various
sequential operations, which require natural and built sets of relationship.
Studies performed covered structures, electrical, harness installation, traveled work, bench work, and
undocumented work.
Boeing – Industrial/Process Engineer (Contract November 2008 – December 2009)
Perform detail studies of disassembly, assembly, examination/evaluation, and functional testing of
components and sub assemblies of the Apache (AH 64) Helicopter, to determine methods of improvement,
cost reduction, and the elimination of elements contributing to none value added.
Obtain operational information to perform analysis to develop work standard for labor utilization, estimate
production time, workflow, process flow charts, floor layouts, worker’s efficiency and the reduction of
material waste. Data obtained is useful to management to enhance performance, reduce cost, and improve
quality utilizing Lean Manufacturing and general Industrial Engineering practices and principles.
Identify new process improvement opportunities to reduce the scope of work and level of effort required to
perform a task; work with the various departmental work centers to synergy functions to eliminate repeated
effort causing avoidable delays, increasing process flow, determine manpower requirements,
perform analysis/plan workforce utilization, tool analysis/tool design, and develop proposal(s) for capital
expenditures/cost justification.
Provide leadership ability, take charge attitude with the initiative to resolve shop floor problems and issues
based on fact finding and historical data to support decision making. Take on added responsibilities,
coordinating with various external departments to determine the scope of effort required to implement
projects such as a Quick Win.
Hands on person, work directly with shop personnel, operators, and mechanics to resolve day to day issues to
eliminate potential problems or bottleneck that may restrict or interfere with the process flow or worker’s
ability to perform job. Proficiency in the use of Micro Soft Office, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Microsoft Project,
and Access, experience in lean manufacturing, 5S, six sigma, TQM, JIT, design of experiment, Pareto Charts,
root cause analysis, etc.
Take on the role of Project Lead/Project Manager assigning task to other engineers utilizing their expertise
and learned knowledge. Interface and interact as a Liaison Engineer with various functional departments and
work groups. To achieve goals and objectives selective team members can make the difference between
success and failure, for to achieve is to succeed.
Boeing – Manufacturing Estimating Specialist IV (November 1995 – November 2006)
Review/analysis/evaluate assigned projects to determine the effort required to support customer's request.
Interact with Project Managers to define task description, methodology, derivation of estimate, source data
and phasing methodology needed to create Bill of Estimate (BOE) for various projects.
Create Performance Work Statement (PWS), estimate unit cost evaluation (ship short, scrap tags, etc),
provide supplier cost recovery (non conformance) product improvement reduction cost for corrective action
proposals, and perform in house cost analysis as to make/buy decisions.
Develop labor and material estimates, establish and apply estimating and pricing methodologies using
historical data, and engineering task; worked multiply government proposal in support of the C 17 Program.
Provide ground rules and assumptions to establish consistency and impact as to how they will effect derive
man hours in support of contract proposal. Develop or assist in the design of a program database to maintain
source data for estimating purposes.
Perform time studies to determine actual hours required per defined task description within various
sequences of operation. Document all data, recommendations for streamline operations using best
practice to establish, cost savings and cost avoidance.
Conduct environmental studies, dealing with human interaction within the production work place;
explore the relationship between people and the totality of their environment, encumbering various
sequential operations, which require natural and built sets of relationship.
Studies performed covered structures, electrical, harness installation, traveled work, bench work, and
undocumented work.
General Motors Locomotive Division Industrial Engineer (Contract June 1991 – July 1991)
Communicate with floor supervisors and shop personnel on shop procedure, methods of operations,
machinery, staging of parts, flow and output. Operations supporting the shop floor dealt with part overhaul,
repairs, and machine parts.
Perform detail studies of hand/machine operations, document findings, review, and analysis data.
Recommend corrective action to reduce identifiable variances and bottlenecks; machine loading, line
balancing, process flow, setup/teardown time, material handling, manpower requirements, and non value
added.
Recommended machine loading/ line balancing be done based on family of parts, reduction in material
handling and machine cycle time; operating the lines in this manner minimized setup and teardown time,
reduce cycle time,
Conduct daily meetings with management to discuss problems areas noted in the work area; presented “As Is
and “to Be” scenario in the form of flow charts and mathematical equations to show how much more
efficiency/productive the plant could become by implementing recommended changes based on fact findings.