Stephen G. Huels
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Career Summary
IA process engineer with 20+ years in high volume, high quality manufacturing. My unique background includes Environmental, Health, and Safety, Operations; Facilities, Sales Support, HR and Training, and Product Development. Skills:
Metal Fabrication / Welding / Finishing Boilers / Tank Farms / Wastewater
Construction / Maintenance / Utilities QC / Chemistry / Event Planning
EHS / Emergency Response / Remediation Standards / Mil. / ISO / NFPA
Machinery Design / Guarding Teaming / Training / Reorganization
Work Summary
Fuyao Glass America Moraine, OH. An auto glass operation
Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist 2/2015- 1/2016
Assisted from start-up to having 900 associate, 400 contractor, and 200 Chinese in a 1,500,000 sq. ft., 112 acre operation in a closed General Motors Factory Building.
Responsible for safety programs, air and water control and permitting, and a 24/7 security company.
Hartzell Piqua, OH. A Fan, hardwood, and veneer Businesses
Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager 11/2013- 2/2015
Corporate leader for 6 operations in 4 states- with 2 operations being essentially start-ups.
Duties included Workers Compensation, Security, and Fire Risk responsibilities.
KTH Parts St. Paris, OH. A $1B (Honda) frame company
Safety Director and managed Associate Development & Involvement 2007-11/2013
EHS lead for the plant, for North American locations; and was liaison to overseas parent companies.
Planed, sourced, and delivered training to 1000+ associates: Continuous Improvement, Harassment and Safety Orientation and refreshers, Powered Industrial Vehicles (400+ permits), Crane (150+), and CPR/AED.
Ran Kaizen teams, housekeeping programs, fitness activities, United Way, Tuition Reimbursement, an on-site community college; and charitable and employee functions.
Achieved $800,000 less in annual injury costs, and 1,700,000 hours without a Lost Time Injury.
Safety Director - EHS Assistant Manager - Supervisor 2000- 2007
Corrected deficiencies to reduce risk for all programs- electrical, fall, confined space; and operations- robotic welding, power press, laser, induction hardening, conveyors and die maintenance.
Combined the 3 emergency response teams into 1 cross-trained team.
Instituted a return-to-work program that reduced Lost Time Cases from 80 per year to less than 10.
ITW Hobart Troy, OH A $200MM welding products manufacturer
Product Manager 1998- 2000
Liaison between sales, distribution and manufacturing
Managed structures, costs, stock levels, and technical data for 1300 welding product.
Project work included: design of packaging: training of multinational sales force; and introduction and phase-out of products.
Manager- Production, Quality, Maintenance 1996- 1998
Supervised a 24/7, 50 person weld wire operation
Drove profit and efficiency “up” with equipment in-lining, Kan-ban, and other lean processes.
Spearheaded Business Unit achievement of 1st ISO9001 Certificate.
Manufacturing Engineering Manager 1995- 1996
Responsible for 30 engineers, technicians and mechanics
Effectively disbanded people, equipment, plant space and duties into 4 Business Units being formed.
Alcoa Sidney, OH A $1B diversified products manufacturer
BUILDING PRODUCTS
Product Development Engineer 1993- 1995
Responsible for the development of extruded vinyl siding products: including product and process design, and equipment purchase.
Justified appropriations, designed and specified, and tested $500,000 of equipment for new products.
STOLLE PRODUCTS A fabricator and finisher of auto and appliance parts
Manager Environmental, Safety, and Chemical Process 1991- 1993
Responsible for EHS and utilities.
Managed internal operations and the relationships with the City, EPA, and OSHA on all programs,
Cross-trained my boiler and wastewater operators for 24/7 coverage of these 2 remote departments.
Manager - Assistant Manager - Chemist through 1991
Led a 10 to 25 head-count maintenance and engineering team:
Targeted costly chemical processes plant-wide through analysis, re-plumbing, benchmarking, and teams. Halved use of acids, soaps and technician labor. Eliminated 6 of 10 storage areas, outdoor lagoons, underground storage tanks, drum sites, and underutilized peripheral operations.
Managed chemical analysis and control from lab to production in all “wet operations” with >$2M annual chemical use for Anodizing, Plating, and Paint pre-treatment. We reduced downtime and rejects, including decreasing paint failures by 100% for 3 vehicle manufacturing customers.
Training & Education
oCertified: EMT- Basic. Formerly: Spill Response- Incident Command Level, and Firefighter.
oAuditor: ISO9001-14001 / TSDF / EHS / Lab / Energy / Waste / GHS / Industrial Hygiene.
oInstructor for: Harassment, ISO, ISO Auditing, 5P, Fall Protection, Respirator, Crane, Aerial Lift, Forklift, Confined Space, Rope Rescue, First Aid /AED/ CPR, OSHA 30and Laser.
oOther training: Juran Problem Solving, SPC, Critical Path, Ethics, and Sustainability.
oSoftware: Microsoft Office, HR, Bill-of-Material, Financial, MSDS, and Modeling programs.
University of Dayton, Bachelor Degree: Chemical Engineering.
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