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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