Kelly J. Diebold

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Baraboo, WI 53913

Phone: 608-***-****

Email: actuv5@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Dedicated professional with management and engineering background. Possess an effective combination of leadership and technical skillsets. Extensive experience in business applications, project management, team building, and product design and development. Motivated by high quality results, problem resolution, and recognizing and creating process improvements. Proven ability for building rapport with internal and external customers. Utilize excellent communication skills to interface between operational components such as manufacturing, marketing, and sales.

Career Experience

Flambeau Inc., Baraboo, WI 2011 – 2016

A leading supplier of custom injection and blow molded thermoplastic products with 250 million in revenue and sales to key customers in the Retail, Automotive, Medical, Industrial, Packaging, and Fluids industries.

Engineering Manager

Led a department with fourteen direct reports that included project engineers, analysts, and coordinators. Guided the team to continuously improve customer relations and process refinement. Accountable for budget planning and departmental cost savings initiatives. Facilitated all project update meetings and recommended changes as needed. Responsible for annual performance reviews, training, and career development activities for the team. Liaison to senior management for issue resolution. Hired and/or released personnel when necessary.

Reduced department budget by 15% by leading continuous improvement/cost reduction initiatives and reallocating technological requirements.

Decreased quote response time by 20% utilizing updated system formats and metric measurements between time of quote receipt and release to sales. Reduction (on average) of one day per quote.

Attained zero personal lost time over the year by establishing strategic planning goals and improving team efficiencies in the way of work/life balance, task load, and problem resolution.

Increased engineering, sales, and manufacturing staff levels through the development and writing of on boarding (training) activities for new hire associates.

Minimized scrap costs by ~15% on specific product lines by participating on designated teams, utilizing six-sigma strategies and consolidating standard operating procedures and operator work instructions.

Improved motivation and reduced turnover by insuring a safe, economical, and results driven environment within the department and the manufacturing plants.

Five Star Plastics Inc., Eau Claire, WI 2010 – 2011

An independently owned provider of high volume injection molded products and considered a pioneer in the rapid prototyping industry. A company with a passion for plastics product development.

Senior Project Manager

Managed multiple, concurrently running projects with consistent and accurate communications to customers, suppliers, and manufacturing. Program profitability maintained with all projects being delivered in a timely fashion. Generated initial quotation, coordinated supplier development, established product sampling, and monitored production launch through final customer approval.

Increased production revenue to over $150,000 by combining efforts with production manager while starting up three new manufacturing lines.

Reduced costs and improved “bottom line” by 5-10% through defining process changes and sample counts of products being molded both overseas and domestically, then manufactured in country.

Participated in cost savings research and development opportunities for technology updates.

Kelly J. Diebold

510 Bascom Hill Drive

Baraboo, WI 53913

Phone: 608-***-****

Email: actuv5@r.postjobfree.com

TRW, Body Control Systems NA, Winona, MN 1992 – 2009

An American global supplier of modules, components, and systems to automotive original equipment manufacturers and related aftermarkets.

Principal Engineer

Led a team of designers, design engineers, and contract designers in the development of plastic injection molded HVAC switch modules and assemblies. Assigned work, coached progress, and evaluated performance. Responsible for the review and updating of the bills of material, assembly prints, and quality documents for manufacturing while insuring complete accuracy.

Helped win additional business amounting to over $15M annually from Ford Motor Co. by playing a key role in mastering the Ford data control process called Team Center Engineering.

Supervised meetings that accrued $250K in savings on the initial quotations and mold tooling costs for the Ford steering column project, helping win the bid.

Reduced quote time by as much as 75% and virtually eliminated errors while transitioning the engineering cost model and quoting system from paper to electronics.

Quality Process Technician 1989 – 1992

Inspected all molded and purchased components using optical comparators, vision systems, coordinate measuring machines and other hand held instruments. Championed the upgrading of the inspection report process which decreased documentation time; then served as the liaison between the operators, test technicians, and engineers when brought on line.

Slashed scrap and mistaken shipment of rejected parts by ~50% through creation of inspection drawings for operator pass/fail criteria.

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree – Organizational Management 1999

Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI Graduated Top 10% with Honors

Associate of Applied Science Degree – Mechanical Design 1989

Western Technical College, La Crosse, WI Graduated Top 10% with Honors

Military Experience

Wisconsin Army National Guard 1985 - 2003

Retired Master Sergeant and Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge of 34 instructors that taught leadership and (MOS) job specific courses at the Wisconsin Military Academy for enlisted personnel and officer candidates. Infantry and artillery background. Hold a secret clearance.

United States Marine Corps 1976 – 1982

Performed combat training, operational communications and re-enlistment duties with 90% success rate.

Certifications

Six Sigma Green Belt

Small Group Instruction Leader

Train the Trainer

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