Manager Engineer

Location:

Chicago, IL

Posted:

July 05, 2016

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KEVIN TRAVIS KING

**** ***.** ***** ****, SC **332 (W) 864-***-****

******.*******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Highly motivated, creative, and versatile engineer with experience in project management, process development in the bearing industry. Committed to the highest levels of professionalism and personal excellence. Seeking a Maintenance Supervisor or Maintenance Manager position to develope a team of highly skilled technicians to reduce machine downtime and increase productivity through a structured Predictive and Prevenative Maintenance program.

EMPLOYMENT

2/2012 – Present ZF Transmissions Gray Court, SC

Facility Electrical Engineer

Assisted with new plant construction from conception to completion

oAssisted with an additional 500sq ft expansion of the plant

$8M.

oWorked closely with GC and Sub-Contractors on building installations and Code Procedures

oCo-managed facility equipment installations

York YR chillers

Cleaver Brooks Boilers

York RTU

BAC Cooling Towers

Ingersoll-Rand Air compressors

Johnson Control Metasys BMS.

PSB Automatic Storage Retrieval Systems

Setup SOP and LOTO for facility systems

Established Spare parts and machines in the SAP PM environment

Assisted EHS with Environmental and Safety needs for the ZF Site.

Managed power distribution throughout the ZF site.

Established PM structure for facility equipment listed above.

Participated in hiring facility technicians and directed their daily activities.

oSupervise daily activities

Assign projects and work task.

Assisted the Facility Manager with evaluations.

Mid level problem resolution.

Work schedule coordination.

Managed projects assigned by the facility manager.

oTracked progress milestones through Microsoft Project.

oTracked project cost through SAP.

5/2011 – 2/2012 Michelin North America (US7) Lexington, SC

Control Engineer

Revised and installed production machine program upgrades.

Initated time and cost savings on Confin production machines.

oPresented ideas to solutions to the staff with PowerPoint presentation and Microsoft Office Project programs.

Maintained Visual Basic program that automatically backed up all PLC, HMI, Servo drive and safety programs for Confin department.

oChanged Visual Basic code when machines were added to the department.

Maintained Visual Basic program that synchronized all PLC internal clocks in the facility.

Developed capital projects to upgrade components within the machine that were becoming obsolete and executed the change out of these components on a shutdown time restraint.

oTracked cost, set schedules and executed the project under the allowed budgets.

Engineered a solution to remove metal from the rubber component. Programmed this change, wrote SOP and commissioned the solution within time constraints.

2/2005 – 2/2011 Timken Company Union, SC

Manufacturing Analyst

Identify, and implement specific projects that are assigned to me by the engineering group leader.

oTrack cost, and vendor selection and progress of projects.

oImplement proper procedures, and work place instructions for given projects.

oSupervise given projects until completion and ownership is assumed by production.

Assist plant engineering and the electrical department with high level breakdowns.

Implementation of the documentation and backup of all machine programs and operational services throughout the plant.

Responsible for Projects in excess of 1M dollars.

Assist with production requirements as needed.

8/1996 – 2/2005 Timken Company Clinton, SC

Electronic Technician

Responsibilities include Machine breakdown repair, PLC programming and troubleshooting, machine design and installation, secondary maintenance coordinator and secondary maintenance supervisor.

Designed, built and programmed (8) wheel bearing loaders that lowered cost and raised production by 50%

Trained new maintenance group members.

Worked with Timken’s Manufacturing Development Center to design and build a double stage wheel bearing loader.

Worked with the engineering group in the development and implementation of an assembly machine for the steering bearing division.

Designed, built, programmed and installed (2) precise machines to form retainers.

Supervised Maintenance staff while the manager was deployed in Bosina of one year.

oCoordinated maintenance technicians daily work task

oPrepared E-Time schedules and daily occurences.

oAttended daily production meetings and scheduled staff in accordance with production schedules and needs.

Attended Western Carolina University Manager Training

oWorked a two week schedule in Assembly as my internship for this training.

2/1993 – 8/1996 Cone Mills Carlisle, SC

Electrical Technician

Responsibilities include machine repair, and machine installation.

Started out at entry level technician status and took the assigned test and challenges to move to top pay within two years.

Installed several large scales printing machine and assisted with the startup and troubleshooting process of each.

Designed and built a specialized machine to sense and cut out cloth seams for the inspection department.

EDUCATION

2007 - 2012 SC State University Orangeburg, SC

BS, Electrical Engineering Technology

2001 – 2004 Victory Baptist Institute Roan Mnt, TN

BA, Theology

1988 – 1991 Piedmont Technical College Greenwood, SC

AS, Industrial Electronics Technology

Minor: Industrial Maintenance

SPECIAL SKILLS

PLC Programming: Allen Bradley, GE Fanuc, Automation Direct, Siemens S7, Omron, Square D and Mitsubishi.

Motion Programming: Pacific Scientific MMI’s, API Drive Modules, Yamaha Servo Drives, GE Fanuc 18i CNC Controls, Siemens 840D CNC Controls, and Mitshubushi CNC Controls.

Drafting: AutoCAD, Via-Lite

Special Training: Leadership Development through Western Carolina University Project Management, SPC, TPM, KAIZEN, Lean Manufacturing, KANBAN, Grinding Theory Hard Turning Principals, C++ machine language.

Certified welder in Flat 1G, 1F and Horizontal 2F through Ingersoll-Rand

Access, Excel, Power Point and Microsoft Office Project

REFERENCES

Joey Mayes (Engineering Group Leader)

408 Industrial Park Rd

Union, SC 29379

864-***-****

****.*****@******.***

Nan McMahan

EHS Manager ZF Transmissions

135 Broken Bow Run

Pickens, SC 29671