Engineer Mechanical

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LUIS HERNANDEZ

Mechanical Engineer with 5+ years experience in manufacturing / aerospace industry. Experience in manufacturing of both commercial and military aircrafts / components such as Fighter jets F5, F15, F18, Hercules C130, Bell Helicopter, Robinson Helicopter, Honeywell, Boeing and Triumph.

Experienced in CAD modeling practices and creation of technical shop drawings for manufacturing. Knowledge of special processes: heat treating, plating/anodizing and non-destructive testing/NDT such as fluorescent penetrant inspection, ultrasonic inspection and magnetic particle inspection. EDUCATION

Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering

Chihuahua Institute of Technology, Chihuahua, Mexico (August 2005 - December 2010) EXPERIENCE

R&D Manco - Phoenix, AZ (June 2016 to date)

Manufacturing Engineer

• Create 3D CAD models of final part/ assembly per customer’s requirements via Solidworks.

• Create and detail manufacturing sequence of parts to optimize run times and maintain accuracy of CNC’s.

• Produce technical drawings using drafting practices based on current ISO and ANSI standards. Bell Helicopter – Chihuahua, Mexico (December 2012 to July 2015) MRB Liaison Engineer (June 2014 to July 2015)

• Provide disposition for non-conforming material during airframe assembly while maintaining or exceeding design intent.

• Use of NDT(non-destructive testing) to assess and dispose of products’ non-conformities.

• Coordinate across multiple technical departments to provide rework/repair instructions in a swift manner.

• Trigger and assist with corrective actions to address and troubleshoot manufacturing issues.

• Provide technical support to manufacturing personnel.

• Propose and implement cost saving projects.

Manufacturing Engineer (December 2012 to June 2014)

• In charge of improving manufacturing process of helicopter airframe assembly.

• Introduce, coordinate and implement engineering changes when required by ship effectivity

• Creation of visual aids and work instructions.

• Provide support to shop floor personnel on manufacturing process, techniques, reworks and drawing interpretation.

• Assisted shop floor on carrying out MRB activities by developing special processes instructions such as heat treat, NDT and forming of sheet metal repair parts.

• Assisted production department to determine production capabilities and staffing requirements.

• Develop/provide tools and shop aids for production personnel to aid in manufacturing stages.

• Transferred airframe assembly of Bell Helicopter 407 model from foreign country.

• Successfully assisted production personnel to ramp up move rate from 1 month to 1.75 days while keeping defects-per-unit within set goal.

• Documented and provided information to enable drawing changes in order to avoid manufacturing defects and design contradictions.

• Reduced scrap by working with quality, tooling and engineering departments to troubleshoot tooling issues.

Zodiac Aerospace - Chihuahua, Mexico (June 2010 to December 2012) Manufacturing Engineer

• In charge of manufacturing process of flexible fuel systems.

• Designing lean flow, focused on minimizing wastes and improving efficiency.

• Training of new personnel and implementation of new manufacturing stages.

• Development and improvement of manufacturing process, including creation of visual aids and work instructions.

• Provide disposition for non-conforming materials and provide assessment on rework instructions and techniques.

• Design, creation and implementation of tools and shop aids for shop floor personnel.

• Successfully transferred and implemented 90 new part numbers from a foreign country.

• Increased FPY on fittings area up to 99% by implementing tooling maintenance program.

• Cut costs down to 30% on forming area by re-designing molds and eliminating need for raw materials.

• Improved manufacturability and reduced cycle time on Robinson Helicopters' part number by re-designing part number and its manufacturing process.

• Developed and implemented elastomeric compound to reduce in-process defects. TECHNICAL AND LANGUAGE SKILLS

• 100% bilingual (English and Spanish).

• Solidworks 2016, Autodesk Fusion 360, Autocad, Catia, Microsoft Office.

• Geometric and Dimensioning Tolerancing (GD&T)

• Kaizen, Lean manufacturing, 5s and root cause analysis skills oriented to improve manufacturability.

• Problem solving oriented with solid analytical skills.

• FMEA (Failure Mode and Error Analysis)

• Strong written and verbal communications skills.

• Team oriented.

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