Manufacturing Engineer Manager

STEVEN W. SCHNEIDER

**** ****** **** **** ****: 972-***-****

Kaufman, TX 75142 *********@***.***

SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

SUMMARY

Engineering professional with 25 years of diverse manufacturing experience. Engineering professional with excellent problem solving and communication skills.

Manufacturing specialist with experience in all types of tooling, component creation to full product assembly. Experience with MRP and SAP planning and material availability systems.

Extensive experience managing customer requirements and vendor negotiations on projects.

Extensive experience with multi-department management working towards the common goal.

Extensive experience with manufacturing quality standards and ISO documentation requirements.

Experience with SolidWorks, Pro Engineer, Catia & AutoCad 3D design software.

Six Sigma trained to Orange belt level, Caterpillar Six Sigma formal training.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JTEKT Automotive – Ennis, Texas 2015 – 2016 Engineering Supervisor – Assembly

JTEKT Automotive is a Tier One automotive subassembly supplier of Electronic Power Steering, (EPS) columns and Manual / Hydraulic rack and pinion steering assemblies to Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mazda Motor Companies. This division of JTEKT North America generates 360 million in annual sales of the steering related assemblies per year based upon a three shift, five day production schedule.

Managed direct reports / engineering personnel on six assembly lines in the facility.

Daily contact with production line supervision in 5S and Gemba walks of production lines.

Perform troubleshooting and corrective action in response to manufacturing obstacles.

Implementation of corrective action reports and procedures to production line challenges.

Interview new prospective engineers and hiring of qualified engineering talent for the department.

PRIORITY PLASTICS; Portland, Indiana 2011 – 2014

Corporate Engineering Manager

Priority Plastics is a 70 million a year plastic container supplier of custom and consumer specific containers. Diversified product line of plastic containers produced in five production facilities throughout the mid-west and western United States.

Coordinate and procure capital plastic processing equipment for each of the facilities.

Implementation of customer specific mold tooling and processing equipment.

Communicate with customers on critical design challenges and qualifications.

Manage projects from start to finish.

THERMAL STRUCTURES; Corona, California

Aerospace Product Development Manager 2009 – 2011

Tooling Manager 2007 – 2009

Engineering Manager 2003 – 2007

Thermal Structures is a 65 million dollar division of HEICO aerospace company. Thermal Structures manufactures metal and fabric thermal insulation blankets for aerospace turbine and industrial engine manufacturers. Implemented CNC machined tooling to produce dimensionally accurate forming tools. The foil cavity forming tools are crucial in the successful manufacturing of thermal insulation blankets. New engineering development projects account for approximately 15% of the annual growth rate totaling 25% of company sales during the last fiscal year.

Purchased and managed 350K 5-axis CNC machine cell project for TSI composites division.

Coordinate staff on tooling improvements and labor reduction initiatives.

Support sales, via drawings and customer support, as required.

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KRYSTAL ENTERPRISES; Brea, California 2002 – 2003

Director of Engineering

Responsible for all product development engineering, manufacturing engineering and product safety compliance for the nation’s largest manufacturer of custom tour buses and limousines. Manage process and quality control of three assembly lines with 450 workers producing 75 vehicles per month.

MAXON LIFT CORPORATION; Santa Fe Springs, California 2001 – 2002

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Direct manufacturing engineers on daily production requirements for a 50 million dollar a year hydraulic lift gate manufacturer for the commercial truck and trailer industry. Responsible for the facility layout design, costing of projects and implementation of kanban, cell and lean manufacturing principles.

PRETIUM PACKAGING; Anaheim, California 1999 – 2001

Process / Engineering Manager

Manage Set Up/ Process personnel in the efficient change-over of tooling for plastic blow molding equipment. Direct resources to support daily bottle production challenges on Nissei PET, extrusion blow, injection blow and injection molding machines.

JOHNSTON SWEEPER COMPANY; Chino, California 1996 – 1999

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Review customer specifications and provide manufacturing engineering support to the vacuum sweeper production line. Coordinate production of vacuum sweepers throughout chassis preparation to the finished product. Design and build custom vacuum sweepers with multiple hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical controls.

AUTOMOBILE SPECIALTY COMPANY; Compton, California 1995 – 1996

Senior Manufacturing Engineer 1991 – 1993

Performed manufacturing process updates, plant maintenance, tooling and production fixtures for an automobile convertible conversion company. Managed industrial engineering tasks, testing and implementation of new materials, parts and production process revisions.

NIPPONDENSO OF LOS ANGELES, INC.; Long Beach, California 1993 – 1995

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities include manufacturing updates on automotive air conditioning hardware, troubleshooting computer numerical control, (C.N.C.) machine tool difficulties. Supervised the design and manufacturing of components to improve efficiency of machine tools and part quality.

ALLIED SIGNAL AEROSPACE COMPANY; Torrance, California 1990 – 1991

Manufacturing Engineer

Provided engineering support to sheet metal forming facility, which is a small lot size, high volume producer of sheet metal stampings. This support consisted of controlling production drop hammer, hydraulic press and hydroforming tooling from concept through production of various sheet metal details for Allied-Signal’s and other customers’ heat exchanger and water separator lines.

McDONNELL DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT COMPANY; Long Beach, California 1988 – 1989

Manufacturing Engineer

Performed exploratory test drilling of composite, (metal) material stack-ups on the C-17 wing flap assembly. Interpreted blueprints, ordered various tool steels for titanium matrix composite panel and rib tests required for the National Aerospace Plane Project.

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS 1981 – 1985

Welder; Diesel Mechanic

Formally trained as a welder and diesel mechanic. Supervised 3rd & 4th echelon repair facilities.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Degree in Manufacturing Engineering

School of Engineering & Industrial Technology; California State University, Long Beach, CA.

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