WILLIAM K. FAULKENBERRY III

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Lawndale, NC 28090

Home: 828-***-****

Email: ad1ymk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Seeking a career as a General Manager or Plant Manager, with a Mechanical Engineer’s degree, AGM, and Lean practitioner's background. Keeping in mind all processes needed to run a manufacturing facility, who has managed a facility with up to 90 team members, including a staff consisting of a Plant Manager, Human Resources Manager, Production Manager, Quality Manager, and Inventory/Logistics Manager. This AGM leads a plant with a morale boosting philosophy, bearing in mind a plant can only succeed if its team members are engaged, excited, and is led, not managed, by its leadership. Finally, my goal is to promote and help drive the company I work for into the future creating it as a World Class Organization.

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, B.S.M.E.T.

Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology

EXPERIENCE

Lippert Components

February 2019-Present

Gaffney, South Carolina

AGM/General Manager: Leading a manufacturing plant, through culture change, engaged team members, and true KPI’s that can used to correct the course before reaching an out of tolerance condition for our customers. This philosophy has proven better attrition, quality, productivity and on-time deliveries to our end users. Empowering team members and leadership to flourish with their own ideas creates an environment for people to be excited to come to work every day.

American Roller Bearing

September 2013-2019

Morganton, North Carolina

Grinding Manager: Overseeing all aspects of the grinding department with over 75 direct/indirect reports. Focused on streamlining the scheduling process and improving all levels of flow, utilizing the lean principles and techniques to improve Throughput, Quality, and On Time Delivery.

American Roller Bearing

January 2013 – September 2013

Morganton, North Carolina

Manufacturing Engineer: Using my experience with all forms of manufacturing practices, a process design is created that will meet and or exceed the current limitations of both existing and new product requirements. Utilizing my lean experience & lean tools available, cells and processes can be designed with flow, ergonomics, 6S, and all seven forms of waste designed out before the process is implemented.

Duff-Norton

January 2011 – January 2013

Charlotte, North Carolina

Manufacturing Specialist: Emphasized in the use of Continuous Improvement tools used to create/optimized cell layouts with fifo systems, 6S, tugger routes, material flow, quality issue reduction, cycle time improvements, and value stream mapping, all to meet the product required takt time. While at Duff-Norton I performed the duties of managing part inspection, gage calibration while improving flow and reduction of non-value added operations.

Spartanburg Steel

September 2009 – December 2010

Spartanburg, South Carolina

CMM Operator/Programmer: Performed CMM inspections using several Brown & Sharp brands of CMM’s for automotive and lawn care applications, using Data Page and Data View to create custom inspection reports.

Timken

October 2006 – July 2009

Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Sr. Process Engineer: Performed EGC’s, (Engineering Grind Cycle) for grinding processes. Created routings, reviewed process prints, and created diamond rolls for incoming new/existing products. Implemented and programmed the new CMM installed in the facility. Specified/installed new machinery required for manufacturing of incoming new product designs.

ArvinMeritor

March 2002 – October 2006

York, South Carolina

Sr. Manufacturing/Assembly Engineer: Performed time studies, for automotive tier 1 company, to determine part efficiency within a cell structure or machine/assembly environment. Once part rates were determined, design changes were considered and implemented to improve part through put, along with a more operator friendly environment. Tooling fixturing and ergonomics are also traits that had to be implemented at this facility.

Huffman Corporation

Jan. 1997 – Aug. 2001

Clover, South Carolina

Project Manager: Managed all aspects of a project, for CNC grinders, lasers, and waterjet systems, after receipt of order. Scheduled all engineering ME, EE, CE, & AS, for the OEM, Aftermarket, and the Customer Service departments, becoming the focal point for customers on all aspects of the project. I was the liaison between Huffman and customers such as Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, Johnson and Johnson, Caterpillar, Walbar Canada and US, Delphi Steering. I managed the documentation department to ensure all customer manuals were completed on time. I am well versed in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, Outlook, and AutoCad 2000. During my time at Huffman, I served as an ISO 9001/QS9000/QS9000TE auditor. I also served on the continuous improvement committee.

Roberts Systems Inc.

Apr. 1994 – Jan. 1997

Charlotte, North Carolina

Project Engineer: Designed packaging equipment such as High Speed Cartoners and Collating Systems. Systems were also developed for the converting industries, with customers such as Hershey’s Chocolate, Nestles, Proctor & Gamble, and many others. I managed projects from concept through system shipment. During my time at Roberts, I received formal training for ISO 9001. While at Roberts I designed a system to place the tear strip and self-adhesive tapes onto the Fed-Ex overnight mailers. The speed of this system was 900 mailers per minute. Also designed a cartoner that correlated and placed nestle crunch bars and Mr. Goodbars in a box.

Technical Development Corporation

Oct. 1989 – Apr. 1994

Huntersville, North Carolina

Project Engineer: Designed prototype equipment such as Precision Optical Fiber Winders and Unwinders, Optical Fiber Ultraviolet (UV) Curing Color Machines, Automatic UV Curing Oven for Disposable Contact Lenses, UV Curing Edge Seal for Fiber Glass Fabric, and UV Curing Conveyors and Light Shields. All machine designs are performed on CAD Systems. While at TDC I designed Fiber optical winders for Siecor and Alcatel for which we colored Fiber optical wire using a high intensity UV light for curing. Speeds were run at 600m/min. and tensions as low as 15grams. Another project was to create a slitting machine for woven Kevlar after a line of glue was placed on each side.

Synchro Systems Technologies, Inc.

1986 – 1989

Mint Hill, North Carolina

Project Engineer: Designed prototype equipment such as Non-Contact Feeders, Non-Contact Gap Closers, and Long/Short Stroke Transpositors. All designs and manufacturing had to be within food processing standards. All machine designs are performed on CAD Systems. Kraft Foods was a large customer for this company. I designed a feeder system that placed blocks of cheese in the correct location before going into a finseal wrapper. Another project was to create 90-degree conveyors and long stroke transpositors for Nestle Cookies.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

Lab Assistant: Stress analysis was performed on various materials utilizing the Universal Testing Machine.

Machinist

At various established machine shops, experience was gained on several machining systems, and CAD software.

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