Plastic Injection Mechanical Engineering

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full-time remote molding engineering position.

EDUCATION

University of Dayton Dayton OH 08/96-08/99

Mechanical Engineering Bachelor of Science degree.

Sinclair Community College Dayton OH 09/94-06/96

Mechanical Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS: SPC, 8D, QS9000, ISO13485, FMEA, PPAP, Kaizen, Advance Plastic Injection Mold Design (at University of Wisconsin). GD&T, Stack-up Tolerance Analysis, Plastics Technology, RJG Systematic Injection Molding &

Process control I.

SKILLS:,

AutoCAD, Solidworks, Unigraphic Creo, Spinfire, Mechanical Design, C-Program, MATLAB, Solid understanding of Internal Combustion Engines, Feedback Control, Manufacturing Processes, Cost Analysis, Microsoft Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, Power Point, Communication, Leadership, Management, and Team-oriented.

WORK EXPERIENCE

ICU Medical Inc Remote @home 04/2023-Present

New Product Development Principal Tooling Engineer (Extrusion and Injection Molding Medical Products

-Quoting for new business on new plastic injection molds or Extrusion Dies.

-Work with R&D to designed and built prototype molds for new products.

-Work with product engineer on EC, Repair damaged molds in house or outsource to mold shop.

-Source for mold shops domestic and oversea.

-Work with mold shops to build and buy high cavitation injection molds for new products domestic and over sea.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Check mold flow analysis to determine gate & vent location.

-Review and approve for new plastic injection mold designs.

-Manage multiple new mold build projects domestic and oversea.

-Manage and support molding for all Midwest Suppliers.

Baxter Healthcare Inc Round Lake, IL 12/2014-09/2022

Principal Molding Engineer – At Baxter’s Global Tech Center (Injection Molding/Stretch blow Molding Medical Products)

-Work with R&D to designed plastic parts for manufacturability, built prototype molds for new products development.

-Estimate production tooling cost for new product tooling budget approval.

-Work with product engineer on EC, Repair & refurbish damaged molds for our plants globally.

-Source for mold shops globally.

-Work with mold shops to manage low& high cavitation injection/stretch blow new molds build globally.

-Work & manage tooling for 3rd party suppliers globally.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Check mold flow analysis to determine gate & vent location.

-Review and approve for new plastic injection/stretch blow mold design.

-Source & buy new plastic injection presses, robots for our plants globally.

-New mold trials domestic, oversea.

-Validate new molds internal and at suppliers globally.

-Work with quality on CAPA issues globally.

-Member of COE group on global projects to save millions for Baxter.

-Attend plastic shows, seminars to bring latest technology to Baxter molding globally.

ICU Medical Inc Salt Lake City, UT 01/2012-12/2014

New Product Development Tooling Engineer (Extrusion and Injection Molding Medical Products

-Quoting for new business on new plastic injection molds or Extrusion Dies.

-Work with R&D to designed and built prototype molds for new products in house machine shop.

-Work with product engineer on EC, Repair damaged molds in house or outsource to mold shop.

-Source for mold shops domestic and oversea.

-Work with mold shops to build and buy high cavitation injection molds for new products domestic and over sea.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Check mold flow analysis to determine gate & vent location.

-Review and approve for new plastic injection mold designs.

-Manage multiple new mold build projects domestic and oversea.

-New mold trials domestic, oversea, and write mold standards.

The Composites Group North Kingsville, OH 11/2010-01/2012

Tooling Manager – six direct report (Compression and Injection Molding Products)

-Quoting for new business on new plastic injection molds or composite compression molds.

-PM current production molds, work with customer on EC, Repair damaged molds.

-Designed and modified inserts in house for engineer changes.

-Source for mold shops domestic and oversea.

-Buy plastic injection or compression molds for new products domestic and over sea.

-Installed insulators around core and cavity on compression molds to lower cycle time and saved energy for operation.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Check mold flow analysis to determine gate size and type.

-Review and approve for new plastic injection and compression mold designs.

-New mold trials domestic, oversea, and write mold standards.

Jatco Incorporated Union City, CA 01/09-10/2010

Sr. Tooling /Processing/Manufacturing Engineer (Clean room for medical products)

-Tool room supervisor – four direct report (design changes, modify new& old mold to improve process window lower cycle time, mold repairs, build assembly fixtures).

-Process and troubleshooting for new molds to establish master set-up, write work instructions for process technician.

-Quoting for new business on new plastic injection molds and assembly fixtures.

-Build assembly line to launch new products (APQP, IQ, OQ, and PQ).

-Source for mold shops domestic and oversea.

-Buy plastic injection molds/assembly fixtures for new products domestic and over sea.

-Installing a quick mold change system to all presses, adding water manifolds to all molds to lower mold set-up time.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Check mold flow analysis to determine gate size and type.

-Review and approve for new plastic injection mold designs.

-New mold trials domestic, oversea, and write mold standard, IQ, OQ, PQ protocols and reports to validate new products.

Mahle North America Murfreesboro, TN 07/05- 01/09

Sr. Tooling Engineer –Plastic-Rubber injection (under hood components)

-Quoting for new business on new plastic injection molds and assembly fixtures.

-Designed and built simple molds in house.

-Designed and modified inserts for in house engineer changes.

-Source for mold shops domestic and oversea.

-Buy plastic injection molds/assembly fixtures for new products domestic and over sea.

-Review and approve for new plastic injection mold designs, assembly fixture designs.

-Check and review mold flow analysis to determine gate types and sizes.

-Use APQP to launch new products.

-New mold trials domestic, oversea, and write mold standard.

-Help process engineer trouble shoot for new molds to establish master process set-up.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Installed a quick mold change system to all presses, add water manifold to all molds to lower mold set-up time.

-Recommended for part design changes to make the product easier to manufacture.

-R&D MUCELL process to lower cycle time, material, and improve life of injection press and injection mold.

-Help mold repair technicians to repair damaged mold and work with mold shop to repair damaged molds and engineer changes.

-Design changes and modify molds for business transition.

-Saved an average of 2 million of dollars on new molds build.

CEI.Ltd (Calsonic, Delphi) Springfield, TN 12/03-07/05

Lead Manufacturing Engineer- five direct report (Tooling& Processing) –Plastic Injection (Actuators-Plastic gear train)

-Leading five tooling and processing engineers.

-Processing and troubleshooting for everyday production and new mold trials.

-Check review mold flow analysis to determine gate types and sizes.

-Sourcing mold shops, New molds quoting, Approved designs for new molds, fixtures, gages

-In APQP team to launch new products.

-Working with design engineers and manufacturing engineers on new products, Engineer changes.

- PM for existing molds, working directly with vendors to build new molds, fixtures, gages and repair existing molds.

-Set and wrote Mold Standard,

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time and also Set-up a system to collect and regrind defected plastic parts to lower scraps tremendously.

Atlantic Automotive Components (Visteon) Benton Harbor, MI 07/00-11/03

Processing & Tooling Engineer (Plastic Injection –RIM-Trim Interior-Exterior and Blow molding-Speaker Enclosures)

-Processing and troubleshooting for everyday production and new mold trials.

-Check and review mold flow analysis to determine gate types and sizes.

-Design and build simple molds in house.

-Sourcing mold shops, New molds quoting, Approved designs for new molds, fixtures, gages

-Working with design engineers and manufacturing engineers on new products, Engineer changes.

- PM for existing molds, working directly with vendors to build new molds, fixtures, gages and repair existing molds.

Manufacturing Engineer (Plastic Injection- RIM-Trim- Interior-Exterior and Blow Molding-Speaker Enclosures)

-Involving in quoting for new products.

-Working with customers and suppliers engineers to generate APQP timeline for new products.

-Worked with customers and suppliers engineers to bring new products from draft to mass production.

-Working with suppliers, mold shops to build molds and fixtures for new products.

-Write FMEA, Control Plans, Flow Charts, and prepared PPAP for new products.

-Working with Ford’s quality engineers on fitting and functioning, pre-grain, grained, color harmony, color and gloss of new products to get approval for production.

-Helped Lab Technicians to layout new products to get dimension approval from customers.

Quality Engineer (Plastic Injection-RIM-Trim Interior-Exterior and Blow Molding-Speaker Enclosures)

-Working with Customers, Suppliers every day on quality issues of existing and new products.

- Used 8D to analyze root causes of defective products.

-Trained Process Control Technicians, Internal Quality Auditors to control the quality of products.

-Set standard quality of existing and new products for production.

-Approve supplier’s new products and PPAP.

Production Supervisor- 600 production associates (Plastic Injection-RIM-Trim Interior-Exterior and Blow Molding-Speaker Enclosures)

-Inventory and scheduling for every day production. Forecasting and planning for weekend production.

-Ensured shipping schedule are met daily.

-Prepared and launched new products.

-Transferred assembly lines to new facility.

-Helped mold technicians trouble shoot plastic injection process every day.

-Kaizen existing and new process to reduce cost and labors.

-Reviewed all machinery and equipment’s PM schedules daily.

-Lead continuous improvement team to modify existing molds to reduce scraps and lower cycle time.

-Used AutoCAD to layout and re-layout the plant for process improvements.

-Ensured 5S program is practiced at all time.

-Trained new employees and worked with UAW union Rep to solve every day issues.

INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES

Tennis, Golf, Fishing, Soccer, Reading, Traveling.

AVAILABILITY

Immediate * U.S. Citizen * if driving more than 1 hour each way to work, I refer to work from home and will come in as needed.

NHAN CHI NGUYEN

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902 Limerick Ln Mchenry, IL 60050 714-***-**** * ***.******@*******.***

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