Project Manager Mechanical Design

Randy C. Archer

Little Elm, TX ***** 469-***-**** ***********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/randycarlarcher

Manufacturing Engineer / Industrial Engineer / Project Manager / Project Engineer / Mechanical Design Engineer

A versatile, collaborative, accomplished, knowledgeable professional with a very successful track record and a flair for leading people in the right direction. Experience well over 20 years with SolidWorks, NX, AutoCAD. Outstanding organizational and problem-solving skills. Highly collaborative with a talent for building productive relationships that allow smooth functioning while driving others toward excellence and attaining business goals. Possess verifiable leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills that help put across things with a crisp point. A remarkably successful mentor to peers and colleagues, owing to exceptional people skills. Have a solid track record in achieving the set goals and delivering personal best at every step of the way to provide optimal results. Thrive in fast-paced business environments, cherish a chance to self-manage things through innate problem-solving skills, and never say never attitude.

SKILL AREAS

Green Belt - Quality Tech - Lean - GD&T - FMEA - SME - IQ / OQ / PQ - Mechanical Design

Continuous Improvement - 100 % Detail / Customer Oriented - Lean 6 Sigma - Root Cause Analysis

Design Cells for Robotics – KPI Analytics – Project Management – SolidWorks (advanced) – AutoCAD (intermediate)

Professional Experience

Engineer: Industrial / Mechanical Design / Manufacturing / Project Manager

Process improvement; design new equipment, repair parts, 5S, Lean Mfg, implement new technology, mechanical systems using 3-D software

Maintenance Manager; team concept consultant for management and production staff

3D Design (SolidWorks) created customer-driven designs of stainless-steel conveyors, processing equipment, platforms for the food industry; created bills of material

Select proper belt configurations, motors, gearboxes from input per customer needs and determine proper motors, gearboxes from inputs of weight/speed requirements

20 years of experience in fabrication and most manufacturing processes using metals, plastics, silicones, adhesives

3D Design of all fixtures, handling equipment, automation machines using NX, SolidWorks, AutoCAD

Perform training of production personnel for fixtures, handling equipment, automation. Lead and write PFMEAs for new assembly lines, communication skills

Create and maintain models and drawings of automation systems with SolidWorks

Detailed models and drawings of beet pilers, agricultural equipment with SolidWorks and work together with customers to establish requirements and budget parameters of projects

Preside over design reviews to monitor/approve project progress through completion.

Create Value Stream Mapping Graphics for Management and floor crew review

Provide cost design justifications to customers and management using Lean Manufacturing Techniques, design assembly fixtures, tools, and handling equipment for CAT soil compactor line using Pro-E, SolidWorks, AutoCAD

Perform time studies at each assembly line/cell and make recommendations for line balancing

Familiar with IQ / OQ / PQ qualifications for balancers, CNC machines, presses, assembly conveyor systems

Layout assembly floor configurations for manufacturing planning/graphic visualization

Take charge and drive forward all aspects of assigned projects and highly skilled in diagnosis, disassembly, parts replacement, re-assembly of equipment

Experienced in creating/improving welding processes; Familiarity with the use of robotics where appropriate

Consummate professional, continuous innovator, team advocate/promoter, natural leader, ultimate change agent

WORK HISTORY

Air Mac – Dallas, TX - Full time - 05/1/2023 to Present

Mechanical Design Engineer

Designs and manufactures Compressed Air Systems for the Oil Industry

Used SolidWorks to design air systems with full models, electrical drawings, and air piping

Caterpillar – Pontiac, IL - contract - 3/2022 to 9/22

Manufacturing Engineer and Mechanical Design Engineer

Designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets, and sells machinery, engines

Used SolidWorks to design fixtures for machining work holding

Performed Root Cause Analysis for various defects of fuel injector parts

Management/change agent for all changes made to each assembly line, as well as the training of assembly line workers with the new procedures.

Daimler Trucks – Charlotte, NC - contract - 4/2021 to 2/2022

Manufacturing Engineer III

Medium-duty truck manufacturer

Designed/built chassis line and engine assembly line improvements

Improved layout of assembly lines, designed six ergonomic improvements

Helped to determine the root cause of 12 quality issues as well as the design of solutions.

Orthofix – Lewisville, TX - contract - 9/2020 to 3/2021

Engineer – Special Supplier Quality Project Manager

Innovative and minimally invasive extremity solutions to help surgeons improve their patient’s quality of life

(I was hired to create this project because I have 30 years of experience in Manufacturing as a Manufacturing Engineer and fabrication (machining) processes. The hiring Manager wanted me specifically due to this long experience because Orthofix wanted to lower discrepant material costs due to the rejection of internally created instruments as well as those from external suppliers. My duties were to scour the ERP database to identify the instruments with a history of MCRs and analyze the recorded data to begin to identify the root cause. I was responsible for creating the internal resolution team from the departments of manufacturing, quality, and R&D along with each specific external supplier for components not manufactured in-house. Due to my long experience in machining processes, metrology, and mechanical design, I was able to lead this team to identify the root causes and formulate resolutions for each component. The resulting benefits to the company of this project were never quantified during my contract. That job fell to Quality and Management (after my departure). But given that the average monetary cost of a single rejection was in the area of $5000, it is safe to assume that the cost savings over time would add up to millions of $$$

Dal-Bac – Forney, TX - contract - 6/2019 to 9/2020

Industrial Engineer / Mechanical Design Engineer/Maintenance Manager

Manufacturer of laminated textiles

Designed for new equipment, repair parts, introduction of new technology, process Improvement

Designed systems for automatic monitoring of adhesive thickness, new dye-cutting procedures that promised a doubling of productivity

Designed replacement parts for old, obsolete laminating machines that (all) worked much better with no break-downs

Designed for implementation of process improving new technology, mechanical systems using 3-D design software

Reduced downtime during my employment thereby better than 50%, and ergonomic issues, (i.e. injuries) were reduced by 90%

Friesen’s – Detroit Lakes, MN - contract - 8/2017 to 5/2019

Mechanical Design Engineer II

Manufacturer of custom-designed conveyors, platforms, process equipment for the food industry

3D design (SolidWorks) and Mechanical Drawing creation of customer-driven designs of stainless-steel conveyors, processing equipment, platforms for the food industry

Selected proper belt configurations; motors, gearboxes from input per customer needs

Determined proper motors and gearboxes from inputs of weight/speed requirements

Lead and write PFMEAs for new assembly lines; communication skills

Horton – Britton, SD 6/2013 to 8/2017

Engineer: Design / Manufacturing / Industrial, Project Manager

Manufacturer of fan clutches for the automotive industry

(My work here covered the entire plant from re-manufacturing mechanisms and installation of a highly successful wastewater filtering system that saved the company $1,500,000 annually)

3D Design of all fixtures, handling equipment, automation machines using NX

Used Team Center for data storage etc. with NX

Created and maintained detailed models & drawings of all designs in CAD archives

Performed training of production personnel for fixtures, handling equipment, automation

Layout assembly lines/processes with specifications for new product lines

Minarik Motion & Automation – Plano, TX 6/2010 to / 6/2013

Automation Design Engineer/Project Engineer-Manager

Supplier of automation equipment/components (now under ownership by KAMAN Industrial)

Created and maintained models and drawings of automation systems with SolidWorks

Collaborated with customers to establish requirements/budgets for projects

Managed internal/external design reviews to monitor, approve, complete

Kringstad Ironworks – Park River, ND 12/2008 to 5/2010

Mechanical Design / Manufacturing Engineer /Project Manager

Fabricator/builder of beet pilers, conveyors, custom-designed / built AG implements

Detail models and drawings of beet pliers, agricultural equipment with SolidWorks

Worked together with customers to establish requirements and budget

Presided over design reviews, to monitor/approve project progress through completion

Provided cost/design justifications to customers and management utilizing highly developed communication skills

Caterpillar Paving Products – Brooklyn Park, MN - contract - 10/2004 to 11/2008 (contract)

Design / Manufacturing Engineer/Project Manager

Manufacturer of road building/maintaining implements, equipment

Designed assembly fixtures, tools, ergonomic, safety equipment, handling equipment for the Compactor line using Pro-E

Performed time studies at each assembly cell and make recommendations for line balancing

Layout assembly floor configurations for manufacturing planning / graphic visualization

Analyzed process sequences and time studies and implemented continuous improvements

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Attended college From August – 2001 through May - 2004

NW Swissmatic – Minneapolis, MN - 6/1981 - 8/2001

Supervisor, Tool Maker / Designer / Tool Grinder / Wire EDM Programmer

Manufacturer of custom-designed screw machine-made parts

Saved $18,000 and hundreds of labor hours by designing and building all work-holding tooling for wire EDM, achieving greater ease of use and higher accuracy than recommended high-end tooling

Made machine tools for all six company manufacturing departments serving major manufacturing clients worldwide, including IBM, Dana, Honeywell

Design and built machine tool fixtures, automation machines, machine parts, ID and OD microform tools (involved writing programs and operating wire EDM machines to cut form tools)

Frequently recognized by company president and users for the ability to achieve unmatched accuracy & finish on tooling, resulting in longer-lasting tools, much higher quality finished products, and greater productivity

Supervisor said, “Randy’s work was always timely, and his quality consistently the best. His technical skill

and creativity enabled our company to do work that our competitors could not.”

Supervise, mentor, and develop newly hired toolmakers, all of whom advanced to positions of increasing productivity. I hired each new toolmaker by two criteria; “Attitude” and “Aptitude”. I have always believed that if a worker has these two qualities, I could teach them anything. The flip side is, that if they lacked one or both of the two essentials, I could not teach them anything.

EDUCATION

Graduated with all three degrees in the same 6-month period (December 2003 through May 2004) with a cumulative 3.9 GPA

Bachelor of Manufacturing Management, University of Minnesota (2004) – 3.9 GPA

Associate of Applied Science: Engineering CAD program (Mechanical Design), Hennepin Technical College 4.0 GPA

Associate of Applied Science: Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Hennepin Technical College – 3.9 GPA

CERTIFICATIONS

Green Belt, Quality Technician, Lean, GD&T, FMEA, SME Member

TRAINING

United States Navy E5 - supervise 6-man crew, 4 awards for proficiency, efficiency,

and outstanding performance (6 years)

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