JERRETT F. NOLLINGER

*** **** ******* **. ******, PA 16137 724-***-****

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SUMMARY

A highly accomplished and dedicated Manufacturing Engineer with extensive experience in process redesign, equipment design and maintenance, and supplier selection and oversight. Leverages clear communication and meticulous analytical skills to ascertain customer needs, write project scopes and technical product descriptions, provide thorough cost analyses, and continually improve manufacturing processes. A technically-proficient and performance driven professional who builds strong vendor relationships, obtains competitive rates, and increases efficiency with key installations to meet company’s and customers’ financial and productivity goals. Core competencies include:

Manufacturing Engineering

Equipment Design & Repair

Sales & Customer Service

Project Management

Drafting & Workflow Design

Implementations

Product Testing

Contractor/Supplier Negotiations

Installations & Restorations

Budgeting & Estimating

Vendor Relations

Quality Control

EXPERIENCE

COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORPORATION (CHESTER HOIST), Lisbon, OH

Product Engineering, 2017-2020 (still working – plant closing)

Processed custom manual chain hoist orders to meet customer’s specifications and quality requirements while maintaining quoted cost per order.

Worked on Zephyr manual hoist product lines while working with sales, customer service, warranty parts, quality, machinists, productions scheduling and purchasing.

Manual hoist product lines I worked on; Chester Zephyr, Chester AM and Budgit.

Modified existing hoist designs to meet customer requirements.

Made bills of materials while maintaining 4:1 manual hoist manufacturing requirements ….. 5:1 for Military DOD orders.

Worked along with quality to inspect incoming materials looking at casting, machined parts and overall assembly of finished hoist with its form, fit and function.

Determined correct solutions for warranty claims and parts need to rebuild hoist to like new condition.

Preliminary layouts for sales to determine trolley/hoist function on special beam; like beam bottom stiffener plate or wide flange beam with a radius curve.

HARBISONWALKER INTERNATIONAL, Moon Township, PA

Project Management Engineering, 2013-2016

Planned, budgeted, and managed project engineering for ongoing operating processes and major capital projects at manufacturing plants specializing in producing refactory (heat resistant) materials.

Evaluated current processes and identified areas of improvement with new and repaired equipment:

Developed equipment specifications and process flow diagrams with process rates.

Coordinated with plant accounting manager to project costs savings and year’s payback on investment.

Wrote proposed projects’ target scope of work, technical descriptions of equipment, and benefits for implementation. Created investment application sheets to guide management decisions.

Served as project manager and onsite project engineer implementing approved improvements:

Completed drawings from initial layout of equipment to detailed drawing for manufacturing.

Forecasted and managed project budgets; reviewed terms and conditions and tracked all purchase orders, plant payroll, and cost overruns.

Authored detailed scopes of work for contractors, negotiated competitive prices, and reduced cost overruns.

Collaborated with vendors to identify correct pieces of equipment. Oversaw product testing, evaluation of process rate, and performance guarantees.

Worked closely with engineering company on larger scope ($2 Million+) outsourced projects.

Select Achievements Included:

Installed tubular alumina station, replacing screw feeder that was prone to maintenance problems due to jamming.

Supervised the restoration of 1950s era ball mill crushing system project, incorporating new temperature sensing technology to increase system efficiency and avert catastrophic equipment damage.

Designed layout system and oversaw installation of water treatment system for state-of-the-art refractory brick grinder to eliminate costly downtime and improve product delivery timelines.

HARBISON WALKER INTERNATIONAL, dba ANH REFRACTORIES INC., Moon Township, PA

Glass Sales Engineer, 2009-2013

Generated glass refractory sales quotes for international business in Germany, France, Mexico, Chile, et al.

Quoted prices to HWI Sales department and customers, according to brands: performed quality control and confirmed that all items and materials on order acknowledgements matched quotes:

Matched branded material specs from customer requests to HWI matching brands.

Calculated volumes and square footage of grinds on custom shapes by hand and by using AutoCAD; input all data into quote builder system.

Controlled customer part drawings or created new ones with grinds.

Developed setup/match marks notes for all items per order acknowledgement for customer inspections.

Met with customers at plant for quality inspections to review orders before shipment.

Quoted material for all types of glass furnaces from fiberglass, soda-lime and sodium silicate:

Developed a volume calculator to estimate the volume and grind square footage of custom brick shapes.

Worked with IT to create a quote builder system to access database and build quotes by furnace location.

Earned Star Award for working many late nights on quotes for orders resulting totaling $1.4M in net sales.

Designed glass furnace bottoms and laid out checker packs for regenerators depending on bricks size and color.

HARBISON WALKER INTERNATIONAL dba ANH REFRACTORIES INC., Moon Township, PA

Project Engineer, 2006-2009

Oversaw project engineering for capital projects and evaluated current processes and identified areas of improvement, utilizing new and repaired equipment.

Installed a plastic ram extruder lowering fixed and variable costs $240,000/year at installation cost of $140,000.

Drafted initial layout and worked with engineering contractor to install a bulk resin system, replacing a difficult-to-maintain and expensive tote system. Generated $335,000 savings/year with a 1.3 year payback.

Oversaw the installation of Dilo Needler with auto batching system to make blanket material for a ceramic fiber line, improving safety by reducing the time operators needed to be on the manufacturing floor.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

C.U.E. INC., Cranberry Township, PA

Design/Manufacturing Engineer, 1998-2006

Designed molds and finishing fixtures for custom molded polyurethane products. Negotiated with tooling vendors for quality, on-time production requirements. Designed universal tube mold to make variety of different O.D. and I.D. sizes. Engineered replacement parts to use in existing urethane casting machines. Provided support to production floor by repairing molds and equipment maintenance. Collaborated with plant personal to improve production efficiency. Estimated production costs for sales quotes. Provided detailed AutoCAD 2000 drawings to vendors. Worked with customers to meet specific design requirements. Assisted in forms/checklists setup for ISO 9001 certification.

SMS TECHNICAL SERVICES, Oil City, PA

Design Engineer, 1994-1998

Worked with colleagues detailing new parts and assemblies for continuous casting machines. Mastered micro-station software for designing of continuous steel casting molds and caster components. Served as project engineer on many jobs with different customer’s problems and issues. Maintained database of drawings kept in plant with latest revisions. Executed internal audits for company’s ISO 9001 certification. Traveled to other plants and continuous casting plants for field service. Established procedures and reports for special projects.

NAVY – VETERAN

Seaman, 1987-1993

EDUCATION

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, Erie, PA

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Mercer County Career Center, Mercer, PA

Coursework in Drafting and Design

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management by SkillPath Time Management by New Horizons

Statistical Process Control Class Compress Air Training

The Cultural Transition Process Certification from Partners in Leadership

Continuous education – Effective equipment retrofit solutions for costly material flow problems

New NFPA 652 Fundamentals of Combustible Dust

Dust Collect class – Designing pickups points and sizing of dust collector with flow diagrams

COMPUTER SKILLS

AutoCAD 15, Microsoft Office Suite, Project Scheduling, QAD Business Systems, Microstation, ME10 CAD, Ansys, Symix database, Pro-Engineer, CNC programming

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