Engineering Quality Engineer

DAVID BLANCHARD

Foothill Ranch, CA · 623-***-****

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Highly skilled manufacturing professional with 30+ years of experience in aerospace and military manufacturing, assembly, and conformal coating. Managed the overall shop floor and production stages and supervised associates and provided guidance to achieve high production levels and excellent quality standards.

EXPERIENCE

JUNE 2020 – CURRENT

ELECTROMECHANICAL ASSEMBLER, Jabil (Avitek)

Assemble manufacturing test equipment from engineering drawings and workstation instructions. Includes sub-assemblies, hardware, cables, wires, harnesses, custom parts, soldering, crimping, measuring, alignment in the manufacturing of the test unit.

JUNE 2018 – NOVEMBER 2018

PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE, UTC Collins Aerospace

Electro-mechanical assembly of commercial, military and aerospace products. Read and interpret engineering assembly drawings. Splicing wires, prepping circuit boards, brazing of high temp Solder and silver, welding while following IPC and engineering guidelines to build the final assembly.

OCTOBER 2005 – JANUARY 2018

PROCESS AND QUALITY ENGINEER MANAGER, Arizona ProCoat LLC

Contract conformal coating facility for Aerospace, Military and Commercial products. Received customer engineering drawings, defined detailed contract specific process instructions and quality standards per workstation. Set production schedules and priorities to meet customer demand. Applied conformal coating per the client specifications. Performed quality and process inspection per customer requirements.

1997 – OCTOBER 2005

MANAGER QUALITY, MANUFACTURING AND PROCESS ENGINEERING, prowave manufacturing

Owner of electronic manufacturing company. Received customer specific engineering drawings for the manufacturing of multi-layered circuits boards. Procured manufacturing components, created workstation process instructions to meet customer product specification and quality standards, set demand schedules. Followed all IPC and customer engineering standards. Performed receiving inspection, kitting of components, in-process inspection of components, final quality inspection, customer source inspection

1977 – 1997

SUPERVISOR, PROCESS ENGINEERING, Hughes aircraft company

Multiple positions during tenure covering all aspects of electronics manufacturing assembly. Supervised the associates on the production floor which included areas for circuit boards, testing, cables and harnesses, mechanical, and conformal coating. Managed multiple product lines on the shop floor. Established processes and procedures, quality standards, and performed quality inspection.

EDUCATION

MAY 2019

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING, Michigan State university

Major in Mechanical Engineering, with honors

SEPTEMBER 2016

AA SCIENCE ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY, Innova university

July 2016

NASA Certification Conformal Coating and staking NASA trainingn center

FEBUARY 2014

IPC 610 CLASS 3 TRAINER CERTIFICATION

SKILLS

Process and Manufacturing Engineering

Quality Engineering and Inspection

Trainer of IPC standards

Precision assembly Military standards

Expert at reading Engineering drawings

Strong organizational skills and attention to details

Knowledge of CMM Inspection coordinate Measuring Machines

Soldering and welding

Electronic testing

Writing quality manuals

Writing workstation process instructions

Strong Leadership skills in process development, production operations, personal development, and continuous improvement

Written quality manuals ISO 9001-2008 for 3 different companies.

CERTIFICATES

Conformal Coating, Bonding, and Staking Certification, NASA Training and Certification Program Center

IPC Trainer Certification, China Lake Naval Weapons Center

Machinist Tool Maker Certification, CA ROC

Supervisor training with personal development

Management leadership training

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

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