Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Highly qualified Manufacturing Engineer with strong analytical and team leadership expertise. Extensive background in aerospace and manufacturing engineering across large-scale OEM and lower tier manufacturers. Proven to lead and coach highly qualified teams and deliver expert technical support across manufacturing operations, engineering, purchasing, and program office. Accomplished critical thinker with an aptitude for complex problem-solving, cost, and operations management. Deliver proficiency in designing and developing mechanical and machining manufacturing processes. Demonstrate excellence in team leadership, performance management, project management, program leadership, and project status reporting. Comprehensive knowledge assembling and modifying existing aircraft for military, commercial, and business aviation sectors, rocket engine hardware, and assemblies for the space divisions.

Areas of Emphasis

• Manufacturing Engineering

• Production Planning

• Operations Management

• Machine Shop Management

• Vendor Management

• Team Leadership

• Technical Acumen • Project Management • Troubleshooting

• Technical Engineering Drawings

• Test & Integration Procedures

• Root Cause Analysis

• Non-conformances

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Written/Verbal Communication

• Complex Problem-Solving

• Material Review Board MRB

• Process Improvement

• Interpersonal Skills

• Strong Analytical Skills

Career Highlights

• Serve as Manufacturing Engineer, Senior Lead at Northrop Grumman, overseeing B-2 Bomber build by contributing to production rigging and functional testing of flight controls and doors, installing APU, AMAD, ECS, LRU, hydraulic tube, and electrical harness installations.

• Investigated and troubleshot B-2 systems and resolved installation problems in a prompt manner.

• Maintained operational assembly sequences by utilizing IMPCA planning systems.

• Contributed to the creation of wet lay-up processes in composite part production and repair.

• Removed flight test hardware and returned aircraft to production block configuration.

• Recipient of numerous Recognition Awards and Perfect Attendance Awards two consecutive years at Northrop Grumman.

• Managed RS-27 and MA5 Engine for Rocketdyne’s ELV program and RS-25 SSME Turbopumps for the Space Shuttle program – overseeing detail parts and assemblies. Contributed to copper plating, machining, welding, and NDT verifications for space shuttle program project. Mark Licker Stanwood, WA 98292 • 360-***-****

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Professional Experience

SAFRAN / ZODIAC AEROSPACE – NORTHWEST AROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES, Everett, WA 4/2013 – 4/2020 Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Orchestrated bottom-line factors affecting manufacturing operations functions during fabrication and build of composite/metallic aircraft assemblies. Applied 5S and Lean methodologies to improve processes, resolve problems, and manage change requirements over the duration of the mod cycle. Provided real time, on-the-fly, coordinated change in a back-shop manufacturing environment to guarantee compliance with applicable configuration and effectivity cut in. Delivered expert technical support and troubleshooting to inhouse Aircraft Assembly Technicians and external suppliers/vendors. Supported New Product Introduction (NPI), with PDR and CDR reviews followed by First Article Inspections (FAI) per Customer requirements.

• Meticulously analyzed pre-release engineering drawings to guarantee design aligned with manufacturability requirements, GD&T dimensioning and tolerances, as well as corporate and program standards.

• Created tooling concepts during engineering review, and produced/maintained production planning for inhouse assemblies.

• Served as an integral part of the Material Review Board (MRB) to review non-conforming parts and assemblies, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop solutions to ensure products met acceptable standards, and FAA / EASA requirements.

• Focal for engineering change requests (ECRs).

• Efficiently planned sequential manufacturing and assembly operations.

• Facilitated and led the redesign of multi-part assemblies into monolithic, single piece machined parts. BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES, INC., Everett, WA 4/2010 – 4/2013 Contract Manufacturing Engineer, 787 Final Assembly and Delivery Managed high-end projects through full lifecycle. Directed the creation and maintenance of the Specification Install Plan (SPEC-IP). Led Boeing Charleston’s Mid-Body Systems Test, collaborating closely with production test engineering team and coordinated with BSC Production Test MEs in designing, managing, and updating all 787 Mid-Body Detail Test Plans (DTPs).

• Awarded Recognition Award for 787 Battery Recovery Special Project

• Strategized to reduce cost from aircraft rib assemblies by 33%.

• Conducted producibility analysis and conformance monitoring of Partner Model Based Definition

(MBD) to ensure compliance with Boeing’s design and manufacturing requirements, as well as basic GD&T principles.

• Delivered expert ME support for partner system releases (Alenia).

• Consumed BOM data utilizing DELMIA planning system. Mark Licker Page 3

BE AEROSPACE / FLIGHT STRUCTURES INC., Marysville, WA 10/2006 – 4/2010 Senior Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Led the A300-600 Passenger to Freighter (PTF) Conversion Program start-up for interiors, systems, and heavy structures. Accountable for conducting producibility analysis for preliminary and final design data and specifications. Delivered factory layout concepts and designed optimal Manufacturing Building Plan to support Lean manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, and Six Sigma methodologies.

• Served as a member of the Material Review Board, and contributed to daily MRB reviews. Delivered dispositions of non-conforming products, build new tooling requirements and maintained existing tooling requirements.

• Conducted production tool verification by applying laser tracking analysis.

• Utilized Macola planning system to monitor and maintain BOM, both EBOM and MBOM. Earlier Experience

VOUGHT AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES (FORMERLY NORTHROP GRUMMAN), Dallas, TX Senior Lead Manufacturing Project Engineer Specialist, C-17 Empennage Manufacturing Engineer, Senior Lead

NORTHROP GRUMMAN, Palmdale, California

Configuration Management, B2 Final Assembly and Block Modification Manufacturing Engineer, Senior Lead B-2 Final Assembly Production Planner, Senior Lead B-2 Final Assembly AEROJET, ROCKETDYNE (FORMERLY ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL, ROCKETDYNE DIVISION), Canoga Park, CA Manufacturing Engineer Senior, ELV and SSME Programs Manufacturing Planner

Precision Development Machinist

Education and Credentials

Advanced Math and Industrial Technology Studies

WEST COAST UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, CA

Apprenticeship / Journeyman Machinist Tool and Die Technical Certification Program MORRIS COUNTY VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL, Morristown, NJ Clearances

• Former DoD Clearance with the ability to obtain a new DoD Clearance Technical Skills

• CAD CAM Teamcenter CATIA V5 UG NX 2 Graphic Systems Production Assembly Planning Software (IMPCA, MCSII, MRP, MES) Microsoft Office Suite Microsoft Project

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