Engineer Manufacturing

MATTHEW TOWNSEND

*** ***** **** ****** ******** AR 72150

Phone: 870-***-****

Email: ********.********@*****.***

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Innovative professional with 8 years of project management experience and project leadership roles with the ability to determine the best course of action to meet strategic business objectives.

Collaborative team player with the ability to ensure proper execution of project scope, budget, and schedule adherence.

Resourceful individual with the ability to create a project vision, enable collaboration, solve challenging problems, prioritize, and communicate with entry level and executive teams.

Lifelong learner with dedication and the ability to integrate new knowledge and concepts with experience.

Inquisitive leader with history of managing multiple strategic projects within product categories and portfolios to drive operational excellence for growth and profitability. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JULY 2013 – OCTOBER 2020

SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER

KOHLER COMPANY, SHERIDAN AR

Established a strong foundation of success by leading projects within the manufacturing plant by developing projects to drive implementation for new products, continuous improvement, meet regulatory requirements, and drive operational excellence. Success Examples:

Demonstrated innovation by developing and implementing project to facilitate over $1M in annual savings while implementing the first collaborative robot for the business globally. Honored to present at Kohler’s global conference for innovative technology by the request of the executive leadership team.

Increased on time customer order fulfillment by over 20% and increased output by 250% to meet growing demand of product line.

Worked across multiple divisions with New Product Development teams to quote, define customer requirements, define equipment to meet requirements, and implement into manufacturing facility.

Define equipment needs and specifications to drive needed capacity for growth.

Defined project to in-source components to improve quality, reduce WIP, and utilize open capacity in work centers, and lower standard cost of products for a targeted annual saving of $2M.

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MACH 2011 – JULY 2013

PROCESS ENGINEER

FABPRO ORIENTED POLYMERS

Showed excellent ability to grow and learn in an entry level position to quickly move into roles of increasing responsibility.

Success Examples:

Worked on ERP/MRP implementation team to define system implementation requirements for successful launch.

Defined equipment requirements and costs for extrusion line upgrades to improve throughput, improve quality, reduce scrap, minimize downtime, and reduce change over time.

Worked with team to develop new high tenacity fibers to meet customer demands.

Worked with team to define equipment solutions for packaging of new high tenacity fibers.

Maximized use of recycled content in products.

Updated quality documents to meet and maintain ICC accreditation for certain products. EDUCATION

DECEMBER 2010

MASTERS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURG KS

GPA 3.9

AUGUST 2006 – DECEMBER 2009

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURG KS

SKILLS AND TRAINING

Project Management

Communication

Problem solving

Lean/Six Sigma Principles

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office Products

CAD systems

PMP Certification (In-Process)

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