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Quality Engineer

Location:
Columbus, IN, 47201
Posted:
June 29, 2022

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Resume:

Micheal L. Humes

*** ********* ******

Columbus, Indiana 47201

812-***-****

**********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

I am looking for a quality engineer, quality manager, or supervisor position with a company that designs and/or manufactures consumer products or automotive components. I am interested in working for a company that assembles and produces plastic and/or metal components.

SKILLS:

• Good communication skills

• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, Power Point

• SPC knowledge and understanding

• PPAP, FMEA, APQP knowledge

• ISO 9001 knowledge and understanding

• TS 16949 Knowledge and understanding

• Customer interaction experience

• Familiar with GD&T, reading engineering drawings, and reading layout data EXPERIENCE:

• Thirty-five years working in a manufacturing environment - plastic injection molding, plastic roto-molding, plastic blow-molding, electro-coating, metal stamping, and CNC machining

• Twenty years of quality experience in a manufacturing environment

• Quality initiation leader for a variety of consumer and automotive products and components

• Testing and regulation knowledge of consumer products, packaging, plastics, and metals

• Worked with the CPSC for numerous years on consumer product safety committees

• Worked with Cummins Engine Company Quality Engineers

• Worked on OEM component launches with suppliers to Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota, and Honda EDUCATION:

Hanover College

Hanover, Indiana

Fields of Study: Science and Mathematics (Pre-Medicine) Term: Two years

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Terre Haute, Indiana

Field of Study: Mechanical Engineering

Term: Summer coursework

WORK HISTORY:

The Phillips Company, Inc.

Edinburgh, Indiana

June 2019 to Present

Quality Engineer

• Operate CMM machine (Brown and Sharp with PC-DMIS software)

• Prepare and submit all pre-production approval part (PPAP) documents

• Represent the company for all ISO 9001 annual audits

• Prepare the documentation for the annual ISO audits

• Perform internal process audits

• Write up in-process work instructions and receiving instruction

• Perform incoming, and final audits

• Maintain customer specifications and requirements database MA Metals, Company, Inc.

Edinburgh, Indiana

January 2017 to February 2019

PPAP, Source Release and Compliance Coordinator

• Prepared and submit all pre-production approval part documents and samples

• Performed internal layered process audits

• Wrote up in-process work instructions and receiving instruction reports

• Performed incoming, final audit, and shipping dock inspections

• Maintained customer specifications and requirements database Gestamp

South Charleston, West Virginia

January 2016 to August 2016

Field Quality Engineer

• Monitor the quality and delivery of all parts coming into and out of our suppliers and to our customer (Honda)

• Disposition non-conforming material

• Investigate and resolve on-site quality issues

• Set-up, oversee, and track all 3rd party sorts at our supplier locations

• Review and distribute technical reports from customers Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturer (T.I.E.M.) Columbus, Indiana

April 2013 to July 2015

Quality Engineer

• Investigate dealer / customer warranty claims

• Disposition non-conforming material

• Investigate and resolve in-house quality issues in assembly and other supporting departments

• Track and chart A, B, C, and D defects for in-house processes

• Review Technical reports from dealers

ITSUWA USA, LLC

Columbus, Indiana S

September 2011 to April 2013

Quality Engineer

• Prepare PPAP’s and other documents for our customers

• Meet with and work closely with the purchasing, engineering and quality departments of our tier one and tier two customers

• Perform internal salt spray and water immersion testing

• Arrange testing to be perform by outside laboratories

• Perform daily film quality testing, i.e. film thickness, adhesion, pencil hardness

• Perform routine line audits

• Sort defect parts

• Write work instructions

• Perform 8-D and other CAR’s from our customers

• Perform root-cause analysis on internal non-conforming parts

• Preparing documents of procedures and processes for ISO certification audit

• Meet with new and/or potential customers and explain and address their concerns and questions

• Manage Health and Safety documents (MSDS),procedures

• Assist with waste water treatment system

STRATOSPHERE QUALITY

Fishers, Indiana

March 2010 to September 2011

Project Quality Supervisor

• Oversaw the launch, work in-process, and final inspections at PK USA (a tier one and tier two automotive manufacturer)

• Managed a staff of inspectors up to 13 at once across two locations

• Managed scheduling to customer’s needs and/or requirements

• Coordinated staffing with the local staffing agencies

• Worked with customer quality engineers and quality managers on current and new quality issues

• Wrote work instructions and trained inspectors on proper procedures and inspection techniques

R&R Technologies, LLC

Edinburgh, Indiana

December 2007 to February 2009

Quality Manager / Quality Engineer

• Managed the Return Material Authorization (RMA) process

• Performed Pre-Production Approval Processes (PPAP) per customer requirements

• Managed the internal and external Corrective Action Requests (CAR’s)

• Supervised one quality technician.

• Managed internal and customer quality issues

• Tracked supplier material quality and certification

• Interacted with the Customers and engineers on product design issues as they related to manufacturing, processing, and quality

• Assisted with maintaining compliance and certification of ISO 9001 program COSCO, INC. (DOREL JUVENILE GROUP)

Columbus, Indiana

January 1988 to August 2007

Quality Engineer Technician / Certified Testing Technician

• Maintained the standards and regulations database

• Oversaw the Juvenile Product Manufacturers’ Association (JPMA) program process

• Performed testing and certification of new products, vendors, and materials

• Performed audits for quality and compliance on finished goods and in-progress production

• Performed failure analyses on products that were returned from customers

• Researched new product information by using historical quality issues and similar product recalls

• Maintained equipment needed for the Columbus quality laboratory and the quality laboratory at the Company’s other locations

Team Leader

• Oversaw the day-to-day production of the assembly line with up to 25 hourly associates

• Managed assembly line production schedule

• Managed line efficiency

• Was responsible for assembly line and product quality ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Set up a Quality Management System for a new Japanese company in the US.

• I passed the ISO 9001 re-certification after only six months of employment at R&R Technologies. This achievement came after one and a half years of very little quality management at the facility.

• I had a test method published in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard for carriages and strollers. This test in F833 was designed to test the structural integrity of the carriage or stroller. The test was modified a little (weight location change), but still followed the same procedure and protocol.

• I was involved in the design and quality of over 500 consumer products without a single government recall.

• I organized and upgraded the quality laboratory in at Dorel Juvenile Group (Columbus manufacturing plant) so that it was certifiable by a third party accredited laboratory. MEMBERSHIPS:

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Participating Committees:

• Consumer Products

• Packaging

• Non-Destructive Testing

• Quality Sampling



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