RICKY J. LAW SR.

Warren, OH ***** Cell#: 330-***-****

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SENIOR TOOL ENGINEER

Rick Law Sr.

Corp. Senior Tool Engineer

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Cell Phone#: 330-***-****

SENIOR TOOL ENGINEER

Accomplished professional with extensive experience in injection mold design, program management, plant engineering, tool room management, and employee relations for Fortune 500 brands. Highly skilled in overseeing EOAT building in house, and injection mold repair with tool room. Hands on working with all internal team, external suppliers, and customers. Adept in working with molds including, B-Series, A-Series, closure, stripper, shuttle, unscrewing, stack, hydraulic, mechanical, extruded, vertical, horizontal, blow, rotary, Thermo-Set, and Thermo-Plastic Resin molds. Known for identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions which enhance performance, improved processes, quality, cycle time, and achieve business goals. Teaching all corporate engineering department personnel courses on Amorphous vs. Semi-Crystalline Polymers properties, characteristics, basic part Design techniques for making quality molded parts, and basic injection molding process at the press. Writing (PM) programs for molds internally, & externally, for tool room mold maintenance based on mold cycles at injection press.

Corporate Tool Engineer: Responsibilities to improve new, & existing molded product quality, productivity, & overall equipment efficiency. Reduce new mold cycle times in production to maximize press capacity. Manage all activities of engineering department, & Tool Room personnel. Responsible for mold design, 2-D, & 3-D part print designs, Manufacturing, product support design, & support of engineering changes to product design. Work with QC Department to resolve issues with Customer. Also work sales department with Customer support. Work with mold tooling room personnel to support in-house production operations. Help develop, & maintain process documentation on mold PMs, & work with process personal in-house to resolve injection press production issues. Work with supplier in new tool builds & repairs out of house. Maintain weekly meetings with Suppliers on new tool builds. Review timing (APQP-Meetings) with Suppliers for internal company review. Attend first shots (try-out) at Suppliers facilities. Work with QC department on part design approval with supplier & attend these meetings. Review with Supplier the DFM’s, Mold flow reviews, & tool design approvals.

Experience with Automotive (Big-Three), Appliances: Whirlpool, & Maytag, & Pharmaceutical Medical Devise designs. Past worked with Customers: Baxter, Colgate, GE, Whirlpool, CERTAINTEED Family of Products, Pharmaceutical Medical Plastics devises for Schering Plough, Johnson & Johnson, & Gatorade.

Reside in Warren, Ohio 44483

Authorized to work in the US for any Employer: No Restrictions

Company Location, & Remote work, & (Up-To) 50% travel as required.

Work experience to present 2023.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN PLASTICS FIELD

Cost Estimation

Writing PO’s

Quotation, & Cost Breakdown

Program Leadership

Cost Savings

Tooling, & Part Design 70K Hrs.

Customer Support

Troubleshooting on floor

Management

Process Improvement

Team Leadership

Manufacturing

Research and Analysis

Injection Molding

Preventative Maintenance

Engineering

Components / Resins

Hands on 5-S Tool Room

Scrap Reductions

Aid in Engineering Drawings

Oversee DFM, & Mold Flow Analysis.

Work with Design Review, & Approval

EOAT

Internal Plastic Training

Oversee Supplier Support in Design

5-S Injection Presses

Microsoft Professional office

Training Classes in-house Engineers on Product Design, Properties of Plastics

Plan Tools Repairs W/Production

Hands on work with Inj. Process Personnel.

Training internal Eng. Personnel in classes.

EXPERIENCE

Menards, Warren, OH. 2022 Jan. – 2022 Sept. 10

Sales Role:

Hands-on sales role in house part-time.

Notes:

Goals: Working on Bachelor of Business Administration (BSBA) Expected 2027

I left Menards to pursue and focus on a new opportunity in Engineering role.

Inteva Products, Troy, MI 2017 – OCT. 7th, 2021

Senior Corporate Tool Engineer Manager for North America, Mexico, and Off-Shore

Manage full cycle of tooling programs, provide exceptional customer support, and foster development of team members.

Teaching all Corporate Engineering personnel plastic courses on Amorphous vs Semi-Crystalline Polymers

properties, characteristics, & basic part Design techniques for quality plastic parts.

Perform cost estimation and oversee PPAP Approval for final payment following program cradle to production.

Identified potential issues with implementation or available resources that may affect schedule / budget and communicated problems to senior leadership and team.

Worked with internal team and external customers to jointly determine customer needs and solutions.

Working Hands-on with Corp. Engineering Group Team, Engineering and Process personnel in-house, and out of house with suppliers.

Reduce outgoing tooling cost to new in-house capabilities.

Review and follow all new molding tooling cradle to grave.

Write PO based on supplier quotation and cost breakdowns, then review cost savings on quotations with suppliers.

Leverage tooling experience in mold building, molding, and manufacturing to work with Engineering Department.

Oversee Tool Design, CAD, DFM mold review, mold flow analysis, EOAT for molds with press, tooling standards compliance.

Complete tooling design review, and approval for tool kick-off to build tooling.

Management, & Secure engineering support for all product launches.

Cultivate trusted relationships with customers to provide engineering support on engineering changes.

Represent company and attend mold try-outs at supplier prior to tool shipping.

Work with (PE-Product Engineer) Product Engineering Group changes with existing vendors all tools.

Perform tool trouble shooting and problem resolution for molds, injection molding, and tooling room in house.

Review part gauging, GD&T working knowledge (Tight Tolerance-Customer Part Print Requirements).

Attending all APQP Meeting and review of program timing, and update management weekly.

Create, document, develop, and deliver procedures to ensure the tooling meets all targets.

Support sales, purchasing and program management in evaluation of tooling.

Improve tooling processes and related issues by taking a pro-active lead in the Continuous Improvement Activities.

Lead individuals and team meetings when implementing engineering changes, improvements, and major repairs.

Communicate with contractors, and tool shops for Cost Breakdowns and quotations, for new, and outside existing repairs.

Hands on Lead a team of tool room employees and working with process personnel.

Develop and maintain mold drawing library for future history, and cost.

Direct Corporate Mold design quotes for PO’s, ECR, and Repairs.

Reviewed and maintained customer supplied part drawings and specifications.

Document all tooling data for all new and existing tools in house.

WILBERT PLASTICS, Bellevue, OH 2016 to 2017

Senior Corporate & Plant Tool Engineer Manager

Directed and executed cost estimates, reviewed new designs, and achieved cost reductions on mold building molds with vendors, Try-out Reports, and quoted engineering changes.

Spearheaded the launch, improvement, and optimization of the tooling.

Supported the program management, purchasing, maintenance, manufacturing, and quality teams with technical support/expertise regarding tooling.

Working with tool room and molding process teams on all shifts to improve process control on molds.

Improve Press Capacity in house with quicker set up times.

Reduce molding scrap in house with process personal and press updates.

Create, document, develop and deliver procedures to ensure the tooling meets all targets relating to quality and cost.

Travel to tooling suppliers to monitor tool building in-house process, and timing.

Program tracking and follow up of new program tooling scheduled for facility. (On-time Delivery)

Evaluate all existing tooling and develop a plan for managing the tooling processes.

Lead individuals and team meetings when implementing engineering changes, and improvement.

Support Tool and Die departments with root cause analysis and repair plans.

Communicate with contractors and shops for outside repairs, timing, designs.

Maintain current knowledge of tool and die industry technology and advances.

AUTOPLAS - WMG-AUTOMOTIVE CORP., Bellevue, OH 2012 – 2016

Senior Plant Tool Engineer Manager

Management of Structure PM, Design, "EOAT", and achieved cost reductions on assigned projects. Reduced scrap levels. New vendor selection and oversaw new tooling construction. Review new mold designs, jigs, and managed the secondary fixtures, manage tool room daily work, and restructured tool room to 5S level. Worked with Lean Team projects. Reviewed customer specifications, blueprints, shop data and interfaced with shop personnel to resolve design problems related to dimensional tolerance, manufacturing procedures and production efficiencies.

Reviewed and maintained customer supplied part drawings and specifications. Identified problems with implementation, or available resources that may affect schedule, or budget and communicated information. Work with others in the organization as well as customers to jointly determine customer needs and solutions.

Reorganizing tool room to support production molding needs and reduce “out-sourced” cost of tooling annually.

Review and follow all new molding tooling cradle to grave.

Saved $500k annually on outgoing mold repairs done in house.

INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS (ICA), Huron, OH 2008 – 2012

Senior Plant Tool Engineer Manager

Hands-on management of tooling for plant and all projects. Structure PM's schedules and manage robotic secondary fixture process. Cost control of assigned projects. Determine vendor sources for tool construction. Design of molds, Jig’s and fixtures in-house.

Manage new, and existing molds (Oversee over 1k Mold and Plus tooling fixtures In-House) for big three customers.

Directly oversee builds for E.O.A.T. in house injection press, and other secondary Equipment.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Mar-Bal Inc., Chardon, OH, Corporate Senior Tooling Engineer Manager 2006 – 2008

Andover Industries Corporation, Andover, OH, Corporate Senior Tooling Engineer and Part Design 1999 – 2006

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration (BSBA) Expected 2027

Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

Associate of Science (AS) in Mechanical Engineering

Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

USMC, Rank: E-3 (3 years active duty and 3 years reserved) Honorable Discharge (DD-214)

TECHNICAL

Pro-E, Auto-Cad, Master Cam, Cad-key, Solid Works, and UG Software for Automotive (Big-Three)

Appliances: Whirlpool, Maytag, Pharmaceutical Medical Device Designs

Linked-in

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