Raquel Knutson

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Washington, IL *1571

Phone: 309-***-****

Education

B.S. in Industrial Engineering May 1996

North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota

Emphasis:

Quality Control

Process Management

Process Development

B.S. in Chemistry May 1996

North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota

Work Experience

Caterpillar Inc.: Present

Product Support and Logistic Division Transformation Workstream Team Lead

Manage cross vertical team negative OPAAC-C cost and pricing projects targeted at implementing corrective actions to reduce negative OPACC-C for the enterprise

Investigate cost reduction opportunities on components within SD&D design controls. Line of site to $1.2 M in cost savings

Development of collaboration tool APOLLO that enables the identification of duplicate projects at the part number level to be identified across work streams to eliminate waste with duplicate efforts. Adopted across transformation workstreams, cross vertical teams and BCP product group

Kitting and Repower Lead May 2001 to August 2019

Engineering Manager within Kit Product Group

Lead team of 15 in the management of a $750M in annual revenue kit portfolio

Team oversaw and completed 560 new kit releases in 2019 for an addition $4.2M in revenue growth for the enterprise

NPI Project Manager within Upgrade and Retrofits Product Group

Managed 112 NPI projects that provided upgrade products to the aftermarket resulting in $78M in incremental revenue

Worked with multiple product groups and dealerships on development, validation and promotion of upgrades into the market

Corporate Kitting Strategy Manager within Core Component Product Group

Managed projects to establish a Corporate Kitting Process

NPI Black Belt within Kit Development Team

Lead 29 Six Sigma projects resulting in $250M in new kits and Caterpillar Certified Rebuilds

Black Belt within Emission Retrofit Solutions Group (ERSG)

Lead 14 Six Sigma projects resulting in $11M in level one benefits

Implemented new emission product strategies for after treatment products

Developed emission upgrade kit process for 3306 engines

Established the emission information section in TMI

Repower Engine Consultant within Emissions Retrofit Solutions Group

Worked directly with dealers to develop regulated emission engines for 250 unregulated machines resulting in 18.2M in revenue in engine and related part sale

Worked with the California Air Resources Board to define emission upgrade requirements to ensure Caterpillar brand integrity.

Worked directly with Caterpillar customers on Carl Moyer and Texas Air Resource emission funding request applications

Morton Metalcraft: June 1999 to May 2001

Account Engineer

Produced quotes, established process plan for part flow through the plant.

Troubleshoot fabrication issues

Worked with Caterpillar procurement teams on cost reduction and design improvement ideas for sheet metal components for Caterpillar Inc. Aurora and La Grange Plant

Collaborated with Caterpillar and other suppliers to optimize each supplier’s production rates and process resulting in Caterpillar getting lower costs

Case IH Steiger Plant: June 1998 to June 1999

Product Control Engineer

Managed plant process for new product prototype, pilot and production plans

Managed bill of materials, purchasing requirements, engineering changes and test plans

Case IH Concord Plant: Oct. 1996 to June 1998

Manufacturing Engineer

Manager over air seeder assembly line, and weld lines.

Set-up new product assembly plans

Managed training for employees on new product assembly

Managed projects for process improvements

Inventory management lead over 5 people

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