Eric Hilton
Cell: 330-***-**** (*********@*****.***) Canton, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Versatile manager engineer focused on a company’s future culture in customer satisfaction and operational improvement. Team performance promoting a start to finish mentality in an organized and trained clean safe atmosphere for employee involvement where quality is everyone’s responsibility.
SKILLS
Manufacture Engineering Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering
Project Management Cost Reduction Optimization
Lean, Six Sigma Failure-mode Analysis Cause and Effect
Problem Solving Flexible Work Ethic 5S Methodology
Preventative Maintenance Trend Tracking Critical Parts Analysis
Solution Building Reliability & Repeatability Supporting documentation
Analytical Data Organization Brainstorming Positive Thinking
MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint AutoCAD & Solidworks Operator Minitab Statistical
Negotiations Contract Drafting Technical Support
EXPERIENCE
Feburary 2023- Present, Morbark Wooster, Rayco Manufacturing, Wooster, Ohio
Design Engineer
• Create, alter, modify, and revise parts, sub-assemblies and final assembly of company product in Solidworks software.
• Create, alter, modify, and revise part items and bills of materials in Oracle based JDE MRP systems.
• Duties and responsibilities include start to finish project management of product builds including mechanical operating components, steel selection, purchased parts, hydraulic components, outside vendors, and customer communications.
June 2021- Feburary 2023, Bates Metal, Port Washington, Ohio
Design Engineer and Estimator
•Conceptualize, create, and design parts, sub-assemblies and final assembly of static and moving parts in Solidworks software.
•Develop estimates and proposals to customer inquires.
•Support maintenance with preventative procedures, engineering, and technical parts and equipment replacement.
December 2020 – June 2021, Powell Electric, North Canton, Ohio
Wirer - Wirer Assembly
•Wire industrial AC and DC electric switchgear units.
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August 2020 – December 2020, CW Services, Amazon Distribution Center, Akron, Ohio
Shift Maintenance Manager
•Audit preventative maintenance activities in a 24/7 manufacturing facility.
•Direct Supervision of maintenance technicians.
•Monitor work orders, tragedy and remedy tickets, and safety practices.
•Interface with service vendors.
August 2018 – August 2020, Winkle Industries, Alliance, Ohio
Estimator
•Maintain capitol estimate records, and review final labor and purchase cost.
•Create and solicit request for quote on materials and services to potential projects.
•Increase profit margins on most estimate projects by 45 to 120 percent.
•Develop AutoCAD prints for preliminary estimate review, vendor review, engineering, and customer proposal.
•Contact drafting of proposals.
May 2015- July 2018, Matalco, Lordstown, Ohio
Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance Manager
•Launch new Green Field 24/7 continental shift manufacturing facility.
•Monitor production control to forecast preventative maintenance schedules.
•Create hazard assessment controls for maintenance and production processes.
•Initiated troubleshooting and diagnostic measures for equipment from quantitative analysis.
•Prioritize risk analysis to develop and coordinate maintenance for production efficiency.
•Train and mentor maintenance force.
•Negotiated contractor and vendor contracts for services.
August 2014 - May 2015, Ohio Magnetics, Division of Winsmith / Peerless, Maple Heights, Ohio
Mechanical Design Engineer
•Design structural and mechanical components and drives in AutoCAD for industrial magnets and magnetic separators used in the mineral and steel industries.
•Develop production controls in project builds for manufacturing process.
•Coordinate and resolve process constraints associated with new designs.
•Plan bill of materials and routers in manufacturing requirement system.
March 2011- July 2014, Fives Bronx, North Canton, Ohio
Aftermarket Brand Manager Engineer
•Provided leadership and development managing OEM Aftermarket parts and solutions.
•Negotiated customer sales and vendor services drafting proposals and contracts.
•Maintain customer communicate with outreach and outbound calling.
•Responsible for profits and aftermarket budget accountability.
•Assisted customer engineering and maintenance with parts, service, instruction, and education.
•Increased sales with forecasting objectives produced with analytics and data analysis.
•Responsible for strategic thinking influencing and increasing customer purchases by 30 percent.
•Increased yearly profit margin from 20 percent to 55 percent.
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2006-2010, PTC Alliance Midwest Tubular, Alliance, Ohio
Industrial Engineer
•Industrial engineering responsibilities for multi-facility support
•Responsibilities included; process and worker time studies; worker classification modification and revise; pay rate adjustments, and green belt six sigma business projects.
•Organized and prepared data analysis supporting solutions to manufacturing processes.
•Conducted time studies to support process downtime reductions by 28 percent.
•Project manage mechanical capital improvement projects resulting in 35 percent cost reductions.
Defined benchmark layout and process variations increasing process efficiencies by 25 percent
Reduced existing project purchase price proposals to capital improvements by 35 percent.
•Modified job classifications to reduce operating cost resulting in 80,000 dollars per year.
•Qualified vendors for proposals, manufacture work scopes, and negotiated purchase details.
•Monitor production control matrix for process control improvements.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science
Manufacturing Technology, Kent State University, New Philadelphia, Ohio
Associate of Science
Mechanical Engineering Technology, Stark State College, North Canton
Advanced Training Certificate
Six Sigma Green Belt, Mini-Tab Software, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Advanced Training Certificate
Time Study & Methods Procedure, Industrial Time Study Institute, Barberton, Ohio
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