Engineering Manager

Joshua Homs

PERMANENT ADDRESS: **** Lauren Way NW Acworth, GA 30101 PHONE: 404-***-****

E-MAIL ADDRESS: *******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE Seeking an Industrial Engineer Managing position utilizing excellent leadership skills focused with great integrity, dedication, humility and openness.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hansgrohe Inc. Alpharetta, GA

Engineering Manager June 2011-Present

• Responsible for engineering activities in both manufacturing and distribution at Hansgrohe USA.

• Manage a team of industrial and mechanical engineers.

• Project lead on Kuka robot implementation, purpose to buff (texturize) brass and plastic components used in

finished goods.

• Extensive analysis and cost justification for all projects with small and large capital investment.

• Tampoprint machine project lead, used to lase and/or pad print (marking) components in our base

manufacturing operation.

• Technical operations lead, managing projects from inception to completion including procurement of raw materials for manufacturing of tooling and fixturing via in-house maintenance shop.

• Operations ‘Plus 21’ team lead (savings initiative), directing all operations management towards the company goal of $450,000 in 2011 (107% achieved) and $675,000 in 2012 (on pace to reach 116%).

• Key decision maker across departments such as product planning, logistics, quality, engineering and production.

• Hansgrohe continuous improvement projects largely focus on Lean and Six Sigma principals with high a concentration on constraint theory.

Alpharetta, GA

Industrial Engineer July 2008-June 2011

• Conducted CIP projects on various work centers to improve material flow and overall throughput.

• Created and improved work instructions to assist operator with assembling all type of product.

• Responsible for plant layout of all three US facilities, maintained/modified via AutoCAD package.

• Managed projects from product inception via transfer and/or creation through the pilot run in production.

• Responsible for all SAP routings concerning any and all components/finished goods in-house.

• Engineering ‘Plus 21’ team lead (production savings) 2009/2010 goal of $200,000 (101% achieved).

• Resident expert for laser marking system used throughout entire manufacturing facility.

• All team and individual projects were presented to management and senior management for approval.

Sears Holdings Corp. Atlanta, GA

Field Industrial Engineer February 2006-July 2008

• Developed and implemented engineered standards in over 25 distribution centers to achieve the desired level of accuracy from a statistical basis.

o Increasing productivity in completed buildings by up to 33%.

o Savings of $220k per building annually.

• Projects included frequency analyses, testing, cost analyses and plan implementation all via statistical methods and procedures used in the engineering realm.

• Methods improvement projects in a multiple a distribution network of 20+.

EDUCATION

Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA

Industrial Engineering, BS Degree Dec 2005

• GPA 3.8/4.0

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Proficient in SAP

• Proficient in AutoCAD (2005-2012 Packages)

• Familiar in SolidWorks

• Familiar in RedPrairie DLx and ProRep software.

CERTIFICATIONS

• H.B. Maynard

• MTM-UAS

• Essentials of Leadership – Emory University (continuing education)

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