Engineer Management

Location:

Grand Prairie, TX, 75054

Salary:

70,000 - 80,000 PY

Posted:

May 09, 2012

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KEITH WATERS

682-***-****

Grand Prairie, Texas *5054

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

SUMMARY

A Proven Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering background, with collective Hands-On experience in both arenas. Practiced in using the acquired and developed skills of Six-Sigma, cause and corrective action and resolution implementation to collaborative efforts that can encompass from labor assets and equipment to processes and production design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSILES & FIRE CONTROL DALLAS - Grand Prairie, Tx 1996 - 2011

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, 2006 – 2011

Shop floor liaison: Process development, verification and documentation. Provide Cause and Resulting Corrective Actions for production quality and manufacturing staff.

Used Shadowboxing, for the more complicated machine set-up with, showing verified savings in excess of $250K

Assisted production management in development of Proof Process procedure, ending documentation redundancy.

Collaborated with the development and design of Specialized Tooling resulting in reduced rejections.

Sr. Industrial Engineer 1996 - 2006

Develop and apply type-1 labor standards for machine shop, sheet metal fabrication and cost estimating operations. Review and report labor performance of the type-1 labor standards. Perform shop floor liaison duties between Cost Management and Production Management.

Assisted the IE. department in recovering from a 3 month standards application backlog.

Lead a 24 person Performance Management Team to award status.

Collaborated and Synergized company facilities departments to combine and complete the refurbishment of the Lead Edge, Space Shuttle manufacturing facility.

Lead shop floor liaison to the Space Station Heat Rejection Panel assembly facility. Received corporate Presidential Commendation.

TYLER PIPE CORP - Tyler, Tx. 1994 - 1996

Sr. Lead Industrial Engineer

Lead in the Training of, 4 new and 1 newly recruited, industrial engineers in the MOST Standard Data Development System for creation of and application of Type-1 Labor Standards. Analyzed the existing machining capacities, made machine tool recommendations and optimized production.

Arranged for and orchestrated the successful training of 5 industrial engineers in the MOST Standard Data Development System.

The developed standard data, by the newly trained industrial engineers, withstood intense Union scrutiny.

Refined the perishable tooling used in the casting production line which equated to approx. $25k per year, savings, in tool costs.

Recommended and initiated the purchase of major machine tooling that level loaded the machine capacity and ultimately expanded the product line.

LTV - Loral Vought Systems (Pres. Lockheed), - Grand Prairie, Tx. 1984 - 1994

Sr. Industrial Engineer

Start the development of a standard data base and applications system, for Type-1 labor standards, using the MOST Standard Data system. After completion, the developed data was used in labor standards development for the machining, fabrication and assembly areas.

Industrial Engineer

Documented, Developed and Implemented labor standards, from corporate standards manuals, for the machine shop, sheet metal fabrication and electrical sub-assembly departments. Became Certified in the MOST system and started labor standards development to achieve Military Standard 1567-A compliance.

Halliburton Corp.

Gearhart Industries, Ft. Worth, Tx.

Sr. Sr. Process Planner

Develop, Document and Implement process labor planning for the machine shop, truck body fabrication facility as well as the electrical assembly areas. Identify opportunities that aided in machine set-ups, fabrication processes and electrical assembly protections.

Developed electrical assembly transportation carriages reducing number of accidental in-plant transportation damage. The developed standard data, by the newly trained industrial engineers, withstood intense Union scrutiny. Recommended and initiated purchase.

Contributed in assistance of completing outstanding process planning for truck body fabrication department.

Collaborated with fabrication departments to design and develop work areas that meet better ergonomic needs as well as work area supplies.

Collaborated with machine shop floor to coordinate production control operations with production requirements of the machine operators.

Comprise two person team that wrote, documented and implemented machine shop process planning.

Otis Engineering, Carrollton, Tx. Sr. Machine Shop Manufacturing Analyst

Develop, Document and Implement process labor standards for the machine shop, investigate machining process, collaborate with shop management to resolve and document reported process problems. These abilities came as have a previous machine operator status.

Obtained MTM-(Methods Time Management) Certification, which enabled me to develop and semi automated standards development using the newly developing standard data.

TRAINING:

Lockheed Human Resource Management: Leadership Core Curriculum