Senior Manufacturing Manager

CRAIG A. SCHWARZ

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SENIOR MANUFACTURING MANAGER

Leading with Integrity and Technical Expertise

PROFILE

A results-producing performer with comprehensive management, production, and engineering experience. Project and Operations Professional with a record of consistent success driving the planning and execution of mission critical projects. A key player in a wide range of formats with a record of exemplary professional performance and achievement always focused on finding solutions to every problem.

Able to remain calm and work well in high-pressure situations, possessing a genuine respect for personnel at all levels; interpersonal skills mesh very well with achieving maximum productivity from every job. Constantly seeking new challenges and process improvements. A professionally driven individual with a strong work ethic and the desire to exceed expectations in all aspects of professional endeavor.

• An exceptional multi-tasker, adept at quickly and successfully responding to ever-changing environments and situations. Consistently achieves goals, meets critical project deadlines, and delivers results. Thrives on deadlines, able to prioritize, applies philosophy that “Saying no is not an option.”

• A builder of high-performance production teams and a natural Achiever, Team Leader, and Mentor who excels in environments requiring high-level strategy, big picture thinking, and hands-on tactical execution. Superior problem solving, engineering, and communication skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Automotive Molding • Medical Molding • Process Improvement • Project Management • Tooling

Injection Molding • Automated Assembly Work Cells • MS Project • APQP Documentation

Parts and Product Qualification • Robotics • Decorating • Assembly Automation • Purchasing

Training • Plant Engineering • Maintenance • End of Arm Tooling • Part Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Engineering Consulting Services Keokuk, IA 2009 to Present

Consulting Engineer

Support installations and maintenance for major clients.

• Established reputation for outstanding customer support.

The Tech Group – West Pharmaceutical Grand Rapids, MI 2006 to 2009

Project Manager

Project Manager for installation and qualification of 15 automated clean room Medical IV Device assembly lines.

Developed Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, and Product Qualification Protocols and Reports. Scheduled project and managed timing constraints. Established Laboratory testing facility, protocols, and employee training to meet customer and FDA requirements. Excelled at team building.

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Key Plastics – A Key Automotive Group Howell, MI 2005 to 2006

Manufacturing / Tooling Engineer

Interfaced with internal and external customer, plant, quality and engineering, design, and account managers.

Made tooling design interface, approvals and recommendations, follow-up to launch, troubleshooting, and mistake proofing.

• Managed new product launch schedules, door assembly automation work cells, and ancillary capital equipment.

Gilreath Incorporated / Injectronics Inc, Howell, MI 1998 to 2004

Facilities / Engineering Manager

Managed manufacturing, industrial, packaging, process, and tooling engineering, estimating, feasibility, and engineering contract review. Maintenance / Facilities Engineering, predictive and preventive maintenance programs.

• Launched over 125 injection molds per year with highly automated secondary assembly equipment with mistake proofing for multiple car lines and customer programs, on time, within budget, meeting or exceeded customer goals and expectations.

• Developed cost reduction programs that realized real tangable bottom line savings.

• Automated the Injection Molding Machines, Robotics, and automated press side assembly equipment incorporating robot load and unload into secondary equipment, (POKA-YOKE) mistake proofing of value added components.

• Led automotive program launches and all Engineering deliverables defined by APQP process resolving scheduling conflicts.

McKechnie Plastic Components Easley, SC 1997 to 1998

Director of Engineering

Directed two divisions of Engineering, reorganizing two divisions consolidating into one.

• Established cost reduction program which generated $2,000,000 in real savings.

Automotive Industries Inc. – Lear Corporation Greencastle, IN 1996 to 1997

Program Manager – Tooling

Automotive Industries, Inc. Greencastle, IN 1990 to 1996

Engineering Manager

EDUCATION

Associate of Mechanical Arts and Science, Automotive Southeastern Community College Burlington, IA

Associate of Science, Industrial Engineering Owens Corning College Toledo, OH

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

The Institute of Industrial Engineers

Society of Plastic Engineers

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