Engineer Manager

George Horn

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Carthage, Tn. *****

615-***-**** home

615-***-**** cell

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Experience

Involved in Lean Mfg. & Kaizen programs

Through the years I have been a Tool Room Supervisor, Sr. Tooling Engineer, & Tooling Manager – I have supervised in excess of 40 skilled tradesman and production personnel in a manufacturing environment.

Proficient in: MS Word, Excel, Word Perfect, & PowerPoint

Present Position – Substitute School Teacher – Smith County, TN.

Previous position - Tooling Manager – Received severance package due to department elimination at Johnson Controls ,Inc - Murfreesboro plant

Johnson Controls, Inc. - Nissan Business Unit

Oct. 1991- Oct. 3rd. 2008

Murfreesboro, Tn. & Madison, Ms.

Product - Auto & Truck complete seats

Responsible for over $ 35,000,000. In Tooling

• Tool Room Supervisor

• Supervised (4) Tooling Engineers

• Wrote "Tooling Request For Quotes"

• Negotiated tooling costs and lead times

• Wrote tooling Purchase Requisitions

• Helped trouble shoot die design & die quality problems as related to quality part production, example; major line dies such as Cushion Pan dies

• Followed, design and construction progress through reports and on-sight evaluation

• Evaluated and negotiated tooling costs as related to refurbishment of tools

• Followed tool engineering changes to conclusion

• Maintained a database of tools with history and cost of tools

• Coordinated tooling issues between; suppliers, tool vendors, and plant personnel.

Tools involved were: sheet metal dies, plastic injection molds, foam molds, steel rule dies, wire & tube bending tooling, assy. fixtures, weld fixtures, “Water Jet Cutting Fixtures”, gages, etc.

Followed Tooling built in: China, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

Previous position - Sr. Tooling Engineer 1988 – 1991

Atlas Technologies, Inc. - Fenton, Mi.

Responsibilities:

• Wrote “Request for Quotes”

• Sourced sheet metal dies and automation

• Followed construction progress & tryout of dies at builder source and run-up to production status and part quality standard

“Turn-Key” projects – Dies, Presses, Automation

Tooling sourced and construction followed for

Trane – Heating & air conditioning manufacturer

Caloric- A major electric & gas range manufacturer

Dixie Narco- A major vending machine manufacturer

Previous Position –

Tool Room Supervisor 1970 – 1988 - Chev. Mfg. General Motors, Corp. – Flint, Mi.

Supervised skilled tradesmen for; sheet metal, SMC and injection molding operations including new build and ongoing production maintenance

Packard Electric – General Motors, Corp. – Warren, Ohio

Supervised skilled tradesmen for, 240 Injection Molding machines operation

George Horn

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