George Olivo

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EXPERIENCE:

• Contract; June 2012- Dec 2012; Spherion for client SPARTAN MOTORS, mfg & assembly of walk in vans.

• Manufacture Engineer - Responsible as a Bristol team (Layout, PFEP, Processes) member, to move a plant from Wakarusa Indiana to a new facility in the township of Bristol Indiana. My direct responsibility was to coordinate a group of manufacture engineers to develop, restructure, improve along the way & write out detail processes to correlate the future production layout. In addition, approve future fixture design in regards to meeting criteria’s: consolidated processes, safety, ergonomics, and time.

• Contract; Nov 2009- April 2012; Multax for client BOEING SC, assembly & manufacture of composite sections 47 & 48 fuselage for the 787 Dreamliner Program, Charleston SC.

• Sr. I.E. Lean LVL4–Responsibilities & achievements identify production inefficiencies & developed works STDS with visual procedures. Create complex STDs elements with values time study techniques +-5% of MTM. These elements were composed in values N, NE, V created in excel for the AIW (Accelerated Improvement Workshops) events throughout manufacturing & assembly to reduce cycle time by an average of 50%. In addition, support the BRT (Boeing Research & Technology), EI (Employee Involvement) teams & LMA (Lean Manufacturing Assessments). The data was used throughout the department for Proposals for Kaizens projects, bar charts, & planning. Reported Status to management both the Manufacture of composites (cells 20-140 & NDI) & the assembly department (cells 160-217). Achieve & awarded in the record breaking LMA score throughout the Boeing industries, from a score of 1pt in 2010 to a score of 3pts in 2011 (note, "LMA scale ranges from 1 to 5 & rarely do scores improve by more than 0.5 from assessment to assessment").

• Contract; Dec 2008-Oct 2009; Superior Controls, for client BAE SYSTEMS, assembly of military vehicles (MRAP, & FMATV’s) Houston Texas.

• Consultant Sr. I.E. /Manufacture Engineer- responsible for the development of the MRAP prototypes build process, cab, frame & main sub/assembly lines with work instructions, torque tools, fixtures, containerization, layout, routings & manpower. Work with the use of MAPICS AS400 system & Collaborated with BAE engineers, supervisors, & management for on line production. In addition, assisted the rebalance of the multiples FMATV’s.

• Contract; Mar 2008- Oct 2008; System Research Inc., for client GLOBAL AERONAUTICA, assembly of the composite fuselage for the 787 Dreamliner program, Charleston SC.

• Sr. IE Time study LVL5–Identify production inefficiencies & create for GA; historically first time STD composite elements for aerospace assembly of joint sections of the fuselage. These elements were than used to establish processes, schedules, & method improvements/Kaizens.

• Contract; Dec 2007- Mar 2008; Mid-States Technical, for client TEREX CRANES,

Wilmington NC, Assembly of Towers & Cranes.

• Manufacture Engineer-facilitate associates lean manufacture techniques to their assembly of crawler cranes, weld towers department along with the usual ME function. Achieve reorganization of the process to the crawler assembly plant.

• Contract; July 2007- Nov 2007; Aerotek, for client UTILIMASTER, mfg & assembly of walk in vans.

• Sr. I.E. - Responsible for assisting on going CI/ Kaizens Projects, plant layout using AutoCAD, implemented layouts, time- studies & cost for assembly/mill departments.

• Contract; Jan 2007 – July 2007; Adecco for client GUNITE CORPORATION an Accuride Co. Milling & assembly of cast drums, hubs & wheels for commercial truck, buses, & RV’s industry, Elkhart IN.

• Sr. Industrial Engineer -Developed entire cost of their commercial truck/trailers drums, hubs & wheels processes. In addition, provided pertinent information to all the operations regarding Continuous improvement (Kaizen).

• Contract; Oct 2006 – Jan 2007; MST for client CONSOLIDATED DIESEL COMPANY, mfg & assembly of an array of diesel & natural gas power engines under Cummins brand, Whitakers NC.

• Sr. Industrial Engineer - Taking part of a massive 8 million dollar project to gather data, analyze, revise, & predetermine the present plus new products of engines. This data is being developed using a predetermined computer software program,"Easeworks" Version 6.0 to rebalance & improve the present output rate of the assembly line to an additional 17%.

• May 2006- Aug 2006; RUSSELL CORPORATION, text tile industry, Alexander City AL.

• Sr. Industrial Engineer- Responsible to improve production. Identify the issues, sold the idea & work closely with decoration express supervisors & manager to reduce 61% of the set up time. This was achieved through the introduction of a new process flow of procedures, layouts, 5S & constant follow ups. Overall individual performances in efficiency improve 15%.

• Contract; March 2006 – April 2006; Aerotek for client BORG WARNER, mfg & assembly of automatic transmissions, Muncie IN.

• Sr. Industrial Engineer- This was a short term contractual job to help streamline material to the production lines. My role was to suggest & give technical I.E. support with the concepts of mini & super marts layouts along with the container program.

• Contract; Aug 2005 – Jan 2006; Aerotek for client WABASH NATIONAL, mfg & assembly of trailers, Lafayette, IN.

• Sr. Industrial Engineer- A short term contractual job. My responsibility to help organize manpower requirements for the variety of trailers produce, including options, cost, labor utilization effectiveness. In addition to give recommendation & support to management to help improve processes & maintain labor cost.

• Mar 2003 – Mar 2005; VITCO LLC, plumbing ware for the RV industry, Nappanee, IN.

• Plant /Production Manager 10-01-2004 – Responsible for 32 personnel plant wide, P&L statement reviews, maintain production efficiencies, making on time delivery, method/process improvement, training. Work with Scheduling & planning, focusing on marginal items In addition, the plant engineering functions. I Reported to President & the CEO.

• Plant Engineer 04-01-2003 – Promoted & responsible for entire Building & grounds, oversee outsource permit application for air & water emissions (EPA), supervise waste water system operators. Manage maintenance personnel to maintain production equipment such as air compressors, furnaces ovens, enamel booths, overhead conveyors, WWT, submersible & spray wash systems.

• Industrial Engineer 03-03-2003 – Promoted & responsible for continuous improvement/Kaizens programs with the assistance of other department managers. Keeps track & recommend to management improvements of efficiency & productivity. Managed finish goods & WIP audit programs. Work with the different departments on quality criteria.

• PC skills & abilities MS Office, Lotus Suite, Auto Cad LT,CMMS,SMED,MRP AS400,,CNC Plasma cam, NC ex-program, operate CNC (FP) turret from DWG’s to DXF to NC.

• Management Skills Lean mfg.,kaizan,5S, JIT, SPC, TPM, PM’S, Optimal Zone, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, KPM, Bilingual Spanish, (DDI) Development Dimensions International, ISO 9000 Auditor, Board Officer of I.I.E., IE College Instructor, Project Management, MTM, BEST, DOD std data, GPD, Stop watch. My style management is “down to earth”, open minded, empowerment, hands on when require.

• Reduced labor by 50% & maintain the same production output adhering to quality. This was done on one particular high volume item. An overall 25% reduction or a $100,000/year savings of labor cost overall for the one department.

• Improved the continual elimination of waste from 33% down to an average of 20% of defected parts in the finish department, earning an additional hour of production. These improvements are just repeats of many such reductions & elimination of my outstanding experience without breaking the budget.

• Implemented capital equipment to improve processes; Paint system. Nordson 3400-cfm versa-coat booths, Plasma-Cam version 2.0 type, CNC Press Brake US industrial, & a six-stage SS washer system reconfigure for porcelain.

• Design risers using both types of material PVC & steel risers for high temperature.

• Installed above ground drainage system directed to WWT CTR.

• Designed to switched to the spent cleaner reservoir to control our pH levels as well too “knock out” nickel. Thus, savings of caustic soda & sulfuric acid.

• Researched & made decision on type cleaners for the varieties of parts/lubrications introduced to the wash system.

• Analyzed & applied ratios delay techniques to increase 20% productivity in an assembly & packaging department, porcelain dept another + 20%.

• Research & Cost justified porcelain powder booth. This was put on an excel spreadsheet with links to varieties of existed & proposed items. Elaborate yet easy to use for management to input their figures & make conclusions.

• Engineered & design bar slotted rails with universal types hooks to handle the variety of items introduced to the wash system, used the plasma to cut them.

• Selected & recommended type tooling for punch pressing, such as slug free dies.

• Worked with EPA (IDEM) mandates & improved our WWT process system by automation to assure & prevent solids, metals, & under/over limit pH levels. Reduced nickel from average of .25ppm to an average.10ppm a 60% reduction on nickel. FOG 33% reduction with the introduction of a coalescer.

• April 2002 - Dec 2002; ALLIANCE LAUNDRY SYSTEMS, commercial washers & dryers, Ripon, WI.

• Process Manager – Responsible for thirty personnel as well as the finish in both the paint, porcelain dept., along with the wastewater treatment center. Maintain the critical production equipment/systems & tooling, washers, porcelain ovens, dryers, silk-screening, E-coat tank, paint/porcelain booths & wastewater system. Adhere to production STDs, quality output. Process performance reviews, vacations, & regulated productions hours due to customer demands. Maintain company safety & policies. I reported to the plant manager.

• Rebuild our own head & risers to the washer systems; 4 X’s rebuilt with savings of 19K in 6 month period.

• Experience; with electrostatic two coats one fire powder porcelain, one coat one fire, & its associated problems humidity, temp, bluing, lightness, blowouts, degassing, corona effects, grounding, bonding.

• Implemented; statistical process control (SPC) parameters to our washer systems, E-coat, paint, & porcelain.

• Coordinated a program with Gema to determine no reinforcement in the porcelain powder booths, these resulted to an 80% reduction of reinforcement & annual savings of 20K.

• Explore electrostatic powder enamel with Ferro, PPG, Val pars to meet our furnace capacity & to maintain curing temperature ranges of varies parts for bonding strength & color spectrum specifications.

• Decreased paint rejects levels from levels 10.5% to levels 4.89%.

• Dec 1997 - April 2002; BUNN-O-MATIC CORPORATION, mfg. of Coffee Brewers, Creston, IA.

• Senior Industrial Engineer – work as the manufacturing engineer to introduce new products (NPI), design assembly lines implementing ergonomics to all areas of the process. Supervised & train two Industrial Engineers. Primary duties to eliminated & reduce OSHA recordables. In charge of tooling, fixtures, welders, cost justifications, methods improvements, to develop & establish standards. Promote continuous improvement programs. Adhere to UL, NSF, & OSHA standards as well as to the quality specifications &. Process & material flow charting, Plant layouts. Share responsibilities with departmental managers to maintain product cost.

• Revise & corrected standards & cost over a thousands of components/models in a welding department. This corrections lead from 140% productivity to a true 70% productivity level. This set the tone to Continual improvement in the, scheduling, material handling to the direct functions of the methods & individuals work performance.

• Developed STDS/routing’s (work procedures used for ISO 9000), capacity planning, costing on new products & cost justification proposals.

• Design layouts: plant, retail assembly lines & work stations; adhering with through put, ergonomics & modular concepts.

• Manage the initial implementation of new products: New product costing, collaborate with maintenance & management to develop the production assembly line, including air & electrical lines, water & drains, lighting, ventilation & test equipment.

• Analyzed & applied ratios delay techniques to correct cost to a weld dept. from 120% to 70% productivity.

• Work & improved copper tube bending operating process & to prevent OSHA recordables.

• Research & made appropriations on a lors-tecna transgun welder for our SS housings, savings $33K/yr.

• Design, implemented, ergonomically reusable stackable, scratchproof containers specifically for both stainless steel & painted components. Results eliminated damage during transportation externally & internally.

• Jun 1987 - Nov 1997 WEBER STEPHEN PRODUCT COMPANY, mfg. & assembly of charcoal/gas grills, Palatine, IL

• Chief I. E. - Responsibilities of four Engineers; trained, provided technical & professional support. Prioritized & delegated work assignments. Reviewed all work assignments & prepared annual performance reviews. Work with R& D, cost accounting & material planning departments. Solve company production issues & work on special projects. I introduced new products (NPI) & start first production run. Design fixtures, jigs to accommodate productions. Work with the departments regarding production effectiveness & make recommendations. In charge, too develop, revise & update the routings & BOM & most of the appropriation proposals along with the implementations. I reported to engineer manager & president.

• Implemented a Haven automatic tube cutting system. Eliminated manuals operation, deburring, end finish, loading one by one & with consistent outputs. Ergonomically eliminated back & shoulder injuries.

• Experienced with porcelain powder & wet, electrostatic powder paints & waters base paint for aluminum die casting & the preparations of the metals.

• Experience in fabrication, determine type tool & dies pending on volume, manual & progressive stamping, deep draws, robotic GMAW & spot-welding. Introduce SPC & set programs for sharpening dies.

• Coordinated single minute exchange of dies (SMED), to meet paint department ever-changing models. Results from five hrs to an average of 20 minutes.

• Implemented to improve process to the assembly & packaging; automatic shrink-wrapper, manipulator, UPC scanners to keep tract of products for 14” kettles. Eliminated back injuries & a 15% reduction of manpower.

• Improved, Assembly/packaging lines by implementing 3M custom built automatic tape sealers. Resulted higher & consistent outputs with the reduction of 10% direct workers.

• Completed layouts & implemented for various departmental production processes, including fabrication work-cells, Packaging integrated assembly lines, direct transfer from paint line to packaging lines (JIT).

• Determined the Leak STD for the Genesis units, & implemented a USON to document leak & flow results for QA of gas units directly on the production line. Meeting & superseding AGA & CGA requirements.

• Designed & implemented; first genesis gas grill assembly lines, modular rail assembly line for the commercial Bar-Be-Que gas units, fixtures, stands, tables & special production tools.

• Develop all standard & audited production procedures.

• Monitored & improve product line efficiencies & labor utilization.

• Coordinated, trained, supported personnel on production lines as well, coordinated special project teams & made appropriated recommendations to management.

• Provided Cost-Benefit analysis on new existing product lines.

• Improve methods & processes by implemented the JIT concepts to the paint department & fabrication. Introduced kits rather than mass production of components. In addition added the packing of the kits directly into the kit boxes. Thus, eliminating damages, surplus parts, poor finish & stabilize manpower. For the fabrication department the introduction of Kan bans was implemented.

• Feb- 1986; FINKL & SONS, steel foundry plant, Chicago IL.

• Time Study Engineer - A two week internship contractual job set up by the school for a production study for method improvements.

• The result was a 60% reduction of manpower for the electric furnace crew. In addition, implementation of remote controls to automated crane & train operators, spotter was eliminated as well.

• Feb- 1985 - Sept 1985; W.W. GRAINGER, INC., distribution company, Niles, IL.

• Time-Study Engineer - Internship job responsible, too develop standards to the entire company. Assist in company productivity issues & improve procedures.

• Achieved 25% reduction in product cost after standardization.

• Analytical review of the Automatic Storage Retrieval System using two-server queuing models.

• Introduced & used Department of Defense material handling standard time data.

• Assisted in resolving production deficiency to meet company standards.

• Developed & implemented standards, including: high bay pallet strapping, trailer unloading repack, two-man pick, hand strapping, damage repack, pallet repair.

• EDUCATION:

• May 1983 - Mar 1986 – Graduated. Bachelor of Science of Industrial Engineering at the Industrial Engineering College of Chicago (I.E.C.). Chicago, IL. Major: Industrial Engineering & received the Valedictorian status, GPA 4.8

Sept 1981 - May 1983 – Transferred. University of Illinois Chicago Campus.

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