Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer

ERIC JAHNSEN

Jupiter, FL *****

SUMMARY

Detailed oriented, reliable and organized Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineer with extensive experience in quality focused aerospace propulsion manufacturing environment. Possesses excellent analytical, observation, people and communication skills. Known for high degree of safety awareness. Self-starter who performs well individually or as part of team. Excellent CAD parametric modeler. Key strengths include:

- Manufacturing

- Detail Oriented

- Team Player

- People Oriented

- Problem Solver

- Computer Aided Design, CAD

- Quality Inspection Requirements

- Customer Focused

- Flexible

- Dependable

- New Product Introduction

- Work Instructions

- CAD Modeler / Designer

- Parametric Electronic Models

- Design for Manufacturing

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Expert at CAD system Unigraphics with exposure to CAD system ProEngineer. Experienced in work instruction software CAPP2. Excellent computer and touch typing skills. Familiar with all major Microsoft software packages.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRATT & WHITNEY ROCKETDYNE, West Palm Beach, FL 1986 - 2009

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

United Technologies Corporation, UTC, is a diversified company whose products include Carrier heating and air conditioning, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and industrial products, Otis elevators and escalators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, UTC Fire & Security systems and UTC Power fuel cells. UTC is the 18th largest U.S. manufacturer, 37th largest U.S. corporation, 61st largest publicly held manufacturer in the world and the 123rd largest company in the world. Held various positions at facility.

Manufacturing Engineer (2005 - 2009)

Created electronic work instructions for manufacturing rocket engine hardware and directed shop effort.

- Identified and incorporated all engineering and quality requirements.

- Delivered all hardware without one nonconformance.

- Designed and directed fabrication of novel, cone-to-ellipse hypersonics (speeds greater than Mach 5.5) heat exchanger panel manufacturing test article.

- Generated parametric electronic models and detailed, comprehensive graphics for use in manufacturing.

Reliability & Mission Assurance Engineer (2003 - 2005)

Developed failure modes and effects criticality analyses and risk analyses.

- Collaborated on space shuttle main engine knife edge seal failure investigation team.

- Spearheaded flight safety requirements for single engine demonstrator hypersonics engine program.

Component Integrated Product Team Manager, RL60 Demo Rocket Engine Externals (1999 - 2003)

Lead engineer responsible for delivery of all pipes, ducts, mounts and attachment hardware.

- Delivered all hardware on time to support engine build including last-minute hardware modification required to overcome tolerance stack-up misalignment.

- Facilitated supplier hardware investigation.

Project Engineer, F100-PW-229A Jet Engine Fan (1998 - 1999)

Lead engineer for 2nd and 3rd stage fan integrally bladed rotors.

- Completed design of solid and linear friction welded versions of each integrally bladed rotor stage, released drawings and manufacturing sketches, established raw material forging quality assurance requirements and designed and procured near-net-shape forged blades.

- Implemented correct design product definition and procurement of linear friction welding tooling.

- Originated design and quality requirements for on-machine probing software with concurrent numerical controlled tool path programming of post-linear friction welded integrally bladed rotors.

- Investigated abrasive flow machining and airfoil mass media surface finish improvement processes.

- Wrote and applied for export licenses, created and maintained all program schedules, budgets, proposals, program reviews and integrated product team meeting agendas and minutes.

Project Engineer, Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Jet Engine Fan (1996 - 1998)

Lead engineer for JSF Lockheed and Boeing Fan integrally bladed rotors integrated product team.

- Re-energized integrated product team by creating exhaustive, 600+ line long Microsoft Project schedule detailing all remaining design and manufacturing work needed to deliver all integrally bladed rotor stages on time for first engine to test milestone.

- Wrote manufacturing license agreements / technical assistance agreements, export licenses, to enable offshore 5-axis milling of military parts in United Kingdom and Switzerland.

- Defined and managed Level II and III schedules, manpower requirements and planning cost budget estimates and raw material procurement.

- Implemented quality assurance requirements, drawing releases and engineering changes.

- Drove all quality review activity including quality review orders and lab quality review orders.

- Worked in mechanical design on intermediate case tubes, instrumentation hole installation drawings, add and cancel lists and engine test support.

Project Engineer, F119 Jet Engine Fan (1993 - 1996)

Lead engineer for F119 1st stage hollow fan blade and linear friction welded 1st stage integrally bladed rotor development program and integrated product team. Delivered all initial flight release blade sets and rotors.

- Upgraded manufacturing quality assurance inspections: ultrasonic, coordinate measurement machine, eddy current, blue etch anodize and fluorescent penetrant.

- Oversaw manufacturing operations: diffusion bonding, quenching, super-plastic forming of airfoils, electron beam welding, surface contamination removal, five-axis milling, welding, stress relieving, body-bound bolt holes, tip grinding, shot peening, rotor balancing and development of titanium forgings.

Project Engineer, RL10 Rocket Engine (1993)

Managed RL10 components: thrust control valve, oxidizer valve, plumbing issues, service investigations, manufacturing issues, engineering changes and vendor activities. Answered open cause and corrective action cases and supported independent review teams for rocket launches.

Project Engineer, Advanced Space Engines (1990 - 1993)

Began and realized development of high-strength, high-temperature brazing capable, copper alloy made from powder produced by rapid solidification rate methods, pioneered vacuum plasma spray structural jacket application method and participated on AC-71 rocket engine failure investigation team.

Test Engineer, J52 Jet Engine (1988 - 1990)

Directed building and testing of J52 jet engines. Wrote final U.S. Navy customer reports for those tests.

Project Engineer, TF30 Jet Engine Afterburners (prior to 1988)

Lead Engineer for afterburner module in all Air Force and Navy engine versions, resolved quality review issues, corrective actions, material review board activity and supplied all afterburner hardware for engine builds.

- Developed and oversaw engine testing of afterburner nozzle segment repair procedure that eliminated $6M backlog of used parts in Navy overhaul center.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Design, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

PATENTS

Co-authored and hold patent for copper tube rocket combustion chamber manufacturing method, # EP 0758283 B1.

After over five years of CAD modeling on my own time, submitted and awarded second patent for single-stage-to-orbit, horizontal takeoff and horizontal landing, aerospace plane engine concept, US 2009/0282806 A1, 19 NOV 2009, # EP 1820955 A2.

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