Engineer Manager
Resume:
John Daniel (Dan) McNair
Pelham, AL 35124
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Objective: To work as a professional manager within a growth-oriented organization that strives for excellence in quality, productivity and profitability while working to exceed the expectations of both their customers and employees.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CRH North America Inc
Clanton, AL
(January 2009 to August 2010)
CONTROLLER
Controlling responsibility for $80 million N.A. division of $500 million international concern; a Tier 2 automotive supplier of electronic and manual seat adjusters and frames.
Job duties and accomplishments included:
1. Responsible for all controlling and accounting functions at the Clanton location; directly supervise cost accounting manager and payroll personnel.
2. Primary responsibility lies in profitability analysis. Forecast revenues of multiple customers with varying product mixes, analyze and forecast material consumption for each, and establish direct and indirect personnel requirements as well as fixed and variable expense requirements for annual profit plan development. Closely monitor, in detail, daily costs to bring awareness of out of standard costs and/or conditions for which countermeasures are needed. (i.e. scrap, sorting, expediting, maintenance, labor, etc).
3. Worked closely with HR on analysis of wage structures for salary, direct and indirect personnel with comparisons to industry benchmarks.
4. Developed departmental budgets and reviewed monthly budget vs. actual with departmental and senior management.
Mercedes Benz US International
Vance, AL
(March 2000 to January 2009)
PROJECT & INVESTMENT CONTROLLER
Controlling responsibility for $240 million automotive body shop investment budget as well as cost center controlling responsibilities for highly-automated body and paint shops, plant-wide engineering and plant-wide maintenance.
Job duties and accomplishments included:
1. Established investment management module in SAP with conversion to SAP from Baan,
setting up ‘backbone’ investment structure, initial internal orders, etc for the entire company.
Also established WBS structure in SAP for management and collection of project costs
2. Involved in negotiations and vendor selections, in Germany, for new body shop and paint
shop turnkey equipment solutions totaling in excess of $350 million.
3. Responsible for change order management during construction and equipment installation of new body shop.
4. Established cost center baselines for 3-year operative planning cycles (annually).
5. Met weekly with production management & VP of Operations to review detailed manpower utilization with process and industrial engineering. Performed periodic audits to confirm utilization and review CI activities. Kept upper management aware and on track to achieve headcount and overhead targets.
6. Performed detail cost analysis regarding drivers for OT, scrap, spare parts, maintenance
consumables, etc.
7 Significant cost reductions generated through analysis and proposals for spare parts
management, direct material tracking and usage of coating materials in paint shop, block size and low-volume color cost analysis in paint shop, etc
MATERIAL HANDLING ENGINEER
Responsible for logistics-related layout development, staging of materials and mobile equipment fleet management.
Job duties included:
1. Developing layouts to improve material flow in present operations and to accommodate planned changes in part mix with model year changes.
2. Logistics layout planning for major plant expansion (new body, paint and assembly shops).
3. Planning and management of part staging areas in body and assembly shops.
4. Planning, specification, management and maintenance of mobile equipment to support all plant operations.
O’Neal Steel
Birmingham, AL
(September 1997 to January 1999)
CORPORATE MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Responsible for layouts and process changes in new and existing facilities for over 30
service centers and manufacturing locations
Job duties included:
1. Analyzing operations at service center locations to provide recommendations regarding facilities,
equipment and/or personnel.
2. Implementation of recommendations, including analysis and justification of equipment and/or facility
expansion and development of new layouts to accommodate these changes.
3. At Birmingham base, analyzed and implemented layout and workflow changes for manufacturing and
warehousing operations in 800,000 sq. ft. facility. Operations included laser, oxy-fuel and plasma
cutting: brake, shear and punch pressing; CTL lines, welding, sawing, and material handling
and transportation equipment for sheet, bar and shape steel, as well as aluminum and stainless steel
materials.
4. Justified and implemented capital equipment including cutting machines, presses, CNC machining centers, overhead cranes, stacker systems, wheelabrators, paint systems, and various other material handling systems including conveyors, shuttle tables and overhead monorail systems.
Fontaine Fifth Wheel Company
Birmingham, AL
(October 1988 to September 1997)
MANAGER, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Responsible for effectively planning, coordinating and implementing major
manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering projects to achieve the strategic
objectives of the company. Primary responsibility for capital projects with facilities in
North Carolina, Alabama and Mexico.
Job duties included:
1. Reviewing all manufacturing processes for feasibility and cost effectiveness.
2. Coordinating project management with plant managers and plant engineers to achieve timely implementation.
3. Facilitating the implementation of cost reduction programs across the company.
4. Preparing efficient layouts and selecting contractors for new construction, plant expansion or modification projects.
5. Coordinating the preparation of capital expenditure budgets with justifications.
Through ABM modeling, provided justification for new plant in Mexico and developed presentation for corporate approval. Followed this by developing layouts for the new facility as well as the existing facilities to reflect proposed changes in equipment and operations at each location. Led the team for site selection and selection of construction vendors and monitored the construction of new manufacturing facility in Matamoros, Mexico. During this construction, I also oversaw the startup of a pilot training operation in a temporary facility in Matamoros for development of initial work teams. Concurrent with
these projects, was primarily responsible for selection and implementation of CNC machining centers in North Carolina plant which replaced 14 conventional milling and drilling operations in 2 plants. Also provided direct supervision for plant engineering, manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering in Birmingham facility with dotted line responsibility for engineering personnel at other locations.
SENIOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER
Developed all initial bill of materials and routings for new MRP system. Involved in selecting and development of this system (HFA) along with it’s integration with a labor reporting system where no formal system had existed before. Provided all cost analyses for make/buy projects and new product development. Justified, selected and oversaw the implementation of CNC cutting machines, robotic welding cells and various fabrication, material handling and facilities equipment including horizontal band saws, ironworkers, punch presses, slag grinders, heat treat equipment, paint equipment, etc. Also, acted as plant engineer overseeing maintenance activities and implemented first formal preventive maintenance system. Also trained in robotic programming and oversaw robotic technicians.
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Pascagoula, MS
(May 1984 to October 1988)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER
Responsible for all industrial and process engineering activities for steel fabrication
shops for this builder of military ships. Developed standards and budgeted all operations
for all jobs routed through shops. Monitored progress and budget performance for
combined fabrication operations for each ship’s contract. Heavily involved in estimating
costs to support bidding process for defense contracts.
EDUCATION
Auburn University 1980 to 1983
Auburn, Alabama
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Trained in the use of SAP investment, accounting and logistics modules as well as queries development. Trained in AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, Excel, Access, Word and Powerpoint. Also have received formal training with maintenance management software, CAM software and robotic programming (ABB, Motoman, Hitachi). Trained in the application of ABM, SPC, TQM, TPM, ISO, CI and Lean Manufacturing.
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