Experience

Katzkin Leather Inc.
• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Manufacturing Engineer

  • Apr 2022 - Present


Senior Aerospace SSP

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Process Engineer

  • Oct 2019 - May 2020

  Establish Safety Operating Procedures and Lock Out Tag Out proceduresMaintained hundreds of documents for auditing complianceEmploy strengths of materials, statics, and vehicle steering dynamics to design Pressure test guarding, ergonomics scrap transportation, and safe transportation of oversized parts

• Lean Engineer

  • Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

  Establish a Plan For Every Part and kanban system to reduce stores footprint by 38% and reduce $1 million in inventoryPerformed time studies to establish time standards and evaluate improvements activitiesTaught 5S to work cells to improve safety and reduce time spent on non-value added activitiesImplemented timed material delivery routes to reduce operators average steps by 60% which total 300 operator hrs per day

• Industrial Engineering Intern

  • May 2018 - Nov 2018

  Applied lean principles to cut down lead time for Non-Destructive Testing processes and welding/fitting processes. Carefully observed processes to generate detailed standard work, modify processes to cut steps that are both non-value added and not necessary, and perform time-studies. Build rapport with diverse groups of operators to influence operators to "buy in" to lean changes.