Experience

Viking Plastics

• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Engineer

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Corry, Pennsylvania, United States

• Shift Supervisor

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2023

  Shift Supervisor: Oversee a 24/7 operation production floor on night shift, this consist of 35 injection molding presses ranging tonnage up to 500 tons, several robotics, and accessory equipment. To correlate and oversee multiple departments such as: operations, setup, processing, material, changeover, maintenance, and assembly. Additional duties include training / coaching employees, culture building with use of 2 second lean principles, troubleshooting issues within several departments… Show more Shift Supervisor: Oversee a 24/7 operation production floor on night shift, this consist of 35 injection molding presses ranging tonnage up to 500 tons, several robotics, and accessory equipment. To correlate and oversee multiple departments such as: operations, setup, processing, material, changeover, maintenance, and assembly. Additional duties include training / coaching employees, culture building with use of 2 second lean principles, troubleshooting issues within several departments. Processing: Use Arburg, Engel, Nissie, Nigata, Haitian, and Demag Injection molding presses. Daily duties include start up and shut down procedures for injection molding presses, maintaining consistent processes, troubleshooting issues that arise, reducing cycle time. Use of thermolators, chillers, robots, RJG, grinders, conveyors, cameras, hot runner controllers. Mold Setup: Setting of molds, used tie in ejectors rods and free standing knock out rods. Setting up of water lines, product containment, mold protection, etc.. Use of fork lift for setting molds.



Finish Thompson, Inc.

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Leader / Process Technician

  • Nov 2015 - Apr 2017

  Erie, Pennsylvania Area Group Leader: To give instruction to employees within my department. To handle production needs, maintain equipment, trouble shoot issues that arise on a day to day basis, train / coach employees. Processing: Used ENGEL and NATCO Injection molding presses. Created SPC on processes, and created more efficient and consistent processes, such as working with cycle reduction time, quality monitoring, and processing techniques. Improved existing processes and created new processes from… Show more Group Leader: To give instruction to employees within my department. To handle production needs, maintain equipment, trouble shoot issues that arise on a day to day basis, train / coach employees. Processing: Used ENGEL and NATCO Injection molding presses. Created SPC on processes, and created more efficient and consistent processes, such as working with cycle reduction time, quality monitoring, and processing techniques. Improved existing processes and created new processes from scratch. Process trouble shooting, such as flash, nofills, splay, etc. Use of thermolators, chillers, and material driers. Mold Setup: Setting of molds, used tie in ejectors rods and free standing knock out rods. Established mold clamp force and proper water temp settings based on material being used. Setting up of water lines, product containment, mold protection, etc.. Material Handling: Used materials such as Polypropylene, PVDF, Tefzel, Zytel, and Nylon. Used additives such as blowing agent, colorants, and regrind. Mixing of materials, weighing of materials and colorants and use of scales. Mold Change Over: Replacing inserts inside of molds, replacing ejection box springs and pins. Changing inserts from one feature to another. Preventative maintenance cleaning and greasing. Additional Duties: Ordering of supplies, inventorying department on a weekly basis. Improving procedures, organization, inventory levels, and updating of maintenance records and process records. Also work on press maintenance, such as preventive maintenance, recalibration of press setting, replacement of electronic parts. Creating work instructions and quality procedures for molding department. Show less



Matrix Tool, Inc.

• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Inspector / Quality Assurance

  • Jul 2015 - Nov 2015

  Fairview, Pa Lead Inspector: Verifying start up of work order, by doing a visual and measuring of part features. Use of vision system Optical Gaging Product. Use of print reading and GD&T to confirm part is setup correctly. Doing In process and SPC inspections daily. Preforming steel verifications, and writing up of tool issues for mold repair. Verifying shut downs of work order, file management, retain filing. Quality Assurance: Inspection of parts visual every hour with in a cell of… Show more Lead Inspector: Verifying start up of work order, by doing a visual and measuring of part features. Use of vision system Optical Gaging Product. Use of print reading and GD&T to confirm part is setup correctly. Doing In process and SPC inspections daily. Preforming steel verifications, and writing up of tool issues for mold repair. Verifying shut downs of work order, file management, retain filing. Quality Assurance: Inspection of parts visual every hour with in a cell of presses. To identify issues with product, and if found alert Process Technician and record defect. Quarantine any defective or any suspected defective product. Training of operators, recording of scrap hourly, writing up of on hold production. Preforming some SPC by measuring specific feature hourly. Additional Duties: Writing of programs within the IQMS SPC module. These programs are used for Start up inspection reports, and In Process inspection reports. Brainstorming new ideas for improving Quality, efficiency, and standardization of procedures. Working with Production manager to implement new procedures shop wide, between multiple departments. Show less



Finish Thompson, Inc.

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Process Technician

  • Aug 2014 - Jul 2015

  Erie, Pennsylvania Area Processing: Used ENGEL and NATCO Injection molding presses. Created SPC on processes, and created more efficient and consistent processes, such as working with cycle reduction time, quality monitoring, and processing techniques. Improved existing processes and created new processes from scratch. Process trouble shooting, such as flash, nofills, splay, etc. Use of thermolators, chillers, and material driers. Mold Setup: Setting of molds, used tie in ejectors rods and free… Show more Processing: Used ENGEL and NATCO Injection molding presses. Created SPC on processes, and created more efficient and consistent processes, such as working with cycle reduction time, quality monitoring, and processing techniques. Improved existing processes and created new processes from scratch. Process trouble shooting, such as flash, nofills, splay, etc. Use of thermolators, chillers, and material driers. Mold Setup: Setting of molds, used tie in ejectors rods and free standing knock out rods. Established mold clamp force and proper water temp settings based on material being used. Setting up of water lines, product containment, mold protection, etc.. Material Handling: Used materials such as Polypropylene, PVDF, Tefzel, Zytel, and Nylon. Used additives such as blowing agent, colorants, and regrind. Mixing of materials, weighing of materials and colorants and use of scales. Mold Change Over: Replacing inserts inside of molds, replacing ejection box springs and pins. Changing inserts from one feature to another. Preventative maintenance cleaning and greasing. Additional Duties: Ordering of supplies, inventorying department on a weekly basis. Improving procedures, organization, inventory levels, and updating of maintenance records and process records. Also work on press maintenance, such as preventive maintenance, recalibration of press setting, replacement of electronic parts. Show less



Micro Mold & Plastikos

• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Setup Inspector, Quality Inspector, and Process Technician

  • 2011 - 2014

  Erie, Pennsylvania Area Process Technician: Used Arbug, Demag, and Sumitomo injection presses. Process trouble shooting such as flash, nofills, bow issues, etc. Was responsible for a cell of presses, Setting of molds, used knock out rods and tie in ejectors. Used accessory equipment such as thermolators, RJG, thermal cameras, vision cameras, hot runner systems, diverters, conveyors, sprue pickers, grinders, and material driers. Used ALS and IQMS systems. Setup sprue pickers, setup vision and thermal cameras. Set… Show more Process Technician: Used Arbug, Demag, and Sumitomo injection presses. Process trouble shooting such as flash, nofills, bow issues, etc. Was responsible for a cell of presses, Setting of molds, used knock out rods and tie in ejectors. Used accessory equipment such as thermolators, RJG, thermal cameras, vision cameras, hot runner systems, diverters, conveyors, sprue pickers, grinders, and material driers. Used ALS and IQMS systems. Setup sprue pickers, setup vision and thermal cameras. Set Mold Protection, Quality Monitoring, product containment, RJG, and product counter upon start up. Worked with a lot of unit changes and mold changes. Lead Inspector: Verifying first shots on job order, doing both a visual and measuring of features to accomplish this. Use of IQMS SPC module for inspections, compared part to blue prints, used GD&T for critical feature measurements. Use of vision systems such as Optical Gaging Products and Keyence. Used gages, calibers, and air gages. Verified last shots of job order, also measured SPC on parts daily, steel verifications, use of Microsoft Excel. Wrote up tools with issues to be repaired in Mold repair, verified issues was resolved upon restart. Additional duties include, reworking of product, operating, and advising on shop floor on slow nights. Setup Inspector: Verified incoming inspections for incorrect setups. Used a Shapergrabber 3D laser scanner to compare part to a master file. Filing of retains, and paperwork. Assisting Lead inspectors in part verification and reworking product. Show less



Snap-Tite QD&V

• Labor / Operator

  • 2008 - 2011

  Union City PA General labor, inventory, shipping and receiving. Cleaning of Hydromats, CNC's, Acme Gridleys, and Gildemeisters. Use of grinders, tumblers, floor scrubber, fork lift, scissor lift, drill presses, pumps.