Experience

Caldwell Manufacturing Company

• United States
• Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  • 2007 - Present

  • Leading a 6-person mfg. engineering group to primarily develop in-house automation for reduction of product costs ($100k's of savings annually). All aspects of the project managed and controlled by the Mfg. Engineering group: brainstorm, concepts, validation, budgets, fabrication, assembly, installation, debug, HSE and quality assessment, commissioning, improvements, etc.• Dotted line responsibility in management of up to 3 mfg. engineering staff members in various manufacturing facilities. Plant mfg. engineering staff responsible for repair and maintenance of in-plant manufacturing equipment and associated budgets.• Project manager of multiple manufacturing operations consolidation efforts. Both project timelines and budgets were devised and closely monitored to ensure that the moves were completed on time and within budget. Also took a very active, hands-on role in most of the manufacturing plant moves to help with power-up and start-up assistance of equipment due to in depth experience and knowledge of equipment. • Manufacturing engineering representative on numerous product development teams to provide timely and precise input to enhance product design (DFM) and validation and to deliver the product to market as quickly and efficiently as possible.• Led the lean steering committee team to manage and orchestrate lean initiatives in all of the manufacturing facilities.• Continuously reviewed the sales and operations plan to ensure that the manufacturing capacities would meet demand. Manufacturing equipment was either acquired and/or upgraded when capacities would not meet demand. Machine and build specifications were written and OEM’s selected to obtain needed equipment.• Organized and summarized the annual capital budget for all mfg. operations. Interaction with all plant managers was required to understand needs and determine priority. Budget was reviewed and finalized with input from the senior management team. Show less

• Manufacturing Engineer

  • Oct 2005 - 2007

  • Directly involved with plant consolidation efforts, including planning, managing, budgets, and capacity analysis. Traveled to support machine installations, start-up, training operator and maintenance personnel. • Project manager of multiple design-and-build projects of manufacturing equipment for in-house use.



Pactech LLC

• Rochester, NY

• Manufacturing Engineer

  • Apr 2005 - Oct 2005

  • Project lead of multiple design-and-build projects of manufacturing equipment for in-house use. Manufacturing equipment included: hydraulic driven platen press and improved guarding for web handling equipment. • Updated and revised mfg. equipment layouts to improve material flow and manufacturing efficiencies. • Provided manufacturing with technical support and debug assistance as needed. • Project lead of multiple design-and-build projects of manufacturing equipment for in-house use. Manufacturing equipment included: hydraulic driven platen press and improved guarding for web handling equipment. • Updated and revised mfg. equipment layouts to improve material flow and manufacturing efficiencies. • Provided manufacturing with technical support and debug assistance as needed.



Caldwell Manufacturing Company

• United States
• Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Process/Manufacturing Engineer

  • Apr 1991 - Apr 2005

  • Project manager of multiple design-and-build projects of manufacturing equipment for in-house use. Manufacturing equipment included: automated assembly dials, robotic and semi-automated assembly cells, metal forming mills, and the combination of metal forming and assembly machines. • Developed budgets and schedules which were used to build the manufacturing equipment in an expeditious and cost-effective manner. • Designed control systems to automate and semi-automate manufacturing equipment. These controls systems included the use of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), stepper and servo-based systems as well as pneumatic and hydraulic subsystems. • Involved in debug and approval process of new manufacturing equipment. Approval process included meeting customer as well as Quality Assurance requirements. • Wrote comprehensive operations and maintenance manuals for manufacturing equipment. • Developed relations with outside equipment manufacturers (OEM) for the design and build of manufacturing equipment for in-house use. • Instrumental with the development of manufacturing engineering group standards manuals including: project procedures, drawing standards, and machine operation and maintenance manual standards. • Provided manufacturing with technical support and debug assistance as needed. • Interacted with operators, maintenance personnel, plant supervision and management to understand issues, gaps, etc. so that solutions, etc. could be formulated and implemented. Show less



Bergmann Associates

• Rochester, NY

• Electrical Designer/Drafter

  • May 1987 - Apr 1991

  • Developed relations with customers to further opportunities to solicit additional work for company. • Produced electrical control designs and/or revisions of various manufacturing equipment based upon customers needs and specifications. • Estimated and managed the in-house labor hours for each customer job obtained. • Worked directly with customer’s engineers to ensure the quality of the electrical design and/or revisions. • Developed relations with customers to further opportunities to solicit additional work for company. • Produced electrical control designs and/or revisions of various manufacturing equipment based upon customers needs and specifications. • Estimated and managed the in-house labor hours for each customer job obtained. • Worked directly with customer’s engineers to ensure the quality of the electrical design and/or revisions.