Senior Quality Engineer (215289) BSME, CQM, CQE / Casting, Machining, Stamping, Assembly, Welding, Forging / Willing to relo

AWESOME Senior Quality Professional with 20+ years in automotive and military vehicle industries supporting clients in both perm and contract roles. He has successfully led quality teams and has operated as a Senior Quality Engineer to reduce scrap and improve product quality. He is a Mechanical Engineer BSME, a CQM Certified Quality Manager and a CQE Certified Quality Engineer. He has strong experience in Aluminum Casting, Smelting, Stamping, and Injection Molding operations. He is skilled in all facets of automotive quality and readily checks all the boxes for a Senior Quality role. He brings serious casting and machining skills to the table. and can hit the floor running for you! He is single, renting, and willing to relocate.

• • Driving all Quality Alerts, scheduling root cause meetings with a cross-functional team, filling out and submitting formal and informal 8D reports and 3L5Y.
• Support staff for the advanced planning and quality status reporting (APQP) to the program manager with continuous updates and timing.
• Maintaining a high degree of training in scrap reduction programs in the valvetrain division with continuous support for the available staff.
Serving as Quality Engineer analyzing manufacturing processes across multiple manufacturing platforms handling supplier quality issues, training manufacturing personnel, setting up programs for dealing with incoming receiving inspections,
• Serving as Sr. Quality Engineer for the launch of cross-over vehicle out of Chicago Assembly for Ford Motor Co., setting up and coordinating all fixed gauging and the set-up of the CMM room for inspections.
• Serving as production assembly in the front axle driveline assembly process, running continuous improvement training on die casting voids, burrs, and sharp edges, with corrections to the assembly process and tooling for improved production targets.
• Took the lead on cross-functional teams to seek out cost reductions through lean manufacturing.
• These cost reductions came through investment in die casting of some components, steel stampings, aluminum stampings, and powdered metal products.
• Modular Engine design and engineering. Involving design, engineering, durability, robust design potentials, design for quality issue reductions, for die castings, cast iron,
• Developed a magnesium intake manifold with equal-length runners, magnesium casting was lost foam process.
• Designer/Engineer THM 125-C, THM 440-T4, THM 700-R4, die casting aluminum, clutch plates and packs, valves, valve bodies, fluid dynamic
• Designer/Engineer, Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVT), Shives, belts, die castings

• Supplier Validation / Qualification
• Quality Resident Engineering
• Process Control Quality Experience
• Creating SOP Training
• Quality Management Experience
• Shop Floor Process Quality
• Quality Training Experience
• Production Quality experience
• Performing Internal Quality system audits
• Performing External Quality system audits
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Setting Up Quality Systems From Scratch
• Component Design Review
• Investigating Customer Complaints
• Documenting Initial Submissions
• Pareto Charts
• Poka Yoke Assessments
• Analyzing Production Limitations
• DFMEA / PFMEA
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• DOE Design of Experiments
• 5S / 6S
• 8D
• Ishikawa Diagrams
• Troubleshooting Root Cause
• Implementing Corrective Actions
• ISO9001
• IATF16949
• MIL-SPEC
• ISO Auditing
• Leading Kaizen Events
• Implementing Continuous improvement
• Leading Six Sigma Teams
• Designing Process Improvement Trials
• Process Improvement
• Optimizing Manufacturing Processes
• New production line startup
• Project Management
• Reducing Scrap
• First Article Inspection FAI
• Reducing Manufacturing Cycle Time
• Directing Quality Techs
• PPAP
• APQP
• Gage R&R
• GD&T Expert
• Machining Operations
• Aluminum Casting Operations
• Foundry Operations
• Smelting Operations
• Forging Operations
• Stamping Operations
• Assembly Operations
• Welding Operations
• Fabrications Operations
• Heat Treat Operations
• Coating / Painting Operations
• Injection Molding Operations
• Blow Molding Operations
• Metal Finishing Operations
• Extruding Operations
• OEM Manufacturing
• Tier 1 Supplier / 2 Supplier
• Automotive Lighting
• Packaging Assembly

EDUCATION

• Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering / Lawrence Technological University
• CQM Certified Quality Manager
• CQE Certified Quality Engineer