Director of Production - Dynamic Specialty Vehicles - BC
(2023-06)
- Review design documentation and substantiation reports from vehicle manufacturers and liaise with contract managers and customers to ensure design needs are met.
- Develop planning processes for production divisions and find solutions for daily operating and maintenance problems, long-term business needs, and regulatory compliance.
- Develop processes and documentation for our production team to ensure consistency and quality while increasing output.
- Work with Production and Maintenance personnel to ensure project expectations and requirements are clearly defined and resolved.
- Identify, initiate, and implement improvement opportunities in process safety, reliability, and cost-effective operations.
- Liaise with our equipment vendors for modification development and/or vehicle troubleshooting and OEMs and Transport Canada for compliance.
- Create test procedures to ensure proper equipment operations and demonstrate compliance with appropriate organizations.
- Accomplished Increasing production by 50% in a year; Doubled production in 2 years with the same production crew.
- Accomplished Creating production processes, warranty claim processes, sales database, and online ordering system.
Engineering Manager - Vicinity Motor Corp - BC
(2021-06 - 2022-06)
- Responsible for the leadership/development of department Engineers including the overall direction, mentoring, and training.
- Reviews and oversees product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications
- Develop and implement strategies for process improvement: Create and execute a comprehensive plan to identify areas of improvement within the production processes. Analyze current workflows, identify bottlenecks, and develop strategies to optimize efficiency and quality.
- Collaborates with manufacturing, production, and quality control to ensure that parts and/or products meet engineering and customer requirements.
- Implement best practices: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies related to production processes in the automotive sector. Identify and implement best practices, benchmarking against industry leaders and competitors to drive operational excellence.
- Identifies and ensures the adoption, documentation and consistent employment of industry-leading engineering practices for new product development, product optimization and product life-cycle support
- Establish performance metrics: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure process performance and identify areas for improvement. Regularly monitor and report on KPIs, and implement corrective actions when necessary.
- Ensures that resources are available with appropriate skills and training to meet the needs of the product development plan and fulfill the operational responsibilities of the department
- Creates project teams and monitors and controls project activities to ensure compliance with time, cost and quality objectives
- Assesses risk and implements appropriate risk mitigation and verification strategies for all product development activities
- Supervises technicians, technologists and other engineers and reviews and approves designs, calculations and cost estimates
- Reviews and approves designs, calculations and cost estimates
- Accomplished Developed and certified the First Canadian MD EV bus.
- Accomplished Leading globe engineering and manufacturing team. (R&D in Canada, Software in India, Factory in Turkey, Supply Chain in China)
Mechanical Design Engineer / Senior Designer (contract) - Ballard Power - BC
(2021-01 - 2021-06)
- Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of drawings regarding clarity, fit, views, dimensioning and conformance to company/ASME Y14.5M design and drawing standards
- Documentation release through the change management procedure
- Understanding engineering concepts and translating them to engineering design drawings
- Participate and contribute in design reviews
- Working with suppliers and IQC to understand drawing callouts needed for QC and inspection.
- Reviews supplier data and supplier/manufacturer drawings, as required.
- Application and Interpretation of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Responsible for mentoring less experienced designers and drafters.
Product Development & Manufacturing consultant (contract) - Rostrum Medical - BC
(2020-06 - 2021-01)
- Responsible for detailed product design; prototyping & testing; manufacturing solutions and product commercialization.
- Coordinate with vendors (local and in China) and clients to provide timely resolution of design and performance issues.
- Responsible for mentoring less experienced designers.
- Execute parallel continuous improvement projects and process changes.
- Assist in on-boarding of new manufacturing equipment and development of new manufacturing technologies.
- Facilitate the generation and create manufacturing know-how documentation.
Product Design Engineer, R&D Lead - Cubic Farms - BC
(2018-11 - 2020-02)
- Lead R&D projects, prototype building, testing and commissioning.
- Supports new and existing product development including researching components and consulting partners in collaboration with product management.
- Lead verification of all manufacturing drawings before release.
- Collaborates with order processing to manage product information in internal databases.
- Communicates engineering requirements with factory (in China) including releasing new and updated products.
- Handles product issues, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and problem-solving.
- Ensuring manufacturing accuracy (FMEA and Quality Control).
- Supporting sales and marketing with CAD and drawings.
- Develops manuals and processes for design, production and installation.
- Creating and managing project plans, business proposals, budgets and resource allocations.
- Designing plant layout, production processes, and automation equipment.
- Accomplished Quickly identified production design defects after launch, found the solution to contain the problem, and traveled to China to implement the change with the Chinese factory.
- Accomplished Leading 2.5 M R&D automation project for Harvesting, cleaning, and seeding.
Mechanical Design Engineer (contract) - Inventys - BC
(2018-03 - 2018-11)
- Lead 30M CO2 capturing Machine Core design – Seal Assemblies.
- Generates mechanical solutions, concepts, and designs with good judgment according to sound engineering practices.
- Solves complex problems where analysis of a situation and data evaluation are required in order to meet specifications.
- Independently carries out studies, tests and analysis interpretations and conclusions.
- Manages product and production documentation.
- Prepares requirements documentation, design documentation, drawings, and manufacturing documentation to control vendor-made parts.
- Prepares manufacturing documentation, work instructions, assembly details, and control plans.
- Develops and performs design verification plans and equipment acceptance testing.
- Accomplished designing and launching a 30 Ton Per Day CO2 capturing rotary machine for Husky.
- Accomplished designing an evolutionary face seal debris cleaning system.
Industrialization Engineer (Contract) - Schneider Electric - BC
(2017-02 - 2018-02)
- Development processes of new products and perform design reviews. Perform detailed costing studies on parts to analyze the cost breakdown. Assist Supply Chain Management in make or buy decisions and other strategic procurement activities.
- Perform manufacturing process analysis. Maintain and grow knowledge in the newest manufacturing methods and utilize them in industrialization analysis. Provide technical leadership and guidance within the industrialization group and to other resources.
- Perform DFM/DFA/DFX on new and existing products. Invest in product knowledge and production activities by analyzing production tasks on the production line. Focus on part standardization. Prepare assembly and other technical work instructions. Lead prototyping activities.
- Resolve and provide guidance on technical issues for products in manufacturing. Interface with other SE development partners and non-SE contractors for the creation of key components for High Voltage Solar inverters and Other products (Circuit breakers, Padmount Switchgear and Reclosers).
- Coordinate technology transfer to manufacturing operations. Help execute Engineering Change Requests and lead the resolution efforts. Assess and review materials requirements and specifications and provide technical direction or consultation. Seek innovative materials that improve reliability, performance and reduce costs.
- Analyze operational efficiency for components and/or assemblies to determine if more efficient design or manufacturing methods can be implemented.
- Developed factory line architecture to ensure that movement and flow of goods were consistent and did not hinder the worker's ability to assembly equipment.
- Accomplished setting up and commissioning production facility in Bangalore, India
Manufacturing Process Development Engineer - Westport Innovations - BC
(2016-04 - 2017-02)
- Lead Engineer for iCE Pack & Cool Pack Product and Hybrid systems.
- Conceptualizing and designing complex mechanical systems and assemblies containing multiple complex subsystems, interlinked by mechanical, fluid and electrical systems.
- Analyze dynamics and vibrations of mechanical systems and structures.
- Create high-quality production level drawing packages.
- Create work instructions for manufacturing, outgoing quality control and product configuration and/or rework activities
- Participate in design reviews, continuous improvement activities, failure resolution activities, warranty claims, corrective actions, vehicle integration and product commissioning.
- Develop and execute manufacturing systems that ensure reliable production and delivery of high-quality products at the lowest possible cost.
- Ensure manufacturing systems operate with the right balance of people, and equipment to minimize waste and provide product at a rate that matches customer pull volumes for prototype builds and production launch.
- Work alongside Product Engineering and other cross-functional teams to assess product manufacturability during all product design stages.
- Develop Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEAs), Process Control Plans (PCPs), Work Instructions, and any other manufacturing documentation required within the APQP and PPAP standards for Prototype and Production builds.
- Accomplished designing and Launching iCE Pack & Cool Pack product on time on budget.
- Accomplished reducing the product cost and production cost by 20% for iCE Pack.
- Accomplished reducing the product production cost by 50% for P200 LNG Pump, which used by CAT on Mining Trucks.
Mechanical Development Engineer - Westport Innovations - BC
(2013-03 - 2016-04)
Mechanical Design Engineer (Contract) - Westport Innovations - BC
(2012-07 - 2013-03)
Assistant Plant Manager - HMD Engineering - Langley, BC
(2012-01 - 2012-07)
- Assisting plant manager to perform quality inspection; arrange personnel and material; organizing and modifying workflows; communication with customers, vendors and subcontractors as needed.
- Designing fixtures/jigs for customer products and developing an internal process and procedures for manufacture.
- Develop production schedules & Direct quality control inspection system
- Hire, supervise and train
- Accomplished cutting down average machining setup time by 10% and total machining time by 15%.
Mechanical Engineer/Production Engineer - HMD Engineering - Langley, BC
(2011-10 - 2012-01)
Mechanical Designer/Drafter (Contract) - WerkMaster - North Vancouver, BC
(2011 - 2011)
- Assisting in developing engineering designs and preparing drawings from concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification charts, and other data from start to finish.
- Create design concepts parts, 3D renderings, assemblies, detailed drawings, Bill of Materials and any other documentation within required timelines.
- Accomplished merging two different lines of products into one without any volume change on product size.
Mechanical Design Engineer - China National Machinery Industry Corporation - Beijing, China
(2004-09 - 2006-09)
- Assisted a senior engineer to conduct lab and quality control tests and improved test procedures.
- Generated detailed CAD models, accurate part drawings and engineering reports.
- Communicated with customers and sales for technical support.
- Maintained all existing drawings, updating them as needed.
