Production Engineer Resume Examples

Production engineer with 7 years in consumer packaged goods manufacturing, currently owning 3 high-speed packaging lines producing 210 million units a year at a plant of 600 employees. Raised overall equipment effectiveness on the lines from 61% to 79% over 3 years, cut changeover time 45% through a standardised changeover programme, and led a capacity project that added 30 million units a year without capital for a new line. Runs the lines on data, standard work, and operators who own their equipment, and spends most of the day on the floor rather than in the office.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness Programme. Built a line performance system with automated downtime capture from the manufacturing execution system, a daily 15-minute review with operators and maintenance, centerlines for 120 critical settings, and 14 root cause projects on the top losses, which raised overall equipment effectiveness from 61% to 79% and added about 40 million units of annual capacity on 3 lines.

Standardised Changeover Programme. Applied single-minute exchange of die methods to 3 lines with 30 changeovers a week, converting 40 internal tasks to external, building changeover carts with pre-staged parts, and training 45 operators on a 25-step standard, which cut changeover time from 85 minutes to 47 and freed about 950 hours of production time a year.

Capacity Without Capital. Led a capacity study that identified the cartoner as the bottleneck on the highest-volume line and delivered a 30 million unit increase through a servo upgrade, an infeed redesign, and a rate increase validated with a 2-week capability study, which cost $180K against a $4M proposal for a new line and paid back in 3 months.

• Member of a manufacturing engineers society chapter, presenting about once a year on changeover reduction.
• Volunteer judge for a regional high school robotics competition since 2021.
• Play in a recreational soccer league, about 25 matches a season.

• Lead a line improvement team of 3 engineers and 6 operator technicians with weekly priorities and project reviews.
• Trained 45 operators on centerlining and changeover standards and 8 engineers on the downtime analysis method.
• Present line performance and project results to the plant manager weekly and to the division operations director quarterly.