Bruce Smith

Project Engineering Manager

St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States

About

Worldwide involvement in multi million dollar Food projects from design to customer hand over, Specialties: Business Process, Management, Dairy Design, CAD 2D, 3D , Realistic concept generation,

Experience

  • Project Engineering Manager at GEA Group
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    I am passionate about driving innovation, efficiency, and excellence in engineering project execution. My expertise lies in orchestrating end-to-end project lifecycles, from initial concept to final delivery, while effectively managing resources, budgets, and stakeholder expectations.

  • Operations at RELCO
    Aug 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Plan, direct, coordinate, and oversee operations activities in the organization, ensuring development and implementation of efficient operations and cost-effective systems to meet current and future needs of the organization.

  • GEA Group (21 yrs 1 mo)
    • Service Delivery Manager Americas
      Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

      The Service Delivery Manager is the internal SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for all on-site services provided and to build and maintain a positive relationship with the GEA users. Ensures operations run as planned by answering questions, increasing productivity in existing processes, systems training, and problem resolution. Assures timeline compliance. • Service Level Agreement (SLA achievement through onsite, Remote Services, and Shared Services • Operational governance – daily& weekly • Program Management inserts any info gathered from the business (i.e. New app releases, end-user adds/take outs, etc.) Program Management feeds this information back to Delivery. • Develops implementation/delivery plans.

    • Business Process Manager
      Apr 2014 - Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 10 mos

      Evaluate, design, execute, measure, monitor and controls business processes. Ensuring that business process outcomes are in harmony with an organization’s strategic goals. I collaborate across all departments of the organization to help improve the management of a business process

    • Engineering Manager
      Apr 2012 - Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Engineering Manager, Global Engineering Unit, Supervise and lead engineers who design GEA products, Direct and coordinate design resource, operations, Hire, train, and mentor other engineers and supporting staff. Write performance reviews and solve internal issues. Discuss and lay out project specifications. Make detailed plans to accomplish goals. Analyze market demand and available resources. Prepare budgets, Approve expenditures. Check technical accuracy of work. Establish administrative policies, procedures, and standards. Coordinate activities of unit with other units or organizations. Confer with higher levels of management.

  • Sale Engineer Colby Powder Systems at Mannesmann Dematic Corporation
    Feb 1999 - Sep 2000 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Visit customer sites Prepare quote drawings for the sales team Assist in quote information for the proposal Gather vendor information and drawings Run tests on customer powder samples Liaise with the component & project engineers

  • Design Manager at Epic Systems
    1999 - 2000 · 1 yr

    Direct design contractors Create P&ID’s and IO databases As build drawings at a large hydrogen peroxide plant