Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Specialties: Technical Leadership Gas Turbine Performance Single Shaft and Two Shaft Engines Green Belt Certified (Six Sigma) Systems Engineering Control Systems Emotional Intelligence Project Planning Project Management People Management Problem Solving Lean Kanban Agile Supplier Management Servant Leadership
Leading and managing a cross functional team of twenty engineers to resolve production and fleet investigations and to implement design modifications to improve the quality and reliability of the Controls Sub-System. Direct interface with the Rolls-Royce whole engine teams, external customers, supply chain management teams and Design-Make suppliers. Coordinating with the Controls Chief of Sub-System and Control Chief Design Engineer to assure the safety and continued airworthiness of the Controls system. Key Accountabilities · Deliver assigned projects to cost, schedule and quality targets. · Define commitments to the customer for the delivery of component design that safely meets the required performance (e.g. weight, efficiency, life, reliability, maintenance burden, etc.). · Provide Engineering leadership and performance management of the Controls Fleet Support Team. · Balance load and capacity for engineering resources across the Sub-System. · Promote leadership development through emotional intelligence. · Manage prompt resolution and continuous monitoring of production and fleet investigations, including support for safety investigations. · Work with the Customer and the Supplier Management Teams (Make and Design- Make) to address quality issues and implement containment, corrective and preventive actions. · Integrate with the Engine Service Engineering team and with the aftermarket/MRO suppliers to leverage engine fleet and MRO data to improve the reliability of the Controls system. · Manage design improvements through the applicable design review processes while ensuring plans and budgets are communicated and on plan. · Ensure the conceptual method of manufacture for the sub-system’s components is available to support sourcing. Ensure design for manufacture and DfX are subsequently carried out. · Travel internationally to foster global coordination with the UK Controls team
Responsibilities included: Development of data acquisition systems and performance calculators to optimize data logging and analysis. Planning and execution of performance tests on simple cycle, combined cycle and coal-fired power plants (including condenser and cooling towers) while assuring data integrity. Emission testing according to EPA methods to guarantee compliance. Generation of test reports while maintaining client communications on project development .