Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Engineer and fabricator on chassis team, including design work utilizing SOLIDWORKS for simulations, materials analysis and selection, and design of chassis jig for manufacturing and ergonomics jig to assist in driver placement. One of two TIG welders for entire formula-style race car production.
Performed the role of a manufacturing engineer at the Celeros M&J and Copes-Vulcan Valve manufacturing plant. • Designed and wrote visual work instructions for the assembly of various valves. Instructions made the assembly process for employees more efficient and easier by providing both text instructions with visuals. • Redesigned entire process for filling out Quality Team forms for assembly procedures from paper to digital, including implementing the visual work instructions into the company-utilized software. Wrote a VBA program to extract the data and produce a printable form for the customer. This digitalization of the forms allowed for the Quality Team to find problems, produce the form packets, and ship the valves more quickly. • Solved various tooling problems while on-site. Solutions ranged from selecting new bandsaw blades to cut Inconel and Stellite, selecting a protective sleeving for precision machined parts, and designing a system to detect the amount of time an electrode oven lost power for the nuclear industry.
Team member for the brakes and steering team. Designed a completely new parking brake system within competition requirements. Performed fabrication and welding duties as needed for the entire team.
Performed duties of a Field/Office Engineer I for TIC Southern, a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation, as part of the Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, LLC project constructing one of the largest plastics manufacturing facilities in the U.S. including: • Tracking installed quantities, performing takeoffs and estimating for bidding purposes, creation of as-built drawings using AutoCAD, ordering materials, dealing with site turnover and the client, obtaining permits, creation and completion of necessary documents, and sending out site-wide emails to ensure operations on the site run smoothly and that the client is satisfied with the quality of our product. • Performing calculations for monorail load testing, as well as creating and filling out all necessary paperwork for the tests so the monorails can be sold off to the client. • Working as part of a team with general foreman and foreman, ensuring their crews have all the necessary supplies and material to perform all required duties. • Obtaining required training including confined space, commissioning permit to work and lock-out tag-out to help out the crews in the field run efficiently and safely.