Chad Craig

Project Engineer at APG Polytech

Winfield, West Virginia, United States

About

10 years experience in Manufacturing engineering, and 3 years experience as a Value Stream Manager (Operations Manager). 2 years of Maintenance coordination and scheduling, and 2 years of production scheduling and area leadership. I have become a student of Lean manufacturing holding many certifications for various Lean Tools. Specialties: Standard Work, Value Stream Mapping, Material Replenishment Systems, SAP, Aspen IP.21, Excel, OneNote.

Experience

  • Project Engineer at APG Polytech
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Upgrades to facility Utilities, includeing drilling a new well, and reconditioning older failing wells. designing, and installing new equipment for pneumatic transfer of raw materials. building the graphics and DCS modules and sequences to automate the equipment, and developed a new mechanism to attache super sack bags to a hopper to reduce dust in our warehouse environment.

  • The Chemours Company (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Operations Specialist
      Jun 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

      Data entry and analysis of downtime causes for assets in the units. Lead strategic deployment discussions with technical resources. Developed, and maintained action plan to drive process improvements, and hold accountability. Reports upwards results of KPIs via a dashboard to communicate weekly/monthly results, and status of the plant. Manage Title V environmental reporting results. Communicate to operators and first line supervisors the business needs, and plans for the unit daily. Lead the technical team in problem solving and corrective actions associated with process and safety interlocks. Lead team through a SMED on product transitions, that brought our transition time from 24 hrs to 18 hrs.

    • Area Superintendent
      Mar 2022 - Jun 2022 · 4 mos

  • Maintenance Coordinator at The Chemours Company
    Dec 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Use SAP to create work orders, and schedule their execution. I hold multiple meeting to ensure we are 1-working on the right things, 2-are completing what we need to in a timely manner. I also manage the RM/PM list ensuring that we stay current. I manage the long range shutdown plan to ensure that the unit accomplishes all that it needs to during the outage.

  • Six Sigma Lean Consultant at DuPont
    Oct 2011 - Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Lead 3 cross Functional teams through TRACC Continuous Improvement plan, where we consistently worked on improving Teamwork, 5S, Visual Management, Focused Improvement. We did this through the use of facilitated training, workshops, and kaizen events.

  • Crane ChemPharma Marion (6 yrs 7 mos)
    • Value Stream Manager
      Dec 2007 - Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      responsible for the valuestream from the point where the order and raw materials come in the door to the point where the finished product goes out. I am responsible for communicating up the organization, road blocks that are being encountered in the manufacturing process and preparing and executing the plan for getting them fixed.

    • Manufacturing Engineer
      Apr 2005 - Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Designed products, and equipment to create those products. participated and lead multiple Kaizen events and helped with the design of our future factory vision. I worked with the leadership team to create improvements for the flow of parts through the factory.