Charles Grindstaff
Leicester,North Carolina
Summary
15 Years of Experience with PLC’s Programming and Trouble Shooting (Siemens, AB, Omron) 15 Years of Experience with Robots (Sailor, NSK, Star, Yamaha, Funuc) 15 years of Experience with Several types of Pneumatic Systems 15 years of Experience with trouble shooting Hydraulics Systems Experience on Five Different types of Injection Molding Machines (Nestal, Sodick, Meiki, Toshiba, Sumitomo) Experience with Testing Equipment: Digital Multi-Meter, AC Generator, Logic Probe, Oscilloscope, and Logic Pulser Experience with Data Analysis Software: SharePoint, QlikView, FDM4, Issuing Optimizations, 5S Six Sigma Green Belt Certified North Carolina State Board of Refrigeration license’s Experienced in copper pipe welding Experienced in AUTOCAD, SolidWorks and AutoDesk Inventor Experienced in Cycle time and Time studies Experienced in Building Prototypes
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager
Xsys Global
Arden, NC
03.2024 - Current
- Responsible for coordinating the production drawing.
- Responsible for designing or editing production drawings within Solidworks.
- Responsible for the CAPX projects.
- Responsible for the Engineering Budget.
- Assist in machine repairs.
- Responsible for maintaining stock of inventory of materials, parts and specialized tools for the maintenance functions..
- Responsible for setting up and maintaining the 5s program.
Maintenance Supervisor
Linamar Light Metal
Mill River, North Carolina
01.2023 - 03.2024
- Responsible for coordinating, mentoring and supervising the activities of skilled and unskilled maintenance workers
- Ensure proper methods and procedures are followed to maintain, repair and service equipment, buildings and facilities in compliance with building codes and safety standards
- Primarily accountable for maintaining production equipment in a manner that meets organization standards
- Responsible for minimum equipment downtime
- Inspect projects to ensure conformity to specifications
- Direct safety inspections and preventative maintenance programs
- Responsible for maintaining stock of inventory of materials, parts and specialized tools for the maintenance function
- Develop and monitor operating and project budgets
- Maintain and direct all PM&PD activities
- Maintain PMX software and all related documentation
- Maintain continuous learning to be kept up-to-date with new technologies, new information and regulatory changes within industry.
Electrical Engineer
Metal Industries
Marion, North Carolina
04.2018 - 01.2023
- Working with Auto Cad 2019 to draw and edit HVAC drawings to Customer’s specifications
- Ensure appropriate resources are available to execute the main tasks assigned to the facility
- Design or redesign HVAC circuits
- Certify Electrical components to be used in HVAC equipment
- Certify the accuracy of the UL report through Intertek testing
- Responsible for the accuracy of CAD drawings
- Drive continuous improvements to the product by using ECN's and ECR'S
- Use Six Sigma tools in time studies to evaluate employee downtime
- Use ISO 9001 and 5whys for root cause analysis
- Involved in continuous motor improvements
- Responsible for maintaining a Komax wiring machine
- Use AutoDesk Inventor to draw parts in 3D
- Responsible for the accuracy of production orders
- Design and build prototypes
- Responsible for designing a Bar code system
- Developed multiple work instructions.
Engineering Manager Warranty, Failure Analysis and Product Refurbishment
Shark Ninja
Spruce Pine, North Carolina
02.2009 - 04.2018
- Managed the day to day SharkNinja activities at the Spruce Pine facility
- Responsible for providing technical analysis and reporting to Shark Core Quality Group
- Provided technical assistance to the remanufacturing activities at PRC
- Supported the quality core process to ensure continuous improvement in the ongoing quality of legacy products
- Coordinated the required periodic teardowns of product
- Ensured that the Vice President of Quality is immediately informed of any serious quality issues
- Supervised department of 12-15 employees from material handles to technicians
- Designed trouble shooting flow charts and work flow charts, to evaluate Customer’s defects
- Ran cycle time tests for batteries
- Developed multiple work instructions
- Ran multiple multiculture product tear downs.
Quality Control Senior Technician
Shark Ninja
Spruce Pine, North Carolina
02.2009 - 11.2009
- Responsible for tearing down of Consumer and Customer returns of small appliances
- Responsible for shipping all defective items to China manufacturing facilities
- Maintained data and reports for all units analyzed and processed.
Maintenance Supervisor
Rich Mount
Arden, North Carolina
06.2005 - 02.2009
- Managed all aspects of maintenance department in regards to projects, budget and the day to day maintenance schedule
- Attended to various projects throughout the plant: Quality Control Test Gigs, Pick and Place Secondary Finished Goods
- Supervised 5 maintenance technicians, providing them day to day mentoring, and development opportunities
- Worked with OEM service engineers to help repair injection molding machines
- Built picking and place machines from fabricating materials to programming the PLC
- Ordered spare parts and created inventory system to be able to track inventory numbers
- Maintained and built break boosters, fan shrouds etc for top tier automotive brands
- Responsible for the upkeep of the Chills, Cooling Towers, Air Compressors and the Air Dryer.
Injection Molding Technician
Rich Mount
Arden, North Carolina
06.2005 - 02.2007
- Diagnosed and repaired electronics control circuitry for pneumatic circuitry, and hydraulics for large tonnage injection molding machines
- Diagnosed and repaired automation equipment
- Maintained 30 injection molding machines and secondary equipment by conducting X and repairing Y.
CD Engineer
CPU East
Arden, North Carolina
09.2000 - 06.2005
- Engineered and implemented maintenance department at a new facility
- Created and implemented a preventative maintenance program and a program to replace spare parts
- Maintained injection molding machinery, both CD and DVD and CD printer machine
- Worked on various projects, including writing programs to weigh ink down to one tenth of a gram, plumbing projects, and electrical projects
- Set up new injection molding machines within the department
- Brought in equipment and designed department layout.
CD Engineer
ICCA
Fort Mill, South Carolina
02.2000 - 09.2000
- Diagnosed and repaired electronics control circuitry for pneumatic manufacturing machines
- Responsible for completing quality assurance documentation for the manufacturing process
- Performed preventive maintenance on CD machines
- Responsible for repairing CD machines.
Electronics Technician
Glen Raven
Burnsville, North Carolina
06.1999 - 02.2000
- Maintained all electronics and machines for the entire plant
- Repaired machines to ensure minimum downtime
- Built computers in the electronics lab.
Electronics Technician
Sonopress
Weaverville, North Carolina
07.1996 - 06.1999
- Diagnosed and repaired electronics control circuitry for pneumatic manufacturing
- Completed quality assurance documentation for manufacturing processes
- Maintained machines that make discs
- Performed injection molding and hydraulic work.
Engineering Manger
Xsys Global
Arden, North Carolina
03.2024
- Responsible for coordinating the production drawing
- Responsible for designing or editing production drawings within Solidworks
- Responsible for the CAPX projects
- Responsible for the Engineering Budget
- Assist in machine repairs
- Responsible for maintaining stock of inventory of materials, parts and specialized tools for the maintenance functions
- Responsible for setting up and maintaining the 5s program.
Education
BS Engineering and Technology - Engineering and Technical Operations -
Western Carolina University
Associate Degree – HVAC -
AB Tech
Associate Degree - Applied Science - Electronics Engineering Technology -
Mayland Community College
Skills
- PLC's Programming and Trouble Shooting (Siemens, AB, Omron)
- Robots (Sailor, NSK, Star, Yamaha, Funuc)
- Several types of Pneumatic Systems
- Trouble shooting Hydraulics Systems
- Five Different types of Injection Molding Machines (Nestal, Sodick, Meiki, Toshiba, Sumitomo)
- Testing Equipment: Digital Multi-Meter, AC Generator, Logic Probe, Oscilloscope, and Logic Pulser
- Data Analysis Software: SharePoint, QlikView, FDM4, Issuing Optimizations, 5S
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
- North Carolina State Board of Refrigeration license's
- Copper pipe welding
- AUTOCAD, SolidWorks, and AutoDesk Inventor
- Cycle time and Time studies
- Building Prototypes
Certification
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- NC Refrigeration license
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Xsys Global
03.2024 - Current
Engineering Manger
Xsys Global
03.2024
Maintenance Supervisor
Linamar Light Metal
01.2023 - 03.2024
Electrical Engineer
Metal Industries
04.2018 - 01.2023
Engineering Manager Warranty, Failure Analysis and Product Refurbishment
Shark Ninja
02.2009 - 04.2018
Quality Control Senior Technician
Shark Ninja
02.2009 - 11.2009
Maintenance Supervisor
Rich Mount
06.2005 - 02.2009
Injection Molding Technician
Rich Mount
06.2005 - 02.2007
CD Engineer
CPU East
09.2000 - 06.2005
CD Engineer
ICCA
02.2000 - 09.2000
Electronics Technician
Glen Raven
06.1999 - 02.2000
Electronics Technician
Sonopress
07.1996 - 06.1999
BS Engineering and Technology - Engineering and Technical Operations -
Western Carolina University
Associate Degree – HVAC -
AB Tech
Associate Degree - Applied Science - Electronics Engineering Technology -
Mayland Community College
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