Craig Anible
Grand Rapids
Summary
Talented Senior Project Manager with excellent client oversight and issue resolution talents. Highly effective overseeing multiple tasks and team members at once. Dedicated to detail-oriented leadership and goal-oriented planning. Gifted at meeting tight deadlines, driving business opportunities and working well in team-based environments. Engaging and personable to manage key milestones and deliver exemplary customer service.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Perrigo
04.2020 - Current
- Follow Perrigo's Stagegate process of moving and communicating project progress
- Led cross-functional teams for successful project delivery within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
- Conduct 7-9 weekly meetings with a global team, maintain and assemble a project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of projects
- Responsible to manage 5-8 projects simultaneously in areas of new products, sourcing, quality, and product reliability
- Manage projects with capital spend in the $5 million range
- Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs keeping the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective in real time
- Communicate a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan, to align the stakeholders and team members
- Successfully managed high level projects(s) from project initiation to commercialized launch and additional customer conversions
- Managing a new to market project where Legal IP protection is a priority for first to market technology
- Work successfully in a remote working environment to launch 15 large scale projects for major retailers (Walmart, Target and CVS primarily)
Innovation Engineer
Micro Technologies
06.2017 - 02.2020
- Coach and mentor engineering team in Central America in areas of project management, setting goals and meeting deadlines
- Optimized engineering processes by implementing innovative solutions and streamlining workflow.
- Travel internationally and domestically to manufacturing plants to interact with customers with the primary goal to educate users of our product how to troubleshoot and properly use product
- Act as forward facing representee of the company as quality issues caused downtime and throughput issues
- Responsible to be technical voice to customer during development of new business, current business and when quality issues arise
- Responsible project management of 4-6 projects simultaneously in areas of process, quality, and product reliability
- Key defect analyzer to find route cause of part functional issues leading to month over month customer PPM drop from > 1500 PPM to acceptable customer levels of under 2 PPM
- Redesigned parts that were previously unable to be automatically fed in a way that they could be processed automatically without affecting part / product function
- Led the team to lower the cycle time of an automated assembly line from 12 seconds to under 5.5 seconds.
Senior Automation Engineer
West Pharmaceutical
11.2014 - 06.2017
- Responsible for four automated assembly cells that assembled medical IV Filters
- Improved production efficiency by designing and implementing automated systems for assembly lines.
- Processes included automated assembly, ultrasonic welding, robots, RF welding and various part handling mechanisms
- Reduced manufacturing downtime with proactive maintenance strategies and effective troubleshooting of automation equipment.
- Troubleshot defects found during functional lab testing determining root causes of defects and implementing corrective actions so that production could be restarted
- Worked directly with manufacturing technicians troubleshooting equipment when production lines go down for mechanical issues
- Collaborated with cross functional teams to support daily production issues
- Continuously worked on 3-5 engineering projects that focused on quality and manufacturing output improvement
- Completed a greenbelt project that lowered change over time from 90 minutes to 30 minutes
- Replaced several pieces of equipment on assembly cells that were outdated and affecting output with current technology using redesigned equipment to increase production output
- Increased production output by 35% - 40% averaged across two assembly machines.
Quality Engineer
JCIM Southview
09.2013 - 11.2014
- Responsible for all assembly quality issues and communication to Chrysler, Honda, GM, and Ford, in the overhead counsel assembly area
- Interfaced and traveled to suppliers when quality issues arise, communication clear and simple expectations of defect correction
- Troubleshot defects found at customers to find the root causes of defects and communicate corrective actions to customers.
- Collaborated with cross functional teams to support daily production issues.
- Enhanced product quality by implementing rigorous inspection procedures and conducting thorough root cause analysis.
- Reduced production defects by designing and executing comprehensive quality control processes.
VAVE Engineer
Magna Mirrors
12.2012 - 09.2013
- Monitored, implement, and report out VA savings of $6 million annually resulting in a net savings goal of $6 million annually
- Solicited VA savings ideas from Product Managers, Purchasing staff, Manufacturing staff and Suppliers
- Calculated savings, implementation costs and timelines to determine feasibility of VA ideas
- Held VA workshops for internal and external customers
- Savings implemented in 2013 of $4.8 million as of September 2013
- Conducted 4 VA workshops for local vendors, netting $168,000 annual savings.
Ops Consultant / Engineer III
Kimberly Clark Professional
11.2011 - 12.2012
- Developed new assembly processes in the Belmont facility
- Lead/Supported the improvement efforts bringing the Belmont QMS to an ISO 9001:2008 audit ready state
- Provided engineering support to complete cost savings projects
- Provided engineering support to manufacturing safety and ergonomic projects
- Developed ultrasonic welding processes, trained technicians in proper setup and process monitoring
- Led/Supported the improvement efforts in creating Change Control and Drawing Control systems, to complete ISO certification audit
- Identified automated cell to generate annual savings of $600K with $350K capital investment
- Identified 3 additional projects with annual savings of $250K.
Manufacturing / Process Engineer
Aspen Surgical Products
04.2004 - 10.2011
- Identified, planed, and led capital spending projects ranging from $5000 to $300,000 to assist in company goal of net 3%COGS reduction per year
- Provided technical support to Quality, New Product Development, and manufacturing technicians
- Identified root causes of defects and customer complaint issues, implement effective corrective actions, and implement plans to reduce potential future risk
- Traveled to customers to perform installations and problem solving onsite
- Traveled to suppliers to aid in process development and validation of new products
- Responsible for $460K overall cost savings in material change projects over 5 years
- Responsible for $385K overall labor savings in labor reduction projects over 5 years
- Project lead on acquisition of company with annual sales of $11 million.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Ferris State University
Grand Rapids, MI12.2000
Skills
- MS Project and generating timelines
- Maintaining budget reports
- Trained and experienced in Shingijutsu Kaizen (2017)
- Trained in conducting internal quality audits (2016)
- Trained and certified Six Sigma Green Belt (2016)
- Trained in Kepner Tregoe (KT) problem solving techniques (2013)
- Trained and experienced in the PPAP process and FDA requirements for validation and verification of new products and processes
- Client Relationship Management
- Requirements Gathering
- KPI Tracking
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Perrigo
04.2020 - Current
Innovation Engineer
Micro Technologies
06.2017 - 02.2020
Senior Automation Engineer
West Pharmaceutical
11.2014 - 06.2017
Quality Engineer
JCIM Southview
09.2013 - 11.2014
VAVE Engineer
Magna Mirrors
12.2012 - 09.2013
Ops Consultant / Engineer III
Kimberly Clark Professional
11.2011 - 12.2012
Manufacturing / Process Engineer
Aspen Surgical Products
04.2004 - 10.2011
Bachelor of Science - Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Ferris State University