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Daniel Fischer

Cumming,GA

Summary

Dynamic Manufacturing Technology Manager at GAF with a proven track record in cross-functional collaboration and continuous process improvement. Spearheaded initiatives that reduced machine cycle times by 5.6%, while fostering talent growth and enhancing quality management practices. Skilled in troubleshooting and project coordination, driving operational excellence and team performance.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Manufacturing Technology Manager

GAF
01.2022 - Current
  • Direct and manage a 24/7 maintenance schedule for a team of 9 technicians, covering weekday, weekend, and on-call shifts to ensure continuous service.
  • Oversee critical capital spare parts inventory, ensuring the availability of essential components to minimize downtime and maintain asset reliability.
  • Schedule and coordinate service work with vendors and contractors, managing projects that ranged from a few hours to several weeks.
  • Manage technician CMMS usage, ensuring all significant repairs were documented with labor hours, parts used, and detailed notes.
  • Collaborate with plant leadership to prioritize and schedule machine repairs around business needs, reducing operational interruptions.
  • Maintain plant EH&S compliance for hot work, electrical work, elevated work, and lockout/tagout/verify (LTV) procedures.
  • Oversee all quality and process responsibilities, as done in the Technical Services Manager role.

Technical Services Manager

GAF
06.2018 - 01.2022
  • Ensure quality and compliance by managing all on-site third-party quality audits from UL, CCMC, Miami-Dade, and FBC.
  • Drove talent acquisition by leading recruitment efforts to identify, interview, and hire top-tier co-op students for engineering roles.
  • Fostered professional growth by mentoring IM process engineers at two GAF locations (Cumming and New Columbia), sharing expertise and technical knowledge.
  • Reduced operational risk by trialing and qualifying new polypropylene alternatives.
  • Optimized production efficiency by leading a project that reduced IM machine cycle times by 5.6% through the qualification of a melt flow modifier and later machine control modifications.
  • Maintained technical documentation of products by consistently updating and managing all raw material and finished product specifications.
  • Oversaw performance and career development of salaried process engineer and rotational engineering co-ops, ensuring team growth and success.
  • Provided technical expertise during new tool development and factory run-offs to ensure successful to deployments.

Process Engineer

GAF
01.2015 - 06.2018
  • Maintain production efficiencies for all products.
  • Troubleshooting and resolving daily IM process issues in collaboration with production leads and maintenance technicians.
  • Cultivate future talent by recruiting, hiring, and mentoring co-op students, fostering their professional growth.
  • Ensure product quality by conducting trials and qualifying IM grade TPO, maintaining high standards for all parts.
  • Upgrade plant technology to higher quality vision systems at the plant from Banner to Cognex resulting on a clearer image and improved system reliability.
  • Designed and led install of the 6-axis robot guarding projects using SCRUM principles.
  • Spearheaded innovation by developing, designing, and programming the first automated quality inspection system, which uses an IR backlight, Cognex vision systems, and an Allen Bradley PLC to detect common defects.
  • Contributed to team development by training fellow IM process engineers in New Columbia, sharing best practices and technical expertise.

Mechanical Engineering Co-Op Student

GAF
08.2012 - 05.2014
  • Perform weekly quality audits of the plants quality systems.
  • Use AutoCAD to design mounts and fixtures for quality system improvements.
  • Built prototype nail handling system for Nachi 6-axis Robot end of arm tooling.
  • Daily troubleshooting of production lines.
  • Coding ladder logic in PLCs to make machine improvements.
  • Finished building and coding PLC ladder logic for a custom AGV that picked and delivered finished goods to a warehouse location.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
12-2014

Skills

  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Talent growth initiatives
  • Talent acquisition
  • Continuous improvement in processes
  • Project coordination
  • Collaborative teamwork skills
  • Skilled in utilizing Google tools
  • Issue resolution analysis

Accomplishments

$100k in savings due to raw material qualifications in past 12 months

Successful product lunch of EverGuard 2 piece split pourable sealer pocket and 30' Cobra Ridge Runner

5.6% reduction in IM cycle

Resolved longstanding weekend maintenance coverage issue resulting in 24/7 onsite service support

Conversion of 3 co-ops to full time

Timeline

Manufacturing Technology Manager

GAF
01.2022 - Current

Technical Services Manager

GAF
06.2018 - 01.2022

Process Engineer

GAF
01.2015 - 06.2018

Mechanical Engineering Co-Op Student

GAF
08.2012 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

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