David Harmon

Lead P&G Fabric and Home Care R&D Engineering Team to provide cutting edge innovation and empower breakthrough research at site with 1,200 Employees and 200+ Contractors.

• Established $10MM Capital Budget with 75 Capital Projects managed during FY 21/22.
• Lead Mechanical, Electrical, Water System, Process Safety, Life Safety, and Appliance Support systems.
• Mechanical - DI, Soft, City, and Hard Water Systems, Process Systems, Lab/Research HVAC.
• Electrical - Robotics, Motion Control, Power Systems, Electrical Safety (NRTL Inspections, Machine Safety).
• Process Safety - Design Engineering, Safety Studies, Pressure Vessels, PRVs, Testing/Inspection, UL Certification.
• Co-Invented and received U.S. Patent 11,268,886 (Mar 2022) for Portable Air Sampling Device.

Led Electrical Engineering Team on project to install high-speed toothpaste tube filling lines in P&G Oral Care Plants that increased throughput up to 50% and reduced product SKU changeover time up to 80%.

• Integrated system with Pack/ML Control and SQL data systems into Plant SAP production systems.
• Provided Factory Acceptance Test leadership at Supplier Site in Sweden to resolve process failures.
• Resolved multiple technical challenges with machines running these high very high speeds.

Led 100+ SKU Portfolio of Iams and Eukanuba Dog and Cat Food Product Innovations to Market.

• Collaborated with Multifunctional Teams (Management, Marketing, Sales, Consumer Research, Formulation, Packaging, QA, Manufacturing) to deliver new products to market based on Initiative Master Plan.
• Delivered 30+ new product formulations and 100+ new SKUs to Pet Specialty Retail, Mass Retail, and Club (Costco, Sam's Club , BJs) Channels.

Held multiple positions in Baby Care Product Supply focused on improving Process Reliability, Machine Capability, Speed, Throughput and TDC.

• Global Engineering Improvement Platform Manager with $20MM Annual Budget used to improve performance of 120+ Baby Care Diaper Lines Globally - 3 Years.
• Pampers Diaper Size 1-6 Rollout Engineering Lead - Delivered multiple product/marketing upgrades to improve diaper quality and reduce cost - 2 Years.
• Invented Pad Code Dating System that encodes every single diaper for Customer Complaint Management/QA Follow-up to Plant, Line, Date, HH:MM - 2 Years.
• Speed-Up Leader for Pampers and Pull-Ups - Increased line speeds from 600 Pads/Minute to 900 Pads/Minute to achieve 50% throughput increase - 3 Years.

• Integrated Programming, Engineering, and Accounting Teams.
• Successfully mitigated 100+ Y2K Technical Challenges to ensure safe transition into Jan 2000 and beyond.