Jeremy Brogaard
Kanawha,IA
Summary
With nearly 30 years of experience in manufacturing, I have effectively managed multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, consistently meeting tight deadlines with a positive attitude. Throughout my career, I have held diverse roles in companies ranging from 20 to 800 employees, overseeing the entire fabrication process from start to final product completion. As an enthusiastic team player, I am eager to contribute to your company's success.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Corporate Production Engineering Lead
Stellar Industries
01.2023 - Current
- Conducted thorough risk assessments for complex engineering projects, minimizing potential hazards while maximizing resource utilization.
- Managed multiple projects concurrently, effectively prioritizing tasks to achieve successful outcomes within budget constraints.
- Managed multi million dollar business growth and cap ex projects across multiple facilities.
- Mentored and managed an Engineering Team, Internal Weld Training and Tooling Team, fostering professional growth and improving overall team performance.
- Evaluated project performance using key metrics; analyzed data to identify trends, optimize resources allocation, and inform future decision making.
- Drove innovation by researching emerging technologies, incorporating cutting-edge advancements into product designs.
- Facilitated productive discussions among team members to promote creative problem-solving and foster an atmosphere of collaboration.
- Implemented continuous improvement initiatives that resulted in increased efficiencies and reduced waste in manufacturing processes.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop tailored engineering solutions that met business needs.
- Tested and analyzed equipment design and performance feasibility to determine potential ROI.
- Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
- Developed work plans for various personnel roles based on strengths and talents.
- Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
- Developed cost estimates and project specifications for proposals.
- Conducted feasibility studies for proposed projects using potential ROI and risk management.
- Led engineering teams to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
- Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
Senior Manufacturing Engineering Lead
Stellar Industries
07.2017 - 01.2023
- Manage the Manufacturing Engineering team, Internal Assembly Trainers, Interns, and Internal Weld Trainers in the Kanawha, Ia location
- Support current product line along with any new products introduced into the Kanawha Plant
- ME team was responsible for the method of manufacturing from fabrication to finish product
- Worked with supervisors and shop floor team members to increase efficiency and streamline production
- Designed and produce any weld fixtures, custom tools, and build aids to assist production needs
- Design plant and cell layouts to maximize production and efficiency
- Planned and executed all capital expenditure projects for the Kanawha Manufacturing Plant
- Set up all planning parameters in Epicor to plan out the manufacturing process.
Tooling Engineering Supervisor
Hagie Manufacturing
01.2016 - 07.2017
- Manage a group of highly skilled individuals to develop and procure new concepts and designs for tooling to facilitate the implementation of new and revised products into the core manufacturing process
- Support new product programs by providing input on design for manufacturability and providing budgetary estimates for tooling cost for AFE’s’ Identify more efficient processes for parts manufacturing in order to reduce cost
- Responsible for the design of new weld fixtures, assembly build aids, and items needed for internal and external part movement
- Work with outside vendors to ensure quality of outsourced items
- Review current product items to develop ways to improve operator safety, ergonomics, quality, and efficacy
- Designed a new weldment fixture using 80/20 extruded alum and utilized pneumatics for the clamping system to improve weld efficiency by 20% by eliminating set-up time and being able to weld the complete weldment in the fixture
- Designed many build aids that where complete in advance to be used in the documentation process of creating work instructions for production
- Worked with accounting to get an overhead cost for the department to get a better comparison to see whether it cheaper to outsource some items or to build in house
- Developed a new weldment review process with the weld team to get feedback on fixture design for better customer satisfaction.
Continuous Improvement Technician
Hagie Manufacturing
05.2013 - 01.2016
- Utilizing Lean/Sigma tools, worked with all as aspects of production, paint, welding, fabrication, assembly, and inventory management
- Managed all aspects of projects from start to finish working with managers, coordinators, and operators
- Designed and built fixtures to increase productivity, improve quality, and repeatability in manufacturing processes while keeping operator safety in mind
- Collecting data for standardized work and takt times to ensure a level and well balanced workload between areas
- Eliminated safety and ergonomic issues
- Taught Lean 101 to new hires during orientation
- Managed the Cab Cell Layout Project
- Changed plant layout to achieve more space for the cab cell to increase production
- Changed floor layout, designed and built workstations for each area then tailored to areas need by providing the tools and fasteners needed for each specific station
- Worked with Paint and Receiving to design and build carts to hold each area's specific parts
- Designed and built carts for all of their point- of- use items to make it easier to replace and eliminated damaging of purchased parts
- Designed and built protective covers for the cutter deck on the 204 Detasler
- Due to safety concerns of cutter blades not being tight when testing the unit and possibly coming off
- Designed a protective cover to slide over the unit while testing to prevent any injuries
- Designed and built many poka-yokes for production, increasing production by reducing the chance for error.
Assembly Department Coordinator
Hagie Manufacturing
05.2014 - 10.2015
- Department Coordinator for Final Line Assembly
- Managed a team of 10 operators, to meet daily production and quality goals
- Coached team members to meet company expectations on quality and efficiency
- Identified issues with quality and manufacturing that caused issues in the assembly process
- Worked with Engineering and Quality to make corrective measures to eliminate quality defects, rework, and lost time.
Shop Foreman/ Head Fabricator and Chassis Builder
Karl Performance - Victory Chassis
10.2009 - 04.2013
- Managed a team of 6-8 employees in the chassis and fabrication shop
- Took care of all business in the shop along with maintaining a long-term schedule of all new chassis builds, repairs, and parts orders
- Responsible for assigning jobs to employees and ordering of all materials needed for chassis fabrication and repairs
- Along with the shop management duties, responsible for building all modified chassis
- Worked with support staff and customers on multiple new R&D projects to develop new ideas to improve the performance of our products
- Worked with drivers, along with myself to develop cutting edge hobbystock, stockcar, and modified chassis designs to beat our competitors
- My responsibility was to make creative ideas a reality
- Outside of normal shop hours, I raced my own house car, (2 years IMCA modified, 1 year USRA modified) to help develop new ideas and to help out our customers at the track
- When Victory Chassis moved all chassis fabrication in house to the Boone, IA location, I was responsible for reverse engineering their 2009 chassis that was outsourced, and to build all the fixtures and body templates for the 2010 chassis
- I documented and created a fabrication list for every pipe, for its length, notch, and bend
- Designed and built the chassis jigs, along with all other jigs associated with the chassis
- After completing the first chassis, I was responsible for all of the aluminum body work and the patterns to go along with this
- After completing the first proto type, helped hire and train all employees
- Helped build a shop and its employees from the ground up
- Increased sales from 20 chassis a year total, to 50-60 modified, 20 hobbystocks, and 20 stockcars a year, making an average of 100 chassis a year being sold due to the increase in customer success along with the improved quality of product.
- Used hand and power tools, equipment, and instruments accurately.
Sales & Tech Support
Harris Auto Racing
08.2007 - 10.2009
- Worked with customers from all over the United States both in person and on the phone providing customer support for chassis issues along with chassis and parts sales
- Shared product knowledge with customers while making personal recommendations to best suit their needs
- Responsible for purchasing of all inventory along with keeping a close relationship with our vendors on new items coming out
- In charge of all dealer programs ensuring they had everything needed to be successful
- To better serve our customers, I wrote chassis set-up manuals for both modifieds and stockcars giving new customers a basic list of all the measurements on the car such as frame heights, caster/ camber settings, weights, etc., and solutions to common handling issues
- Brought in several new customers by going to the track and helping racers whether or not they were running Harris Chassis and helped with issues they were having with their car
- In turn, when customers were in the market for new cars, they came to Harris Auto Racing because of the great customer service.
Welder/ Fabricator
Ruter Racing LLC/ Sidebitter Chassis
01.2005 - 08.2007
- Responsible for the fabrication of all chassis parts, and manufactured parts
- Responsible for all the modified chassis fabrication from start to finish, along the fabrication of all aluminum bodies
- Worked weekends on owner's house car along with giving help to customers at the racetrack.
Welder/ Fabricator
DDS Chassis
07.2001 - 08.2005
- Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
- Fabricated and welded various types of race chassis and custom hotrods.
- Repaired and recondition damaged and wrecked racecars.
Welder
TwinCity Fan
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Fabricated and welded various sizes of industrial sized ventilation fans according to print
- Had to work in teams of up to 4 people on large scale fans built for skyscraper ventilation systems.
Prototype Welder
Specialty Systems
07.2001 - 07.2002
- Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
- Utilized blueprints and diagrams to compare finished products against design specifications.
- Streamlined work processes through effective communication with supervisors and team members about project requirements and progress updates.
- Worked with design engineers on initial proto types and gave feedback to make product more manufacturable.
Welder/ Fabricator
Denny's Welding & Manufacturing
05.1996 - 06.2001
- Demonstrated versatility in various welding methods including MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux Core Welding techniques.
- Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
Education
Associate of Science: Engineering and Design Technology - Engineering
Iowa Central Community College
Fort Dodge, IA05.2016
Mechanical Engineering -
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD05.2005
Automotive -
Minnesota West Technical School
Canby, MN05.1998
Skills
- Project Management
- Business Strategy
- Project Planning
- Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- Manufacturing Processes
- Green Belt
- Kaizen
- Design development
- Process Development
- Technical Writing
- Collaborative design
- Production design
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Engineering Team Management
- Problem-Solving
- Time Management
- Attention to Detail
- Multitasking
- Excellent Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Organizational Skills
- Decision-Making
- Relationship Building
- Team building
- Continuous Improvement
- Technical Drawings
- Data Analysis
- Engineering Design
- 2D and 3D modeling Solidworks
- Cost Estimates
- Production Support
- Tooling Design
- PDP
- Assembly experience
- Welding experience
- Fabrication experience
- Quality Control
- Purchasing- make versus buy
Militaryexperience
Cadet, Air Force ROTC, Brookings, SD, 01/200 to 04/2005, Enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program while attending SDSU. Nominated for Cadet of the Month 2 times.
Volunteer Experience
Fireman- Assistant Chief, Kanawha Fire Department, Kanawha, IA, 09/2010 to Current, Volunteer Fireman on Kanawha Fire Department Successfully completed all Fire Fighter 1& 2 training. Enrolled in yearly continuing education training, hazmat, and CPR courses.
hobbies
Die hard snowmobiler, with main focus on back country riding, but love riding anywhere there is snow. Summer time enjoy dirt bike riding, competing in amature hare scrambles and enduros. Enjoy offroad side by side rides with family and friends, but realy just love anything that's out doors and exploring. Love to work on shop projects whether is restoring old snowmobiles or design and building custom projects in the shop.
Timeline
Senior Corporate Production Engineering Lead
Stellar Industries
01.2023 - Current
Senior Manufacturing Engineering Lead
Stellar Industries
07.2017 - 01.2023
Tooling Engineering Supervisor
Hagie Manufacturing
01.2016 - 07.2017
Assembly Department Coordinator
Hagie Manufacturing
05.2014 - 10.2015
Continuous Improvement Technician
Hagie Manufacturing
05.2013 - 01.2016
Shop Foreman/ Head Fabricator and Chassis Builder
Karl Performance - Victory Chassis
10.2009 - 04.2013
Sales & Tech Support
Harris Auto Racing
08.2007 - 10.2009
Welder/ Fabricator
Ruter Racing LLC/ Sidebitter Chassis
01.2005 - 08.2007
Welder
TwinCity Fan
01.2004 - 01.2005
Welder/ Fabricator
DDS Chassis
07.2001 - 08.2005
Prototype Welder
Specialty Systems
07.2001 - 07.2002
Welder/ Fabricator
Denny's Welding & Manufacturing
05.1996 - 06.2001
Associate of Science: Engineering and Design Technology - Engineering
Iowa Central Community College
Mechanical Engineering -
South Dakota State University
Automotive -
Minnesota West Technical School
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