Zachary Patterson
Tempe,AZ
Summary
I am an Industrial Engineer dedicated to growth and continuous improvement, with a strong commitment to lifelong learning and personal development. My experience spans manufacturing, leadership, analytics, lean six sigma, factory automation, and continuous improvement. I am passionate about enhancing operational efficiency and solving complex problems. I look forward to further developing my engineering skills, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and tackling increasingly challenging projects.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manufacturing/Automation Engineer
West Pharmaceutical Services Inc
Scottsdale, AZ
01.2023 - Current
- Optimized automation equipment to achieve and sustain high Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in a high-volume medical device manufacturing environment, enhancing productivity.
- Resolved complex manufacturing issues escalated from technicians, ensuring minimal production downtime and maintaining high operational efficiency.
- Developed and applied mistake-proofing techniques (poka-yoke) to prevent process failures and nonconformances, improving quality and reliability in production processes.
- Conducted thorough investigations into nonconformances, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence, ensuring consistent product quality.
- Authored and updated detailed work instructions, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Led projects and effectively navigated the change control process within a pharmaceutical company, ensuring seamless implementation of changes in a high-volume operation.
- Trained technicians and operators on updated work instructions, ensuring understanding and adherence to new processes, thereby enhancing workforce competency and process efficiency.
- Utilized Keyence and Cognex vision systems to maintain high part quality standards, quickly identifying and resolving defects in the automated production line.
- Created interactive data management system to manage daily output on automation equipment, create forecasts, and create reports.
- Worked with team to identify and implement yield improvements resulting in $674,000 in annual savings.
- Conducted Gage R & R’s, Equivalency tests, T-Tests, hypothesis testing, and other statistical analysis in minitab and excel.
Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer
Axon
Scottsdale, AZ
01.2022 - Current
- Collected cycle time data to identify bottlenecks in Fleet 3 dash camera manufacturing process.
- Used lean to identify and eliminate waste in Fleet 3 dash camera manufacturing process.
- Worked to level the line to achieve one piece flow and reduce the amount of work in progress.
- Created new manufacturing layout to reduce movement of operators, better facilitate one piece flow, reduce work in progress, and reduce the number of touches by the operators.
- Worked with supply chain to determine material storage requirements for weekly production.
- Determined the minimum number of operators needed to run the manufacturing line.
- Eliminated waste resulting from unnecessary changeover.
- Created new flexible labeling system to improve 5S throughout facility.
- Implemented new box stacking method to reduce probability of transit damage.
- Created Standard operating Procedures to aide in implementation of new production control system.
Supply Chain Intern
Dot Foods Inc.
Bullhead City, AZ
05.2022 - 08.2022
- Identified and eliminated waste in inventory control processes amounting to $6000 annually.
- Recovered over $9000 of inventory from dry, cool, and frozen warehouse.
- Created visual aides to reduce loss on pallet inverter and to improve productivity.
- Used data and statistical analysis to determine root cause of late second stops for drivers.
- Rode along with driver for multiple days through LA to visualize driver processes on the road and in customer distribution centers.
- Worked with management from other Dot distribution centers to compare processes and identify opportunities.
- Analyzed data to provide management with insight on each employee for all shifts such as: Productivity over time, Productivity by task, how time as been spent, service level, cases picked by period/quarter/year, and graphical representations of that information.
- Used lean to identify and eliminate waste throughout warehouse and office.
- Operated narrow aisle, stand up, and order picker fork lifts.
Operations Manager
Watercraft Adventures Rentals
Laughlin, NV
05.2015 - 08.2022
- Created queuing system that helped to reach all time daily revenue records week after week.
- Responsible for continuous improvement throughout company.
- Eliminated non-value-added steps in a jet ski rental process, resulting in significantly reduced customer wait times.
- Collaborated with other management to increase sales, customer retention, and customer satisfaction.
- Worked with business owner to determine the best and most cost effective equipment to use moving forward.
- Created standard operating procedures for tasks such as: oil changes, changing Impellers, cleaning jet skis, and inspecting jet skis.
- Created survey system to quantify customer satisfaction, measure trends/changes, and obtain voice of the customer.
- Created a system to quantify how sales people were doing by measuring their customer retention rate.
- Responsible for all troubleshooting of issues that would occur day to day.
- Responsible for ensuring safe operations for employees and customers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Arizona State University
TempeSkills
- Lean Six Sigma
- Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Project, and Access
- Toyota Production System
- Pull Manufacturing
- Inventory Management
- Project Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Process Engineering
- Supply Chain Management
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Data/Statistical Analysis
- Mini Tab
- Customer Service
- Leadership
- Arena Simulation Software
- Operations Research
- Operations Management
- Quality Engineering
- Medical Device Manufacturing
- Factory Automation
- Manufacturing Engineering
Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Council for Six Sigma - 2022
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Council for Six Sigma - 2022
Timeline
Manufacturing/Automation Engineer
West Pharmaceutical Services Inc
01.2023 - Current
Supply Chain Intern
Dot Foods Inc.
05.2022 - 08.2022
Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer
Axon
01.2022 - Current
Operations Manager
Watercraft Adventures Rentals
05.2015 - 08.2022
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Arizona State University
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