Norman F. Francis Jr
Wattsburg,PA
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Production / Purchasing
Swanson-Erie Corporation
Erie
01.2021 - Current
- Manage Costing, scheduling, material, and assembly requirements for precision assembly machinery.
- Researching and sourcing new vendors.
- Checking vendor capabilities and monitoring quality levels to ensure proper workflow and maintain on time delivery for projects.
- Purchasing various manufactured products and hardware in accordance with production schedules.
- Monitor project budgets to maintain positive profit margins.
Manufacturing / Process Engineer
Parker Hannifin
Erie
01.2009 - 05.2020
- Duties include designing and prototyping new tooling and fixtures, supervising CNC programmers, and the facilities DNC network.
- Managing tooling inventories, budgets and suppliers for an entire machining operation.
- Establishing routings and costing new products for manufacturability.
- Create plant layouts, work cells, and initiate capital expenditure projects, including financial justification.
- Lead Lean manufacturing events utilizing tools inclusive of Value Stream Mapping, 5S, and Kanban to create flow.
- Facilitate Kaizen events to eliminate waste and create process flow.
- Manage Continuous improvement projects utilizing metrics and problem-solving tools to improve productivity.
- Autoclave Engineers Facility
Project Manager / Store Fixtures Department
Bush Industries
Jamestown
07.2005 - 03.2008
- Manage fixture projects from inception through manufacturing, costing, scheduling and installation if required.
- Create fixture designs, material requirements, and manufacturing routings with Autodesk Inventor 3D software.
- Daily functions included strong interaction with customers, vendors, and overseeing store fixture manufacturing personnel along with establishing efficient manufacturing processes utilizing lean principles.
Product to Manufacturing Coordinator / CNC Programmer
Bush Industries
Erie
08.1998 - 07.2005
- Liaison between engineering and manufacturing to incorporate product and process changes, review new products for manufacturability, create manufacturing routings, assisting with capability studies for boring machinery, program a variety of CNC boring and routing machinery, create optimization programs for Schelling Saws.
Senior Draftsmen / UNIX System Administrator
Bush Industries
Jamestown
02.1990 - 08.1998
- Maintain, upgrade and operate various software packages on a network of IBM RISC 6000’s using a UNIX operating system, check engineering drawings, working closely with the bill of material system, and coordinate the company’s engineering change system utilizing an IBM AS400 computer.
Designer, New Carrier Construction
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
Newport News
06.1987 - 05.1989
- Duties included overseeing and maintaining piping and mechanical systems involved with installation of the catapult launching and weapons elevator systems on the Nimitz class aircraft carriers.
- Resolving design and installation problems in the design office, and aboard ship.
- Initiating and revising drawings, creating purchase orders, and working closely with mil-specs and vendor drawings.
Timeline
Production / Purchasing
Swanson-Erie Corporation
01.2021 - Current
Manufacturing / Process Engineer
Parker Hannifin
01.2009 - 05.2020
Project Manager / Store Fixtures Department
Bush Industries
07.2005 - 03.2008
Product to Manufacturing Coordinator / CNC Programmer
Bush Industries
08.1998 - 07.2005
Senior Draftsmen / UNIX System Administrator
Bush Industries
02.1990 - 08.1998
Designer, New Carrier Construction
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
06.1987 - 05.1989