Nolan Sykes

- Spent summer collaborating with plant wide engineers to further understanding the investment casting process and company objectives

- Assigned a summer project: Developed a new wax assembly process for Single Crystal Casting Projects that ensured the control of Primary and Secondary grain orientations.

- Created unique 3D printed fixturing for precise and repeatable wax trees that are still used.

- Lead contact of a 40+ individual product portfolio for the highest sales plant at Hitchiner.

- Responsible for wax, shell and cast processes as well as back end gaging of each product line.

- Independently reworked dimensionally nonconforming wax dies from start to finish and re-qualified product that continues to run.

- Improved overall yield of multiple legacy products by as much as 50% by running samples, iterating off of results and collaborating with production teams to align with timelines.

- Independently managing customer corrective actions and improving processes to address non-conformances.

- Managing brand new product lines and developing entire sequencing flow from the ground up.