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Ryan Hazelwood

Batesville,IN

Summary

Seasoned Equipment Engineer with progressive engineering expertise and leadership for infrastructure improvement and change capabilities. Technical problem-solver with demonstrated communication skills focused to design, develop and set-up equipment to establish and maintain production processes and achieve business goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Manufacturing Equipment Engineer

Honda Manufacturing Of Indiana
11.2021 - Current
  • Working with the Genpo MESD leadership team, identify chronic or critical equipment or process downtime items. Lead priority trouble items to develop root cause analysis with countermeasure and reoccurrence prevention actions. Share with the RO PEQ team for horizontal reflection
  • Provide input and technical application support towards improved standardization of regional production systems
  • Provide emergency technical support for complex problem analysis and countermeasure as required
  • Assist MCS and Project associates by providing feedback/support on equipment related trouble due to spec, design, and install
  • Work with Project associates to coordinate and support assembly and install of countermeasure activity
  • Based on Genpo results, identify concerns and provide potential countermeasures to improve reliability centered spec, design, and installation activity
  • Prepare supporting documents as needed to communicate trouble/investigation/results

Assembly Frame Equipment Engineer

Honda Manufacturing Of Indiana
08.2016 - 11.2021
  • Continuous improvement activities related to Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety-Equipment buy-off and Equipment acceptance
  • Revised specs, evaluated bids and proposed vendors to expedite project approval.
  • Design, create prints, source out, and implement parts
  • Root Cause identification and countermeasure for complex problems
  • Support new model improvements and development activity
  • Manage Projects, prepare documents for approval and manage safety, quality of work, meeting schedules and cost.
  • Identify loss, determine root causes, develop solutions and implement engineering c/m's
  • Read, prepare schematics and prints
  • Repair and maintenance of equipment while mentoring equipment service associates
  • Strong Daily PDCA activity (Solving daily delivery struggles through deep RCA, strong CM implementation, activity follow-up checks and incident report CM Closure)
  • Parts sourcing (Quote initiation, vendor negotiations, part specifications)
  • New equipment specifications review and support (Risk assessments, commissioning checks, Genba reviews)

Multi Mount Reliability Engineer

Honda Manufacturing Of Indiana
01.2015 - 08.2016
  • Conducted failure analysis investigations to determine root causes, preventing repeat occurrences of critical equipment breakdowns.
  • Multi Mount level performance analysis and tracking of downtime
  • Coordination and support of large repairs at Multi Mount
  • New equipment and spec reviews at Multi Mount equipment
  • Conducted regular reviews of maintenance procedures and practices, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions as needed.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Automation And Control Engineering Technology

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
12.2014

Associate of Science - Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
12.2014

Skills

  • Equipment Maintenance
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Equipment Assembly
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Production Support
  • Production understanding
  • Project Management
  • Process Improvement

Timeline

Manufacturing Equipment Engineer

Honda Manufacturing Of Indiana
11.2021 - Current

Assembly Frame Equipment Engineer

Honda Manufacturing Of Indiana
08.2016 - 11.2021

Multi Mount Reliability Engineer

Honda Manufacturing Of Indiana
01.2015 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Science - Automation And Control Engineering Technology

Indiana State University

Associate of Science - Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Indiana State University
Ryan Hazelwood