Savon Chea
Long Beach,CA
Summary
Talented manufacturing technician with over 8 years of experience leveraging high attention to detail, multi-tasking, and hands-on experience. From working on structures, lamination composites and testing production team including R&D, flight production parts testing and communications with engineers and team members to meet project demands within fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Enthusiastic learner motivated to learn new techniques and skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Manufacturing Technician 2(Composite)
Applied Composites
05.2023 - Current
- Perform a variety of routine mechanical assembly operations in accordance with company instructions and procedures
- Conduct inspections of own and /or other associates work to insure correctness in accordance with company and /or customer drawing
- Apply process specifications governing the production of product within an assigned cell, records production time and quantity data
- Maintains work area under company guidelines and participates in events as required
- Provide simple welding tasks and/or brazing, or soldering and may operate light machinery such as sand blaster, or electro-etching processing and press
- Actively demonstrates all safety policies and procedures
- Skilled at routine mechanical and/or electromechanical assembly operations
- Able to operate a variety of hand tools and machinery
- Ability to read and interpret company documents, such as safety rules, operating/manufacturing instructions, policies and procedures
- Manual dexterity required to work with small parts
- Capable of recognizing and solving typical problems that can occur in own work area; evaluates and selects solutions from established options
- Effective oral, written and interpersonal skills
Filament Winding/Lamination Technician
Virgin Orbit
01.2022 - 04.2023
- Build liner-less composite LOX and fuel tanks for LauncherOne
- Order and calculate materials for tank build
- Assisted cutting materials with Gerber
- Prep mandrel, clean, free coat and then will load mandrel onto winding machine
- Maintained standards of safety, quality and output consistently with team requirements
- Performed hand lay-up and bonding of composite parts with development and production requirements
- Operated fiber winding machine to support fabrication of wound parts
- Skilled in layup of uni-directional and weave pre-pregs
- Work with and provide input to development and manufacturing engineers to improve part manufacturability
- Trim and drill of composite parts with drawing specifications
- Load and unload parts into autoclave and ensure cure cycles are correct
- Knowledgeable of hand tools for modifications of composite parts
- Skilled in operating and problem solving laser tracking system
- Implemented appropriate PPE when working around parts on shop floor
Lamination Composites Technician
SpaceX
05.2017 - 11.2021
- Lowered costs as result of assembling structures, including setup, bonding, and fasteners applications with efficiency and meeting deadlines consistently per customers requirements
- Gained on-hand experience through learning and applying mechanical engineering methods to build tools while working on various parts including BFR(San Pedro) now known as Starship
- Determined placement of composite materials in molds to execute laminate assembly
- Established points and verified dimensions, creating basic layouts on assemblies with laser projector
- Interpreted engineer drawings as well as read and understood travelers and SOP to safeguard parameters of projects
- Completed surface preparations, using grit blast, hand abrade, and power abrasion prepared parts for vacuum bagging and leak check, bonding as well as oven and autoclave curing
- Knowledgeable in quality standards for aerospace industry in accordance with AS9100 and ITAR/EAR compliance
- Skilled in use of hand tools including mechanical and electrical
- Experienced in inspecting and repairing composite carbon fiber structures
Service TXM Technician
Carson Toyota
10.2016 - 05.2017
- Evaluated vehicle malfunctions to provide customers with details and suggested service
- Greeted customers daily, demonstrating courtesy and understanding with dedications to providing optimal service
- Conducted vehicle and tire inspections along with checking fluids and oil changes in collaboration with other technicians to reduce wait time for customers
Service/Brake Technician
Jiffy Lube
11.2015 - 10.2016
- Provided exceptional customer services to incoming clients daily to ensure repeat business
- Executed vehicle inspections daily to identify areas of mechanical malfunction, safeguarding clients against potential safety issues
- Performed maintenance on vehicles, such as oil changes, replacing brakes, spark plugs, fuel filters, and valve cover gaskets, achieving 100% customer satisfaction
Composite Technician
Coast Composites
11.2012 - 07.2015
- Steered team of 4, educating each of use of tools to assemble egg crates and conduct fit checks
- Bonded prep face sheets, drill templates for face sheets, and prepared parts for vacuum bagging, ensuring zero leaks existed for accurate performance
- Verified drawings and changes through communicating with engineers to gain approval before project completion
- Ability to use laser tracker and laser project to complete lay up on DFT and piles of carbon fiber
- Skilled in Lay-up, vacuum bag, cure, trim, assemble and inspections
Education
Cabrillo High School
Skills
- Process Improvement
- Process Implementation
- Knowledge of Manufacturing
- Maintaining Clean Work Areas
- Procedural Manual Drafting
- Prepare Layouts
- Schematic Interpretation
- Materials Knowledge
- Methods of Production
- Safety Improvements
- Estimate Costs
- Tool Efficiency Development
- Maintain Safety
- Diagnosis and Troubleshooting
- Work System Integration
- Good Manufacturing Practices
- GMP Implementation
- Increase Production Efficiency
- Active Listening
- Materials Loading
- Manufacturing Safety
Timeline
Manufacturing Technician 2(Composite)
Applied Composites
05.2023 - Current
Filament Winding/Lamination Technician
Virgin Orbit
01.2022 - 04.2023
Lamination Composites Technician
SpaceX
05.2017 - 11.2021
Service TXM Technician
Carson Toyota
10.2016 - 05.2017
Service/Brake Technician
Jiffy Lube
11.2015 - 10.2016
Composite Technician
Coast Composites
11.2012 - 07.2015
Cabrillo High School
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