Kurt K. Bethke
Engineering Manager
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kurt-bethke/24/232/b2
Lewisville, TX
Engineering Manager with extensive Manufacturing, Process Improvement and Quality Control experience, possessing a broad range of engineering knowledge, skills and abilities for product design manufacturability and through customer delivery. Focused areas of expertise include team management, project planning & prioritization, and make or buy business analysis.
Professional Experience
Stratoflex Products Division, Ft. Worth, TX 03/2011- Present
Process Engineer
• Supervising 8 Production Team Members
• Manufacturing Process Development ( Winding, Bagging , Autoclaving & Assembly)
• Data Collection and Analysis for process improvements and manufacturability
• Decreased product reject rate from above 50% to below 3%
• Coordinated between Product Engineering and Production departments for design changes for product manufacturability
Texstars, Inc., Grand Prairie, TX 12/1994 – 8/2010
Engineering Manager (10/2006 – 8/2010)
• Supervised 3 CNC Programmers/Tooling Designer Engineers, 6 Project Design Engineers and a Document Control Specialist
• Managed, Engineered & Improved Ballistic Window Program to yield the most profitable product family in Texstars history
• Trained Engineers in creation of manufacturing work instruction, generation of Bill of Materials (BOM) and use of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) functionality and software
• Improved and Sustained the on-time completion of Engineering Projects by 35%
• Increased Engineering Department efficiency by 30%
• Coordinated Manufacturing of Model Based Definition Composite Components
Continuous Improvement Coordinator (8/2005 – 10/2006)
• Led Kaizen Events for product production
• Generated time & temperature material cost savings of more then $250,000 annually
• Initiated Lean Manufacturing 5S methodology for all production cells
• Implemented Tooling Control & Storage procedures
• Created Value Stream Maps for production
Project Design Engineer (12/1994 – 8/2005)
• Created Cost Estimates for the manufacturing of aerostructures assemblies
• Implemented proces...
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