Bill Preher Jr.

Experience

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  Kentucky Hardfacing and Machine

  Nov 1991 - Jul 2002

  Operations Manager / Design Drafter

  Position held, Design Drafter, Machinist, Inventory Control Manager, Shipping Manager, Operations Manager. Responsibilities included estimating and ordering materials, job quotes, set-up and scheduling of jabs. Drafting duties included reverse engineering of all incoming jobs and drawings for three affiliated companies and file management of drawings. Administrative duties included payroll, time cards, shipping and billing. Also a back-up for the machinist working on various machining equipment.

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  Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation

  Jul 2002 - Jun 2003

  Production and Inventory Control Manager

  Schedule jobs and prober materials for First, Second and Third shift production runs. Order raw materials and supplies for entire plant, using lean manufacturing processes and ship all finished goods.

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  Eminence Speaker

  Jun 2003 - Oct 2004

  Engineering Designer

  Worked with engineering, lab technicians and manufactures to implement new various speaker designs. Implemented Rapid prototyping and 3-D printing to develop speaker components using Pro-E software. Checked and updated drawings and models, forwarded to vendors, manufacturing and tooling.

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  Hancock Machine & Tool

  May 2004 - Mar 2009

  Project Engineer

  Implemented 3-D drafting using Inventor 5. Interacted with Sales and customers to get the complete scope of work to be performed. Created job routings, drawings and followed through to completion, working with machinist and millwrights, rebuilding pumps, presses and various other equipment for forging, stamping, energy, and medical industries.

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  Millennium Forge Inc.

  Apr 2011 - Feb 2017

  Tooling Design Engineer

  Complete detailed drawings, Machine models, design press tooling, dies and customer parts using AutoCAD 2016, Inventor 2016, and mastercam software. Review all customer Specification and drawings. Supervise Die shop and schedule production of dies, coordinate with vendors for completion of various process of dies for forging production. Supervise forge shop press crews for production. Design new bolsters and tooling for main line production presses.

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  EASi

  Feb 2017 - Jun 2021

  Design Engineer in material handling. Design and detail installation drawing for customers.

  • Project Manager

    Feb 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Design Engineer

    Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
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  Actalent

  Jun 2021 - now

  Project Manager