Rafael H.

Experience

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  SIMU

  Dec 1999 - May 2005

  • Lead and motivate the plant to meet operational goals and objectives.• Oversee and direct daily plant operations including planning and scheduling work for the group ensuring proper distribution of work for efficient performance of duties.• Review production schedules; determine work force requirements, and monitors production capacity to ensure customer requirements are met.• Liaise with Supervisors to ensure production goals are attained.• Identify and Lead continuous improvement activities (set up, programming and improved standard work instructions)• Troubleshoot production problems and take preventive or corrective action.• Responsible for inventory reduction through raw and wip.• Coordinated with quality control to ensure consistent application of quality standards.• Lead corrective action implementation for re-occurring non conformances of product. Show less

  • Production Manager

    Jan 2001 - May 2005

  • Production manager assistant

    Dec 1999 - Dec 2000
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  CADUNA PLASTICS INC

  Dec 2007 - Dec 2007

  Set-up-Operator (Practicum)

  • Worked with AUTOMA (Three Die Heads, one station with squeeze knife) & CAN MOLD 65 – R (One Die Head, two stations with hot knife) performing start-up and shut-down of the production equipment (machine, chiller, and ancillary equipment) and their adjustment.• Installed molds & dies on machines and performed minor troubleshooting.

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  ANPLAST INC

  Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

  Set-up-Operator (Practicum)

  • Worked with Kawaguchi machines performing start-up and shut-down of the production equipment (machine, chiller, and ancillary equipment) and their adjustment.• Installed molds on machines and performed minor troubleshooting and minor maintenance of equipment (mold and chiller).• Prepared raw material to be processed, packaged products and maintained the work area.

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  NADEAU INC

  Nov 2008 - May 2009

  Production Coordinator

  • Monitored inventory levels and conducted cycle counting.• Coordinated activities between warehouses and production.• Monitored production progress, gathered information and confirmed production orders in the system.• Estimated materials and labor required for production and created BOMs in the system.

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  Artk/OEM

  Jun 2009 - Mar 2012

  Estimator

  • Dissected engineering drawings to determine manufacturing process, material and hardware.• Determined Pricing: populated manufacturing hours, material, and hardware cost for each component, or assembly determined to be manufactured in-house, including non-recurring costs onto the company’s estimating spreadsheet.• Generated AutoCAD 2D files do programming for CNC router tables and prepare all information necessary for production.

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  Noranco Inc

  Apr 2012 - Jul 2018

  • Printed drawings, parts lists and technical documents.• Dissected engineering drawings to determine raw material, hardware & process requirements and outside process surface requirements.• Provided support in soliciting pricing for raw material special processing & hardware.• Created BOMs (material type and usage, hardware type and usage, process and process surface requirements) from part lists and drawings on the Estimating spreadsheet for each part.• Entered the selected vendor`s price for the above onto the Estimating spreadsheet for each specific component.• Entered manufacturing hours for each component, or assembly determined to be manufactured in-house, including non-recurring costs, if applicable from the estimated manufacturing time sheets (filled out by the Estimator) onto the Estimating spreadsheet for each part. Show less

  • Estimator

    Apr 2014 - Jul 2018

  • Assistant Estimator

    Apr 2012 - Mar 2014
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  SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS

  Jul 2018 - Apr 2022

  Cost Estimator

  Job descriptionWorking as part of a worldwide Estimating Team, reporting to the Global Landing Gear Integration (LGI) Estimating Manager, I'm required to make estimates and give visibility to the Integrated Program Team (IPT). On your scope, I'm responsible to update/build new tools & collect knowledge and data about specific processes or products; I'm liaising with both internal and external customers. I'm expected to participate in cost reduction initiatives.Responsibilities:Establish estimates for landing gear and landing gear systems to tight deadlines.Be the Estimating representative at IPT & update the 5 years cost forecast.Update our databases, with the help of manufacturing engineering and purchasing, and build or calibrate our tools and calculators.Assist the design office make cost effective decisions.Provide estimates for modifications to existing Landing Gears to the IPT Lead.Participate in cost reduction activities.Provide target costs to the purchasing dept.Using and programming our estimating software (Facton)Work closely with the sites in France, UK, China and Mexico.Job requirementsMinimum Bachelor degreeMasters degree or 5 year experience of NC machines and manufacturing processes.Manufacturing, Mechanical or Design Engineering knowledge.Bilingual in both English and FrenchSuperior Computer skills in Excel, Access, VBAExcellent written and communication skills. Show less

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  Pratt & Whitney Canada

  May 2022 - now

  Product Cost Analyst

  As the owner of the cost information, the successful candidate will maintain, manage and communicate the information with all stakeholders in order to track cost as programs develop. Support the business opportunities for new engines with the collaboration of the Advanced Engineering group.Evaluate with the Operations, Finance, Supply Chain and Engineering groups, the information required and the updates of the cost of the engines through the different phases of life from design, development to production.• Provide engine cost for proposals, Financial Investment Audits and certification phases• Support Program development by providing cost updates on ongoing design jobs upcoming cost impact• Explore and recommend the most effective costs alternatives• Perform analysis to validate assumptions at the time of proposal and manage cost during engine development phase.• Establish and communicate cost targets for engine modules to the Engineering and Supply Chain teams• Track cost evolution with respect to target and highlight upcoming and forecasted gaps.• Work with Engineering to identify alternative design solutions if applicable increasing product margins• Create an innovative environment to ensure best practices are applied.• Identify cost reduction opportunities based on engine component and assembly. Maintain cost models by part family to identify the gaps and opportunities between current costs and should cost. Show less