Michael Soisson

Experience

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  PPG Industries

  May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Corporate Engineer

  • Lead designer for a laboratory-sized electrocoating system• Collaborated with PPG's R&D team based in Pittsburgh to prove scale-up ability for the application of the specialized coating• Created P&IDs for the electrocoating system in Tesla's Gigafactory 1

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  PPG Industries

  May 2018 - Aug 2018

  Corporate Engineer

  • Consolidated and implemented improved quality control test methods for all manufacturing and R&D facilities in USCA Architectural Coatings, leading to 10% QC testing time reduction• Quantified the four largest manufacturing plants’ yield loss to identify $1MM cost savings opportunity

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  PPG

  Jun 2019 - now

  • Held all engineering and CapEx responsibilities for a medium-sized industrial powder coatings plant• Utilized Lean Six Sigma methods to drive $250K of annual cost-savings, increase plant capacity, and improve process control• Led cross-functional teams for continuous improvement of site KPIs• Functional backup for production manager and production supervisors • Held all engineering project responsibilities for a small industrial liquid coatings plant• Increased manufacturing capacity by 17% and improved batch repeatability for 26% of plant's production• Implemented EH&S projects and optimized customer order handling process

  • Production Manager

    Jun 2024 - now

  • Operational Excellence Leader

    Mar 2023 - Jun 2024

  • Senior Manufacturing Engineer

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Process Engineer

    Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Process Engineer

    Jun 2019 - Feb 2020