Jim Gruber

Experience

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  Nuclear Chicago/ Siemens Gamasonics

  Jan 1969 - Jan 1979

  R&D Engineer, Test Equipment Engineer, Manufacturing Team Leader

  Manufacturer of nuclear medicine equipment and medical diagnostic equipment; Achieved 2 patents while in R&D, completed new product introduction as Test Equipment Engineer, designed and manufactured test equipment for new and existing products, team leader in manufacturing group, annually reduced production lead time by 10% year on year.

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  Teletype Corp. - An AT&T Company

  Jan 1979 - Jan 1981

  Designer

  Manufacturer of telecommunication equipment. Design Engineer – Circuit Board Design Engineer – system interface group, quality design review engineer, product improvement engineer. Responsible of any product improvement testing related to revisions changes to existing products, design of new multi-layer circuit boards utilizing CAD system.

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  Interad Inc

  Jan 1981 - Aug 1985

  Design Engineer

  Manufacturer of low cost medical CAT scanner. Design/Manufacturing Engineer – Implemented design and manufacturing for start-up company. Responsibilities included customer engineering support, electronic circuit design and circuit board designs, all drafting details, developed wiring harness boards and maintained electronic parts inventory. Completed pre-production pilot buildup of new designs.

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  Joslyn Manufacturing Company – A Danaher Company

  Jan 1985 - Jan 2003

  DBS Manager, Plant Manager, Quality Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  Danaher Business System Manager Accomplishments included coordinated the weekly kaizen event schedule, company lead for Shingijutsu consultant week long kaizen event schedule. Developed skilled team leaders in Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Setup Reduction, Variance Reduction (green belt level improvement), 5S, Material Planning – Kanban process, Office Kaizen. Completed Train the Trainer Certification and Six Sigma Training with successful process improvement of $600,000 annually. Plant Manager – Accomplishments – Improvements in delivery performance, productivity improvements and implementation of $10M capital improvements. Applied lean strategy and employee empowerment to achievement of results. Improved productivity 32% in 1st nine months Quality Manager – Accomplishments - trained quality technicians in utilizing data for quality improvement at the source. Converted the quality function from quality control to quality assurance .Manufacturing Engineering Manager – Accomplishments - lead team of 4 engineers and 3 technicians in development of new manufacturing process, applied lean training to manufacturing operations leading to reduction of manufacturing area by 75% with productivity improvement of 45% utilizing cellular manufacturing techniques. Improved manufacturing equipment uptime to 97% availability. Developed all process specifications for any capital equipment improvements utilizing manufacturing engineering, product engineering and manufacturing teamwork to minimize startup missteps. Show less

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  Uniparts Olsen Inc.

  Aug 2003 - Nov 2014

  Division of Uniparts Group Companies 2003 – 2014Manufacturer of OEM metal fabrication, pins, bushings and weldments for Construction and Ag markets.; Responsible for strategy deployment implementation for 8 sites around to world – 6 India, 1 Germany and 1 United states. Improvements in business performance over 4 year period – Quality improvement of 35% for product sourced from India units, Delivery improvement of 10 fold. Focus company efforts on key metrics, understanding what was driving the values, improve the processes relating to the current values and continuously improve the processes and values as seen through the customer eyes. Business analyst responsibilities were related to providing system data to all management requirements and developing management processes for the needs of the business including developing reports utilizing SQL programming of the ERP system for the customized business needs.Lean Leadership manager – introduce and facilitate lean process improvements, coach and mentor the management team and lean team leaders in the process of lean improvements, focus on the change- over reductions, 5S implementations and variance reduction quality kaizen process. Show less

  • Startegy Deployment Manager

    Aug 2003 - Nov 2014

  • Strategy Deployment Manager – Business Analysts – Lean Leadership Manager

    Aug 2003 - Nov 2014