Christopher Zeeb

Experience

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  MDU Resources

  May 2007 - Aug 2007

  Safety Intern

  Interned for safety doing various projects with hearing protection, site assessments, and other safety tasks. Traveled to 5 different states and 50 plant locations for the company, and created a noise map at each different plant location. Worked with new people within the company almost every day.

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  Peabody Energy

  May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Industrial Engineering & Safety Intern

  Worked at the largest surface mine in the world as an intern for production and safety. Completed tasks concerning speed of productions, working observations, time studies, dust, noise, audits, and training. Gave presentations, worked in teams, set up own project, organized data, communicated effectively with employees, and worked problem solving.

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  Armstrong World Industries

  Jan 2009 - Mar 2014

  Industrial Engineer

  Employed as an industrial engineer to enhance safety, quality, throughput, & lower costs for Armstrong Building Products (ABP). Supported and developed ABP’s lean transformation. • Lean facilitator to numerous kaizen events: o Downtime on changeovers event (SMED) on tenoner machine, savings of $35,000 per year. o Maintenance event (TPM) on shrink-wrap machine, savings of $45,000 per year. o Scrap reduction event on tenoner machine, savings of $65,000 per year. o Safety event for lock, tag, & try (LTT) for packaging line, created 5 new safety procedures. o 5s event creating kanban for packing raw materials, raw material savings of $50,000 per year.• Plant VSM - Participated in VSMs for Marietta Ceiling Plant (Glass Wall) to plan yearly projects.• Lean MDI - Assisted in developing daily improvements by lean philosophy and culture change: o Created hour by hour scrap tracking and reaction guides for fabrication lines as part of a group scrap reduction initiative. This reduced scrap by .5% and saved $75,000 per year. o Assisted in creating gemba walk process for fabrication. o Created a daily layered packaging quality audit for finished items.• Production Scheduling - Scheduled production orders and demands for a fabrication line.• Annual Standards - Created standards for throughput, scrap, direct labor, & packaging for plant.• Packaging Owner - Managed all packaging specifications for items within the plant:• Created and updated standard procedures & job descriptions for plant and warehouse.• Mentored 5 college students on senior design capstone project.• Supervised Packaging Lines during company lockout (6 Months): o Supervised a crew of 12 employees. Show less

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  Precision Custom Components, LLC

  Mar 2014 - Jun 2022

  Manages the manufacturing, delivery, and cost of multimillion dollar programs for US Naval Nuclear equipment and ITER initiative components. • Manages a portfolio of $45M+ in 8 contracts with US Naval Nuclear programs & ITER initiative programs.• Oversees company-wide effort to make delivery while tracking and containing costs in a 10CFR21 environment. o Rebuilt schedule and increase monthly delivery of 1 to 2 completed units per ITER contract. • Reports on program status to management and clients encompassing scheduling and budgets.• Daily shop interfacing to ensure proper execution of work instructions and compliance to contract requirements.• Fosters open reporting and frank dialogue between engineering, manufacturing, and quality control departments with a goal of continuous improvement.• Enacting customer-focused approach to build relationships and manage expectations. o Weekly meetings & minutes to review contract status and create key actions for delivery.• Prepares and recommends program operating budgets quarterly to Director of Programs.• Timely submissions of monthly reports and schedules. Show less Hired for the industrial engineer role to reduce costs, meet delivery, support safety, and maintain quality for contracted military and nuclear industry products. Project Management• Implementation & cost analysis BB5000 boring bar for missile tube units, cost avoidance of $2.5M.• KOMA RTV-500 AA Indexing Table for sleeves/dividers, cost avoidance of $235,000.• Duroair retractable clean room for purified heat exchanger components, $65,000 project.Lean Facilitator for 6 Improvement Teams• Sleeves/Dividers team improvements resulted in a cost avoidance of $802,000: o Gemba walks for sleeve and divider work cells. o 5s of work cell. (Ex: Free path gage staging, 2.25-hour reduction per unit.)• Spent Fuel Basket team improvements resulted in a cost avoidance of $1,823,000: o CNC plate machining monitoring of tooling resulted in average improved efficiency of 39%. o Gantt Chart for basket assembly process, went from 5 day to 3.5-day delivery.• Spent Fuel Canisters team improvements resulted in a cost avoidance of $1,346,000: o Designed go/no gages for inspection of machined holes, 4-hour reduction per unit. o Kanban storage cart for smaller parts, 3.5 hours reduction per unit.Industrial Engineering Tasks• Key Resource Scheduling - Scheduled critical machining resources for programs.• Contract Resourcing- Assisted shop in contracting resources for various projects.• Lockout/Tagout- Updated and created 104 lockout/tagout procedures for machines and cranes.• Developed locations in warehouse, savings of $32,000 per year.• Process Control- Process control metrics displaced in emails & work cells for tracking sustainment.• Mentored and trained 5 industrial engineers, 2 data analysts, & 3 engineering interns.• Developed standards for fabrication, welding, machining, & inspection departments.• Provided production data & analysis metrics for various contracts. Show less

  • Program Manager

    Nov 2020 - Jun 2022

  • Industrial Engineer

    Mar 2014 - Nov 2020
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  Assurant

  Jun 2022 - May 2024

  Senior Process Engineer

  Continuously improve processes and manage projects using lean methodologies, project scheduling, and data analysis. Lead engineer for 6 different processing lines. Managed and coordinated work for 3 engineering technicians and 2 quality assurance personnel.• Successfully relocated operations from PA warehouse to TX warehouse, involving closure of the PA facility with related reduction plans. Cost savings of $1.7M per year. • Risk Mitigation Testing, Scheduling & Implementation of Omnicore Software, cost savings of $1.2M per year.• Project management of improved distribution center layout, cost savings of $180K per year.• Capital project machine acceptance testing and implementation of Flow-wrap Auto-bagger, $450K project.• Daily coaching session and facilitation with problem solving teams.• Author and updater of procedures.• Daily troubleshooting and problem solving.• Lean Facilitator for 3 Production Information Meetings (PIM). o Data analysis using metrics to prioritize action items to improve Key Production Indicators (KPIs). o Root cause analysis improving a 5-day processing goal for receiving line from 93.8% to 98.8% of units.• Oracle testing for ASP software integration of adding SKUs & inventory locations for devices, $1.1M project.• Reduction of over processing (reduction of unnecessary testing) resulted in a cost avoidance of $110K.• Data analysis for metrics and planning using SQL Management, Oracle, & Tableau. Show less

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  American Hydro

  May 2024 - now

  Industrial Engineering Manager