About this Candidate
DAVRON CV: Candidate 3809741
MANUFACTURING & AUTOMATION ENGINEERING LEADER | PLASTICS, ROBOTICS & CAPITAL PROJECTS
Core Expertise
- Capital project leadership for multimillion-dollar facility upgrades and infrastructure improvements.
- Robotics and automation integration including vision systems, controls wiring, and field commissioning.
- Hands-on factory troubleshooting of VFDs, leak-detection equipment, and production-critical machinery.
- Program management across distributed plants delivering new-equipment installs and customer product launches.
- Continuous improvement and compliance experience with Lean, GMP, ISO 9001, and ISO 14000 environments.
Project Background
- Led end-to-end projects from need identification and ROI justification through vendor selection and plant acceptance.
- Delivered vision-system installs that reduced scrap from double-digit percentages to approximately 0.1%.
- Managed a $1.8M infrastructure project and oversaw additional multimillion-dollar capital upgrades.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams including maintenance, automation, process engineering, and EHS for implementation.
- Supported engineering projects and production troubleshooting across a network of 20+ manufacturing sites.
Key Skills
- Robotics integration | Field service | Commissioning
- Cognex vision systems | Vision programming | False-positive reduction
- Controls wiring | VFD troubleshooting | Mechatronics
- Capital project management | Vendor selection | ROI analysis
- New-equipment launches | Product introduction | Process validation
- Lean manufacturing | GMP | ISO 9001 | ISO 14000
Education
- Engineering and Leadership — University of Wisconsin–Madison
- A.A.S., Mechatronics, Robotics & Automation — Indian Hills Community College
Awards & Recognition
- Volunteer: Habitat for Humanity
- Member: community organization
Why Interview this Candidate?
They combine 20+ years of plastics manufacturing and automation with hands-on technical execution and proven capital-project leadership. Demonstrated impact includes reducing vision-system scrap to approximately 0.1% and managing multimillion-dollar upgrades across a 20+ plant footprint. Able to support multiple sites and translate engineering solutions into sustained production improvements.
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