BRANDON NEAL 1972 Bell Avenue ♦ Chambersburg, PA 17202 ♦ (717) 263-4236 ♦ bneal1022@gmail.com

Senior Manufacturing Manager

Automotive Powertrain / Commercial / Construction Equipment

Flexible and confident manufacturing industry manager with 15 years of diverse experience known for active “hands-on”

engagement in quality, manufacturing engineering, and operations who delivers results through plan generation and execution,

team development, and strong leadership.

Customer, Manufacturing & Product Quality ♦ Manufacturing Engineering ♦ Machining & Assembly Equipment Procurement,

Validation & Installation ♦ Staff Development & Leadership ♦ Integrated Supplier Development ♦ Six Sigma Knowledge ♦

Predictive Maintenance Technologies ♦ Value Stream Mapping ♦ 5S ♦ Toyota Production & Demand Flow Systems

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

OSHKOSH CORPORATION – ACCESS DIVISION, JLG INDUSTRIES (2007-Present)

Senior Quality Manager, Global Customer Quality, Caterpillar Alliance, Hagerstown, MD (2011-present)

Represent high revenue customer within the organization in terms of product quality, warranty, and issue management. Primarily

responsible for leading a team of Quality Engineers to resolve and improve product quality issues globally using various data

streams. Success was achieved by leveraging collaborative relationships with Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Engineering.

Success kl;

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Facility Quality Leader/Manager, Manufacturing Quality, Shippensburg, PA (2008-2011)

Led a 10 person manufacturing quality team within a high-volume facility producing over 70 different models across 10 final

assembly lines. The focus of this position was to improve production quality and ensure products and processes conform to the

documented Quality Management System.

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Senior Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Quality, McConnellsburg, PA (2007-2008)

Responsible to improve product and process quality based on internal and external quality data while driving a continuous

improvement ideology. This was achieved by identifying opportunities, forming teams, and implementing solutions.

Global Product

Quality

Voice of Customer

Improvements

Issue Support

Management

Responsible for global customer quality for $400M alliance customer

Accountable to meet all warranty and customer quality metrics

Directed U.S. & Europe team members in quality improvement projects.

Own improvement efforts from data mining through solution implementation to customer response

Quality gate-keeper for eight product development programs and new product launches

Reduced warranty claims per unit by 39-54% and warranty cost per unit by 38% since 2011

Championed active negotiations on field support campaigns and strategic costing

Mfg. Facility

Quality

Management

Strategic Quality

Planning

Voice of Customer

Improvements

Responsible for the daily management, development, and improvement of manufacturing quality

Drove product quality accountability within the Quality and Manufacturing groups

Developed and deployed organizational Quality plan at the facility level

Compliance champion for specialty programs (UL, DCMA, GSA, ISO 9001-2008)

Tactical lead for product re-launch resulting in a 35% reduction in field claims.

Quality Project

Management

Continuous

Improvement

Organized and analyzed both product and process quality data to lead corrective actions

Managed revolving list of approximately 15 concurrent quality improvement projects

Supported and executed organizational quality plan at the departmental level

Led and trained teams in root cause analysis and structured problem solving activities

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VOLVO POWERTRAIN NORTH AMERICA / MACK TRUCKS, Hagerstown, MD (2005-2007)

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, MD11/13 Assembly Launched new semi-automated engine assembly line as a brown-field startup. The focus was to collaborate with capital

equipment integrators to perform site acceptance tests validating production machinery. The position later evolved into being the

lead Manufacturing Support Engineer. The goal of this was to improve the process throughput, takt times, and first pass yield.

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GENERAL MOTORS POWERTRAIN – ALLISON TRANSMISSION, Baltimore MD (2000-2005)

Manufacturing Process Engineer, Manufacturing Operations (2003-2005)

Had sole final assembly responsibility for maintaining and improving process availability, throughput, and efficiency. The

process was successfully managed to exceed customer expectation of 99.7% first time quality at full rate production.

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Maintenance Engineer, Facility Maintenance (2002-2003)

Served as an advanced technical resource to both maintenance and production departments. The goals of the position were to

ensure machine availability, improve reliability, and plan machinery relocation and or rebuild.

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Maintenance Facilitator, Facility Maintenance (2000-2002)

Assisted in establishing the maintenance department norms and procedures in a green-field facility during construction. The task

was to develop what would be the equipment maintenance program architecture. The position required initial equipment

validation but later evolved into direct supervision and vocational development of the blue collar maintenance team.

Process Validation

Equipment

Procurement

Efficiency

Improvement

Validated and installed $12M 50+ station engine assembly line as lead Engineer.

Managed manufacturing and quality projects from scope development through implementation

Reduced stations cycle times 30% to 70% in 1st year of production through various CI activities

Collaborated with product development for DFA requirements on production parts changes

Global team leader for “Engineering focus group - In-Process Verification/built in quality”

Process Control

And Development

Throughput Velocity

Responsible for the daily operational support and development of assembly process control

Specified new and rebuilt equipment requirements to plan for production rate increases by

improving machine capability.

Developed standardized work instructions, visual management tools, and 5S activities

Led all corrective action, P-FMEA, quality, CI, and warranty activities for assembly line

Reliability

Maintainability

Specification

Generation

Directly accountable for reliability, maintainability, and availability of over 150 machines

Managed assembly equipment relocation and installation projects

Authored local Machine Maintenance Specifications for new and rebuilt machinery

Launched facility predictive maintenance technology program

Analyzed machine MTBF and MTTR to improve availability

Personnel

Development

Integrated

Suppliers

Assisted in developing machine validation, installation, and maintenance department SOPs

Direct supervisor for 24 skilled trades daily assignments, project plans, and training

Coordinated planned maintenance with production operations to nullify production impact

Developed “point of use” spare parts replenishment system with integrated suppliers

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EDUCATION

MS, Organizational Development and Leadership – Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA (2010)

Post Graduate Certificate – Advanced Business Studies, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA (2010)

Master Certificate – Lean Six Sigma, Villanova University (2007)

BS, Mechanical Engineering Technology – University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA (1999)

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS & HONORS

Co-inventor U.S. Patent # 7,367,484 for an automatic fastener loader assembly tool

General Motors “People Make Quality Happen Award” for quality / warranty-reduction initiative

$500K impact savings in material and lost units from cost reduction project in 2004

Recognized team member of fastest plant construction and product launch in GM history

Invited speaker – Paul H. Saylor Engineering Forum – University of Pittsburgh