Patrick Taaffe
Drogheda
Summary
Dedicated Team Leader with expertise in quality assurance initiatives, issue resolution and interpersonal communication. Proficient with project management, personnel training and production scheduling. Sets example for work ethic, punctuality and quality.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical/Production Team leader
Xerox
01.2016 - Current
Manufacturing Product Engineer
Xerox
01.2005 - 01.2016
- Production line/cell set up, sustaining and improving
- Process development and maintenance
- BOM development and maintenance
- Complete RFQ’s as per agreed time lines
- New program introductions
- Define inspection criteria and data recording
- Maintain product cost control and provide productivity
- Provide production support
- Provide product failure analysis on line fallout and technical returns and provide corrective actions as necessary
- Close out CAR’s and RLL as per agreed time lines
- Provide training to operators and technicians as requested
- Carry out Quick Solvers as necessary
- Provide engineering support to Quick solvers as requested
- Carry out process and area risk assessments to ensure safe working area’s and work practices
- Actively engage in and if necessary drive quality improvements/initiatives, including yield activities, DPHM reductions and process optimisations
- Develop in-house testing procedures for any internal repairs to ensure process is thoroughly proven before handing over to production
- Liaise with Service technical experts, PDT Engineering or MRT and Quality to ensure BOM content and revision levels are correct.
Customer Focus Engineer
Xerox
01.2002 - 01.2005
- Record and assess Install quality reports for IGEN/Sfida and Legacy products
- Report data to management on a monthly basis
- Liaise with product performance, service engineers and NTS as required to assign corrective actions based on install and month one feedback either internally in Dundalk or externally in Webster or Venray
- Liaise with production/design/quality in Webster regarding feedback from IGEN install reports/customer feedback in Europe to drive improvements
- Attend and support any IGEN installs in Europe as requested by the business team
- Assist in setting DPHM internal targets.
Manufacturing Engineer
Xerox
01.1999 - 01.2002
- Production line/cell set up, sustaining and improving
- Process development and maintenance
- BOM development and maintenance
- New program introductions
- Define inspection criteria and data recording
- Maintain product cost control and provide productivity
- Provide production support
- Close out CAR’s and RLL as per agreed time lines
- Carry out process and area risk assessments to ensure safe working area’s and work practices
- Actively engage in and if necessary drive quality improvements/initiatives, including yield activities, DPHM reductions and process optimisations
- Develop in-house testing procedures for any internal repairs to ensure process is thoroughly proven before handing over to production
- Liaise with Service technical experts, PDT Engineering or MRT to ensure BOM content and revision levels are correct.
Process Engineer
Aritech Ltd
01.1997 - 01.1999
- Define processes and how they are controlled
- Provide support on flow, layout and balancing of all production cells within the facility
- Ensure the availability of standards and checklists for production
- Evaluate and advise change requests and co-ordinate ECO introductions
- Responsible for focused WCM activities through team building/co-ordination
- Responsible for improving workstation efficiency, through improved work methods/equipment
- Participate in product teams to control the time schedules so that all components and assemblies are available on time
- Participate in co-ordination meetings to control product phase in/ phase out plans
- Responsible for the co-ordination and guidance of pilot production runs
- Work closely with product design department to ensure that design for manufacture criteria are met for any new products.
Manufacturing Engineer
Applied Magnetics Ltd
01.1991 - 01.1997
- New product introductions
- Assessing process fallout, process trouble-shooting, controlling processes and material yields
- Improving production line layouts and line balancing, implementing cycle times and standards, improving output quality and productivity
- Drawing up new manufacturing process instructions and maintaining
- Operator training and approval
- Dealing with customer complaints
- Performing product failure analysis
- Supervising Technicians.
Mechanical Technician
Applied Magnetics Ltd
01.1990 - 01.1991
- Responsible for calibration department, including maintenance, control and updates, automated equipment repair and preventive maintenance
- Maintain system for all mechanical/optical equipment, updates and maintenance to ISO9000 quality system
- Document control, responsible for updates to drawing database
- Purchasing of all mechanical/optical equipment for production lines
- Tool repair/modification, PLC programming, mechanical instrument calibration
- Operator training
Education
Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering -
Dundalk Regional Technical College (now DKIT)
01.1990
Diploma in ISO:9000 system -
Irish Quality Association in conjunction with FAS
01.1990
Leaving Certificate -
St .Mary’s CBS
01.1987
BSc (Honours) Open Degree -
Skills
- Overseeing Daily Activities
- Analysis & Evaluation
- Work Planning
- Project Scheduling
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Supervisory Expertise
- Group Facilitation
- Regulatory Compliance
- Verbal And Written Communication
- Giving Constructive Feedback
- Training Program Development
- Word Processing
- Positive Interactions
- Experience Encouraging Others
- Performance Feedback
- Writing Requirements
Timeline
Technical/Production Team leader
Xerox
01.2016 - Current
Manufacturing Product Engineer
Xerox
01.2005 - 01.2016
Customer Focus Engineer
Xerox
01.2002 - 01.2005
Manufacturing Engineer
Xerox
01.1999 - 01.2002
Process Engineer
Aritech Ltd
01.1997 - 01.1999
Manufacturing Engineer
Applied Magnetics Ltd
01.1991 - 01.1997
Mechanical Technician
Applied Magnetics Ltd
01.1990 - 01.1991
Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering -
Dundalk Regional Technical College (now DKIT)
Diploma in ISO:9000 system -
Irish Quality Association in conjunction with FAS
Leaving Certificate -
St .Mary’s CBS
BSc (Honours) Open Degree -
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