Donald Helper

About Donald Helper

PLASTIC TOOLING ENGINEER / PROJECT MANAGER Cost Reduction / Profit Enhancement …

Experience

1. Tooling Process Engineer

   TriEnda

   Dec 2009 — Present

   Tooling/Process Engineer Provided technical input for a new product design concept, obtained quotations, managed tool construction and coordinated all tool trials ultimately leading to a “production ready” Thermoformed product. Maintained a customer-focused approach to providing a diversified offering of high quality material handling and packaging products and services for a wide variety of industries. • Saved 7.0 million since June 2010 by decreasing the number of Scrap Part and their associated Costs of Thermoformed Product by evaluating existing tooling for problems associated with the Cast Tools. • Shortened time-to-market by 15% by embracing Microsoft Project to aggressively manage multi-disciplinary cross functional teams through the Product Development timeline – from approved design concept to production ready product. • Maintained peak efficiency on existing Thermoformed Cast Tooling by providing a complete analysis and recommendation for tooling repair and refurbishment. • Ensured optimal continuous operation of production by advising senior leaders of financial impact and timing of expected benefit (through Project Excel spreadsheets) for all machine and auxiliary equipment acquisitions valued over • Maximized profitability while maintaining Thermoformed part quality and use specifications by establishing, maintaining and communicating the percentage of non-prime plastic material to be used in the extruded sheet used for Thermoforming Parts. • Enabled pricing consistency and profit control by developing “new” tool construction standards for Thermoform Cast Tooling used for quotation development by all tool shops supplying TriEnda/Lexington Logistics

Skills

• Design for Manufacturing
• Ts16949
• Microsoft Office
• Materials
• Tool Design
• Six Sigma
• Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Value Stream Mapping
• Paulson Training Graduate
• Process Engineering
• Product Development
• Machining
• 5s
• Iso
• Automotive
• Spc
• Manufacturing Operations
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Dmaic
• Tooling
• Smed
• Molding
• Plastics
• Cad
• Injection Molding
• Cost Reduction
• Thermoforming
• Solidworks
• Product Design
• Master Molder I Graduate
• Apqp
• Blow Molding
• Root Cause Analysis
• Ppap
• Extrusion
• Gd&T
• Continuous Improvement
• Process Improvement
• Packaging