Frank Smolko

Experience

1. Senior Fellow, Manufacturing Development Engineering

   TE 中国

   Mar 2015 — Present

   Lead, develop and implement strategic Global Operations projects for transformative technologies to deliver step change productivity initiatives and new process capabilities. Developed, implemented, improved and sustained high impact global manufacturing productivity project realizing over $1 billion in aggregate savings past nine years including steady 20% increase in savings impact annually. Provide direction, direct support and guidance for the TE Global Center of Excellence leaders including accelerating impacts, onboarding new leaders and developing talent for future TE leadership roles. Primary technical responsibilities are to accelerate the innovation, development and deployment of the next generation of manufacturing processes including sustainability and digital factory innovation as well as driving critical implementation and global leverage of major productivity projects. Co-developed and teach modules for internal Manufacturing Engineering & Global Operations Leadership multi-week training programs.Lead TE Fellowship since 2020 to enhance impact of top TE technical experts including transformative Grand Challenge projects, advanced technical talent development and representing TE Fellows in the executive Engineering Network Leadership team. Maintain leadership of the Global Operation Plating Group of highly skilled engineers and project managers with strong experience and track record for successfully deployed capital equipment projects, operational improvements, and innovation of plating processes. Provide turnkey project management and engineering for global plating equipment projects including new deployments into developing markets and lower cost manufacturing regions. Focus on innovating improved precious metal processes with on site manufacturing support that has driven 40% reduction in precious metal usage in past ten years. Fellow (20••••20)Sr. Fellow (20••••25)

Education

• University of Virginia

  M.S., Chemical Engineering

  1986 — 1988

• Grove City College

  B.S., Chemical Engineering

  1980 — 1984

Skills

• Engineering
• 5s
• Procurement
• Design for Manufacturing
• Materials
• Spc
• Global Manufacturing
• Process Improvement
• Change Management
• R&D
• Process Simulation
• Manufacturing
• Process Engineering
• Technology
• Root Cause Analysis
• Electronics
• Supply Chain Management
• Quality System
• Continuous Improvement
• Plating
• Iso
• Six Sigma
• Value Stream Mapping
• Global Operations
• Business Process Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• Minitab
• Product Development
• Manufacturing Operations
• Apqp
• Black Belt
• Dmaic
• Quality Assurance
• Engineering Management
• Supplier Quality
• Injection Molding
• Technology Development
• Lean Sigma
• Kaizen
• Spend Management