Nicholas Hirsch

About Nicholas Hirsch

UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION I deliver solid results in product planning and development, design engineering, and team leadership in a global environment, with decades of experience in leadership roles. My success is driven by my ability to build highly effective strategies that ensure success in product development, sustaining engineering, and cost/quality improvement initiatives.SUMMARY Engaging Engineering Executive possessing a winning blend of team leadership, technical expertise, and communications acumen. Skilled in managing large, complex engineering services to produce exemplary results, via hands-on involvement and cross-functional delegation. Leverages a unique mix of visionary, strategic, operations and analytical expertise, consistently exceeding performance goals by aligning staff talents and effort with organizational objectives. An influential leader who creates immediate impact, produces results and fuels profits. LEADERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS Presently leads product planning and development, manufacturing engineering, quality improvement, cost containment, and sustaining engineering activities at Master Appliance.Specialties: Product Engineering, Product Planning and Development, Technical Team Leadership, Budget Development, Regulatory Compliance, Design Optimization, Root Cause Analysis, Operations Management, CAD, Continuous Improvement, Cost Containment, Lean Design

Experience

1. Design Engineering Manager

   Master Appliance Corp.®

   Jun 2017 — Present · Racine, WI, US

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering

  1979 — 1984

Skills

• Fmea
• Engineering Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Project Management
• Process Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Gd&T
• Root Cause Analysis
• Design for Assembly
• Finite Element Analysis
• Dfmea
• Poka Yoke
• Tolerance Analysis
• Ppap
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Process Improvement
• Program Management
• Product Development
• Testing
• Lean Manufacturing
• Continuous Improvement
• Engineering
• Spc
• Statistical Process Control (Spc)
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Iso
• Business Process Improvement
• Injection Molding
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Dmaic
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Design for Manufacturing