Robert Gallick

About Robert Gallick

Do you believe great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers? Being able to see and nurture the talents in others, exponentially empowers me to optimize a customer-focus and create an inspiring vision for cross-functional teams working in alignment for global organizations designing, engineering, and producing world-class products.A driver of system engineering implementation, a LEAN leader working together with others to make people’s lives better through automotive and mobility leadership.Expert in improving quality, reducing costs, and shortening delivery time, managing and coordinating value, investment, and timing from conception to production. Effortlessly infuses business and organization acumen to efficiently create and lead multi-cultural, multi-generational cross-functional teams who feel good coming together to meet the needs of an agile production environment, and to enthrall customers with excellence. I bring a detailed work and planning approach to drive multiple projects to enhance the customer\'s vision. Recognized for superior operations leadership, renowned for soft-skills achieving balance to cultivate a nurturing, coaching, and mentoring team culture. Strong public speaking, teaching, and facilitating skills for diverse engineers, and general audiences. Marketable Skills: Initiative, Self-Directed, Follow-Through, Multi-Tasking, Thrives Under Pressure, Analytical Problem-Solving & Decision-Making, Time-Management, Team Player, Able to Self-Motivate, Adept Working With Various Levels of Management, Fosters a Team & Collaborative Culture, Meets Challenging Deadlines. Expertise: Product Development, DFSS, DFMEA, FMEA, DVP & R, APQP, Supplier Evaluation, Design of Experiments, Reliability / Durability, Systems Design & Release, Geometrical Dimensional & Tolerancing (GD & T) in Product and Process, System & Component Level Testing.Hard Skills: Microsoft Office Suite & Applications

Experience

1. Product Engineering Supervisor

   Ford Motor Company

   Jan 2014 — Present · Dearborn, MI, US

   Dedicated to leading cross-functional teams committed to collaborating and partnering integrating LEAN principles in a global enterprise through visionary automotive and mobility leadership. I am leading and stepping up to ensure program and product management excellence. Together we are delivering the ride and drive experiences that people never knew they desired.” •Manage resources to complete multiple commodity-specific and other systems engineering implementation projects on time and on budget.• Bring to reality the vision, Customer Program Management and System Engineering’s plan for managing the engineers\' workloads to ensure proper support and capabilities for project assignments.•Communicate objectives and define the methodology to ensure alignment/buy-in to support meetings with core engineers.•Review product design, prototype development, prototype build, production build, and production issues.•Set up and champion training plans for product engineers, leveraging workplace engagement drivers. •Ensure Systems Engineering implementation by the engineers supporting Program Management. Function as lead engineer for each project to meet schedule. •Make certain implementation conforms to Systems Engineering methodology and information standards as defined by Program Management and lead engineer.•Enable team to perform their duties by timely communicating with Program Management and lead engineers to discern projected workloads and report project statuses bi-weekly. •Present design nuances for bases of decision-making when reporting project statuses. •With a customer-focus, ensure project sign-offs on completion of the engineer’s project-specific deliverables.

Education

• Lawrence Technological University

  Bachelor of Science, BSME, Mechanical Engineering

  1988 — 1989

Skills

• Dvp&R
• Problem Solving
• Gd&T
• Fasteners
• Product Development
• Program Management
• Automotive
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Ts16949
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Organization
• Materials
• Plastics
• Geometric Dimensioning
• Design for Manufacturing
• Design for Assembly
• Vehicles
• Dfmea
• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Application Packaging
• Ppap
• Microsoft Office
• Geometric Dimensioning
• Fmea
• Production Part Approval Process (Ppap)
• Automotive Engineering
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Iso/Ts 16949
• Root Cause Analysis