George Rebmann has extensive experience in manufacturing engineering, tool design, mechanical design, and project management spanning over 40 years. He is seeking a new career opportunity where he can apply his skills in areas like tooling design, lean manufacturing, and CAD/CAM. He has held engineering and management roles at companies in the aerospace, medical device, plastics, and printing industries.
1. EMPLOYMENT RESUME
Mr. George E. Rebmann
55 Chepachet Road, Avon, CT 06001
860-404-1849
OBJECTIVE
Extensive experience in the manufacturing industry with established expertise in product/process
engineering, tool room, model shop, mechanical design, supervision, product testing, project
management, lean manufacturing, tooling and CAD/CAM. Exploring career opportunities where
my skills and experience can be effectively utilized.
EDUCATION
A.S. Mechanical Engineering: Thames Valley State Technical College
Society of Plastic Engineers: Die Design Principles for Extrusion of Polymers
Vacuum Sizer Design
RAPRA Technology Rheology in Plastics Processing
University Of New Hampshire: Several courses toward BSMET degree
Worcester Poly Tech: Project Management
Handling Conflict, Confrontation & Difficult People
Standard Products Co.: Supervisor’s Training
Interactive Management
Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, One Piece Flow
American Robotic Institute: Flexible Parts Feeding
B/E Aerospace: Essentials of Management
Unigraphics V16
Boeing/Toyota Production Systems
5S, Lean Mfg, One Piece Flow, Shingijitsu
Institute for Competitive Design: Strategic Design
Plastic Flow, LLC FEA for Non-Newtonian Fluids
URI/HERE, LLC Fundamentals of Explosives
AMTEC Corp Ammunition & Explosives Safety
HAAS HAAS Machine Center programming
Johnson Gage Co. Screw Thread Gaging
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense, Simsbury, CT 2002 – Present
POSITION: Tooling Engineer
DUTIES: Tool Design and Manufacturing Processes
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Tooling design team technical lead. Designed a suite of tooling for
Assembly of FCDCA product utilizing SMED (1hr to 10 sec), in tool process measurement,
Eliminated product damage and decreased ergonomic impact. Multi-site tooling support.
Single and multi-port horizontal extrusion dies. Roll form tool design and process support.
Manufacturing process failure root cause evaluation and corrective action. Special project/
Research tooling and testing support.
Pratt & Whitney, Middletown, CT 2002
POSITION: Design Engineer (Contract)
DUTIES: Quotation of machining operations
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Provided technical assistance to machining quotation group. Quality
Control, metrics and labor reporting for Family Of Parts initiative.
2. B/E Aerospace, Litchfield, CT 1999 – 4/2002
POSITION: Engineering Supervisor
DUTIES: Supervision and technical support of Tool Room, Model Shop and Test Facility
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Reduced response time of production rework from one week to one shift.
Designed and fabricated 40+ tools in six-month period. Reduced component assembly time by
80%. Applied SPC process controls, 5s methods and lean manufacturing to dynamic G-pulse
testing. Created a single team from three competitive departments.
Plastigage Corp. Jackson, MI 1997 – 1999
POSITION: Process Engineering Manager
DUTIES: Direct supervision of Engineering and Tool Room
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Instituted an extrusion tool evaluation and rebuild program. Replaced 15+
sets of out-of-spec/production problem tooling. Managed design/build/development of twelve new
products. Initiated a purge program for extruders resulting in labor savings of 3-8 hours per day.
Designed, managed, assembled and developed a modular computer controlled cutting system
with interchangeable customer specific cutting cells – now company standard. Utilized Poke Yoke
initiatives to improve out-going quality. Plastic injection molding and extrusion development.
Standard Product Co., Gaylord, MI 1992 – 1997
POSITION: Senior Tooling/Process Engineer
DUTIES: Management of secondary engineering group and Tool Room
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Transformed a group of independent engineers and toolmakers into a
cohesive team. Responsible for design, build, and manufacturing support of all tools required to
support customer requirements. Instituted a P.M. program for trim dies reducing floor calls from
32 to 4 man-hours per day. Reduced costs of die components. Redesigned 8-station rotary
injection process – 48% man-hour reduction. Redesigned manufacturing process – 17% man-
hour reduction. Implemented Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, one-piece flow and error proofing
techniques into work cells. Plastic/Rubber injection molding development.
Johnson & Johnson Orthopedics, Raynham, MA 1991 – 1992
POSITION: Design Engineer (Contract)
DUTIES: Design of surgical tools
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Designed a complete set of tools to perform femoral prosthetic implants.
Created fully surfaced proximal femoral models from CAT scan data for FEA analysis.
Kingston-Warren Corp., Newfield, NH 1988 – 1991
POSITION: Design Engineer (Contract)
DUTIES: Rubber automotive window seal product design
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Created geometric “lay flat” program for conversion of three-dimensional
curves. Developed CAD applications for tool and product design.
GTE/Sylvania, Exeter, NH 1987 – 1988
POSITION: Design Engineer (Contract)
DUTIES: Implement Unigraphics CAD/CAM
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Purchased, installed, trained and implemented CAD/CAM technology in
this division in one year.
Harris Graphics Corp., Dover, NH 1978 – 1987
POSITION: CAD/CAM Technical Supervisor
DUTIES: Manage CAD/CAM service bureau
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Created an in-house CAD/CAM service bureau to service company
design projects. Design and project control of web offset printing press components and systems.
Performed manufacturing and field installation support of
multi-million dollar press systems. High-speed helical drop down drive design.
3. Kahn Industries, Wethersfield, CT 1977 – 1978
POSITION: Mechanical Engineer
DUTIES: Pneumatic piping and control system design
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Design of air dryer system for military aircraft. Electrical layout of
industrial gas separator.
General Dynamics/EB Div., Groton, CT 1974 – 1977
POSITION: Nuclear Decontamination Engineer
DUTIES: Establish procedures for dismantle, decontamination, inspection, and reassembly of
reactor plant components.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Design and installed liquid and solid radioactive waste processing
system.