Steve Majors has over 30 years of experience in manufacturing engineering. He currently works as a Manager of Manufacturing and Test Engineering at Spectralink, where he provides leadership and support for production operations. Prior to this role, he held several senior engineering roles developing manufacturing processes, improving quality, and supporting offshore contract manufacturers. He has a background in process design, plant layout, cost reduction, and quality management.
Seeking assignments in Production,process engineering in high pressure die casting of aluminium and zinc alloys,having 23 years of experience in the same field.
1. STEVE MAJORS
3471 West 101st
Place Home Phone: (303) 460-1927
Westminster, Colorado 80031 E-mail stevemajors@yahoo.com
SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Experienced in process/product design, plant layout, product and cost management, labor standards
development and methods analysis. Proven ability to improve efficiencies, yields and reduce costs.
Proficient in transferring and supporting product/manufacturing at offshore manufacturing locations.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Spectralink Incorporated, Boulder, Colorado 2013 - Present
Manager, Manufacturing and Test Engineering – Enterprise Wireless Phones
• Provided leadership of the operations group professional staff consisting of Document control,
Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering and Test Engineering.
• Monitored the team’s support of day-to-day production through process monitoring, requesting
follow up and troubleshooting for production issues at three contract manufacturing sites located in
China, Thailand, and US.
• Identified, planned and implemented manufacturing projects according to return on investment,
focusing on elements contributing to yield loss and reducing scrap costs.
• Assured that all production and test processes were robust and are fully documented.
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer 2010 - 2012
• Determined root cause of quality problems and drove design and process improvements to enhance
existing product performance and quality.
• Coordinated quality improvements with suppliers based on internal quality inspection requirements.
• Developed and documented assembly processes for production of products built at offshore contract
manufacturing locations and trained contract manufacturers on processes and procedures.
• Created, reviewed and approved Bills of Materials using Agile document control.
JDS Uniphase / Picolight Incorporated, Louisville, Colorado 2000 – 2009
Sr Manufacturing Engineer – Optical/Electronic Components
• Technical lead for support of offshore contract manufacturing of high volume (100K/month)
optical/electrical components, providing guidance for manufacturing and quality issues.
• Responsible for in-house manufacturing and test of prototype optical components for customer
samples and engineering development
• Supported Product Management for introduction of new designs to meet customer requests,
developing Bills of Materials and test requirements.
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer – Optical Transceivers
• Reviewed device test performance and failure analysis data for process improvements within JDSU
and contract manufacturers and recommended corrective actions.
• Responsible for quick-turn sample and prototype transceivers to meet on time delivery requirements
to customers.
• Created and reviewed Bill of Materials, in Agile and Matrix, for accuracy to ensure components meet
performance requirements.
2. Artesyn Technologies, Broomfield, Colorado
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer – Power supplies 1995 – 2000
• Set up wave solder process, utilizing designed experiments (DOE) to optimize parameter settings,
creating one profile reducing changeover times.
• Trained production personnel on PCBA inspection requirements based on IPC-610 class 2
requirements.
• Developed plant layout, incorporating lean manufacturing concepts, to reduce work in process and
improve product quality.
• Co-developed LabView based vision system for inspection of hand soldered assemblies to ensure
100% soldered leads.
Kimball Electronics, Jasper, Indiana
Manufacturing/Process Engineer – Network card Assemblies 1993 - 1995
• Lead engineer responsible for manufacturing processes, quality requirements based on IPC standards,
and line balancing for high volume electronics assembly (100K units/month).
• Developed plant layouts to improve efficiencies by reducing the manpower required and reduction of
work in-process. Created spreadsheet models to perform capacity analysis and determine capital
equipment requirements.
• Coordinated the college internship program for Industrial Engineering students, providing a hands on
approach to basic engineering functions and problem analysis.
• Assisted quoting department in development of labor estimates for new business proposals and work
orders resulting in accurate and timely costing of products.
Lockheed Martin, Denver, Colorado 1986 - 1993
Manufacturing Engineer – Aerospace electronics (1990 -
1993)
• Justified, specified and implemented SMT equipment for the production space flight hardware.
• Coordinated software interfaces for downloading CAD data to SMT placement equipment.
• Developed processes and procedures for stencil printer and placement equipment.
• Applied statistical process control and design of experiment concepts to the implementation of new
production equipment which resulted in first pass yields of 99.89 percent.
Industrial Engineer - Electronics Manufacturing (1989 -
1990)
• Lead Engineer responsible for manufacturing budget allocation, time standard application,
performance reporting and manpower planning.
• Performed feasibility studies and methods analysis for reduction of production costs. Results of
investigation included new tool designs, and simplified production methods.
Industrial Engineer - Machine Shop/Sheet Metal (1986 - 1989)
• Developed time standards using a predetermined time system for sheet metal and machine shop
processes to measure job performance and develop capacity planning models.
• Created spreadsheets for labor reporting to track program costs to allocated budgets.
• Analyzed cost variances resulting from manufacturing problems to resolve discrepancies between
budgeted and actual costs.
Education: B.S.: Industrial Technology/Management