William James Child has over 30 years of experience in aerospace manufacturing and engineering project consulting. He has held various roles such as senior industrial engineer at Boeing Aerospace, tool standards engineer at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, and manufacturing research and development specialist at Bombardier Aerospace. Child also has 10 years of experience as a project coordinator and contract specifications writer for international engineering consulting firms. He maintains additional experience in sales, design, quality control, and as an independent manufacturing consulting.
1. William James Child RESUME
230, Waverley Road
Toronto,
Ontario, M4L 3T3
Canada. (647) 215 8371 childwilliam12@gmail.com
Profile:
I am an accomplished technical professional with extensive experience in aerospace manufacturing and
engineering project consulting. (EPC’s)
Boeing Aerospace. (4 Years)
(Senior Industrial Engineer:)
• Researched and acquired new capital equipment and machinery.
• Implemented new and improved methods of assembly, press forming, machining, progressive
stamping, welding, process finishing
• Established ROI, for capital equipment depreciation.
• Worked closely with supporting trades, metrology & NDT.
• Performed work sampling, simplification and related time standards.
• Assessed capacity planning, manpower and shop loading.
• Trained Quality Inspectors for statistical process control. (SPC)
• Worked with tool room on new initiatives in tool engineering and planning.
• Prepared production processes and tooling procedures.
• Implemented lean manufacturing and cost reduction
• Recipient of Boeing Industrial Engineering award.
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (7 years combined experience)
(Tool Standards Engineer: Office and Professional Technical 673 Union Group 12 -UAW.)
• Developed and prepared tool design standards, procedures, and drawings to support
airframe component assembly. Included machine tools, press/stretch forming and process
finishing.
• Supervised tool designers/tool engineers in the Standard tool and Cutter control group.
Work included testing, development and tool proving.
• Maintained tool inventory control and co-ordinated change control initiatives with design
engineering.
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Bombardier Aerospace (8 years combined experience)
(Manufacturing Research & Development & Methods Engineering Specialist)
• Researched methods studies in production assembly to optimize aircraft assembly cycle times
and reducing manpower and waste.
• Introduced cross training and strategic business units.
• Implemented 6 sigma Initiatives to simplify tooling and facilitate sub-contract offload to
lower cost and improve customer delivery dates.
• Administered and developed Methods Engineering website.
• In charge of engineering lofting room.
(Project Management:)
• Onsite representative at major sub-contractors GKN Westland Aerospace U.K, and Aero
Vodochody Czech Republic.
• Coordinated the day-to-day onsite operations at supplier facilities.
2. • Performed related vendor evaluations and quality audits.
(Quality Control and Production Supervisor:)
• Supervised major assembly operations for fuselage and wing assemblies
• Supervised up to 20 structural Assemblers/Quality Control Inspectors.
• Supervised quality control group responsible for the integrity of precision composite
assemblies.
Stone & Webster Engineering Ltd./Kilborn Engineering/Sandwell Engineering.
(International Engineering Project Consultants-10 years combined experience)
(Project Co-ordinator, Contract Specifications Writer & Administrator:)
• Prepared and administered contractual and technical documentation for the management and
execution of major multidiscipline ‘turn key’ design & construction projects.
• Projects included petrochemical, pulp & paper, mining, hydroelectric, food processing, ink
manufacturing, ethanol, food processing and waste recycling plants.
• Support initiatives included contract administration, bid analysis, site visits, project
engineering support and related document control.
• Chaired the SWCL Engineering Standard Practices Committee at Stone & Webster and
Supervised the document control department.
Additional Experience:
• Kitchen and Bath Sales Associate. The Home Depot- Current. (2 years combined
experience)
• 20/20 Kitchen Designer. Rona. (1 year)
• Line Inspection, Honda Plant 2 and F&P Manufacturing, Alliston, Ont. (Temp. Contracts)
• Active manufacturing engineering consultant. Manutech Consulting.
• Active Writer, sound technician, actor and musician.
• Sound Technician. The City of Elliot Lake, Lester B. Pearson Theatre. (3-years)
• Coordinator and founder- TGIF Café, Grace Christian Centre, Elliot Lake. (2 years)
• Sound tech training at CBC Radio One. Proficient in Gold Wave and Studio recording software.
Additional Experience, Education and Training:
• Plant Layout Assignment -TFS Fixtures, Toronto. AutoCAD 12 (6-month contract.)
• Prepared bid proposals for new work. TFS Fixtures, Toronto.
• Co-op Apprenticeship Program (9 years) Automotive Service Development Engineering Program. Ford
Motor Co. Warley, Essex, England. Technical writer. P/T Automotive Technology Instructer.
• Full Tech Mech. Dip -City &Guilds of London- (University of London) -4 Year Program)
• Bachelors Degree. (Business/ Behavioural Science) York University -4 Year Program)
• C. Tech A.S.T.T (Applied Science Technicians and Technologists of B.C)
• Microcomputer training- Joslin Institute, White Rock, BC. (1 year program)
• Novell Network Administrator Training, (CNA) Certified Network Administrator.
• Computer Tech. Eastbourne College of Art and Technology (-1 year contract. Eastbourne, U.K)
• Seminar Instructor at Boeing Canada and Stone & Webster Toronto.
• Management training at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Bombardier Aerospace for Continuous
Quality Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Organizations. 6 Sigma, JIT and ISO programs.
• Procurement, vendor quality surveillance and customer liaison engineering experience.
• Overhead crane operator training.
• WHMIS, Safety engineering and 5s training – CPR
Reference. Mr. Kenneth Guest. Manager Bombardier Aerospace and TFS. 705 721 4704