William Jacob

● Extensive Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Quality, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Manufacturing knowledge with a track record of driving profitable business growth, continuous improvement, and delivering customer value. ● Effective operating with responsibility for business performance and P&L, direct technical leadership of strategic planning initiatives and capital expenditure projects, innovation of new technologies and product development, value stream design and compliance, and testing and facility targets to deliver on business metrics. ● Six Sigma Master Black Belt consistently generating quality production solutions, market differentiation, teamwork, positive customer and supplier relationships, and cost savings. ● Consistent, focused, constructive, involved, and creative with progressive skillsets from high-impact leadership roles. ● NPD/NPI APQP product launch expert creating new products, technologies, processes, & business systems. ● Proven Project Manager of multidisciplinary critical strategic imperatives with significant long-term impact in ISO9001, AS9100C, TS16949 and other businesses. ● Comprehensive Management experience successfully leading in a wide range of multifunctional environments: Senior Business Leader (full quote to cash responsibility), Sales & Marketing, Operations/P&L, Plant Management, Advanced Product & Process Development, R&D, Plant Facilities & Maintenance, New Product Realization/APQP, Customer Service, Manufacturing/Lean, Quality, field service, startup & commissioning, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain development, Analysis/Simulation. ● Comprehensive expertise: Automotive, Con/Agg, Consumer Safety Products; Steel & Aluminum (Metals) Industry; Rubber Industry; Stemco, Goodyear; Production Metal forming & heat treat; Ball Screw & Roller Screw Precision Electromechanical Actuator & Linear Motion system development & production; Electronic Brake and Vehicle Chassis Systems; Wet/Dry Friction Products and Tribology; Medical; Testing and Dynamometry; Marine; Lubrication; NVH/Vibration Management; Controls; High Tech Process Development (Fuel Cell, Aerospace, Medical, Coatings, etc); Specialty Equipment and Machine Design and production; Hydraulics; Food Production, Chick Master Incubator Company, Poultry Incubation, CNC Production machining and grinding; GD&T and tight tolerance production, AMA MBA training.