joshua kindig

engineer and drafting manager

About

I am a skilled Design Engineer with valuable experience in multiple areas of the manufacturing and design process. My areas of experience include project management, engineering design, drafting, and quality control with time spent in quality labs, manufacturing plants, and fast paced office environments. This variety has awarded me a thorough understanding of many facets of production. I have a proven ability to incorporate these production aspects and develop fully conceptualized designs keeping in mind design requirements, cost, safety, and manufacturing feasibility. My strengths include adept problem solving skills, detail oriented, highly dependable, effective communication skills, and quality driven.

Country

united states

City

columbus

Industry

oil & energy

Skill

mechanical engineering, project management, solid modeling, autodesk inventor, drafting, asme, pressure vessels, design for fabrication, quality control

Experience

quality lab technician

misa metals

2007-7 - 2007-9 · 3 mos

Responsible for conducting quality testing of steel coils in an A2LA accredited lab environment. Sample testing included tensile, rockwell, olsen, chemistry composition, coating weight and adherence tests.

mechanical engineering co-op

parker hannifin

2008-9 - 2009-3 · 7 mos

Led co-op group in timely completion of designated tasks including conducting various mechanical lab tests with documented reports and creating customer drawings. Aided in the development of new flow testing equipment, verifying the result comparisons of various setups, and identifying possible sources of discrepancies.

maintenance intern

united states steel corporation

2008-6 - 2008-8 · 3 mos

Responsible for preliminary design to update oil containment system to meet new OSHA regulations. Met with engineers to finalize designs and begin fabrication drawings. Developed outline for a plant wide implementation plan for the new systems.

engineer and drafting manager

hamilton tanks, llc

2010-10 - Present · 16 yrs

Responsible for the oversight of the drafting department to design custom steel and stainless steel fabricated storage tank systems to meet a variety of industries including Oil & Gas, Asphalt, and Chemical. Effectively coordinating with Customers, Sales, and Shop Fabricators to ensure every custom tank meets ASME, API, UL, & OSHA standards and exceeds customer requirements. Also acting as Quality Control Manager for all code fabricated tanks.