I began my career as a Materials Engineer for Paint & Coatings at John Deere. As any paint engineer knows, the cleaning and painting operations are a factory within a factory and subject to its own Wild West jurisdiction.
John Deere, Moline, IL 08/2012 - 08/2013 | Paint & Coatings Materials Engineer
Developed research plans for factory-related painted part issues, reporting findings to corporate competency teams
Tested and verified supplier quality for painted parts
Contributed verification testing for internal materials corporate standard development
Skills
Familiar with corporate and industry standards (ASTM & ISO) for materials testing, including paint & coatings
Supported paint manufacturing lines within the factory assembly lines (familiar with liquid and powder paint systems)
Supported corporate standard development
Tested at Superior Color Discrimination in the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test