Noah Thomas

I work as a project manager currently in the electrical controls integration sector while have experience developing multi-million dollar CapEx projects for facilities improvements and manufacturing process development as well as working in the automotive industry as a controls engineer and a machining engineer. I began my career with a machine tool company as a mechanical apprentice and realized complacency is what ties down success and improvement is never an option for growth. 

I began my career as an industrial mechanic apprentice, transitioning into a technical writer/trainer position because I was able to articulate technical knowledge and build training material to fill in gaps in customer knowledge. I was offered a job as a manufacturing (machining) engineer and was promoted with a few months to having the same responsibility as a senior engineer with having to manage multiple manufacturing processes. I later transitioned to a controls engineer role where I achieved building a CMMS from scratch for the plant as well as SQL databases for product process data logging, as well as numerous safety and non-safety related controls upgrades. I then left to sharpen my project management skills at a synthetic carbon manufacturer where I launched and completed numerous capex projects which put the company in an ideal position for the semiconductor market because of my prior machining engineering experience. I also completed several power systems upgrades to contribute to the expansion projects and was leading a $20M project before I left to take a position as a project engineer for an electrical controls integration company. There I manage some of the numerous projects awarded and mentor/coach engineers where needed and keep projects on-time and on-budget. 

I hold two Associate degrees and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering Technology as I was living on the road shortly after my apprenticeship and couldn't attend a college in-person and options were limited with my career path.