Biography: Tina Czerwinski
Tina is the Director of Manufacturing Operations at the Caterpillar Tucson Proving Ground (TPG) which is part of the Resource Industries Operations and Products (RIOP) division for Caterpillar. The scope of her responsibilities includes operations, maintenance/facilities, manufacturing engineering, quality, supply chain, safety and lean. She has responsibility for approximately 75 production and 100 support/management employees. TPG is a 6,000-acre campus where product validation, data acquisition for model creation, build validation and customer demonstrations are performed.
Professional experience:
She has thirty years of manufacturing experience with twenty-five of those years at Caterpillar. She has held a variety of manufacturing roles including manufacturing engineer, quality manager, group manager, blackbelt, lean deployment manager, SAP lead, manufacturing engineering manager, assembly factory manager and facility manager. She has worked at four facilities within Caterpillar - fifteen years in Paving Products in Minneapolis, five years in Forest Products in Georgia, four years in Mining Products (Decatur, IL) and recently joined TPG in September of 2023. Prior to Caterpillar, she worked for five years in various manufacturing roles for a privately held company whose primary scope was metal manufacturing for aerospace companies and military contracts.
Educational background:
She has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Personal information:
She has been married for twenty-nine years to her husband Jon and has two children.
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