Summary
Kan Zhang is a process and quality engineer with 10 years of cross-industry experience in automotive manufacturing, wind energy construction, and academic research. Currently Assistant to the General Manager and BiW HOP Center Process Engineer at Beijing Benz, he drives cycle-time reduction, OEE improvement, HOP/AS support, and GM-level coordination for a body shop of ~800 employees. He holds an M.A.Sc. from McMaster, where he led MMRI meetings and researched high-speed dry machining using high-speed cameras, CMMs and vibrometers to tackle real manufacturing problems like surface finish and tool life. Kan combines hands-on shop-floor expertise—from engine assembly and foundry work to wind turbine site supervision—with project management, cost analysis, and HC planning. Comfortable briefing senior leadership, organizing cross-functional ramp-ups (V206 project) and translating experimental insight into production fixes, he’s as fluent troubleshooting a robot-programming lab as he is tracking factory KPIs. An uncommon strength is his blend of custodial technical skills (advanced measurement and imaging tools) with top-level stakeholder communication and party league leadership.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc, Mechanical Engineering, M.A.Sc, Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering - McMaster University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.0 at McMaster University
High School, General Science, 12, High School, General Science, 12 at Maple Leaf High School
English, Chinese