Steve Korwin was appointed senior vice president, quality & engineering in September 2009. Korwin joined Sparton in 2008 as group vice president, Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS), at Sparton Corporation. In that position, Korwin implemented and transformed the Company’s EMS business unit to a revitalized, profitable entity.

Before joining Sparton, Korwin was vice president, Quality and Engineering at Citation Corporation, a foundry, machining, and assembly company. He was charged with the company-wide implementation of Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma continuous improvement approaches, along with Citation’s production system targeted at improving operations, with additional responsibility for the design, implementation and maintenance of Citation’s corporate Quality systems.

Previously, Korwin lead a private die casting and machining firm, focusing on profit improvement through restructuring and the introduction of Lean tools.  Prior to that position, Korwin worked at the sensing and control division of Honeywell for 16 years, where he held increasing engineering and profit and loss (P&L) management roles, including restructuring and M&A activity serving the automotive, industrial, commercial, and aerospace/military markets.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and a Master of Science degree in management of technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

Korwin is a six sigma blackbelt, lean master, and experienced with ISO, D1, AS and TS Quality System deployment.