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Ludlow, Vermont, United States

•Implement strategic programs that improve labor efficiency, on-time delivery, quality, workplace safety, and customer expectations•Generate monthly reports to effectively communicate program contributions, lead-times, on-time delivery, continuous improvement efforts, and manufacturing issues and needs•Drive a corporate culture that focuses on facts, tangible results, and behaviors•Provide input for selection of appropriate manufacturing equipment to ensure the most cost-efficient solution is available within company budget guidelines•Maintain manufacturing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities•Accomplish staff results by communicating job goals and expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures•Produce products by establishing production planning systems, maintaining good manufacturing practices, enforcing quality standards, and improving products and processes•Interface closely with Plant GM and Supply Chain Manager to effectively develop purchasing and logistical systems, inventory, and production control requirements•Achieve financial targets by establishing objectives, developing budgets, controlling costs, and maximizing use of available assets•Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed•Provide leadership needed to ensure that product quality meets product specifications and criteria for all products shipped from the plant•Ensure efficient utilization of plant personnel and equipment to meet productivity and cost effectiveness in meeting the plants business goals from stated targets•Lead a trained and motivated workforce capable of implementing and executing the business strategy•Work with all functional departments to actively pursue manufacturing excellence.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Supervise staff to ensure highest safety standards are practiced at all times. • Verify use of personal protective equipment, perform safety audits and correct observations as identified.• Proactively address employee relations and act as a partner with the HR department.• Manage performance of 40 to 50 non-exempt employees and carry out actions and respective follow ups.• Conduct performance reviews to establish promotions, pay increases, transfers, demotions and terminations.• Verify and approve attendance, disability, workers compensation and FMLA.• Enforce necessary compliance with current GMP, OSHA, State and FDA regulations.• Manage non-conforming product daily to ensure timely closure.• Hold line meetings to discuss quality issues as they are identified.• Implement Engineering changes in compliance with QSR/ISO and corporate guidelines for manufacturing systems.• Hold weekly production line meetings with team to discuss metrics and progress to committed goals.• Develop strategy and schedule line daily to meet committed build plan and customer demands.• Manage overtime levels within organization budget and customer demand.• Develop personnel utilization plan (PUP) to make the best use of production team idle time.• Actively champion and participate in the department’s lean strategy. Lead by example.• Drive production line ownership of lean deployment priorities and the sustaining of continuous improvement. • Document and visualize the design of the production line with Value stream mapping.• Identify balancing opportunities for resource utilization through operational excellence.• Provide the department with visual core metrics used to manage the team’s performance of their production line.• Drive significant improvements in the performance of the production line through lean methodologies.

Essential duties and responsibilities • Manufacture product through staff supervision, organization and monitoring work flow.• Responsible for the determination, acquisition and arrangement of all facilities necessary for production operations.• Manage and develop production planning, inventory control, assembly operations, and shipping and receiving activities.• Responsible for the oversight of people, processes, systems and materials within the production areas.• Ensure plant wide adherence of all manufacturing and test methods to the Engineering procedures and processes established for the manufacture and testing of all products produced.• Preparation of detailed plans for achieving the production goals economically, efficiently and on time.• Forecasting production challenges and setting systems and processes in place to minimize setbacks and delays.• Drives and monitors continuous improvement processes, controls, and methods in all processes.• Establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that supports the company's Quality Policy, Quality System and the appropriate regulations.• Communicates job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.• Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.• Maintains a safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.

Miami, Florida

Essential duties and responsibilities• Drive transaction production line. Ensures that production conforms to professional standards. Leads by example as an active change agent in improving the transaction production line.• Design effective business processes and workflows. Deliver significant and quantifiable process improvement and financial benefit across the organization on assigned projects.• Work with Analysts and Program Managers to achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).• Implements corrective action. Constantly strive to optimize workflow and processes, eliminate valueless activities, improve customer satisfaction and ensure improvement sustainability.• Responsible for defining and documenting operational processes.• Reviews production reports to identify opportunities to improve production, efficiency and services being provided. Propose and implement plans.• Responsible for generating accurate management reports to demonstrate and analyze department's performance.• Responsible for managing contractor relationship and performance for call center and document management.• Responsible for keeping up-to-date on all technical-operational issues concerning Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) transactions.• Responsible for managing and facilitating Lean Six Sigma (utilizing Lean, Workout, and Six Sigma Transactional in focus) projects in support of the transaction production line. Partner with key stakeholders to assess current processes and identify opportunities utilizing voice of the customer, organizational, analytical, Lean Six Sigma problem solving methodologies.• Responsible for staff compliance with all relevant HUD and program regulations, policies and procedures.• Responsible for monitoring and ensuring the quality and effectiveness of service delivery provided by assigned staff.• Provides support, technical assistance and training to assigned staff, ensuring that they are appropriately prepared to perform their job

Miami, Fl

Supervise Staff;Supervise staff to ensure highest safety standards are practiced at all times. Verify use of personal protective equipment, perform safety audits and correct observations as identified.Proactively address employee relations and act as a partner with the HR department.Manage performance of 40 to 50 non-exempt employees and carry out actions and respective follow ups.Conduct performance reviews to establish promotions, pay increases, transfers, demotions and terminations.Verify and approve attendance, disability, workers compensation and FMLA.Drive Quality;Enforce necessary compliance with current GMP, OSHA, State and FDA regulations.Manage non-conforming product daily to ensure timely closure.Perform and document weekly quality compliance reviews.Hold line meetings to discuss quality issues as they are identified.Implement Engineering changes in compliance with QSR/ISO and corporate guidelines for manufacturing systems.Drive Production;Hold weekly production line meetings with team to discuss core five metrics and progress to committed goals.Develop strategy and schedule line daily to meet committed build plan and customer demands.Manage overtime levels within organization budget.Develop personnel utilization plan (PUP) to make the best use of production team idle time.Drive Lean;Actively champion and participate in the department’s lean strategy. Lead by example.Drive production line ownership of lean deployment priorities and the sustaining of continuous improvement. Document and visualize the design of the production line with a visual staffing plan.Identify balancing opportunities for resource utilization through work content vs. takt time.Provide the department with visual core metrics used to manage the team’s performance of their production line.Drive significant improvements in the performance of the production line through lean methodologies.

Pompano Beach, Fl

Provide leadership and supervision to managers of manufacturing, production, purchasing, planning, maintenance, logistics and a non-exempt work force in excess of 120 employees. Planning, directing, and coordinating the manufacturing of cosmetic products in compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices, OSHA, State and FDA regulations.Set direction and monitor progress of the over all facility operations. Analyzing delivery and inventory issues and providing solutions. Establishing and controlling conditions of production in order to satisfy customer and quality specifications. Participate and drive continuous improvement, lean manufacturing and job standardization.Direct the production managers in provision and execution of operating strategies and plans. Organize and direct workflow for satisfying production requirement in a cost-efficient manner. Investigate and analyze new procedures and processes to improve over all operations. Develop and motivate cost-effective alternatives and improvements to production process. Maintain employee safety and morale by creating safe and efficient working environment.Supervise development of vendor clientele, vendor pricing, price break quantities and delivery lead times.Managing the purchasing, stock control, distribution, production-scheduling tasks for multiple manufacturing departments. Maintain required employment levels through selecting, interviewing, and training of personnel. Perform analysis of manufacturing materials and determining optimum control levels. Liaising with the product line managers on planning and predicting customer orders to satisfy shipments. Maximize the efficiency of production lines by ensuring the effective headcount utilization.