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Responsible for operations by developing schedules; assigning and monitoring work; gathering resources; implementing productivity standards; resolving operations problems; maintaining reference manuals; implementing new procedures.Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing and enforcing organization standards, adhering to legal regulations.Daily role is to staff job results by coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; conducting training; implementing enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.

Manager duties include Business Planning, Administration, Customer Relations, Management, Budgets, Plant/Shop Paperwork with Drawings/Programs and P&L daily responsibilities.Proactively plan variable workload schedules for Production Operators in an environment with limited lead-time on production build requirements and a wide variety of tasks required (on the manufacturing floor, in product kitting and in receiving & shipping).Maintenance, breakdown repair, new equipment install, precision machining, welding and fabrication, ordering parts and materials for projects, working with engineering and other mechanics to troubleshoot large industrial equipment, and using our asset managementExperience with AutoCAD Blueprints/Shop drawings, CNC programs, Sales, Purchasing, Engineering & Estimating/Project Manager, Plastic Fab, Commercial Caseworks, Metal Fab, Finishing, high-end assemble with specialized customization if needed and turn-key project management skills.Excellent problem-solver who finds a way to get the job done.

Electrolux 2nd Shift Area Plant Manager, I was responsible for the overall production flow of the Plant’s fourteen manufacturing cells, seven supervisors & 315 shop employees from the assembly lines to the feeder departments on the second shift.Accountable for the entire second shift manufacturing cells from the assembly lines to the feeder departments on the 2nd shift making horizontal and upright freezers for numerous companies.Responsible for many of most HR activities concerning 2nd shift employees and plant operations.Overall production rates and key metrics have improved significantly this year in 2016 on the 2nd shift and we surpassed the 2016-year end forecasts.We hit all high numbers for KPI’s and were the only North American Plant to do so.Reduced costs by and improved our Productivity rate by a little more than 1% over last year.Our 2017 production and manufacturing KPI targets we will be setting new targets for this year.Green Belt acquired working towards Black BeltEffectively drove problem solving and lean projects with process improvement teams, using many lean tools.Implementing whole quality systems that drove many process improvements in the shop the Plant metrics and production rates were decreased by 30%, inventories were lowered, utilization rates, productivity and profitability went up dramatically.As an accredited Lean Facilitator who taught Total Quality Systems manufacturing for seven years teaching Lean Tools. Tools used, Six Sigma (Yellow, Green & Black belts), PDSA cycles, Key KPI's, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, 5S, 7 wastes, TPM, Set-up reduction, Standard Work, Visual Management, SQDC boards, and 5D auditing. Experienced in using plant performance operational metrics and objectives and attained established goals for safety, OSHA regulations and Safety Teams.

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