Bill Schueler Email & Phone Number

Farmington, Ct

Responsible for operational management for both Carrier and Fire and Security manufacturing plants, (30 Carrier and 37 Fire and Security). Managed business transformation leadership, factory consolidations, product moves and low cost country manufacturing focus.• Assured CCS organizational effectiveness through re-organization, process improvements and spans & layers analysis to simplify and reduce overhead.• Continued to drive costs out of the organization. Volume up 12.4% year over year with L&B spend increase of only 6.3%, fixed costs up by only 1.6% and variable costs up by only 8.6%. Reduced direct headcount by 16% and indirect by 1.7%. Factory sales per employee increased 35% year over year.• Appointed CCS United Way Chairman for WHQ – raised $506K up 18%. Employee pledging participation was up to 67% from 52% in 2011.General Manager for Carlyle Compressor, full P&L responsibly for $140 million screw and recip compressor manufacturing site located in Stone Mountain Georgia, with 40 salary and 200 hourly associates and 54 design and manufacturing engineers located in Syracuse New York.• Carlyle continues to expand its margins with ROS at 18% in 2012.• Developed and trained ready now replacement for General Manager position.• Carlyle Compressor had zero LWIR for 2 years in a row and zero notices of violations received form Government site audit for the last 4 years.• Instituted monthly plant wide communication meetings for entire workforce, resulting in positive climate assessment feedback and more awareness on business goals / objectives.• Increased on time delivery to 98.2% with inventory turnover increasing to 13.4 turns.

Farmington, Ct

Drove performance improvements at 40 factories globally with 15,000 employees focusing on cost management. Developed concise set of analytical tools and processes that focused in the areas of financial performance, lean material logistics, best practice sharing and benchmarking. • Established monthly factory reviews, to monitor the relationship between costs and profitability, versus volume.• Chair of Carrier’s Operation Talent council to identify key personnel for future advancement. Created ready now succession planning for key operations positions.• Developed Web based productivity tracker for cost savings ideas, generating $60 million of savings.• Held monthly Plant reviews to monitor and improve performance measurable. Reduced variable costs 25%, fixed costs by 27% and inventories by 23% taking out over $1.0 billion of total costs.Appointed General Manager for Carlyle Compressor located in Stone Mountain Georgia, $140 million business, responsible for full P&L, Sales & Marketing, Engineering, EH&S, Quality, and Supply Chain.• Improved sales by 30% and increased ROS from 6% in 2009 to 17.3% in 2011 utilizing Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma concepts in all areas of the organization.• On time delivery improved from 92% to 98%.• Winner of Industry Week Best Plants award in 2009 – Carlyle Compressor.

Farmington, Ct

Responsible for driving operational excellence across the 75 Carrier factories. Monitored factory metrics, accelerated deployment of lean manufacturing techniques ensuring best practices were deployed globally.• Reduced variable costs by 11% by implementing productivity tracking and sharing cost savings ideas globally.• Rationalized Global Operations factory footprint, setting up Carrier’s transformation plan.

Farmington, Ct

Responsible for driving operational excellence of a $5.5 billion business across 35 global Refrigeration factories with 5,500 salary and hourly associates. Established factory metrics, accelerated deployment of lean manufacturing techniques to drive productivity, and ensured best practices were deployed globally.• Reduced capital spending by $4.5 million.• Reduced scrap costs by 66% and reduced customer escapes by 24% by implementing process controls to drive quality improvements.

Southfield, Mi

Responsible for a $3.0 billion electrical group, purchasing over $1.6 billion of components from 530 suppliers to support 35 plants globally.• Established regional ASQE and SQE processes for new suppliers to deliver zero PPM’s.

Southfield, Mi

Responsible for a $3.0 billion Interior Systems Group with 30 interior manufacturing plants supplying both North American OEM’s and Asian plants with 10,500 UAW and 1,525 salaried employees.• Drove continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste through implementation of LEAN manufacturing, 5S, value stream mapping and pull systems that allowed footprint actions to increase capacity without adding capital, saving $6.3 million in capital spending.• Achieved additional O/I savings of $15 million through 15% in productivity improvements.• Implemented LPS (Lear Production System), saving $2.0 million annually.

Munich, Germany

Responsible for operational and financial performance of a $1.0B group covering thirteen seat assembly and trim plants with 8,000 union and 660 salary employees (Portugal, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia).• Developed and executed long term strategies for European trim business (seat covers, head rests and foam), increased sales by 16% and O/I by 31%.• Drove continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste through implementation of LEAN manufacturing, 5S, value stream mapping and pull systems. • Achieved additional O/I savings of $10.2 million through productivity improvements.• In-sourced trim, head rests and foam production worth over $200M in revenue and $20M in O/I by working closely with customer-focused groups and purchasing. • Improved plant capacity utilization from 62% to 97%.• Moved business from high cost facilities in Western Europe to Eastern Europe.• Expanded capacity of lowest cost labor plant in Eastern Poland by 40% to accommodate incremental demand.

Southfield, Mi

• Responsible for operations and P&L for eight Tier 1 JIT plants supplying complete seat sets to General Motors Corporation for the GM Truck programs with sales of $2.0B, 3,150 UAW employees and 445 salary employees.• Awarded GM supplier of the year award for the successful launch of the new program (GMT900).• Drove continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste through implementation of LEAN manufacturing, 5S, value stream mapping and pull systems, improving productivity by 12% and inventory turns by over 150 per year. Achieved additional O/I savings of $21 million through productivity improvements.

Southfield, Mi

• P&L for 8 Tier 1 JIT plants of $2B sales supplying seat sets to GM Corporation: 3,500 UAW employees.• Led implementation of LEAN manufacturing, 5S and visual factory systems.

Dearborn, Mi

• P&L for 5 Tier 1 JIT plants of $900M sales supplying seat sets to Ford Motor Company: 1,500 UAW employees.• Drove continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste through implementation of LEAN manufacturing, 5S and Kan-Ban replenishment systems.

Hammond, In

• Started Lear Hammond from a greenfield site to a tier 1 JIT plant supplying Ford Motor Chicago Assembly with seats with annual sales of $150M and 300 UAW employees.• P&L responsibility, with overall responsibilities for the production, materials, production control, methods, accounting/finance, maintenance, quality, information systems, industrial engineering.

Dearborn, Mi

• Coordination of product engineering, purchasing, manufacturing engineering, quality and industrial engineering to ensure all program milestones were achieved.

Fenton, Mi

• Responsible for day-to-day operations of a Tier 1 JIT plant producing complete interior seat sets for General Motors with annual sales of over $300M, 300 UAW employees.

Mendon, Mi

• Responsible for manufacturing operations producing automotive and appliance plastic products with annual sales of $50M, 700 UAW employees

Southfield, Mi

• Coordinated project engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality and industrial engineering tasks to ensure all project milestones were achieved.

Livonia, Mi

• Set-up plant first JIT operation delivering interior trim to General Motors Assembly Plant.

Ypsilanti, Mi

Manufacturing Management

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