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Milan, Illinois, United States

Milan, Illinois

-Establish Lean management understanding in all facets of our operations to increase production and aid in the elimination of waste.-Direct management of low preforming departments to establish sustainable change and growththat align with organizational goals.-Customer relations weekly to ensure quality and production benchmarks are being maintained.-Implementation of production Pulse boards in different departments to help employees recognize and strive to achieve goals.-One-on-one consultation with department managers to aid in the elimination of wastes and inefficiencies and to foster a CI culture of change within each.

Clinton, Ia

• Develop tracking tools and measures to support CI initiatives• Facilitate long-term continuous improvement projects from beginning through completion across various work groups• Identify, remove, and minimize the impact of manufacturing opportunities through waste elimination, increased capacity, improved efficiency, improved logistics, and reduced complexity.• Work within the organization to transform to a culture of significant focus on value through rigorous continuous improvement and problem solving methods.• Build a CI culture across the organization.

Clinton, Ia

• Innovations and development of advanced products• Work closely with Research & Development on potential and existing product offerings• Manage product lines through their life cycle to ensure proper sustainable marketing• Maintain communications between the field, sales, end users, distributors, and business partners• Sourcing and planning for commercial marketing events

• Successfully drove production managers to ensure productivity and quality standards are being met and exceeded for the blow molded application.• Developed training for all employees to ensure all members are kept current to industry standards.• Manage labor to ensure production requirements are met daily.• Facilitating labor allocation and payroll through Kronos Work Force Center.• Purchase and manage polymer usage, daily requirements, and cost reduction measures.• Implemented quality measures along with the quality team to adhere to customers standards• As Co-Director of Safety, developed safety tracking methods and lead safety team meetings to promote awareness.• Professionally conducted presentations for stakeholders & shareholders.• Fluent in 5S and educated staff on the principles. • ISO 9001 Internal Auditor

• Maintained accounts and production requirements for various customers.• Developed working relationships with purchasing departments to ensure clear communication on production requirements and quality concerns.• Arranged customer visits to the facility along with sales trips to customer’s facilities to maintain an active working relationship.• Managed selling prices through monthly quoting, monitoring of market fluctuations in raw materials, and production improvements.• Development of new product in close connection with design group and customer engineers to ensure a quality and cost efficient product.• Research and communication with potential customers through media searches and trade show visits.

Clinton, Ia

• Oversee and manage all operations on second shift.• Directly manage all quality concerns and implementation of remedying measures to ensure proper quality was maintained.• Manage all new employment for second shift.• Implementation of 5S and Lean Manufacturing techniques to reduce waste and increase productivity.• Production troubleshooting to ensure minimum time loss on production was maintained.• Authoring and implementing various standard operating procedures including spaghetti diagrams and controlled standard work procedures.

Clinton, Ia

• Train and directly manage direct labor to ensure quality product.• Developed quality training program for implementation of quality instruments for all direct labor.• Troubleshooting blow molding machines directly to ensure proper production along with educating machine operators on machine adjustments.• Maintain proper blends and mixes for all molding machinery within the group.• Completion of quality audits on all production with the group.• Warehousing and shipping of finished and raw materials.

Clinton, Ia

• Operate a blow molding machine daily.• Relieve for breaks and complete quality audits.• Constant quality inspection on each product produced from the blow molding machine.• Safety team representative to eliminate accidents in the workplace.• Team communicator to relay information from direct labor to management on the daily production of the group.• Trainer of new employees to ensure proper techniques were used to safely and effectively produce quality product.

Business Leadership, Business Administration And Management, General

Operations Management Certificate, Operations Management And Supervision

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