Don Billings Email & Phone Number

Corona, CA

Member of Sr. Management Team. I Report directly to the President & CEO. Responsible for infrastructure, equipment upgrades, facility layout, and production processes. Utilize data to improve productivity and measure continuous improvement activities. Accountable for implementation of world class methodologies, LEAN concepts, 5S, single piece flow, &.

Riverside, CA

Owner of production. Responsible for Manufacturing, Planning and Shipping activities. Leader of Business Improvement Teams. Leader of Continuous improvement Programs, Employee Development, Employee Training, and supplier development. Leader of Kaizen events and 5S. Member of Luxfer Riverside Management team. Member of Luxfer Global MANEX (manufacturing.

Responsible for Manufacturing Operations. As the Director of Manufacturing my responsibilities included overseeing Quality, Logistics, Production Planning. Responsible for cost control, vendor performance, outside processing, inventory accuracy, Safety, and OSHA compliance. Temecula (Headquarter) location managed full CNC machine shop and R&D. The Corona.

Responsible for Manufacturing, 3 facilities. Equipment planning, capitol expenditures, resource planning, OSHA compliance / safety, continuous improvement, Mfg planning, production throughput, inventory, P&L, cost control, and quality. 4 managers, 6 supervisors and 170 direct employees were my team.

As General Manager I was responsible for all operations in the plant. Duties include resource management, facility safety, production planning, security, quality and quantity of production, Administration/HR duties, cost control, profitability, training and motivation of our staff. We produced approximately 30 million sparkplugs a yearly, 85 ~ 90 % of our.

At Smittybilt, I was responsible for all production-related matters. I managed a crew of, five department supervisors, ten leaders and two hundred production workers. My daily duties included, establishing clear production goals, creating production schedules, estimating product backlogs, and monitoring quality. This includes processing workers daily.

Worked as Night Shift Facility Manager. Was responsible for a crew of two, leadmen and thirty steel workers. Gary Steel was the largest supplier of steel plate on the West Coast. I was responsible for the efficient operation of seven gantry type NC Gas and Plasma cutting machines. Was responsible for all Night Shift operations, shipping, receiving.

My normal duties included supervising a crew of five lead men and sixty workers. I was responsible for production planning, writing work schedules, product quantity and quality. I also programmed welding robots, gas and plasma cutting machines. Was responsible the Machine Shop Production, equipment included, Horizontal and Vertical Milling Machines, Punch.

San Pedro CA

I worked at Todd Shipyards as young man fresh out of collage. I sure do not miss the days of welding in a tank full of smoke. I worked as a welder for about 5 years. I was promoted to Lead man, and from there I gained knowledge of shipbuilding. I was able to move around the yard to all the main locations, new construction, repair and also outfitting. Todd.

Industrial

1969/1972: Wilson High School: Long Beach, California 1972/1974: Long Beach City College, California, (Industrial Major) 1989: Deming.

Industrial

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