Working hand in hand with all units of Operations to achieve our goals and maintaining a safe & healthy environment. Working daily on improvements to remove our plants constraints and support the growth of our products/business. Starting with Leadership 101 basics, building our workforce from internal growth with removing barriers that hinder them. Setting standards with expectations and follow up. A strong floor presence throughout both shifts to support the needs of our frontline workforce and leaders. Working with teams to flow SOP’s, OPL’s, standardize work/job task, building our skills matrix with cross training/job qualifications, job realignments and floor level communication to our workforce so that they can understand our Company’s vision and our expectations. Creating constructive DH meeting weekly with Maintenance and Operations to support increase OEE, while decreasing UPS (unplanned stops). Daily focus around the people, process and cost of operating effective business. High quality progressions being our values instead of our standards.

Working for and with the Employees, Processes and Cost of operating an effective business. Responsible for both the operations side of the business, along with the warehouse shipping/receiving logistics side of the business. Constant focus on employee and plant safety daily throughout a union environment. Improving upon standards focused on plant metrics, while driving down root cause for failures and opportunities that arise. Focused on the customer voice with standards and cross training to ensure on time delivery. Clear and concise communication provided to all direct reports pertaining to daily task and objectives to win the day. Transparent leader that has learned how to flow toward conflict and utilize resolution skills to resolve conflicts. Goal setting standards with intermittent and short-term goalsrunning parallel to long term goals. Driven by learning new processes and standards, while listening to others input and ideas for growth.

Continued focus on Plant margins, while driving 0 Safety incidents. Ensuring Plant expectations are met daily as it pertains to Safe, Quality Product. Aggressively confronting opportunities to drive 90% Efficiency and 3% Yield loss, with consistent activity around cost reduction throughout. Creating a robust regimen through effective team collaboration to achieve our weekly, monthly and quarterly metric. Committed to empowering and building our workforce with sustainable standards in place, while in line with the voice of the customer.

Driving 85% Efficiency and 3% Yield plant wide, while aggressively confronting improvement opportunities with sustainable measures in place. Weekly collaboration with Finance on identifying high capital yield loss areas and presenting business case for escalation. Working hand in hand with all unit operations to ensure proper waste reduction and recycling with focus on zero waste to landfill. Fully committed to People (working with and for the people safely), Process (trainable, sustainable, accessible and repeatable), Cost (value added based and profitable).

Responsible for maintaining safety standards and training for over 60 hourly union employees, as well as tracking and creating actions plans to reduce raw oil and packaging yield loss. Required to utilize effective communication skills, training, and coaching to motivate hourly union workers and maintain effective working relationship with the union.

Responsible for the efficient and safe manufacturing processes through the leadership of the entire shift, which includes approximately 45 hourly represented associates in maintenance and production. Must adhere to the schedule and ensure that quality standards are met.

As Fabrication Supervisor, I was responsible for leading a team of up to 45 hourly USW represented associates in a fast paced, high volume-manufacturing environment to achieve operations, quality, safety and continuous improvement metrics. Required to utilize effective communication skills, training, and coaching to motivate hourly union workers and maintain effective working relationship with the union.Master Assembler for high and mid-efficiency furnace and fan coil production lines. Learned all jobs on the 7163, 7127 and 7128 lines, including assembly, fabrication and repair work, press operation, and brazing.

Earned squad leader with ranking to platoon guide for unit. Responsible for leading team through training exercise and drills, for operating different large tactical vehicles, including 10/15 ton fuel hemits, and for performing functions for petroleum data records, oil analysis, and dispatch for all of the motor pool. Completed four overseas training missions in South America. Received Honorable Discharge after serving eight-year term.