Lead Fabrication matching company goals in, safety, quality, cost, and delivery. Drive NPI projects to practical application. Develop lean practices, organizational goals, and continuous improvement in quality to impact company competitiveness, no defect forwarding. Develop hourly leadership with getting to an A, WCM, and CIO initiatives, direction to reduce quality failure rates by 60% over the next three years. Manage man power needs to successfully maintain department workflow and reduce overtime. Lead fabrication on driving continuous improvements in daily operations. Coordinate with scheduling part needs with demand changes, tooling, and maintenance.

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I work with manufacturing, materials, and engineering on implementation of new cooking products while maintaining lean practices through company objectives. My job is to work with the various groups early on during the design phase to bring to market the most efficient, quality built cooking products. By utilizing lean practices and error proofing during engineering build phase, engineering pilot build phase, and manufacturing pilot build phase, I am able to meet budget's and deadlines, therefore contributing to the team goal, production of quality built products that not only we can be proud of but our customer's can as well. In addition, develop and procure line fixtures for new product projects. Interact with global engineering staff and manufacturing while leading 3-P build activities and conducting post event follow-up activities on issues found. Recent Projects...Manufacturing manager for launch of the new KitchenAid Warming Drawer 2012 Project. Supervised employees on continuous improvement projects in lean focus maintaining a budget in the 5-S restoration of the facility. Lead/Participated in the implementation of Ares and Thor cook top engineering builds, pilot builds, and production start-up.Lead/Participated in implementation of Urso Range and Urso cook top engineering builds, pilot builds, and production start-up.Lead/Participated in implementation of Delorean Wall Oven engineering builds, pilot builds, and production start-up.Facilitated the transition of assembly lines from Oxford, Mississippi to Cleveland, Tennessee including assembly set up and training of 30 associates. Facilitated kaizan events at different facilities to implement error proofing processes for better company alignment in standardization. Facilitated 5-S events within the continuous improving organization for better process flow to minimize safety hazards.