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Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Toledo, Ohio Area

Responsible for all Paint Center activities related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, morale and environmental affairs. Oversees all personnel for Paint Center, Maintenance, Quality, and Tool and Process Engineering, both hourly and salary, and drives and supports the cultural changes required to successfully implement and sustain World Class Manufacturing (WCM) principles at the Gold level.

Toledo, Ohio Area

Responsible for ensuring conformance of paint processes and coordinating engineering, tooling and quality changes.Coordinate all paint shop safety, quality, delivery, cost and morale initiatives for the Jeep JT Gladiator and Jeep JK Wrangler built at the Toledo Assembly Complex.Provides coaching and mentoring to center management team regarding World Class Manufacturing techniques of problem solving and corrective action implementation. Interfaces with Manufacturing Engineering, Program Management and Product Engineering to assure compliance to build requirements as well as to drive product changes necessary to improve quality.Department QC Pillar Lead

Manage and lead the KL Cherokee Paint Center Production Operation:Oversee and develop highly functioning work teams, comprised of Unit Leaders, Team Leaders and Team Members and practice the Chrysler Leadership Principles.Coordinate daily team activities to achieve business metrics and implement World Class Manufacturing tools and processes.Develop and implement cost savings projects using World Class Manufacturing principles.Lead a culture of safety and productivity by example.Acting People Development Pillar Lead.

Toledo, Ohio

Manage multiple work teams in a fast paced, high volume unionized manufacturing environment. Oversee and develop highly functioning work teams, comprised of Team Leaders and Team Members and practice the Chrysler Leadership Principles.Coordinate daily team activities to achieve business metrics and implement World Class Manufacturing tools and processes. Develop and implement cost savings projects using World Class Manufacturing principles.Lead a culture of safety and productivity by example.

Lead the day-to-day operations of two unionized general production lines for high speed liquid fill to achieve productivity in line utilization and quality, including a maintenance shop and laboratory. Direct the production lines to meet customer needs and achieve standards related to safety, cost, line efficiencies, waste, and material variances. Oversees and assures facility equipment through preventative maintenance and reliability to minimize downtime.Develops production teams by training frontline employees on expectations, provides feedback and ensures an understanding of the importance for compliance with the health and safety regulations.Maintains and communicates process improvements and technical developments to the production, quality, and transportation teams.

Provided technical and process knowledge leadership for water treatment, product batching, product testing, package testing, and supplier capability.Performed quality testing on incoming raw materials, in-process audits, finished product testing and packaging quality confirming compliance with company standards and specifications.Served as the primary “front line” contact person to resolve quality issues, production problems and other concerns plant wide. Independently pursued knowledge for fill level detection systems and acted as site champion.

Directed all aspects of the daily operations for the package sorting and loading operations of approximately 12 employees to meet established team goals for that shift, able to think quickly and make sound operational decisions.Trained employees on job performance to drive continuous improvement and efficiency along with policies and procedures for providing a safe work environment.Performed service audits and held employees accountable to the results along with monitored and documented employee progress, time cards and personnel records.

Master Of Business Administration, Management

Liberal Studies, Business Administration/Regional Development

Recognized for writing a thesis on SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of the Northwest Ohio Economy.