James Dash Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Rochester, Ny, Us

NATIONAL PEN Shelbyville, TN Production Manager, November 2015 – August 2016 Founded in 1966, National Pen is a world class provider of personalized marketing solutions to more than one million small and medium sized businesses globally. We provide high value promotional products for businesses and professionals in every industry at low factory direct pricing. • Provide leadership and direction to Injection Mold and Assembly functions personally or through subordinate management in a fast-paced environment by developing and maintaining a team that works together to achieve common company goals. • Developed cross functional teams to address Safety, Quality, efficiency and scrap through use of Gemba walks. • Provide mentoring to team members to ensure corporate and company policies are uniformly understood, correctly interpreted and consistently applied. • 5S through use of visual aids, SOPs, locations, footprinting and multiple quality stations. • Managed the Tool Shop PM system allowing an improvement from less than 10% on-time to an average of 98%.

Iserlohn, Nrw, De

KIRCHHOFF AUTOMOTIVE Manchester, TNPlant Manager, October 2014 – August 2015Since 1997 the KIRCHHOFF Van-Rob plant in Manchester has been a Tier One and Tier Two full service automotive industry leader in the design and manufacture of metal stampings and modular welded assemblies. • Provide leadership and direction to Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, Materials, Quality, Controlling and Human Resources functions personally or through subordinate management by developing and maintaining a team that works together to achieve common company goals.• Ensured compliance to employee development program for 100% of permanent workforce.• Implemented health & safety committees across all shifts with cross-functional members to ensure input from all departments.• Ensure that corporate and company policies are uniformly understood, correctly interpreted, and administered by team members.• Ensured continued compliance with TS 16949, QS 9000 and ISO 14001.

Stuttgart, De

Plant Manager, September 2009 – September 2014 • Provide long term and short term leadership and direction to Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, Logistics, Quality, Controlling and Human Resources functions personally or through subordinate management by developing and maintaining a team that works together to achieve common company goals. • Responsible for developing and approving manager targets for the key areas; as well as writing performance reviews and providing career guidance to further abilities and careers. • Ensure that corporate and company policies are uniformly understood, correctly interpreted, and administered by team members. • Must support the company to ensure continued compliance with TS 16949, QS 9000 and ISO 14001. Accomplishments $6.1M reduction in inventory 50% reduction of overtime equivalent to $1.4M Developed scrap reduction team experiencing an impact from 3.2 to 0.8% Lead the organization from a ROS of -4.2% in 2010 to 4.3% in 2013 Continuous Improvement averaging $4.5 Mio annually Shop Floor Management leader in roll out and development of MMOP

Stuttgart, De

SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE Telford, Great Britain November 1996 – September 2007 A plastics moulding company specialising in lost core air intake systems for Engine OEMs worldwide. Manufacturing Manager, October 2003 – September 2007 • Led improvement initiatives for Production Key Process Indicators such as OEE, FPY, scrap and downtime • Continuous improvements through change in shop floor culture in areas such as 5S, operator empowerment and adherence to quality standards • Champion for electronic wireless production monitoring system (Intouch) including implementation on production cells, training operators and staff, and establishing reporting system • Efficiently managed labour costs, including overtime and temporary labour Manufacturing Leader, October 2000 – October 2003 • Maintained and improved Health and Safety Standards • Ensured components produced to high customer standards • Organized production cells to meet customer targets and internal targets • Progressed employees through training matrix Business Unit Coordinator / Team Leader, October 1997 - October 2000 • Direct supervision of manpower • Production data collation and reporting to senior management • Maintained and improved productivity • Monitored and reduced scrap and downtime • Maintained housekeeping standards Senior Operator, June 1997 - October 1997 • Provided leadership to a production cell team and ensured operations carried out in accordance with Control Plan and Work Instructions while maintaining productivity • Recorded and reported stock levels

Bs Business, Business Administration And Management, General

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