• Established lean teams for organizations, trained and guided members on lean processes and established goals, objectives, and selected cross-functional team members.• Gained extensive experience in conducting external and internal KanBan, constraint management, one-piece flow production, and workplace organization and setup reduction.• Executed tracking action plans, analyzing, overseeing programs and identifying areas of process improvement in assembly operations. • Managed all three shifts of maintenance personnel, maintenance overall skilled trade and repairs, modifications, overseeing the PMs, and the purchasing of new equipment for over 400 machines. • Experienced in communicating with contract vendors to support machinery as well as establishing MRO stores with the necessary replacement parts.

• Developed several projects to implement best practices concerning tool management procedures including coordinating specialized machining requirements for outside vendors by soliciting requests for quotes, discussing directly with individual vendors, finding the right recommendation, and following up.• Established tool crib perishable tooling min/maxes to ensure tooling was available for new product launches to guarantee our customers' requirements were met and deliveries were made on time.• Improved pillow block drilling operations, to which I decreased setup time by 60%, decreased quality issues by 72%, and increased production to 80%.• Supported tooling issues in the manufacturing plant as they relate to inventory, cost, procurement, forecasting and consumption and analyzing process elements for improved tooling capability and reduce cost.

• Managed tooling aspects for new and modified processes including the procurement of new tooling, vendor and supplier relationships, and the completion of tooling documentation.• Organized new tooling and hardware in other departments such as maintenance, repair, and operations crib.• Managed manufacturing process development and support and maintained continuous improvements to department operations through manufacturing engineering analysis of existing operations.• Improved several processes on my own accord which included equipment procurement, coordination of installation, process capability prove-out, training, process documentation, work standard measurement and production start-up.

• Performed many quality verifications for castings and machining processes as well as worked with aerospace casting manufacturers to resolve quality issues. • Managed product integrity for components or systems delivered through alignment of the method of manufacture with design intent by interfacing with the appropriate design engineering organization.

• Worked with machinists to resolve tooling issues and perform material reviews with inspectors to identify problems with tooling, drawing, and processes as well as collaborating with vendors to develop specification control drawings in accordance with tooling requirements.• Managed activities for the repair and/or replacement of damaged or worn durable tooling to include identifying qualified sources, obtaining competitive quotes, and made cost-effective financial and purchasing decisions to ensure quality and timeliness of repairs.• Made strides in tooling aspects for new or modified processes to include procurement of new tooling, vendor/supplier selection; completion of tooling documentation; set up of new tooling/hardware in Maintenance, Repair, and Operations Crib.• Maintained drawings for cutting tools, processes, and setting including cutting tool prints, tool layouts, tool assembly drawings, and visual aids.

• Performed tooling processes such as turning, milling, grinding, broaching, and honing.• Documented processes, procedures, and tool testing results.• Collected and analyzed data to recommend and execute corrective action, gaining considerable experience in consulting with suppliers for engineering, fixtures perishable tooling design changes.• Resolved issues associated with quality processes and tool breakage.