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Rock Falls, IL, US

Dixon, Illinois, United States

United States

• Lead and manage 40+ employees in the Quality Department across 3 different shifts in areas of fabrication, metrology, assembly, salvage, and shipping.
• Improve quality department safety to zero recordable injuries for 2019 through Caterpillar’s team focused accountability-based strategy.
• Reduce Pre-Delivery Inspection defects per unit by 50% through employee engagement, inspection accountability, and introduction of an additional quality gate.
• Achieve 2 Months-in-Service metric goal by increasing mechanical free defect machines from employee accountability, quality failure investigations, and daily guidance for quality department

• Led and managed assembly team of 50+ employees and 5 Team Leads for prime product.
• Led execution of Caterpillar’s Quality strategy in area of responsibility, which attributed to decreased internal rework time by 37% cost and improved customer found defects by 65%.
• Implemented team lead structure to execute lean strategy by attracting and developing production workers to become problem solving and leadership focused team leads (organizational structure decreased headcount by 7%).
• Managed and executed a team of 25 employees to meet Operations’ quality, velocity, and safety targets during a 6 Sigma project that reduced facility and manufacturing footprint from insourcing all sub-assemblies to.

• Developed and organized an NPI Quality Inspection Checklist for the largest assembly design change in the past 5 years, which attributed to the reduction of potential high frequency rework costs and field failures for.
• Initiated and presented daily and weekly meetings for quality improvements in multiple departments.
• Created and managed Caterpillar’s quality inspection checklists for prime product assembly, sub-assembly, and post assembly areas.

• Reduced assembly defects per unit (DPU) by 35% for the Operations department through
• Conducted and coordinated investigations of quality defects through collaboration with various departments (engineering, operations, quality, suppliers, and facilities).
• Led team members to jointly improve quality, velocity, and safety goals throughout production process.

• Contributed to velocity of metal piece parts through quick and accurate inspection.
• Inspected, measured, and tested finished metal work to ensure weld conformance to 1E specifications.
• Audited operations process flow in area of assignment in accordance of ISO 9001, which met with 3rd party auditing requirements for Caterpillar’s ISO 9001 Certification.
• Responsible for accurate reading and interpretation of blue prints for metal frame work, welds, data, and manuals that contributed to increase ticket volume and decreased rejection of parts.

• Improved quality and safety standard through New Product Introductions during assembly process.
• Coordinated improvements with team members to achieve velocity, quality, and safety expectations for work area.

• Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, Human Resources, and distribution of products.
• Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.
• Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.
• Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

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