Jim Eldridge Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, NH, US

Newington, New Hampshire, United States

Oversee the day to day operations of the machine shop and equipmentResponsible for establishing and supporting all plant safety initiativesImplementing quality improvement activitiesPlan and manage daily throughput and productivity metricsSupport design for manufacturing and provide job planning estimatesMaintain machine shop schedule to ensure meeting.

Tilton, New Hampshire, United States

Responsible for the safe manufacture of products, safety in the areas of supervision, and maintaining a safe work environment. Emphasizes accident prevention. Ensures that legal requirements and company safety policy is enforced.Responsible for adherence to process control procedures, operating instructions, and all quality control instructions. Prime.

Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States

• Manage the Blisk business’s inventory, output and delinquency
• Provides day to day leadership to supervisors, production control expeditors and team members.
• Dotted line leadership to the production planning department.
• Assist in developing the production build plan and daily oversight in execution of the plan.
• Responsible for ensuring all input material is ordered correctly per build plan and is delivered on time.
• Monitors daily throughput and address any shortfalls to the daily production plan.

Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States

• Supervised the building expansion (55K).
• Ensured all Contractors were on time and hitting tollgates.
• Responsible for the cell development and part flow. (60 machines)
• Worked with the manufacturing engineer and team members to develop (6) new Blisks for the LEAP engine.
• Lead the Operations team in planning and executing NPI builds and ensure readiness for volume production
• Manage all Operations-related NPI communications, upward and downward through the organization; escalate key issues and present options for resolution to the executive team

Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

• Managed the day-to-day operations of manufacturing, planned and tracked production.
• Responsible for the operation activity in all manufacturing and support areas with approximately 300 employees and 10 supervisors, production control leaders.
• Planned, directed, and coordinated manufacturing processes in Casting area (Front Frame, Main Frame and Compressor Casing)
• Developed, evaluated, and improved manufacturing methods, utilizing knowledge of product design, materials and parts, fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment capabilities, assembly methods, and quality.
• Analyzed and planned workforce utilization, space requirements, workflow, design layout of equipment, and workspace for maximum efficiency.
• Tracked and monitored business performance and ensures the profitability and measurement goals are met.

Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

• Develops, coordinates, leads, and executes daily production plans to assure smooth workflow; assigns, monitors and reviews the progress, accuracy and quality of assigned work.
• Ability to adapt and succeed in a dynamic environment with ever-changing customer requirements.
• Responsible for defining and clearly communicating Team customer and supplier expectations, and service level of Team to meet internal and external customer needs
• Responsible for communicating production status, part shortages, interruptions, delays and stoppages encountered to internal customers and manufacturing leadership
• Work closely with inventory planning and purchasing to ensure adequate supply of right materials in the right place at the right time for Team success
• Work closely with inventory planning and purchasing to ensure adequate supply of right materials in the right place at the right time for Team success.

Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

• Manage, develop, and supervise 50 employees to maintain a high-performance team.
• Responsible for overall cell achievement of key metrics such as OTD (On Time Delivery), Inventory, and Quality of work performance in the cell.
• Responsible for delivering output goals as laid out by the (AOR) Annual Operating Plan.
• Establish objectives, plans, schedules and ensure that resources are available for completion of established operational assignments.
• Accountable for driving year-over-year cost productivity targets.
• Trained all employees in the GE (LEAN) production system and 5s.

• Provided tactical guidance and logistical expertise to a Company Commander regarding combat, peace keeping, and humanitarian operations.
• Maintained accountability for numerous weapons and equipment issues worth over five million dollars throughout all combat and training operations.
• Coordinate and supervise establishment and construction of the Combat Operations Center for our organization.
• Boosted performance by overseeing all Combat Operations Center functions and managing tracking/reporting.
• Directed personnel in preparing weapons and equipment for movement in combat operations.
• Multiple Combat deployments