Jody Hepler Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, OH, US

Garfield Heights, Ohio, United States

Brecksville, Ohio, United States

Willoughby, OH

• Assisted in transitioning company to a growth position. Responsibilities included profit and loss for filling, change part, retail parts, and FCI industrial machining. Supervised engineering, manufacturing, assembly.
• Introduced a Hosian Kanri based X matrix strategic planning methodology, allowing for break-through and annual performance objectives to be defined and measured.
• Implemented a training program for all direct reporting managers to introduce the benefits of lean thinking and manufacturing principles to the organization.
• Established or revised multiple core processes, including engineering design and checking, corrective preventative action request (CPAR) quality system, 8D corrective action, and Epicor ERP process improvements.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Served as the lead for industrial class 8 customers in both a Tier 1 and Tier 2 capacity. Coordinated and directed manufacturing activities and secondary suppliers from request for quote to end of program. This.
• Accomplished combining customer EDI system generated PO releases, forecast parts, and paper PO releases into a single Excel-based MRP process tool.
• Developed visual management status board showing consolidated view combining past dues, open orders, and forecasted demand against inventories planned builds.
• Created and implemented a finite-based production scheduling methodology that upgraded the existing run order system to more accurately predict manufacturing.

Eastlake, Ohio

• Supervised company operations on a daily basis including IT, hardware engineering, project management, purchasing, manufacturing, quality, safety, and resourcing. Dealt efficiently with escalations, difficult.
• Initiated contract management production business process for repetitive commercial-based industrial products decreasing production lead times by 50%.
• Grew manufacturing capability 3-fold while implementing lean principles resulting in efficient production and increased safety.
• Built a PMO based project management function including structures, processes, and templates and helped develop a company-wide program management methodology.

Bloomington, Minnesota

• Oversaw end-to-end capital plan, forecast, ROI delivery at program and project levels. Led a team of 9 project management and engineering leaders for the company’s flagship product line. This included budgetary and P&L.
• Oversaw product design, value engineering, manufacturing process development, production optimization, equipment automation, procurement, vendor, and execution.
• Co-authored Global Capital Program Management Procedures for projects greater than $500K to provide a standardized approach.
• Achieved 5-year PowerCore® product plan by directing the capacity expansion of 4 new production lines and increasing existing production capabilities by 25%+.

AFSI DONALDSON/CAT JV, Havraň Czech Republic

Designed, executed, and managed a 28.1 million dollar self-funded AFSI (Donaldson/CaterpillarJoint Venture) Greenfield Factory into the Czech Republic for the high volume production of Caterpillar branded lube, fuel, hydraulic filters.