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Hawkins, Texas

Developed and maintained 2-week production plan for 7 water processing lines.Led weekly team meeting with manufacturing, quality, and maintenance to identify Predictive Maintenance (PM), Clean in Place (CIP), and other planned actions affecting schedule.Led daily, weekly, and monthly manufacturing and logistics review meetings.Created and maintained all planning and warehouse procedures.Managed warehouse and production capacity to customer demand by coordinating and sourcing with 2 sister plants and 2 offsite warehouses.Managed raw material procurement and maintained quality records and certificates to manage product traceability.

Kerrville, Texas

Prepared and maintained production models and plans for 5 manufacturing plants.Provided weekly recommended requirements for precious metals, jewels and other materials.Projected and prepared annual production and inventory budget and maintained monthly and weekly status against plan and budget.Combined the planning and configuration management departments and cross trained responsibilities and improved efficiency and minimized errors.Managed distribution of production requirements and capacity for 5 plants. Managing the product mix between plants and balancing capacity for each plant in an ever changing market driven demand required a major leveling 3 to 4 times a year.Responsible for the item master, bills of material, routing, and scheduling functions in a system conversion from a home grown system to Oracle using MRP scheduling.Managed WIP and inventory goals in a growing market where production requirements and deliveries grew from 1,800,000 units produced a year to 3,550,000.

Austin, Texas

Wichita Falls, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas