Oversee all areas of the operation. Ensuring customer objectives and profitability goals are being met and exceeded, as well as employee safety and wellbeing. Manage plant financials, budgeting and cost control. Adhere to key management and performance indicators. Achieve Plant Profitability objectives. Develop plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees. Review production costs and product quality. Work directly with customers and suppliers, with a strong customer focus. Work closely with continuous improvement team to develop and implement lean manufacturing principles. Manage all phases of the operation. Provide concise communication (verbal & written) across all groups at all levels. Provide strong team leadership as well as demonstrate hands-on productivity improvement, Drive customer satisfaction and employee involvement and empowerment. Manage all safety and training requirements and adherence to All OSHA and company regulations.

Responsible for organizing and scheduling staff and directing the day to day operations. Oversee vehicle movements while ensuring personnel are following all traffic laws and safety guidelines. Manage rail loading operations while ensuring correct vehicle placement. Troubleshoot inventory discrepancies. Coordinate movement of vehicles to satellite locations when the onsite inventory exceeds capacity. Establish and organize satellite locations to maximize total real-estate for units. Work with local businesses to minimize repair cost for equipment. Responsible for directing union and non-union personnel to ensure safe and efficient operations. Evaluate individual units and coordinate repairs as needed. Complete required documentation including purchase orders, daily man hour usage and total movement spread sheets daily.

Oversee all areas of the operation. Ensure customer objectives and profitability goals are being met and exceeded, as well as employee safety and wellbeing. Manage plant financials, budgeting and cost control. Adhere to key management and performance indicators. Achieve Plant Profitability objectives. Develop plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees. Review production costs and product quality, and modify production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of the plant. Work directly with customers and suppliers, with a strong customer focus. Develop and implement lean manufacturing principles. Manage all phases of the operation. Provide concise communication (verbal & written) across all groups at all levels. Provide strong team leadership as well as demonstrate hands-on productivity improvement, Drive customer satisfaction and employee involvement and empowerment. Manage all safety and training requirements and adherence to All OSHA and company regulations.

Provided clear leadership for the development of an environment focused on Quality. Develop quality-process links with customers in line with the Quality Management system, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) processes and oversee continued compliance and embedding across the business. Responsible for maintaining relationships with customers and suppliers to maximize profit potential and ensure efficiency. Manage the audit program as well as customer development and improvement and played a key role in ensuring timely project deliveries. Work proactively with all Customers, Plants, Supervisors and Employees, to maintain a program of continual improvement within their areas of responsibility. Lead a ‘correct at source’ and problem solving methodology (Lean). Lead the team to achieve quality targets for customers and business goals. Launched Multiple Plants at the same time while Maintaining a 95% customer satisfaction rate as well as 98% effective rate for all parts processed for customers.

Manage inventory availability to meet customer release requirements by analyzing demand, plan and place affiliate orders, monitoring incoming material status and initiating actions to maintain customer supply flow. Manage all extraordinary expense risk related to this activity. Manage potential obsolescence and keep to minimum. Complete finished goods parts set up. Manage days on hand inventory to keep in the target range. Determine cost responsibility of extraordinary cost and submit appropriate paperwork to business unit manager. Track shipments of customer shortages from multiple manufacturing plants worldwide to ensure no down time to the customer. Manage multiple carlines while ensuring no line down time at the customer for any of the car lines. Manage pre-production builds as well as current model year builds. Launch of multiple new carlines from pre-production to production. Coordinate the activities of the cross-functional teams, including managing internal and external program reviews, PPAP documentation, and administration of action items and management of key program documents

Performed daily visual inspections of forklift trucks, Rotated stock and tracked materials to efficiently supply internal and external customers using Eagle software on a FIFO basis, Received/unload, supplied manufacturing, pick/stage/loaded, and effectively warehoused all materials, Printed PO receipts, picklists, bills of lading, verify accuracy of documents concerning material movement, Worked in a Bar Code environment using Laser Scanners, Tracking Devices, and Label Printers, Transports raw materials, finished goods, and machinery in the most safe and efficient manner through the use of a forklift, Confirmed all shipments through the use of Intergy Software Program/System, Cycled count inventory in warehouse zones using the equipment and systems provided, and Read, wrote, and ensured the accuracy of various mathematical functions

Established and maintained stock records and other records. Established and maintained automated and manual accounting records, posts receipts and turn-ins. Reviewed and verified quantities received against shipping documents. Prepared and maintained records on equipment usage, operation, maintenance, modification, and calibration. Processed inventories, surveys, and warehouse documents. Prepares, annotated, and distributed shipping documents. Preformed accounting and sales functions in self-service supply.