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Irmo, South Carolina, United States,

Irmo, South Carolina, United States

Managing quality teams, multiple sites in production, assembly, distribution and suppliers. Developing Quality system to operate to a quality system standard for new Product releases and validation audits. Deploying strategies to reduce nonconformance's and increase performance, and profitability for the organization.

Lexington, South Carolina

Promotion to Operations Machining/Manufacturing role 1/2018 ----- Staff level reporting to the Dir. of Operations, managing Maintenance, Machining and Manufacturing areas including CNC Lathes, CNC Mills, Surface/OD/ID Grinding, Heat treat and finishing areas. +140 direct employees of 225 total hourly and salary associates with 3 direct reports and total plant maintenance of plant. ISO- 9001-2015 facility that internally manufacturers+38,000 Sku’s in low volume ETO/MTO market. Used KPI’s to drive and complete actions to meet goals and objectives in the manufacturing environment. Developed and implemented an overall machining strategy to meet Schedule. Managed Maintenance department supporting two other Value Streams, plus Corporate Engineering & Lab in the facility, Driver for PM program on Facility and equipment, while driving standard work implementation for sustainment. • Drive accountability of plant goals and drive actions with 9 member Staff and their teams. Directly involved to drive SMED, VSM and plant layout activities. Assigned cross-functional team to perform two SMED events per month and results are reducing 33-50% set up reduction allowing us to increase output and retrain operators in other new roles or key areas.• Introduced KPI’s and shop floor Gemba boards driving accountability on the floor thru direct reports and other support roles of the plant.• Created floor level visual schedule and supervisor Std Work on the manufacturing floor to drive schedule attainment and ultimately on time fulfillment to support OTD.• Inherited the Plant with a $4.5 million past due in a 150% growing sales market, Reducing PD to $5k while sales remained equally as strong. Set all-time records for production and shipments at the plant.• Plant liaison, and direct manager leading our Leadership Development Program mentoring recently graduated university students for opportunity to become future Executive Leadership Team. Set Goals and expectations.

Lexington, South Carolina

Promoted to a North America Corporate Role over 5+ NA plants leading, managing and participating in Lean Manufacturing improvements for the organization productivity targets. Resource to provide leadership and direction for the local Operations team in support of achieving goals in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost using innovative technology and Lean Manufacturing principles. Direct involvement in developing and implementing an overall machining strategy for the Operations team as well as facilitate continuous process improvements. Set up and layout of equipment, and standard work implementation for operations. Lead Plant staff through Kaizen events and ensured completed projects successfully sustain improvement. Coordinate New Design changes from conception through implementation. Created and guided the Value Streams to improve overall Key Performance Indicators.The Operational Excellence Team drives productivity improvements through Lean Manufacturing methods used in the Toyota production methods.• Lead Lexington Manufacturing Facility thru Total Plant Lean Transformation Project while reporting to VP of Power Tools North America. Managed timeline of equipment purchases for machining, facilities and assembly areas through project timelines.• Coordinating with alternate sites on consolidations of work assignments to increase productivity and lower internal manufacturing and assembly costs.• Weekly or bi-weekly follow ups to area owners on action plans and progress for project, weekly High-level report out for the previous week’s success, failures and discuss resource needs. • While performing Lean activities I was challenged with a secondary project to increase output of a $5.0 million Capital project online in machining area, supervising and driving performance and doubling the output in 2 months or 25% of the total shop floor output.

Lexington, Sc

1 of 8 member Staff team leading production efforts in the operation specializing in Made in USA Hand Tools, a former Cooper Tools Division that consolidated 3 plant operations into its current foot print starting in 6/2015. Major brand tooling manufactured on multiple manufacturing processes. Sumter plant manufactures start to finish with die forging, Casting, CNC Machining, broaching, progressive cold heading, screw machining, grinding, polishing, vibratory finishing, Heat treating, chrome plating, black oxide finishing, and finial assembly. the operation manufactures ratchets, combination wrenches, ratcheting wrenches, pliers, screw drivers, sockets, torque wrenches Electronic, spring and Micrometer, aviation snips, Bolt cutters, and other miscellaneous hand tools. Internal Quality Assurance and testing to ensure exceeding customer specifications.• Key team member integrating 3 plant consolidations into existing operation within 6-month timeline getting equipment operational, then incorporating programs, products, and Quality work instructions to support the operations. • Led and managed Engineering and technicians through first piece start up with new CNC programing for past due orders caused by the consolidation. Reduced Past due orders transferred from 12.9M to 2.2M while improving Fill Rate from 42% to 75% in same year.

Sterling, Illinois

Two Plant Operation with combined Engineering and Quality functions supplying products for Material Handling and Automotive solutions to industry. Ball Division is TS16949 certified, Bearing Division operates to ISO standards.Responsible for P&L, Engineering, Manufacturing, and multiple plant facilities serving automotive and other customers globally. Direct manager of Plant Managers and Engineering groups with 100 indirect reports. Set plant and department objectives, authorize spending, quality objectives, and capital improvements. Plants maintained full process ownership through stamping, heading, screw machining, forging, heat treat, zinc plating, grinding, polishing, inspection and final assembly of product. Owned and Managed TS16949 quality certification, daily production performance, output, purchasing, and process improvements. Leader of new products planning and cost reduction projects to drive additional sales growth with current and new customers.• Improved on time shipments to +99% while increasing inventory turns more than 4 times on shipments up to 1.2 million weekly on single SKU.• Reduced product lead times by 66% with lean implementation and system improvements.• Project/Design lead on cost reduction project to allow 15% growth in sales and successful in the implementation of capital improvement projects exceeding 10% of annual sales.• Increased Quality performance of manufacturing facilities supplying automotive, achieving less than 0.038 parts per million defects (2 total internal defects on 52,000,000 parts).

Sterling, Illinois

Managed multiple site engineering group of Manufacturing, quality , project and plant Engineers. Responsible for New product development, Capital Equipment improvements.Project/Design lead on cost reduction project to allow 15% growth in sales and successful in the implementation of capital improvement projects exceeding 10% of annual sales.Frantz Manufacturing Company, Sterling, IL ________ ____ 1990 to 2015 VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS & ENGINEERING (Continued)• Patent application for fast paced new product group implementing cost reductions, new product launch or redesigns of 1 per month.• Increased Quality performance of manufacturing facilities supplying automotive, achieving less than 0.005 parts per million defects.

Sterling, Illinois

Plant Manager for Facility, 70 employees, 8 Direct, responsible for P& L, On time shipments, Customer Quality, Ts169149 Quality management Representative, Involved in implementation of a safety program receiving accommodations from Insurer, 7 years/ no lost time, raised employee awareness by promoting and direct involvement leading monthly meetings.Raised employee engagement for safety and Improvement projects by leading, promoting training programs for factory personnel. Achieved record project implementations with multiple accommodations from Insurance carriers. Safety record 7+ years without lost time accident.• Responsibility of Safety and Environmental compliance for multiple plants. Achieved public water system operator license and Class K wastewater treatment certification of facilities.

Sterling, Illinois

Project Engineer; machine design and improvements. Plant engineer; Environmental, Plant and equipment improvments

Sterling, Illinois

Parent Company to Sterling controls.Design and Drafting, CNC Programming, CAD/CAM, Electrical Design and Drawing for Unique Automated Equipment in all industries.Designed Custom Automated products for different industries. Projects included mechanical design and fabrication. Custom designed Machines controlled automatic batching/weighing/or other for food industries.

Sterling, Illinois

Shop floor Laborer after College education. Trained and capable to run every piece of equipment in Plant. Active, involved, member of Gain sharing program implementing and sharing suggestions.Made improvements to the assembly of components and standardized some of the work cells by suggesting tools and or fixtures to assist in improvements.

Bs, Industrial Technology

Technical, Mechanical Design