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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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