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Greater Boston Area

Lead a Reflection production team, overseeing 5 cells with $10 million worth of equipment at a plant with 400+ employees manufacturing plastic and metalized coated silverware. Ensure proper set up, calibration, and operation of mold machines, robots, and metalizers for regular and select product lines. Coordinate preventative maintenance, changeovers, and production. Produce up to 800 cases per shift for metalized coated forks, knives, and spoons for top retailers including Sam's Club, Walmart, and Walgreen's. Played a key role in leading turnaround of the Metalizing department. Trained a total of 30+ Reflection Technicians and Lead Technicians. Replaced pumps and turbos. Installed new metalizers. Generated 40 pieces of metalized coated silverware every 11.5 seconds. Maintained excellent quality, on-time delivery, and customer satisfaction rates. Improved up time, reliability, and predictability of metalizers. Contributed to continuous improvements, enhanced engineering processes and production procedures, and improved reporting. Helped reduce downtime and repair costs, decreasing the cost of select parts by up to 75%. Consistently earned excellent performance reviews and exceeded goals, metrics, and deliverables by 5-10%.

Greater Boston Area

Supervised maintenance and repair for 10 injection molding machines at the largest injection molding facility for a $1.8 billion disposable plastics manufacturer. Supported in-line thermal forming, in-line foam forming, solid sheet, injection molding, and printing operations generating 5.1 million cases of product ($168 million) per year. Managed $2.4 million annual maintenance and repair budget. Maintained high production and quality levels after 20% labor reduction. Generated $12 million in cost savings in 3 years (vs. $7 million goal). Reduced injection mold changeover time from a week to 12 hours and preventative maintenance from 5 days to 8 hours. Spearheaded projects for major accounts including Wal-Mart, Dunkin’ Donuts, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Costco, Dollar Stores, Sysco, and K-Mart.Implemented satellite guided vehicles, reducing staff by 12 people. Promoted 7 times. Trained and mentored 100+ production personnel. Oversaw 140+ personnel at a plant in Manchester, NH with 100,000-sq.ft. of production space and 100,000-sq.ft. of warehouse space. Led operations in Machine Shop, Process Engineering, Production, Setup, Repellitizing, Material Handling, and Mold Repair areas. Managed 24 x 7 operation of 30 high volume, high speed injection mold machines from 225 tons to 600 tons. Increased monthly production levels from 70 to 175 million units. Improved quality from 60% to 95% Reduced labor costs by 50%. Participated in team effort that increased revenue from $25 million to $40 million, profit margin from -6% to +26%, ranking Top 3 of 15 plants. Served on Corporate Retooling team to enhance moldmaking, machinery, and robotics. Facilitated Business Excellence Class A Certification.

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