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Tinley Park, Illinois, Us

Lead multiple production departments in quality, safety, planning, and lean manufacturing. Foster a collaborative, results oriented environment, driving continuous improvement and a strong safety culture.Meet business needs by supporting company initiatives, serving as a role model for leadership and continuous improvement.Optimize workflow and communication in multiple departments through effective scheduling, coaching, and employee development. Implement production training programs for job training, lean manufacturing, and quality to support current and future business needs. Ensure a safe work environment by actively promoting safety policies, Safe Start initiatives, and maintaining diligent housekeeping. Achieve production goals and KPIs, emphasizing safety, delivery, product quality, cost performance, and talent development.Drive plant-wide continuous improvement through performance reviews, CI strategies, and technology research, fostering employee involvement. Actively lead and promote key initiatives, including Culture of Accountability, Operational Excellence, and Safety.Exercise solid decision making abilities, operational planning problem-solving, manufacturing process understanding, and financial management/budgetary decisions in a fast paced environment.Manage resource planning, capacity development, and manufacturing routings, ensuring short-term and long-term operational efficiency. Contribute to business initiatives such as budget preparation, cost reduction planning and execution, and technology research, collaborating with business units to achieve operational goals.Financial P&L management and budgetary management.Act as a change agent with demonstrated expertise in Lean, Continuous Improvement, and safety management.Select, lead, evaluate, coach, develop, guide, and motivate teams to achieve a higher standard of operational efficiency.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

To manage and direct the 310 team members working 3 shifts in manufacturing, injection molding, automation, assembly and packaging operations, to deliver product on time at the expected quality and cost to meet corporate objectives and customer service levels within established budgetary guidelines. Work to effect change to organize and harmonize manufacturing workforces and resources as a team. Be a catalyst of change to enhance regulatory compliance, cross departmental coordination and communication, and streamline processes, procedures, and policies. Design targeted training programs and methodologies to improve manufacturing performance in key functional areas.

Lead Request for Development (RFD) activities for Corporate Engineering by providing process, cell layout, crew size and rates, partnering with the manufacturing plants and supported by Process, Tooling and Equipment Engineering. Manage and update the RFD system as needed from Corporate Engineering. Manage specific programs for the corporate engineering functions, to ensure manufacturing integration with the facilities and improve product launches across all of the manufacturing locations. Create a database from which to quickly develop new cost estimates.

Manage Manufacturing Engineering and Materials and Purchasing groups to meet operational objectives including developing a 3 year plan to save 2% COGS each year, regulatory compliance of Class 1 and 2 medical devices, meet annual purchasing price reduction goals, implement and coach process validation teams, drive reductions in the value of non-conforming materials and unfavorable labor and material variances. Develop staff by forming detailed training plans, holding regular coaching sessions, and addressing and documenting any performance issues. Implement new innovative Project Management and Time Management techniques. Establish a method for Knowledge Management to decrease reliance on Subject Matter Experts. Ensure manufacturing engineering and purchasing support of new product launches and lead teams performing investigations of non-conformities. Review and revise Purchasing and Supplier Quality Management SOPs as needed. Strengthen cross-departmental coordination between Regulatory, Quality, Finance, Production, and Manufacturing Engineering and Purchasing Departments to address complex business issues.

Direct, coordinate, and exercise functional authority for planning, control, organization, integration, and completing engineering activities within the injection molding clean room and all medical devices that involve plastic injection molded products. Serve as program manager for large, team oriented new business product launches. Interface with customers to develop business accounts, resolve technical issues, and assure customer satisfaction. Responsible for budget, timing, manufacturing engineering, quality, purchasing, IQ, OQ, and PQ and operations for each project.Hire, train, and supervise a department of operators to make products in clean room lean manufacturing cells.

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Responsible for new product development for a supplier of products to the automotive lighting industry. Supervise engineers and forge partnerships with external resources to achieve critical company goals in sales and product line development. Spearhead lean and six sigma black belt projects to reduce operating costs. Create new patented products and commercialize them. Technical sales and new business development and project management.

Assist in formulating business strategy for a product line of assemblies used in the automotive lighting business. Responsible for creation of system of production, product development, tooling, testing, inspection, verification and technical support for a rapidly growing company in a niche segment of the automotive industry. Operational responsibility for the production processes and related personnel. Planned the relocation of company production personnel and equipment to a new manufacturing site.Hired an intern and coordinated an industrial engineering layout analysis of the shipping and receiving departments. Redesigned the layout in the departments for greater operational efficiency.

Quality Manager for Small Diameter Strategic Business Unit of a cold heading engineered fastener manufacturing company. High level of customer interaction, design and application development.

Mba, General Business Management

Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

Bsie, Engineering

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