Mikhail (Mike) Motso Email & Phone Number

United States

Machine shop supervisor.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Efficiently and effectively designed and fabricated hundreds of tooling fixtures in order to meet specific drawing callouts, as well as seamlessly collaborated with engineers to properly design and fine tune products.• Responsibly trained approximately 40 employees into quality machinists, welders and assemblers. • Payroll approval for all shop employees, managing vacation/sick requests, overtime. Provided key input when hiring new employees, including interviewing.• Oversaw up to 15 (direct) shop reports/employees at time (welders, machinists, and assemblers), as well as all shop tooling, machinery, fixtures, and other building maintenances as necessary.• Managed the rollout three large shop expansion projects, including a multi-million-dollar buyout in 2015. Involved in designing and installing floor plan, including machine positions, weld shop layout, grinding area with vents, overhead cranes, assembly stations, and computer workstations. Positioned receptacles, centralized light switches from multiple to two switches, air lines, dust collectors, and protective safety curtains for the weld shop. • Monitored all production environments to ensure they ran in accordance with organization’s systems. • Trained employees and took necessary measures to ensure work safety. During time as production manager, the company enjoyed over 1750 days without a lost time incident• Ordered all the necessary shop tooling and machinery, including new lathes, drill presses, mills, welders, and robotic positioner. Setup organized and maintained tool room with over 2000 items with net value of $200k. Employees always had the necessary tooling required for the job.• Provided consistent/daily communication with the engineering, sales, and scheduling team in order to ensure the proper quality of product.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Efficiently and effectively designed and fabricated hundreds of tooling fixtures in order to meet specific drawing callouts, as well as seamlessly collaborated with engineers to properly design and fine tune products.• Responsibly trained approximately 40 employees into quality machinists, welders and assemblers. • Direct Reports: Up to 15 shop employees at time• Monitored all production environments to ensure they ran in accordance with organization’s systems. • Ordered all the necessary shop tooling and machinery, including new lathes, drill presses, mills, welders, and robotic positioner.• Setup, organized and maintained tool room with over 2000 items (net value of $200K) and ensured employees always had the necessary tooling required for the job.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Responsible for training of all welding employees, ensuring quality products were produced every day.• Ordered and maintained all welding equipment, including gasses, wire, consumables, and safety equipment.• Communicated efficiently with engineering to make revisions and suggestions for the welding process, including designing products such as turbines, stands, and anchors.• Boosted production by providing machinist, operating mills, drill presses, and lathes skillsets.• Monitored all production environments to ensure they ran in accordance with organization’s systems.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Ordered proper gasses required for the operations, within first week of employment.• Built welding positioners and fixtures from scratch, which boosted production immensely. • Worked quickly and efficiently while remaining in accordance with existing company standards.