Randy Heideman, Ms Email & Phone Number

South Bend, In, Us

Northville, Michigan, Us

Schofield, Wisconsin, Us

Directly oversaw all aspects of the manufacturing, industrial and quality engineering activities for the CVI business unit including two manufacturing facilities.Accomplishments included:♦ Led the team to reduce paint system operating costs by $500K per year while implementing controls to improve process and product/paint quality.♦ Closely supervised the design, installation and implementation of a $2.4M “smart” powder paint system.♦ Effectively managed the implementation of a $1.2M capital budget while ensuring top profitability. ♦ Served as an integral member of the leadership team designing and implementing a $20M “state-of-the-art” blower manufacturing facility.♦ Successfully implemented automated equipment performance metrics for a fully automated Salvagnini blanking system and worked with a team to increase equipment utilization by an average of 50%.♦ Developed and integrated an innovative quality process audit system for the $20M startup facility resulting in no quality escapes.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility due to exemplary performance and strong management abilities.Accomplishments included:♦ Responsible for overseeing all plant operations including finance, manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, materials, quality assurance/control and human resources.♦ Reduced safety incident rate (number of recordable injuries per 200,000 hours worked) from 8.2 to less than 1.♦ Productively maintained a quality rate of less than 5 PPM.♦ Improved the plant’s return on sales from 4.2% to 11.2% within the first 6 months.♦ Achieved and maintained a 99% or higher delivery rating.♦ Effectively managed the closure of the Wausau facility, recognized by the CEO for being the best managed closure in company history.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Directly oversaw all Wausau manufacturing operations including manufacturing engineering and lean manufacturing.Accomplishments included:♦ Flexed the workforce during the 2008 recession, ensuring manpower and manufacturing expenses were in-line with sales.♦ Provided exceptional customer service by meeting all customer demands, eliminating all “past due” without any quality issues.♦ Effectively managed 160 unionized hourly team members while monitoring for top productivity and efficiency. ♦ Ensured that operations ran smoothly and met all company policies.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Assumed a newly developed position overseeing the maintenance, quality, sample and new product development functions.Accomplishments included:♦ Proactively streamlined maintenance, reducing head count by 29% in 2007.♦ Successfully negotiated the resolution of a piston (pass thru product) quality issue with customers, saving the company approximately $250K in scrap costs.♦ Managed a variety of capital projects worth over $1.5M ensuring all projects were delivered on time, under budget and exceeded expectations.♦ Protected the assets of the company to ensure continuous growth and flawless execution.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Closely supervised the plants’ quality function, leading the plants’ lean manufacturing efforts and establishing a new value stream assembling piston/piston ring assemblies.Accomplishments included:♦ Led three lean manufacturing teams to redesign the steel piston ring value stream, resulting in an 11% ($.051 per ring savings) reduction in overall ring cost and reducing a 12.3% scrap rate to 5.6%, modifying 6 stand-alone batch operations into connected processes to eliminate in process inventory and 6 operators from the overall value stream.♦ Developed standards of performance (SOPs) to ensure key personnel were working toward established goals.♦ Demonstrated strong operations management skills toward overseeing assigned teams including initiating measurement of key daily metrics as well as achieving continuous improvement initiatives and ongoing costs control.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Directly oversaw and grew the assembly and finishing areas for a worldwide supplier of automotive parts including supervising the installation of new machines and creating and implementing new production and quality processes to meet customer expectations regarding quality and on-time delivery of products.Accomplishments included:♦ Proactively managed 180 employees in the assembly and finishing focus factory consisting of 4 shift managers/supervisors, 6 manufacturing engineers and 170 hourly team members.♦ Successfully increased assembly capacity by 43% and installed 3 new assembly machines to improve productivity from 90K assemblies per week to 220K assemblies per week.♦ Reduced labor costs by $2M annually by implementing automation and vision systems, linking processes and matching customer takt times to eliminate over 40 personnel positions.♦ Implemented a key scrap review process, vision systems and an aggressive scrap corrective action system to reduce associated scrap from 2.5% to 1.0% in assembly and finishing, saving $800K per year.♦ Coordinated and motivated the team to improve overall equipment effectiveness of ring assembly machines from 60% to 95% and reduce cycle time of machines from 5 to 4.5 seconds in addition to implementing an aggressive preventive maintenance program to increase equipment uptime from 90% to 98% to meet increased customer demand from 70K assemblies per week to 105K assemblies per week.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Recruited to develop and disseminate maintenance department mission statement and goals and create and implement a preventive and predictive maintenance program (PM) for all equipment.Accomplishments included:♦ Closely monitored and improved the effectiveness of the PM program and ensured optimal productivity by implementing a quick response to machine breakdowns.♦ Effectively managed maintenance, environmental, health and safety, store room and facilities services consisting of a plant engineer, a store room manager, 2 maintenance planners, 4 maintenance supervisors, 6 clerks and 30 maintenance technicians.♦ Developed and implemented total productive maintenance processes contributing to a 6.58% increase in machine line output and $7.88M in productivity improvements.♦ Led efforts to obtain ISO14000 certification and implemented an Indiana-approved Maintenance Apprenticeship Program.

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science, Management & Organizational Behavior