Ray Torres Email & Phone Number

Lexington, South Carolina, United States

• Supervise over thirty Associates within a manufacturing environment, including overseeing daily tasks, employee scheduling and payroll. • Validate and improve standard operations practices for various Associate’s roles. • Maintain daily reports including start of shift and end of shift reports, incident related safety alerts, and root cause analysis.

Afghanistan

• Managed ALSE shop with 16 Afghan Air Force ALSE Techs, training, evaluating and mentoring to ultimately run the program with limited to no supervision.• Trained assigned personnel on developing procedures for conducting equipment inspections, scheduling, fittings, adjustments and aircrew instructions on the survival equipment. To maintain, test and repair Night Vision Devices (NVD) while maintaining detailed records.• Mentored assigned personnel on all logistics involved in maintaining a functional shop to cover all flight crew members in a training and mission environment.• Maintained work performance reports to track employee time management, promotions, and pay increases. Teaching supervisors in management responsibilities, training and developing team members while ensuring compliance with high standards in safety and quality.

Afghanistan

• Managed ALSE shop with 16 Afghan Air Force ALSE Techs, training, evaluating and mentoring to ultimately run the program with limited to no supervision.• Trained assigned personnel on developing procedures for conducting equipment inspections, scheduling, fittings, adjustments and aircrew instructions on the survival equipment. To maintain, test and repair Night Vision Devices (NVD) while maintaining detailed records.• Mentored assigned personnel on all logistics involved in maintaining a functional shop to cover all flight crew members in a training and mission environment.• Maintained work performance reports to track employee time management, promotions, and pay increases. Teaching supervisors in management responsibilities, training and developing team members while ensuring compliance with high standards in safety and quality.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

AIRCRAFT MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL• Trained and evaluated 23 soldiers providing technical guidance performing aircraft and subsystem maintenance and creating technical training programs.• Performed maintenance trend analysis and applied production control, quality control and other maintenance management principles and procedures to airplane maintenance operations.• Evaluate maintenance operations and facilities for compliance with directives, technical manuals, work standards, safety procedures and operational policies.• NCOIC of maintenance and hazmat transportation of 12 AH-64D’s in $200+ million assets maintaining 99.6% operating rating fully mission capable aircrafts for deployments. Performing 500, 250 and 125 hour A/C inspections with complete tear downs at a 98.3% rating.

Afghanistan

• Managed ALSE shop with 16 Afghan Air Force ALSE Techs, training, evaluating and mentoring to ultimately run the program with limited to no supervision.• Trained assigned personnel on developing procedures for conducting equipment inspections, scheduling, fittings, adjustments and aircrew instructions on the survival equipment. To maintain, test and repair Night Vision Devices (NVD) while maintaining detailed records.• Mentored assigned personnel on all logistics involved in maintaining a functional shop to cover all flight crew members in a training and mission environment.• Maintained work performance reports to track employee time management, promotions, and pay increases. Teaching supervisors in management responsibilities, training and developing team members while ensuring compliance with high standards in safety and quality.

Afghanistan

· Troubleshooting malfunctions in aircraft structure, landing gear, flight surfaces and controls, pneudraulic, engines, auxiliary power unit, and ventilation and heating systems.· Interpret manufacturers' and airline's maintenance manuals, service bulletins, technical data, engineering data, and other specifications to determine feasibility and method of repairing or replacing malfunctioning or damaged components.· Performing hourly and phase inspections, complete teardown and reassembly of the entire aircraft.· US Army Division requested contractor ALSE mission support. Tasked to stand a countrywide ALSE workshop to assist Army personnel. Obtaining test equipment, stock/inventory items, specialized tools for supporting 150+ Aircrew members.· Customer was beyond satisfied that I was requested to join higher command during Afghanistan Aviation Division safety meetings/councils. Providing input on reoccurring life support issues the army was facing across Afghanistan.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Employee Involvement Manager- Consisted of creating an environment in which the QA team of 13 inspectors could come together encouraging innovation, while the creativity of each employee is collectively enhanced. Engaged teammates surpass production expectations and are able to come up with valuable process improvements. They are also more productive, and their ideas and energy help achieve stronger financial and operating performance which every company encourages.• Four Square Analyses Lead- Consisting of a, QA site manager and structural engineer manger. Finding reasoning and solution for reoccurring non-conforming issues to the structural engineering. Co- authored several Deviation Advanced Engineering Memorandums (DAEM) eliminating production delays and rework by 16-32 days at an estimated $56 million.