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• Drive business growth while leading operations, strategic vision and long-range planning.• Manage 9 direct reports - from hiring, training, preparing work schedules to assigning specific duties and setting weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly goals.• Oversee activities directly related to making products or providing services.• Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments while considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.• Develop or implement production tracking and quality control systems, scrutinizing maintenance and other operational reports to detect production problems.• Identify opportunities and implement changes to improve products and reduce costs, by using knowledge of production processes, tooling and manufacture equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, or product design, materials and parts.• Estimate and forecast costs, production times, or staffing requirements for new designs.• Knowledge of different door operators and types of materials to use under UL standards.• Management and knowledge of AutoCAD for development plans of doors, entrances and elevator cabs.

• Managed 5 direct reports, from planning work schedules to assigning for effective performance of activities.• Measured completed workpieces to verify conformance to specifications of plans, using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.• Developed quality control measures for completed parts to ensure the highest level of product.• Set up and operated all workshop machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal parts.• Set up machine speeds and actions according to product specifications, using a variety of gauges and hand tools.• Installed, aligned, and locked punches, dies, cutting blades, or other fixtures in rams or machine beds, using a variety of gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.

• Managed 8 direct reports.• Planned work assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations and production goals.• Worked heavily on employee problem and resolution. • Implemented measures to improve employees’ performance and optimize dependability of equipment. • Ordered supplies, equipment, parts, or repair services.• Performed and scheduled repairs or preventive maintenance on vehicles and other equipment.

• Served as Purchasing Manager in charge of negotiations for the Maintenance, Operations and Truck Fleet departments and service contract management.• Analyzed statistical reports to ensure monthly goals were attained.• Utilized SAP system to develop purchase orders.

• Worked closely with the site Engineers in a variety of areas, from process engineering and industrial plant engineering to industrial automation and construction inspection.• Completed administrative duties, such as filling out forms and reporting maintenance statuses to the supervisors.• Developed designs and blueprints in AutoCAD and Inventor to carry out food industry projects.