Rob Demao Email & Phone Number

Greer, South Carolina, United States

Responsible for the execution to plan of all manufacturing operations of the assembly, disassembly, cleaning, inspection, and test of gas turbine engines, modules, components, and accessories to assure compliance to technical data, contractual obligations, and company standards. Support the implementation and maintenance of production quality standards to support compliance to the company quality policy/ISO 9001 requirements. The ability to make sound decisions to ensure production requirements are being met based on available resources.The ability to coach/mentor employees to be self-engaged and highly motivated. Directly supervise and schedule production personnel to support site goals and objectives based on master production schedule (MPS). Provide leadership and performance management to a highly motivated, empowered, and skilled team to execute the operations strategy, focusing on staffing efficiency, schedule fidelity, inventory optimization and quality, to achieve Vericor's business objectives • Conducts performance feedback through an annual review process and daily coaching/feedback discussions. Responsible for managing cost in respective areas to ensure alignment to the Vericor Operating Plan (OP). Empower, coach, and lead productivity and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost, FPY, and on-time to delivery. Develop/implement time tracking system per engine process to manage hourly labor against engine and assembly module targets. Achieve labor hours per engine targets. • Support first pass yield (FPY) targets. Follow up and ensure production non-conformance issues are addressed and corrected in a timely manner. Assist the maintenance department by preparing/completing maintenance PM records as required. Aid maintenance with project design, implementation, installation, and diagnostics of processes and equipment. Coordinate effectively with material planning, engineering, logistics, quality, and program management functions.

Responsibilities as W.F.S. ( Not limited to) Monitor, assist with and work to improve all aspects of Special Process’s .Safety Quality Cost Delivery & Inventory. Ensure safe operations throughout Special Process by using the HSE Management System.Eliminate, prevent or put countermeasures in place for all Quality Issues while guiding team to create Poke Yokes to improve every day. Meet and exceed the daily productivity/output objectives. Initiate improvement actions to reduce department spending. Play a key role in all other departmental metrics. Adhere to Team Leader Standardized Work. Audit adherence to Operator Standardized Work. Provide daily work direction to cell operators. Communicate daily with the cell, Supervisor, other shifts, and Team Lead counterparts regarding quality, workload capacity, safety, staffing problems, CI issues, and machine or component problems. Conduct stand up meetings to review the prior week's metric results and review CI’s. Review hourly cell metrics, note root cause of delta, and identify countermeasures. Lead Rapid Problem Solving activities within the cell. Use Six Sigma Tools and HOS methods to solve problems. Identify continuous improvement opportunities, to include set-up reduction actions, and seek to eliminate waste. Function as PR Rep (Product Review) for Special Process. Perform product quality audits within Special Process. Perform one-over-one inspections (LIMS) for cell processes. Review cell processes to insure that quality is built into each of the processes. First contact to help solve team member problems and complaints Use reinforcing feedback methods in order to encourage good work habits. Create a sense of urgency to get things done and achieve cell goals.