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Fountain Inn, South Carolina

Duncan, South Carolina

Greenwood, South Carolina

> Responsible for all equipment, tooling and facilities maintenance activities of automotive, heavy truck, and power sports stamping and fabrication facility.> Assist in selection, purchase, and installation of new and used equipment.> Direct activities of all maintenance and tool room personnel.> Responsible for adherance to maintenance and toolig budget.

Greenwood, South Carolina

> Responsible for following, acceptance and home line commissioning of new tooling, engineering changes and quality improvements for Power Sports, Automotive, and Heavy Truck industry.> Provide multi plant support, continuous improvement and training activities for existing and new, tubing, forming, and blanking dies.> Work with internal/external customers and vendors daily to resolve issues.

Spartanburg, South Carolina

> Responsible for following, acceptance and home line commissioning of new tooling, engineering changes and quality improvements for automotive, lawn & garden and agricultural programs throughout North America, Europe and Asia.> Work with internal/external customers and vendors daily to resolve issues.> Achieved annual cost reduction savings of $794K through blank usage, blank nesting and blank sourcing.

> Responsible for following, new tooling, equipment builds, engineering changes, quality improvements, acceptance and home line commissioning, for teir I automotive suppliers. > Participated on team to improve process and reduce labor (4 persons per shift) by adding a new assembly cell resulting in an annual savings of $480K. > Work with internal/external customers and vendors daily to resolve issues.

> Reported directly to VP Engineering > Directed the activities of a 50-person secondary assembly plant ranging from manual to automated assembly machines. > Responsible for scheduling and meeting daily production requirements. > Led Kaizen teams to improve set up time and improve productivity on assembly cell exceeding cost savings of $55K.