Reporting to the VP of Operations, responsibilities include monitoring work flow and resources to ensure completion of weekly production schedule. Doubled shop throughput by eliminating waste in the manufacturing process and reducing rework. Maintain maximum production efficiency by identifying, developing and implementing continuous improvement projects within the shop. Created standardized job instructions for each shop department. Provide leadership and direction to the manufacturing supervisors, leads, and manufacturing team (150). Establish manufacturing priorities, monitor shop progress and implement alternative actions as necessary to ensure constant production flow. Coordinate with scheduling, engineering, purchasing and quality control to ensure that everything is in place to meet customer delivery dates. Establish and maintain cooperation between departments. Address material shortages and issues. Resolve production personnel issues: hiring, coaching, counseling, disciplining, terminating. Investigate issues, identify solutions and recommend action. Enforce organizational policies and procedures. Maintain safe and clean working environment. Ensure proper safety training of production employees. Maintain quality by explaining and enforcing organizational standards. Approve expenditures for shop supplies and materials. Engineered to order environment.

Reporting to the Plant Manager, responsibilities include manage maintenance department. Established preventive maintenance program. Worked with engineering to improve cooler design elements to reduce labor and material costs while improving quality. Lead Kaizen events in all departments. Implemented new procedures using 3P and 5S principles. Establish baselines for production, and implemented daily production report to track output in all work centers.

Reporting to the Manufacturing Manager, responsibilities include monitoring work flow and resources to ensure completion of weekly production schedule ($1.5-$2.5 million/week). Provide leadership and direction to the manufacturing supervisors, leads, and manufacturing team (400+ employees). Processes include code welding (pressure retaining vessels, header boxes, slab headers, pipe, flange), non-code structure welding, pipe spools, fabrication, drilling, CNC machining, side frame, and assembly departments. Establish manufacturing priorities, monitor shop progress and implement alternative actions as necessary to ensure constant production flow. Coordinate with scheduling, engineering, purchasing and quality control to ensure that everything is in place to meet customer delivery dates. Work with engineering to improve design elements of small compression coolers. Establish and maintain cooperation between departments. Address material shortages and issues. Maintain maximum production efficiency by identifying, developing and implementing continuous improvement projects within the shops. Team lead on initial layout during plant start up for both Claremore and Verdigris facilities; including design and equipment layout. Oversaw consolidation of Claremore and Verdigris plants to manufacture all coolers in one facility. Lead restructuring of Verdigris plant into finning shop. Directed maintenance employees during plant restructuring. Resolve production personnel issues: hiring, coaching, counseling, disciplining, terminating. Investigate issues, identify solutions and recommend action. Enforce organizational policies and procedures. Maintain safe and clean working environment. Ensure proper safety training of production employees. Maintain quality by explaining and enforcing organizational standards. Approve expenditures for shop supplies and materials. Engineered to order environment.

Created and implemented safety program in compliance with federal, state and local health, safety and environmental guidelines (OSHA, DOT, EPA). Developed and implemented safety orientation program for both new and existing employees. Developed and implemented incident investigation program (near miss, injuries, unsafe practices). Developed and implemented departmental safety inspection checklists, performed surveys, recommended and implemented corrective actions. Developed plant wide safety committee to address and resolve departmental safety issues. Plan and implement employee training in safe work site practices. Decreased incident rate by addressing environmental and physical issues, and employee behavior toward safety. Conduct post- accident investigation, identify cause, address with management. Maintained OSHA 300 log. Addressed and resolved OSHA violations. Coordinate with third parties for environmental audits and resolutions. Certified first responder in first aid, CPR and AED. Primary responder for employee injuries.

Reporting to the Plant Manager, responsibilities included scheduling steel fabrication work flow for both the communication tower and air cooled heat exchanger divisions. Manage all operations of the fabrication department for the manufacturing of raw steel components. Cutting, forming, burning, punching, shearing and preparation of raw materials. Scheduled and moved manpower as needed. Promote teamwork. Train and monitor new employees. Assisted in new product development. Coordinate with scheduling, purchasing, engineering and quality control to ensure that product was completed to specification in time to meet customer delivery requirements. Monitored raw material inventory. Conducted cycle counts. Received and inspected all raw materials. New hire safety policy training. Primary first responder. Shop safety inspections. Ensured OSHA compliance.