Alan Schultz Email & Phone Number

Holt, Michigan, US

• Work Force Programs Manager/Corporate and Continuing Education Department
• Responsible for project management of workforce programs, including supervision of staff, curriculum development, and contract implementation.
• Coordinate the design and implementation of short-term, workforce education and training programs to meet identified community and workforce needs.
• Meet with industry representatives and college personnel to identify, develop, and implement internal and external professional development programs.
• Deploy outreach and marketing strategies to promote Corporate and Continuing Education (CCE) programs.
• Work actively to represent and increase community partnerships for CCE programs, including networking with partners, local non-profits and organizations, and internal and external committees and groups.

• Background Summary: Managed 3 large manufacturing facilities specializing in CNC machining and fabrication of precision thermoform and injection mold tooling. Produced sophisticated machinery, electrical systems and.
• Identified new machine tools and specifications, negotiated and purchased over $5 million in new equipment, realizing a 35-50% reduction in processing time on two product lines.
• Implemented operator performance and process quality improvements teams reducing production scrap, set-up and down time increasing fabrication efficiencies and profitability.
• Developed and implemented labor standards, employee efficiencies, and capacity load planning enabling operations to lower labor billing rates, generating additional revenue.
• Managed $11million annual payroll, developing hourly and salary compensation standards, promotional guidelines, appraisal systems, performance improvement plans, disciplinary guidelines, employee appreciation teams.
• Created divisional safety system including safety teams, incident reports, quarterly audits, developing a safety culture which achieved zero incidents over one year.

• Direct reports 5; employees 110
• Materials Manager and Assembly Superintendent responsible for successful restructuring of the assembly labor force.
• Established employee cross training teams between electrical and mechanical assembly increasing skill development and improving efficiencies.
• Implemented quality audits and sign-off responsibilities for completed machine assemblies, improving quality by eliminating 99% of the assembly errors.
• Created a Discrepant Material Notice reporting and replacement system reducing production errors, downtime, and improved equipment design.
• Worked with Engineering on the standardization of assembly parts decreasing machine assembly and part fabrication time.

• Direct reports 4; employees 70
• Oversaw all Supply Chain Management for 3 production facilities operating in 3 different states. Responsible for materials management, logistics, purchasing, outsourcing and production scheduling teams.
• Established consignment purchasing, blanket ordering and a program to adjust safeties, order point, and lot size to reduce inventory by over 4.5M
• Increased production efficiencies through set-up reduction and elimination of downtime by 40% in milling, lathe, and fabrication work centers.
• Reduced back orders to production facilities by 32% by establishing safety stock and order point programs aimed at just in time delivers.
• Developed a low use, non-moving scrap inventory program by identifying order release and ECN errors, removing 2.9M from inventory

• Responsible for leading a divisional team to select a mainframe manufacturing software system, developed training and implementation for a successful start up.
• Installed Master Schedule, MRP, PDM, OE&I, Invoicing, and Inventory Control.