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Perrysburg, Ohio, Us

• Supervises hourly maintenance mechanics and electricians in providing support for daily production operations. Assists in implementing corrective actions when necessary.• Supervises training of personnel to ensure all crafts (electrical and mechanical). Ensures efficiency and high standards are maintained. • Ensure correct use of safety equipment and that company safety policies are followed.• Work with Regional Engineering in developing strategies to improve equipment performance and efficiency, as well as adhering to Manufacturing Fundamentals.• Responsible for administrative duties involving time records, production reports, general correspondence, absentee and vacation schedules, safety investigations, and disciplinary records.• Responsible for ordering replacement parts for machines, as well as setting up necessary parts in the store room which are frequently used. Also responsible for ordering necessary tools for employees.

Perrysburg, Ohio, Us

• Supervises hourly employees in the continuous operation of the plant’s cold-end production activities.• Ensures quality and productivity by monitoring and performing mechanical, visual, and informational system checks. • Reviews shift operation, makes decisions, and implements actions relative to changes on shifts that may impact processing, procedures, personnel, equipment, and customer requirements.• Delegates assignments and monitors responsibilities of employees that affect the throughput, quality, and safety of shift operations.• Responsible for administrative duties involving time records, production reports, SAP duties, general correspondence, absentee and vacation schedules, safety investigations, and disciplinary records.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

• Supervise the production of glass ware across 5 different shops in a union environment, making 10 to 130 pieces per minute each, using both a glass-pressing and glass-blowing process. • Help identify and change defective mold equipment, and involve maintenance when necessary.• Increased shift production by 15% through daily interaction and instruction with operators as well as helping maintain product quality by making machine adjustments.

• Supervise production associates across 4 departments, in a union environment, in making vehicle air conditioning components, starting from raw material• Helped establish work group roles and responsibilities and make process changes to meet production schedules that totaled over $75,000/day.• Increased shift production by over 20% in 2005, which improved our on-time delivery. This in turn helped decrease the need for production overtime to meet the customers’ needs by about 10 hours/week for 2 shifts.

Auburn Hills, Mi, Us

• Daily involvement with skilled trades in root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and programming new and existing plant equipment to improve production processes and product “First Time Through Capabilities”.• Experience with Abar vacuum brazing ovens, Pillar induction brazing units, ATI leak test equipment, Minster presses, high-speed and high-volume automated assembly, and Allen Bradley PLC’s.• Involved in preventative and predictive maintenance issues for new and existing equipment.• Directly involved in designing and building a test stand for leak-test equipment which cut downtime by more than 50%.

• Responsible for shift process control and improvements of TV glass subassemblies as well as developing and maintaining process setups.• Review and analyze dimensional data from glass press machines and make recommendations for process and/or mold equipment changes.• Attend production meetings to report on shop activities and to stay informed of any production issues from our management team.