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Appointed HR Director at a major truck assembly manufacturing operation to manage the HR functions through a product launch and shift addition, improvement of a strained labor/management environment and improvement of organizational ability to facilitate continuous improvement and the attainment of plant metrics.Met all goals for on time staffing of additional shifts. Implementation of safety systems resulted in a 40% reduction in recordable injuries and 100% implementation of Safety and People portions of the lean manufacturing systems. Led the 2015 local contract negotiations with operational and employee security improvements. Developed and implemented the Group Leader and Team Leader pilot training for the corporation resulting in demonstrable improvement in manufacturing capability. Leveraging an improved and productive union relationship, negotiated an innovative local labor agreement allowing the plant to regularly schedule production beyond the limits in the UAW-GM National Bargaining Agreement. Designed and operationalized a process for calibrating performance appraisal and compensation planning across the organization.

GM Saginaw Metal Castings, Saginaw Malleable Iron, Bay City Components and Massena Castings (MI and NY) Appointed HR Director to manage multiple sites across two states through a time of manufacturing facility rationalization, bankruptcy reorganization and three local negotiations with four UAW and IAM bargaining units. Successfully closed two sites meeting production, quality and safety metrics until closure. Negotiated the closest to template GM labor agreement. Received an award for the most effective safety system in GM which resulted in the lowest recordable rate of GM manufacturing sites.

Appointed HR Director following a labor disruption at the facility. The facility was experiencing a contentious labor relationship, poor safety record, operationally impactful discord on the plant staff and employee training significantly out of compliance with OSHA requirements.Developed a positive working relationship with the local UAW leveraging professional Regional and International UAW working relationships. Developed and implemented a plan resulting in OSHA compliance in a six month period. During 2003 bargaining, negotiated access and egress control enabling provisions as well as significant cost savings opportunity through provisions relaxing the penalty for the use of outside contractors for project work. Developed and hosted a series of team building and business planning exercises resulting in a more cohesive, unified and productive senior staff.

Assigned to this position to develop a process to understand, manage and institute an agreed up resolution process for several thousand current and all future outsourcing violation allegations, to lead strategy and coordination of local contract bargaining across 26 sites and represent the unique interests and issues of the Service Parts Organization at the National Negotiations table.Prior to National Negotiations all outsourcing grievances were withdrawn with no financial payment and a proactive system was instituted for early identification and resolution of outsourcing issues. The contractual and practice issues most impactful to SPO were identified and quantified with the input of division leadership, plant staffs and financial representatives. Those issues were addressed with specific operational improvement language in the National Agreement acknowledging for the first time the unique operating requirements of the warehousing environment.

GM Flint Metal Stamping, GM Flint Assembly, GMSPO Flint Processing Center (Flint, MI)Career began as a Manufacturing Group Leader. Transitioned to Human Resources in 1989 and grew through various roles of increasing responsibility in Safety, Labor Relations and Salaried Human Resources roles.