Meendy Singleton Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Tennessee, United States

• Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate and lead teams including program management, finance, marketing and sales to align on performance and risk/opportunity reporting to Japan on a quarterly basis. • Strategic Reporting: Manage and deliver monthly strategy reports to the chairman, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. • Hoshin Kanri & KPI Management: Oversee the development and tracking of Hoshin Kanri objectives and KPIs, reporting progress to the VP monthly. • Right-Sizing Initiatives: Coordinate right-sizing activities across multiple carline groups • International Collaboration: Coordinate with Nissan Canada (NCI) on pricing proposals to support strategic decision-making. • Leadership Meetings: Organize and facilitate monthly staff meetings with the VP, driving alignment and communication across teams. • Department Budget Planning: Lead the planning and management of department budgets to ensure alignment with organizational goals. • Business & Mid-Term Planning: Coordinate and lead various business plan and mid-term plan activities to drive long-term success. • Talent Development: Support new hire onboarding, training initiatives, and team development activities.

Lead and organize major and minor new model projects, project manage industrial engineer forecasting costs, review design standard times, calculate design standard times, deliver cost per unit, and estimate future manpower. Communicate and present materials to cross functional stakeholders across multiple plants, from Smyrna to Japan.Multi-task new model projects with current model daily time studies, line balances, manpower reduction, process improvements, cost savings analysis, new vehicle launch projects, and manpower and equipment improvement projects with concentration in trim lines, chassis lines, and material handling.Successfully organizes, leads, and implements manufacturing projects including robot and cobot equipment automation, material handling trim lines automation, and kitting areas reorganization.Conducted manpower reduction projects with cross-functional teams.Perform benchmarking activities within the internal plants and lines and externally with suppliers and sister plants.Evaluate and develop innovative countermeasures for manpower and attrition conditions through kaizen activities, cross-functional project lead, and team participation.Present multiple project proposals and solutions to executive leaders and current team stakeholders.Led and participated in creative rebalance improvement to eliminate defects, double handling, cost and manpower reduction.Instructor for new supervisor and train new hires for industrial engineering interns and professionals.Maintain and audit cycle times for trim and chassis process within the Nissan Rebalance System.Facilitate effective communications with cross-departmental teams from technicians, process engineering, analysts, material handling, and multiple team members as issues arise.Independently and proactively coordinate, motivate manufacturing team members from technicians to directors to be involved in kaizen and improvement activities.

* Performed time studies, line balances, job saves, ergonomic analyses, and writing standard works with utilizations * Lead a Lean (Shingijutsu) Workshop* Assisted in designing a new Ergonomic Analyzer for GE* Received Outstanding Presentation award for Spring 2011* Performed tests for new oven designs* Wrote the process for manufacturing lab layout change project* Leading the Co Op team functions and activities* Assisted platform engineer with new range and oven designs and design improvements

• Provided technical solutions to internal employees in the company via telephone calls, e-mails, and Service Desk request queues• Wrote processes and procedures for the company’s knowledge base • Set up all users in the North America region with access to applications