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Fountain Valley, California, United States

• Lead manufacturing activities, including scheduling, raw material purchasing, and shipping.• Hire and train new staff members to run CNC machines and perform all quality inspections.• Oversee setups, machine operations, coordination with assembly, and outside processing.• Manage purchasing of plastic and aluminum materials based on parts specifications and size.• Work with tool manufacturers to implement carbide end mills and drills, indexable insert milling and turning tools, improving cycle times, reducing tool wear, and decreasing delivery times.• Led implementation of Lean manufacturing process, streamlining setup, manufacturing, and material handling activities.

Green Cove Springs, Florida, United States

• Worked 13 years as a machinist and promoted to director of production.• Opened and managed FL facility while coordinating daily operations with teams at OR facility.• Supported manufacturing of commercial products and navy parts as well as parts in pump industry.• Directed manufacturing activities with 30+ CNC mills, lathes, saws, and grinding machines.• Managed and trained a team of 15 machinists.• Worked with logging equipment manufacturers such as Pierce Pacific and Denarco to make hydraulic cylinder assemblies and other parts on logging equipment.• Used materials such as steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and aluminum bronze.• Supported manufacturing of components used on aircraft carriers and submarines with materials such as steel, aluminum, copper, nickel, Inconel, Monel, Hastelloy, brass, and bronze.• In charge of quality inspections, maintenance, tooling purchases, and building improvements.• Improved lean manufacturing process to increase machine productivity and customer satisfaction.• Ensured accurate material heat/control numbers for traceability, production, and non-conforming material reports.