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Spring Hill, Tennessee

Detroit, Michigan

Tonawanda Engine Plant

Tonawanda, Ny

Led a team of 30 UAW employees responsible for machining and assembly of torque converters. Responsible for training and evaluation and achieving corporate and business unit goals in safety, cost, quality, and timing. Strong working knowledge local and national labor agreements.Reduced scrap cost 30% by working with cross-functional teams to develop efficient tool change procedures, to reorganize work, and to evaluate and address root causes of excessive tool wear.Increased efficiency 20% by integrating several manufacturing processes into a single, more efficient process, working with process engineers, skilled trade personnel and production team members.Increased welding operation efficiency 25% by streamlining welding process, identifying redundant procedures and eliminating waste.Achieved benchmark-level safety status experiencing no injuries in a 30 person production department through the use of safety audits to continually improve standards.Elected by peers to serve as a representative to Professional Managers Network.

Led a team of 30 UAW employees responsible for machining components, gear shaping, and induction hardening. Achieved business unit goals in safety, cost, quality, and schedule. Reduced overtime 25% by rebalancing manpower, cross-job training and increasing employee awareness of production requirements during daily set-up meetings.

Supervise 35 unionized employees in all aspects of producing mattresses including cut and sew, mattress, and box springs manufacture. Developed a site-wide inventory and tracking system utilizing bar codes to enable management to track and improve the flow of production from raw materials to initial production process to final shipping.Created and implemented new quality system focusing on standardized work, job simplification, cross-training and continuous improvement for each operation through shipment to the customer, that resulted in increased customer satisfaction and enlarging the customer base.

Lead a team responsible for receiving, inventory control and shipping of product.Reduced inventory costs 20% by integrating the company bar code system into the receiving process.Decreased delivery costs by 15% by streamlining delivery routes to take advantage of geographic proximity of customers.

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