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•Manage manufacturing facility & maintain IATF 16949, ISO 90001 and ISO 14001 certificates.•Nine direct reports overseeing 135 production employees, 16 maintenance personnel, and two engineers in a 24/7 manufacturing facility.•Lead the successful planning and launch of CNC machining lines that used Nachi robots to transfer product and a fully-automated manufacturing line, which improved the company efficiency by 40% and reduced overhead cost by 35%.•Key player of Advanced Product Quality Planning team to design and implement new product lines meeting on-time delivery to the customer.•Held Quality Circles which resulted in reducing customer complaints and returns by over 80%. Through the use of countermeasures that improved the process and prevented repeat issues.•Created and set a schedule of Standard Work Audits that ensures the Safety, Quality and Production are being followed along with feedback to the line personnel for continuous improvement. •Consistently meets and exceeds the company’s production goal of 90% by 5%. By working with the Sales and Scheduling departments, lengthy changeovers are controlled and planned to minimize down time. Directed the Process Engineer to develop a changeover matrix to the tooling and verified its correctness to provide a smoother and quicker changeover. •Leads and trains personnel in the analytical process flow in the use of Lean Manufacturing practices.•Conducted daily meetings covering Safety, Quality and Production. This increased safety awareness which lowered safety-related mishaps by over 60%, along with reducing line quality rejects and improved production.•Planned and managed the annual budget for production, maintenance and facilities.

•Manage, train and schedule 35 operators and team leaders for multi-million dollar automotive manufacturer.•Collaborate with Sales and Production Control to adequately draft production timelines per the customer’s needs and monitor production processes. •Successfully organized, launched and established new product on existing production lines and were delivered on time to the customer.•Key person for the new production line to ensure personnel are trained, work instructions are established and posted, new tooling is in place and teste, customer quality standards are followed and verified and production timeline is met.•Establish and produce Standard Work Instructions & Quality Control Programs to maintain high standards of Safety, Quality and Production.•Lead Kaizen Team in the reduction of failures on the Assembly line by 90%. This was completed by using root cause analyst to determine how and what needed to be improved and controlled. The root cause of the failures were due to a product that is used from another production line within the plant was producing inspect parts but internal tolerances needed to be changed without going outside of the customer’s requirements to reduce the failures.

•Maintain 100% average corporate production rate.•Supervise 16 manufacturing production line operators in a union environment & maintain quality audits over 90%.•Reduce shut down waste & decrease startup times through effective execution of continuous improvement protocols.•Lead Production crew safety meetings. Enforced Company safety policy and ensured 5S is being conducted.•Provided leadership and direction on a daily basis for good communication and building a successful team to achieve the production goals.