William Collins Email and Phone Number

Coordinate hunting and fishing trips for customers to have exceptional experiences.

Wrote monthly article, distributed magazines to Midwest region monthly, run trade show booths.

• Directed recruitment and retention of supervisors• Managed over 200 employees• Trained, supervised and evaluated staff• Coached improvement management skills

• Successfully developed the certification of all rough and finished buffers in Undercarriage by improving record accuracy by 32%• Managed $145 million budget & finished year $14 million under budget• Lead Six Sigma project that resulted in 31% track shoe cost reduction and improved delivery performance by 18%• Reduced Master link machining costs by 27% and improved delivery performance by 26%• Reduced full link machining cost by 16% and improved delivery performance by 21%• Reduced overall Undercarriage maintenance costs by 18% and machine downtime by 11%• Counseled employees on defining career and work related goals• Lead the team that wrote and implemented new employee safety manuals• Lead a team responsible for an improvement of inventory turns by 19% for all Undercarriage parts• Team member for the installation of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) resulting in an overall plant scheduling cost reduction of 35%• Teamed with internal and external supplier throughout the Midwest and South, resulting in an overall delivery performance improvement of 21%

• Worked with internal and external suppliers in the Midwest and South• Improved delivery performance to East Peoria assembly areas

• Managed a team of 85 union machinists and material handlers• Improved record accuracy by 21%

• Managed a team of 110 union machinists and maintenance personnel• Improved record accuracy by 22% and reduced machine downtime by 18%

• Managed a team of 15• Reduced overall plant scheduling costs by 32%, improved record accuracy by 11% and improved delivery performance in Undercarriage by 23%

• Managed a team of 10• Responsible for production of all tractor parts for plant, inter-plant, Morton Parts and foreign subsidiaries.

• Scheduled parts to be machined by operations to meet East Peoria build schedules and served as a liaison between buildings

Worked as an hourly employee responsible for the set-up, operation and quality produced by the following machines: shears, mills, drills, punch presses, brake presses and powder metal presses. Also welded both sub arc and dual shield on Caterpillar rollover protection systems as a production welder. After graduating from the Caterpillar Sheet Metal Apprentice Program I became a Journeyman Sheet Metal Worker in Maintenance and Construction.