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Ken D

Production Supervisor - 20 Years of Experience - Near 60538

Occupation:

Production Supervisor

Education Level:

High School/GED

Will Relocate:

YES

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Summary Manage with production and distribution experience. Excellent communication and organizational skills: Ability to adapt to and solve unanticipated occurrences and minimize the impact on production: desire to motivating staff to meet industry demands in a high-volume environment Optimum Nutrition Mar. 2010 - Present Shift Production Supervisor Held daily pass down meetings, reviewed daily job orders, prioritized hot job orders, ensured packaging materials were available for tasks, reviewed daily budget, calculated production costs and targeted costs to meet the production needs set daily production schedules and started production for 9 lines working on packets, bagged and container products, managed 8 line leads and up to120 employees, worked with 90% bilingual employees, ensured an efficient and safe work environment, responsible for training, mentoring, and disciplining of employees and temporary staff, work with in-house temp agencies to fill and remove staff as needed, reviewed and approved time cards, and adhered to general Human Resource guidelines. Monitored quality of products and packaging to assure compliance with client specifications and FDA guidelines, recommended measures to improve production methods and equipment performance. Increased Unit Per Minute output from 48 to Machine calibrating minimizing production loss at 10% or less Warehouse and line design Water & Accessories 1stShift Production Supervisor May 2000 - Mar. 2010 Operation of machine to fill orders, routed and loaded trucks for delivery, loaded customer and vendor's pickups, filled orders, ordered supplies, responsible for receiving and assignment of inventory, weekly testing to ensure water met FDA standards and State of Illinois regulations built web site, packaged web orders and managed store Rearranged warehouse adding 10 rows of product Streamlined vendor pickup by designating an area Mohawk Carpet Shipping & Receiving Manager Foreman Oct. 1988 - May 2000 Managed 5 shipping employees and 15 drivers, routed all trucks for delivery to satellite offices, retailers and wholesalers, dispatching duties, tracking of shipments through delivery software, reconciled and reviewed bills of lading and invoices for discrepancies processed cash on delivery transactions, worked with credit department on non-released orders, communicated with retailers, commercial customers and sale representatives on product status, scheduled both pick up and receiving appointments, coordinated freight pickup of special deliveries with third part logistic (3PL common carriers), verified and improved freight invoicing processed returns and filed claims for damaged or lost products and negotiated contract pricing with 3PL companies. Process improvement for warehouse, shipping department and employees. Organized and arranged job orders, managed and daily task planning for 12 warehouse employees hired, developed staff, monitored performance counseled, recorded employee goals, disciplined and terminated employees. Started daily operations, loading of product and customer pickups, inventory auditing, receiving of inventory and product assignment. Eliminated 200 hours of weekly overtime second shift Minimized second shift production time by 4 hours by time management on 1st shift.

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