effective, made the company a lot of money, manager
looking for long term opportunity in Franklin, NC
Franklin, NC
4/1985 - 1/2009
Supervisor/Manager Manufacturing
- • Long track record of increasing profit, efficiencies, quality, on time delivery, and reducing scrap, waste, change over times, and downtime
• Hands on experience in twin shot molding, over molding, pad printing, working with 50-2850 ton machines
• Strong background in quality, QS 9002 (auditor) and TS 16949.
• Resolving customer quality complaints on production issues.
• First employee hired, launched 14 machine injection molding department
• Administer daily direction for all production associates
• Provide daily reporting of production to Department Manager in terms of downtime, OEE, productivity, and scrap. Provide root cause/corrective action daily reports for scrap and downtime
• Support daily production plan and mold change over schedule based on Weekly Production Release in order to optimize production efficiency and work force utilization
• Champion continuous improvement activities to enhance quality, reduce costs and improve safety
• Lead production team to improve quality
• Interview, hire, train and mentor all new employees
• Develop training modules and/or material for on-the-job training
• Establish and ensure good housekeeping and 5S activities are in place and maintained
• Ensure that processes, machines and auxiliary equipment are maintained at an optimized level
• Support Lean Manufacturing Strategies
• Maintain overall company compliance to policies and regulations.
• Estimate materials and labor required for production
• Conduct ongoing performance reviews
• Enforce company rules and policies, performs or reports need of disciplinary actions
• Improve and optimize workflow
• Provide manufacturing technical directions and technical assistance for new and existing products
• Maintain process documentation for existing programs, and create appropriate documentation for new programs
• Identify and write all work orders on any maintenance issues
• Communicate plant status and issues to the next shift supervisor
• Keep production equipment up to standard operating levels for a consistent production flow
• Develop and implement preventative maintenance programs for production and facilities equipment
• Ensure that all facilities equipment is in good working order
• Lean Manufacturing
• S.M.E.D./O.T.E.D. (Quick changeovers)
• 5S Training and Implementation
• Six-Sigma Training (APQP, PPAP, FEMA, root cause)
• S.P.C. Certification
• Kaizen (continuous improvement)
• Paulson training
• Microsoft office, excellent computer skills
