Richard Smith

**** ********, ****** *** **, *****

734-***-****

acvtph@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To acquire a position that can utilize my years of experiences in automotive as Manager and Superintendent roles in tier one supplier to Ford, FCA and GM distribution, warehousing, transportation, recycling and. I have managed and supervised employees throughout my career. I have been trained on numerous programs. Acquired m experience in many different manufacturing principles, which includes Safety training, Quality, Continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen events, 5S and APQP and PPAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Dakkota Integrated Systems, Brownstown, MI

Title: Plant Superintendent

April 2015-June 2016

Dakkota warehouse parts for Ford Motor Company and is responsible to sequence and bulk ship 8-14 trailers every 45 minutes throughout the shift. My responsibilities as Superintendent includes constant communication to the flat rock management throughout the shift. I monitor and manage the business to assure we are shipping a quality product on time as needed. I am the active safety person for my shift. I manage up to 120 employees and five supervisors. My role also includes continuous improvements, since I have started at Dakkota, efficiency has increased by 8%, safety issue down by 6%, I send out an end of shift report each night to management.

SMR Automotive, Marysville, MI

Title: Assembly and Paint Plant Management

April 2013 – May 2015

SMR has large molding department, paint plant and manufacturing assembly of exterior mirrors. My role as Manager was in manufacturing and the paint department. Duties where to audit operators to assure the employee was following the work instructions and in manufacturing and the load/unloading of paint parts. As a manager I have a daily meeting to inform the supervisors on the performance of the plant from prior day results. My other duties was to assure the employees where trained in the safety aspects of the job, to assure the operators were properly trained. This is a three shift operation and paints 29,000 parts a day.

Green-star Recycling, Allentown, PA

May 2008- March 2013

Title: Manager

Assure the safety, quality and production of the plants. Responsible for meeting financial results and report out on a monthly basis to corporate, I also was responsible for negotiations of contracts for current customers/new customers. There are three plants on this site. A MRF, Glass optical color sorting and a bead manufacturing plant.

Great Lakes Recycling, Roseville, MI

March 2005 – May 2008

Title: Area Manager

I was responsible for the safety, quality, production and efficiency of the plant and managed 75 employees Reports submitted on a weekly basis on the metrics of the business.. I would make recommendations to the owners on how to improve safety, quality, uptime and maintenance improvements. Started a safety team and reduced recordable by 15% by training, providing proper PPE and the enforcement of the PPE. Implement a rotation system for the employee to reduce repetitive motion issues this resulted in reducing injuries by 8 recordable incidents for the year

Schefenacker Vision Systems, Marysville, MI

December 2001- March 2005

Title: Area Manager: Assembly

Manage the daily operations and give business direction to secondary managers to assure production schedules are met. Train supervision in lean and continuous improvement along with kaizen activities that raised labor efficiency from 83% to 94% which resulted an increased on time shipping from a Ford rating of 85 to 99 over the last two years. Managed and directed over 100 operators and 10 supervisors

Champion of the Continuous Improvement Team (CIP) that supply product to Ford and GM assembly plants that resulted in a decreased customer concerns by 17%. Communicate and problem solved daily with a team approach with various departments which include the materials, quality, engineering and human resources departments about plant floor issues that lowered assembly line downtime by 10%

Participated in Kaizen activities that included rebalancing assembly lines that resulted in savings of $40,000 annually.

Inalfa Roof Systems, Auburn Hills, MI

March 1996- Dec 2001

Title: Manufacturing Area Manager

I managed the second shift in manufacturing assembly of Sun Roofs.

Developed and trained line leaders that resulted in an increase in labor efficiency from 79% to 96%. Customer PPM was reduced from 5400 to 1100. Reduced scrap by 6% that resulted in a cost saving of $40,000, Launched 2 new assembly lines. Participated in plant restructuring, utilizing new technologies to improve the metrics of the company.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration: Cum Laude, Northwood University

References: Mark Steadman: 586-***-****

Mike Collins: 734-***-****

Rod Taylor: 313-***-****

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