THOMAS WOLF

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Professional Profile

Professionally trained Manager with 25 years of experience in leadership in projects, lean manufacturing, quality, processing, manufacturing, production, maintenance, environmental / safety, human resources, financial management, and customer relationships / contracts. Development of operational & capital budgets to ensure low standard costing rates and high ROI. An organized and very effective problem solver who is a team player, able to set priorities and handle a diverse workload with minimal supervision. Effective communicator able to balance technical, business, and customer issues, as well as a good decision-maker that produces results.

Qualifications

• Team Leadership

• Bias for Action/Organization

• Lean Manufacturing

• Manufacturing Engineering

• Analytical/Process Focused

• Financially Acumen Oriented

• Exposure to ISO & NADCAP

• Enhanced Problem Solving

Professional Accomplishments at SPS Technologies 2010 to 9/2010

Facilities Manager

Managed the day to day maintenance department (24/7) and PM schedules of all the machines. Added responsibilities above Facilities Manager were all plant-wide safety and environmental issues (EHS), communicating with all government agencies, process improvement projects from start to finish.

• Set-up a computer system to track and control costs of purchase requisitions.

• Developed a plant-wide environmental / safety audits / training matrix.

• Set-up an oil recovery system to recover oils for reuse.

Professional Accomplishments at Goodrich Landing Gear 1987 to 2010

Technical Manager 2008 to 2010

Responsible for controlling all laboratory testing, facility modifications, EH&S, purchasing of all supplies and capital equipment. Added responsibilities include selecting new chemicals and processes to improve quality and hiring all third party employees.

• Designed new production lines & redesigned older product lines using PLC’s and processing to reduce floor space by 15%, cycle time by 20%, FOH (fixed overhead) cost by 20% by utilizing Lean Enterprise methodology.

• Controlled and developed both capital (1.5M) and expense (10M) budgets.

Plant Manager 2007 to 2008

The Plant Manager for the Plating Operations. Managed all aspects of the plant operation such as supervision, coaching, process improvement, developing standards, production planning, manufacturing control planning, manufacturing experience, manufacturing methods and procedures, quality focus, reporting skills.

• Directed production, maintenance, costing, engineering, and quality personnel to achieve company initiatives.

• Solicited and managed contractors, vendors and third party employees.

• Direct supervision of salaried and hourly personnel in a unionized environment.

Facility Manager 1995 to 2007

Was asked to take over the Facility Manager position by Plant Manager. Responsible for developing a long term capital plan for the operations group.

• Lowered FOH rates through resource attrition in process control (Lean Tools).

• Developed preventative maintenance systems for all processes to eliminate excessive FOH by improving technology of equipment, efficiency in capital purchases.

• Served as Production Leader over a replacement workforce during a strike period.

Added Responsibilities

• Given control of the plant finances, Operational Budget of $10M, Capital Budget of $1M.

• Control over the Environment Health & Safety Engineer department.

• Given complete control of all purchasing and receiving of supplies and capital equipment.

• Lowered VOH (variable overhead) rates through indirect material spending by 15% as revenue increased by 5%.

Quality Engineer 1993 to 1995

Was asked to move into the Quality Engineer position by Director of Quality to improve the plant quality systems.

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer 1991 to 1993

Was promoted to Sr. Manufacturing Engineer. Responsible for designing new tooling and implementing the tooling into the manufacturing processing.

Sr. M&PT Processing Engineer 1989 to 1991

Was promoted to a Sr. Processing Engineer in the Material & Processing Engineering department. Responsible for the two advanced quality control laboratories and five technicians.

M&PT Processing Engineer 1987 to 1989

Responsible for controlling manufacturing specifications and scheduling processing audits.

J. P. Industries, Engine Parts Division; Cleveland, OH 1983 to 1987

Process Engineer responsible for administering experiments in the company pilot plant.

Precious Metal Plating Company; Wickliffe, OH 1979 to 1983

Chemical Engineer responsible for all plant and Quality operations.

Education

Bachelors of Chemical Engineering

Masters of Business Management Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University Graduated June ‘83

Graduated Dec. ‘04

Computer Systems

Microsoft Office, JIT MRP, Impresa MRP, Oracle MRP, E-Time, & SAP MRP systems

References

References are available upon request.

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