Manager Plant

Jason C. Parson

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Winterville, NC 28590 ************@*****.*** 252-***-**** (h)

Plant Operations

Degreed professional with 19 years of manufacturing experience and a strong

combination of operations and management skills. Experienced in:

FPS (Ford Prod Sys) DFT Six Sigma Green Belt

Certified

Kanban 5S Kaizen

Sequencing / JIT DMAIC Lean Manufacturing

Machining Painting Welding

Automotive Assembly Inventory Management Preventive/Predictive

Maintenance

Microsoft Access Employee Development Building High Performance

Teams

EXPERIENCE

NACCO Materials Handling Group, Greenville, NC 2006 - July 2013

$2.5 billion forklift manufacturer with 5,300 employees in 13 countries.

Plant Manager (2012 - 07/2013)

Responsible for a 500,000 sq/ft facility with 8 direct staff and up to 470

non-unionized employees manufacturing Hyster/Yale forklifts. 24,000

trucks/yr with plant revenue of approx. $200 million/yr. Controlled annual

budget of $210 million/yr with full P&L responsibility. Manufacturing

processes included welding, powder coat paint, wet paint, and truck

assembly. Promoted two times within five years.

. Lowered plants conversion costs from $140/hour to $131/hour.

. Identified over $40,000/month through employee cost reduction and

process improvement ideas.

. Eliminated over four days of inventory ($30 million with over 30,000

SKUs).

. Eliminated past due customer units in June 2013.

Manufacturing Manager (2007 - 2009 and 2010 - 2012)

Managed 3 direct staff and up to 300 non-unionized employees manufacturing

140+ electric Hyster/Yale forklifts daily. Directly responsible for plant

operations (Materials, Fabrication and Assembly).

. Developed MS Access monitoring software that provided complete visibility

of all manufacturing operations and provided real-time updates of

customer orders within the plant.

. Developed MS Access materials related software that monitored daily

receipts, individual transaction performance, part delivery backlogs and

served as the primary reporting system for plant wide scheduling

(internal weldment delivery, weldment fabrication, paint, sub-assembly

and assembly).

. FTT Parts increased from 54% in 2009 to 84% in 2012.

. On-time customer delivery increased from 81.9% in 2009 to 90.1% in 2012.

. Piloted real-time employee utilization visual monitors within the Mast

Assembly area in May 2013, which immediately improved employee

productivity by 4%.

. Awarded the North Carolina Star Award in 2011 for plant excellence in

safety. Recognized for our commitment to Safety, our employee

involvement programs and for maintaining less than half of the industry

average for workplace injuries.

Divisional Lean Manager/ Capital Manager (2009 - 2010)

Direct responsibility for the four North American plants. Insured DFT lean

compliance by personally leading the audits of each plant twice per year.

Introduced new lean ideology and benchmarked other companies for "Best in

Class" ideas (85% of time). Managed approximately $15 million in capital

projects to insure timely submission, approval and spending (15% of time).

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. Developed an audit tool in MS Excel that provided complete transparency

of scoring by question and by area of the plant. Incorporated a "Top 5

Opportunities for Improvement" section. This tool was later adopted as

the global auditing template.

. Developed MS Access software that facilitated the launch of Neighborhoods

within the plants. Neighborhoods are the evolution of departmental

meetings. Meetings are held weekly and all support functions send

delegates to report back to the team on open items that have been

assigned to their functions. The Neighborhoods also promote employees

being a part of the solution by following the 80/20 rule (only 20% of the

items seeking resolution should require support function involvement).

Fabrication Manager, Berea, KY (2006 - 2007)

Direct responsibility for the welding, fabrication and painting of

weldments used in the assembly of ICE forklifts. Two shift operation with

over 100 employees in addition to five supervisors

. Worked with a cross-functional team in the development of an electronic

scheduling platform for the plant. Goal was to eliminate paper schedules

and to minimize manufacturing errors and late customer order deliveries.

Fully implemented at both assembly plants in 2008.

Ford Motor Company, Livonia, MI 1994 - 2006

$134 billion Automotive Manufacturer producing over 5.6 million cars

worldwide. The Livonia Transmission plant was a 2+ million sq/ft facility

producing over 4,000 RWD transmissions and over 1,000 FWD transmissions

daily. Employees were unionized. Manufacturing processes included

machining, welding, heat treating and assembly.

Team R1 Superintendent (2003 - 2006)

Managed 48 skilled tradesmen, 103 production workers and 14 salaried

supervisors in the machining of aluminum transmission cases, oil pump

bodies and extension houses. Promoted three times within three years.

. Developed MS Access variance reporting software to monitor/trend daily

production numbers and to capture reasons for misses. Report

capabilities included Pareto analyses of root causes and productivity by

specific work cells.

. Organized departmental meetings around SQDCME with hourly element

champions.

. Introduced TPM to the machine operators.

Superintendent Predictive Maintenance, R&M and Electronics Lab (2002 -

2003)

Managed 50 skilled tradesmen and 3 salaried supervisors with plant wide

responsibilities. Scheduled timely completion of Predictive PM (Tribology,

Infrared, Vibration Analysis and Motor Analysis).

. Implemented and managed an offsite warehouse for critical electronic

spares with the commodity manager.

. Introduced the plant to the concept of replacing motors before failures

based on shifts in predictive signatures.

. Designed and implemented a servo motor repair crib. Insourced minor

repairs (encoders, connectors and major mechanical) to reduce repair

costs and to reduce the number of spares required because of long

turnaround times.

. Implemented vending machines plant wide for small electronic switches and

cables. Reduced plant inventory costs because this inventory was owned

and managed by the suppliers.

Superintendent FWD Crisis Maintenance (2000 - 2002)

Managed 150 skilled tradesmen and 11 salaried supervisors with FWD

transmission manufacturing and assembly responsibilities. Analyzed machine

failures and improved equipment uptime. Maintenance budget was $10+

million per year.

. Initiated line side binning for high volume components within the

maintenance outpost. This inventory was managed by three commodity

suppliers.

. Centralized spare parts for the team and developed MS Access software to

track usage and to suggest replenishment quantities based on minimum

targets and historical usage.

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. Developed MS Access software to simplify the reporting of equipment

performance which allowed machine operators to understand trends and

opportunities for improvement. This software also enabled the

measurement of productivity for specific skilled trades.

Maintenance Planning Specialist (1999 - 2000)

Managed 60 skilled tradesmen and 3 salaried supervisors with RWD

transmission manufacturing responsibilities. Analyzed machine failures and

improved equipment uptime.

. Introduced visual factory to the maintenance outpost.

. Standardized spare part methodology amongst the tradesmen.

Maintenance Supervisor (1998 - 1999)

Managed 12 skilled tradesmen with RWD transmission assembly

responsibilities. Analyzed machine failures and improved equipment uptime.

Provided rapid response to equipment breakdowns.

. Developed MS Access software to aid in the planning of weekend and

project work for the tradesmen.

Assembly Supervisor (1996 - 1998)

Produced 2000+ RWD transmissions daily. Managed approximately 80+

assemblers, 4 technicians and 3 repairmen.

. Successfully implemented tag relief on the second shift assembly line.

Increased output per employee.

Manufacturing Supervisor (1994 - 1996)

Indiana Gas Company, Indianapolis, IN 1992 - 1994

A public utility company providing natural gas service to approximately

489K residential, commercial, and industrial customers within Indiana.

Gas Control Analyst

Monitored gas pipeline volumes to insure uninterruptible service was

provided to large industrial customers. Identify potential shortfalls and

notify procurement as required.

. Designed tracking software utilizing SmartWare to identify customers

consuming excessive, unplanned volumes of natural gas.

EDUCATION

MBA, Management, Northwood University

BSCEE, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

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