Management Plant

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Robert Thomas McCalpin

Objective

Obtain a diverse management position with a dynamic company with the

opportunity to share all of my Six Sigma and Lean Resource Management

skills to lead the production process to higher yields and

efficiencies through cost savings analysis and continuous improvement

projects while eliminating waste and non-value added tasks.

Experience

7/2009-Present Willo Products Company, Inc.

Decatur, Al

Team Leader

Responsible for the supervision of 40 hourly team members in a

fast-paced production based metal fabrication plant.

Directly responsible for hourly employee hiring, training, retention

and termination. Responsible for two departmental budgets with 15

sub-accounts.

Responsible for all employee safety as Willo Safety Team Co-Leader,

employee cross-training, implemented workplace standardization at

every level through out the plant, implemented a plant wide 5-S

initiative.

Eliminated 85% of overtime by conducting a current state and future

state value stream map and eliminating all non-value added steps and

processes. Conducted a kaizen event with purchasing to end a

reoccurring year end inventory loss of raw materials that save the

company approximately $85,000.00

4/2008-3/2009 True Temper Sports Inc. Amory, Ms

Production Supervisor/Continuous Improvement

Responsible for the supervision of up to 175 United Steel Workers in a

steel tubing processing facility that held over 80% of the market

share in the products they produce.

Directly responsible for the creation of "cells" in various

departments that eliminated up to 42% of handling and non-valued added

processes. Outsourced several products for annealing that captures

over $150,000 annually in cost savings since my arrival. Scrap was

reduced by 7.5%

Eliminated virtually all overtime by the usage of master scheduling,

SPC and SOP controls, standardized work and the creation a pull system

Responsible for all skilled maintenance technicians, annealing,

polishing, copper plating, chrome plating, quality technicians,

inspection, straightening, tapering, time and attendance of

associates, swaging and shipping /receiving while on my shift. Also

implemented numerous quality checkpoints through out the manufacturing

process plant wide that eliminated waste from the work in process.

7/2007-4/2008 The Gates Rubber Company Red Bay, Al

TPM Subject Matter Expert/Lean Resource Associate

Job duties consisted of implementing the Lean disciplines of total

preventative maintenance (SME), value stream mapping, quick change

over, continuous improvement, inventory management, standardized work,

error proofing, and process problem solving.

Set and regularly monitored equipment standards, conducted kaizen

events, pit events, led several green belt cost saving projects,

improved equipment access, set up and conducted preventative and

automated maintenance audits and checks. Tracked machine uptime,

overall equipment effectiveness, downtime, mean time before failure

and mean time to repair.

Member of the Waste Reduction Team, Quick-Changeover Team and

Leader/Certified trainer of the Certified Associate Training Team. I

also regularly led various team meetings and training sessions with

every associate in the Red Bay facility.

1/2004-7/2007 The Gates Rubber Company Red Bay, Al

Co-Leader/Mill room Operator

Conducted shift meetings with each (3) shift bi-weekly, conducted

continuous improvement projects/audits, utilized breaks and lunches to

increase shift efficiencies and maintained the visuals and statics of

up to 20 traceable matrixes on the Department Team Board.

Reduced scrap, defects and associated costs by 15% through the

implementation of retraining and recycling programs. Reduce overtime

by 12% through work process standardization.

As operator, ran production of coiled rolls of natural rubbers;

synthetic rubbers, epdm, nitriles and neoprene on a three roll

mill/calendar. Ran raw material production on a screw-type heated

extruder that fed the calendar. Secured and transported full width

rolls of stock via forklift. Forklift licensed until 6/2009.

8/1997-12/2000 Federal Bureau of Investigation Birmingham, Al

Squad Six Rotor

Maintained all open and closed cases for the Foreign Counter

Intelligence Squad.

Handled all paper and computer files relating to the assigned cases.

Member of the Evidence Response Team and held government TOP-SECRET

clearances.

Education

1996/2001-2002 The University of North Alabama Florence, Al

Business Management/Accounting major

Took core and major specific classes while enrolled. Also attended

Northwest Shoals Community College in 1996 with a pre-law major. Left

college for employment with the FBI in 1997. Returned to UNA in 2001

after leaving the FBI. I do have the goal to finish my bachelor's

degree in the near future; however my major will change to Operations

Management.

References

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