Quality Manufacturing

Ramon Estrada

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Hayward, CA. ***45

510-***-**** Home 510-***-**** Cell

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OBJECTIVE

MANUFACTURING SUPERVISOR

Professional Profile

Well qualified for positions in manufacturing industries, with over a decade of valuable

supervision experienced in training and guiding teams of 25 workers. I have a proven record of

success in coordinating projects, personnel, resources, and schedules for challenging initiatives

involving group objectives, quality standards, and elimination of waste. I have vast experience

using lean manufacturing techniques learned from Toyota Production System. This technique can

be deployed in any manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

Strong Supervision background with more than 10 years of experience supervising

employees in manufacturing and equipment operations.

A Proven Record of success with progressively increasing responsibilities based upon

experience, knowledge, and superior work performance.

Proven Ability to increase production by training and motivating staff recommended

processes that, when adapted, increased productivity.

Highly Organized and Creative, able to streamline preventative maintenance workflow.

A Committed Team Player with a proven ability to meet and exceed goals and deadlines.

Fluent in Spanish.

Achievements

Saved the company $65,000 on head count elimination by balancing operations and getting

team members buy in.

Saved the company an average of $15,000 per year on scrap along by reworking damage

parts and been able to use them again.

Minimized down time by 20% in some areas by fixing equipment problems and working

directly with difficult team members.

Implement more efficient back up procedure on all equipment in my groups to eliminate

unexpected down time.

Teach and couched 9 team members that were promoted to team leaders and group leaders.

Experience

New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. Fremont, CA. 1989-2010. NUMMI was a highly

competitive automobile manufacturer producing units with a .02 DPV.

I worked in 6 different groups in 2 different shifts and I’m highly knowledgeable of the assembly

process in a production line. I worked with a vast diversity of workers using motivation

techniques to boost morale and solve conflict at the lowest level.

Planned and coordinated workflow through a demanding manufacturing line supervised

approximately 25 production team members. Facilitated daily communication meetings and

insure team members follow standardized work, investigated accidents, enforce company

policies, issued progressive corrective discipline, and worked closely with Quality Control to

insure quality performance standards were met.

Technical knowledge: quality circles; zero defects; decision-focus analysis; visual

manufacturing; “five-s” system of plant organization; geometric tolerances; supervision,

and corrective action.

Used well-developed trouble-shooting skills to successfully and efficiently find root cause

and solve problems resulting in better quality and less down time.

Kept records of new workers and assigned them to stations according to man power needs

resulting in a smooth production flow.

Patrolled section to inspected work for quality and determined operating condition of

machinery resulting in prevention of down time.

Kept workers informed of their productivity and quality versus individual and section goals

resulting in team members more aware of their own quality concerns.

Developed job-skills matrix and cross-training plans for all personnel.

Education & Training

Nummi - extensive training in TPS (Toyota production system). Safety, Standardized work,

Ergonomics, Problem solving, Kaizen, Just in time system, Kanban system, Andon system, Takt

time, 7 types of muda, 5’s, Stop/fix. 1989-2010

US Army – Vehicle Mechanic. 1986 - 1988

Evergreen Valley College. San Jose, CA. 1986

Overfelt High School, San Jose, CA. 1984

Computer Skills

Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point, Lotus Notes, and Pay roll.

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