Manager Engineer

JOSEPH R. BISIGNANO P.O. Box ***

Attica, Ohio ***07

Phone/fax: 419-***-****

Cell 419-***-****

Home e-mail ***@*******-**.***

SUMMARY

Promoted by senior managers and directors to diverse positions

and assignments that include:

Manufacturing Operations Management Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering

Facility, Maintenance, and Tooling, Product engineering and development

Mgmt

TQM Steering Team member ISO auditor Project Management

Plant Safety Teams and EPA reporting FY capital plan budget creation

FY supply and repair budgets utilizing Plant scheduling and inventory

accounting principles control

MS Excel., Word., PowerPoint, &

Projects

Leader for continuous improvement Unions: UAW, IAM, Labor negotiations

teams

TEAM LEADER FOR MAJOR PROJECTS

. Automotive product development of hydraulic lines, $10 M annual sales

60% GM 15 months

. Concurrent engineering design team for residential furnaces. Capital

justification $2.5M ROI 30%, up to $70 million annual sales with 35%

gross margins. One year project

. Plant re-layout into work cells, capital expenditure $500K with 18%

ROI. 6 months project

. New assembly lines and processes. Capital expenditure $1.5M with 22%

ROI. One year project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Webster Industries, Tiffin, Ohio

Oct 2006 - Nov 2008

A job shop leader for high quality manufactured engineering chain for the

construction, mining, food, automotive and power transmission industries.

Manager of Manufacturing Operations

. Provide leadership and direction to Chain Assembly/Welding and

Shipping/ Receiving/Stock-keeping also create Lean Mfg. strategies.

. Identify waste, lead continuous improvement teams, control variances,

and problem solving.

. Duties of recruiting, training, and performance evaluations, also

grievance solving.

. Results: +20% efficiency, 10% decline in setups, $250K improvement

methods and usage variances.

TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT

Oct. 2005 - May 2006

Continuous Improvement Engineer, Ashland Conveyor, Ashland, Ohio Improve

processes and calculated savings, chaired the plant safety team, worked

with BWC on OSHA, EPA, NFPA compliance. Investigated

a new powder coat system along with return on investment.

U. S. TSUBAKI, INC. Sandusky, Ohio

Mar. 1996 - Jan. 2005

A job shop leader for high quality manufactured engineering chain for the

construction, mining, food, amusement park and power transmission

industries.

1 Facility Manager (promoted to position)

. Manager responsible for plant master scheduling and buyer-planner

activities, order processing, raw and finished parts inventories.

. Responsible for facility improvements, maintenance activities, tool

design/tool room departments.

. Maintenance functions: electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling,

preventative maintenance and repair work orders, compressed air, yard

and plant appearance etc.

. FY budgets and capital plan creation, also selling of unused assets.

. Grievance solving and a member of contract labor negotiations team.

. Work with insurance company on property and casualty financial loss

and risk ratings, also fire protection service, utility companies and

an outside plant security firm.

. Presentations to hourly employees, upper management and the Board of

Directors.

. Lead several capital equipment and automation projects to completion.

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3 Plant Superintendent (promoted to position)

. Manage a manufacturing group of salaried and hourly employees in

production from raw material to finished parts i.e. planning,

scheduling, and purchases while maintaining high delivery.

. Responsible for raw material, WIP, finished parts inventories.

. MRP (QAD MFG-PRO) production scheduling, and analyze labor

performances.

. Responsible for cold heading, drilling, metal stamping, grinding, CNC

machining, heat treat and induction hardening, assembly operations,

and shipping activities.

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5 Business Unit Manager - Assembly/Welding Manager and - CNC Machining

(promoted to positions)

. Managed Business Unit production for assembly and welding operations

and shipping activities.

. Managed Business Unit production for CNC machining of component parts

and heat treating.

. Responsible for finished goods inventory, ISO Audits and FEMA studies.

6 Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor/Manager

. Responsible for plant layout, cellular workplace layouts, establishing

production goals.

. Responsible for Capital Appropriation Requests, procurement and

installation of equipment.

. Process improvement, safety and quality improvement, and cost control

etc.

ARMSTRONG AIR, Bellevue, Ohio

1990 - 1996

A global manufacturer of industrial and residential heating and air

conditioning units.

7 Manufacturing/Industrial Engineer

. Manufacturing member of concurrent engineering design team.

. Establish tube cutoff lengths for end forming, developed CNC programs

for copper tube bending.

. M.E/I.E for Business Unit(s) producing for Oil and Gas fired

residential furnaces. Justified, ordered and supervised installations

of metal stamping presses, QDC tooling and fixtures, welding, and

assembly equipment. Responsible for focused factory continuous

improvement and TPM programs.

. Processed engineering changes, blueprint reading to create production

routings, MRP usage.

. Established incentive work standards using time studies, MTM-UAS and

std data for metal fabrication.

CONTINENTAL HOSE, Wharton, Ohio 1988 - 1990

A job shop/manufacturer of automotive OEM and after market power steering,

and hydraulic lines.

8 Product Engineer

. Responsible for OEM prototypes and after market product development

supervising five lab technicians.

. Managed a John Deere account, also Programmed CNC tube benders with

XYZ coordinates.

. SPC functions, and gauging techniques, conducted machine capability

studies.

AMERIWOOD (TIFFIN ENTERPRISE) Tiffin, 1983 - 1988

Ohio

A job shop wood fabricator for the consumer electronics industry.

9 Industrial Engineer

. Time studied to created production goals and product cost formulas for

sales estimating.

. Developed assembly methods and line balances, along with QDC fixtures.

EDUCATION

MBA, Executive Management, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio

Bachelor of Science Degree, Business Management, Minored in Accounting,

Tiffin University, Tiffin, Ohio

Associates Degree in Electro-Mech/Robotic Engineering Terra Community

College, Fremont Ohio.

ISO certification for writing procedures / work instructions and auditing

courses Bowling Green University

Worldwide College of Demand Flow, Denver, Colorado

Lean Manufacturing, Lean Systems Inc

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