Manager Injection Molding

CHRIS A. HARFORD

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

Experienced middle manager seeks position in planning, scheduling, or

supervision to help promote the growth of company's goals and objectives

to be more profitable.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

More than 20 years of diversified and progressive cross-functional

management experience within the manufacturing industry. Demonstrated

expertise in reducing operating cost. Particularly effective in assessing

and resolving complex operational problems, to include machine, material

and process, and effectively solve organizational problems to increase

productivity involving people and utilizing interpersonal communication

skills. A solid understanding of Lean Manufacturing and considered to be

a dynamic "change agent" with an emphasis on building accountability,

focus factory management and systems enhancement using Kaizen and other

Continuous Improvement tools.

WORK EXPERIENCE

TIGERPOLY MANUFACTURING, Grove City, Ohio March 2008 - March 2010

Manufacturing of Injection molding, Blow Molding and Rubber Molding, for a

Tier One OEM of specialized automotive components

Kaizen Supervisor

- Activities/Responsibilities

o Observe plant floor processes for potential improvements and

design, create and implement improvements using the following:

Value Stream Mapping, Analytical Analysis, Step Analysis, Quality

Tracking and Brain Storming.

o Rearrange equipment in work cells by implementing job flow

standardization.

o Analyze floor processes for similarities, data gathering and Pareto

analysis.

o Build check fixtures, table cooling racks and slides.

o Analyze the Kaizen effectiveness by using metrics comparison using

ROI.

o Create budgets for Kaizen activities and be directly responsible

for Kaizen project form cradle to grave.

o Train floor associates and team leaders on new processes.

Accomplishments:

. Redesigned outsource repack area by using Lean tools and reduced

labor for a savings of $300,000 annually.

. Redesigned Civic Resonator work cell and conducted time studies to

evaluate work load leveling for a labor savings of $150,000

annually.

. Administered Team leader Training across the entire plant for

consistent expectations of work load and areas to be focused on by

upper management, this equated to a 10% increase in OEE.

. Set up Visual Management boards across the entire plant at each

press for a better management tool for supervisors to react to real

time issues of Safety, Quality and Productivity, this improved OEE

BY 5%.

ORBIS INJECTION MOLDING, Urbana, Ohio April 2007 - March 2008

Manufacturing of injection molding of automotive parts.

Production Supervisor

- A production supervisor of 40 employees to produce parts for the

automotive industry.

CORE MOLDING TECHNOLOGIES, Columbus, Ohio April 2000 - March 2007

Manufacturing of compression molding of automotive parts.

Production Supervisor/Superintendent April 2000 - March 2003

March 2004 - March 2007

- Rotated through all of the production areas to include molding,

assembly, and paint acting as a "change agent", effecting over 200

employees. Participated in reducing 2 million dollars of inventory by

improving uptime through addressing key equipment issues and other

constraints.

- Was selected to lead the second shift operations and coordinate

production, quality, maintenance, and tooling activities. Coordinated

machine downtime to allow for pm and track uptime for effectiveness.

- Participated in a major plant redesign to streamline product flow and

improve operating efficiencies. Facilitated the move of 2 major

assembly lines and coordinated efforts of production to build

necessary product bank and laid out area to "best practice" using 5 -

S principles. Projected savings in excess of 60K annually.

Quality Engineer March 2003 - March 2004

- Represented Core Molding Technologies at Navistar on all quality

issues.

- Traveled at least twice a week for follow up on any issues, or

concerns from surface quality to dimensional issues.

- Responsible for all documentation on corrective actions that took

place, or were to be taken. (Examples: 8-D,CAR)

- Coordinated any trials that needed ran for paint, materials, and got

approval for these changes through the customer.

CAMBRIDGE INDUSTRIES FORMERLY ROCKWELL INT, Centralia, Illinois 1984-

2000

Manufacturing of compression molding of automotive parts.

Business Unit Manager/Area Manager 1995-1998, 1999-2000

- Coordinated and oversaw product manufacturing to meet customer demands

in a just-in-time environment. Responsible for a cross functional team

to include production employees, maintenance, and tooling.

Accomplishments:

o Increased efficiency by 5%, which equated to $500,000 annually by

streamlining production process and improving preventive

maintenance on key equipment.

o Reduced hourly work force in assembly line, which equated to

$600,000 annually by re-arranging assembly lines and improving

process/cycle time/uptime.

o Increased productivity by 50%, which equated to $400,000 annually

by training employees to be a self-directed work force.

o Developed supervisor skills on how to manage budgets and work

directly with them on computer skills.

Production Control Manager 1998-1999

- Oversaw customer schedules and coordinated plant operations to meet

customer needs. Set internal schedules and priorities for entire plant

working a 24/7 operation.

o Instituted and developed computer programming system to schedule

plant production and maintenance activity.

o Reduced premium freight by $30,000 per month by computerized

scheduling system.

Plant Superintendent 1993-1994

- Oversaw entire production plant operations to include maintenance and

tooling and process engineering.

o Maintained plant productivity through daily production problem

solving and continuous improvement projects.

o Coordinated all schedules from molding, assembly and shipping.

o Participated in a leadership role in win-win three year contract

negotiations

Production Lead Supervisor 1989-1993

- Supervised 80 employees to produce and maintain customer schedule in a

just-in-time environment.

o Developed self-directed work forces.

o Communicated job responsibilities to off-shifts supervision.

o Coordinated daily production schedules as customer demand dictated.

EDUCATION: Business Administration Kaskaskia College Enrolled 1994- 2000

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