Engineer Plant Manager
Resume:
Scott C. Wodrich
Mishawaka, IN 46545
Email Address – abntpc@r.postjobfree.com
574-***-**** Cell Phone 574-***-**** Home Phone
Overview: Experienced engineering and management professional with 21 years experience in manufacturing
with multi–plant organizations. My career consists of experience as an Industrial/Process Engineer, Continuous
Improvement/Process Engineering/Quality Manager and Plant Manager.
Key Strengths and Skills:
• Extensive training and experience in Lean Manufacturing, including leading VE/VA/JIT/5s/Poka Yoke
workshops
• Experience in Plant and Corporate environments
• Team Leadership for shop floor and salaried personnel
• Productivity Improvement
• Plant layout and Assembly Line start-ups
Accomplishments:
• Used Lean Manufacturing techniques to combine 2 assembly plants
• 40% reduction in floor space for existing assembly lines within 3 months as Plant Manager
• 25% productivity improvement after 1 year as Plant Manager
• Improved productivity of 2 struggling assembly lines by 200% with lean manufacturing techniques over a
period of 5 months
• Lead Kaizen workshop on Ford Aerostar rear quarter window that resulted in 33% labor improvement and
40% floor space reduction
• Worked as part of a team that improved shop floor efficiencies and floor space (using lean techniques),
enough to double a single plant’s sales over a 3 year time period.
• Worked as part of a team that saved $3 million in a one year time frame to help offset customer LTA’s
• Worked as part of a team that launched a small plant in Juarez, Mexico (from plant layout to run-at-rate) in
less than 3 months.
WORK HISTORY
March 2006 – September 2008 Terra Group Quality/Lean Mfg. Mgr.
Terra manufactures RV Ramp, Entry & Baggage Doors. Processes include aluminum cutting/bending, lamination,
routing, extruding aluminum, aluminum fabrication and assembly. Began with company as an Industrial Engineer
in March of 2006 and was promoted to Quality/Lean Mfg. Mgr. in May of 2007.
Duties include the following:
• Establishing Quality Standards
• Develop Quality Procedures
• Responsible for product quality
• Lean Manufacturing Training
• Implementing Lean concepts on the shop floor to improve productivity & quality
• Implement Lean concepts in-house and with suppliers to free floor space and improve inventory turns
• Develop work standards
May 1998 – January 2006 Atwood Mobile Products Plant Manager
Creation Windows Housing Window Division – Creation manufactures aluminum and vinyl windows for the
manufactured housing industry, modular home builders, RV and residential. Began as Process Engineering Mgr. in
May 1998 and was promoted to Plant Mgr. in May 2001.
Annual Sales $10 Million
Number of employees 60
Number of shifts 1
Direct Reports Inside Sales, Production Supervisors, Shipping/Receiving, Scheduling
Areas of Responsibility Profitability, Quality, Productivity, Delivery, Scrap, B.O.M., Scheduling
July 1990 – May 1998 Excel Industries Project Engineer
Excel Industries was predominately a Tier 1 automotive supplier. Excel also had an RV/Heavy Truck/Mass
Transit/Military Vehicle window division and an injection molding division that supplied various industries. My
duties included the following:
Lean Manufacturing Activities - Trained by Kaizen Institute of America and TBM
• Facilitate J.I.T. (Kaizen) Workshops
• Facilitate Poka Yoke Workshops
• Facilitate 5s Workshops
• Facilitate Leadtime Reduction Workshops
• Facilitate Quick Die Change Workshops
Value Engineering/Value Analysis
• Facilitate and participate in VE/VA workshops
• Implement workshop ideas into production
Other
• Packaging
• Assembly line improvement
• Plant to Plant Assembly line relocation
• Plant Layout
September 1991 - March 1992 Benteler Industries Industrial Engineer
Benteler Industries is a Tier 1 automotive supplier, specializing in metal stampings and welded assemblies. My
duties included the following:
• Establish labor standards
• Packaging
• Plant layout
• In plant material handling
April 1989 - April 1990 Molded Materials, Inc., Sales
Molded Materials manufactured custom plastic and rubber parts. The processes involved were injection molding,
urethane casting and compression molding. My responsibilities were to establish new accounts and assist customers
with the engineering aspects of projects that involved MMI.
March 1987 - April 1989 Sheller-Globe Industrial Engineer
Sheller Globe was a Tier 1 automotive supplier. Sheller manufactured steering wheels, horn pads and airbag covers.
The processes involved were injection molding, urethane molding, paint and light assembly. My duties included the
following:
• Time studies
• Plant layout
• Packaging
• Router maintenance
• Tracking and improving labor variance
• Capital expenditure justification
EDUCATION
University of South Florida BSIE – June 1987
PERSONAL
• Married
• (2) Children
• Hobbies include: Golfing, Running, Racquetball
REFERENCES
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