Manager Engineer

Joe Burke

**** ****** ** * *.R. #* Addison Ontario K0E 1A0 613-***-**** ********@*********.**

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To lead an operations team toward a profitable and sustainable business by utilizing my expertise in

team building, lean manufacturing, scrap reduction, productivity improvement, cost cutting, and

operations metrics analysis as a vital manager in a progressive firm.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

12 years of progressive experience in Manufacturing with unionized and non-unionized

workforces.

8 years solid managerial experience with a production team of 150+.

Responsible for yearly supplies budget of $3.5 million, producing total revenue of $32 million.

Strong ability to work under pressure of changing priorities & deadlines.

Excellent interpersonal, communications, and leadership skills.

Foundryman of the Year in 2001 as awarded by employees and colleagues.

Earned three exceptional promotions during the last 8 years.

Dedicated to my employer with a very strong work ethic.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

2005-2007 Grenville Castings Ltd.

Operations Manager Smiths Falls, Ontario

Implemented Accountability for all associates, both indirect and direct, by providing a daily

forum for all measurables to be posted by the persons responsible, with reasons for, and solutions

to variances. This system was described as World Class by KPMG during the company s most

recent ISO-TS16949 audit.

Implemented OEE and $VA/man hour as production metrics by integrating the price list, BOM

and goal rates into a reporting system to be used by production environment supervisors.

Created an internally public online electronic dashboard with all plant metrics to track and control

performance on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Championed the operations team to produce first product sold directly to Daimler Chrysler,

leading to 2 more programs, altogether worth a total of $2.8 million annually.

Reduced scrap from 11% to less than 7% through a disciplined and systematic approach to root

cause problem solving.

Expanded a CNC machining operation from 560 hours per week to more than 1300 hours per

week.

Managed multiple decreases in labour totaling over 80 associates while avoiding mass termination

costs.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (Cont d)

Downloaded Ishikawa problem solver to the production environment and worked with the team to

utilize the technique, resulting in scrap reduction from 15% to less than 1% due to workmanship

issues on one program in particular.

Aided associates in crisis, utilizing the services of local professionals and programs.

Reduced direct to indirect ratios from 2:1 to 3:1 through team involvement and lean

manufacturing techniques.

Reduced hourly wages of production associates by 5% through an innovative scheduling and

grandfathering initiative.

Implemented the Ergonomic Kaizen with the JHSC as a strategy to allow an aging team of

associates to maintain productivity.

2002-2005 Grenville Castings Ltd.

Production Manager Smiths Falls, Ontario

Initiated and completed labour factor system to predict required number of production associates

based on booked orders and sales forecasts, thus improving inventory control and cashflow.

Built a shop floor scheduling system to allow flexible and full associate usage based on job

specific labour factors.

Initiated a competition and training program to recruit and train production environment

supervisors from the production associate position through use of the Manufacturing Leadership

Certification Program at St. Lawrence College.

Developed a system to evaluate employee performance using Stop, Start, Continue peer

evaluation techniques.

Implemented various training programs including internal, IAPA, ERT, First Aid, supplier

provided, and customer required courses.

Rescued an $8 million program by visiting the customer, becoming part of their problem solving

team and implementing a solution that cut dimensional variation by 95%, thus allowing the

customer to automate their process and save money.

1999 2002 Grenville Castings Ltd.

Maintenance and Tooling Manager Smiths Falls, Ontario

Started an ongoing apprenticeship program that provided opportunities for production associates

to attain licensed trade certificates while providing much needed skills to the company and

reducing maintenance costs.

Reduced downtime on a family of product lines worth over $12 million annually from 12% to less

than 3% through root cause elimination.

Expanded the plant by 35% to include structural alloy castings, including water cooled molds, X-

ray inspection, heat treatment, and laboratory analysis.

Eliminated the threat of hydraulic fire by changing all equipment over to glycol based fluid.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (Cont d)

1997 1999 Collins & Aikman Plastics

Program Manager / Tooling Engineer Gananoque, Ontario

Managed automotive interior trim programs for big three auto manufacturers.

Procured and managed injection mold and equipment builds to meet design and manufacturing

requirements.

Worked as a shop floor supervisor of unionized associates.

Managed environmental remediation project involving groundwater/wetland management.

1995 1997 Grenville Castings Ltd.

Process Engineer / Plant QA Representative Smiths Falls, Ontario

Implemented and maintained statistical process control system.

Integrated the company s first networked PLC and computer systems with casting equipment.

Designed and built attribute gages for product quality control.

Managed new program launches for the Smiths Falls Plant.

Managed the quality system for the facility through certification to ISO 9001.

EDUCATION & RELEVANT SKILLS TRAINING

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 1995

Technical University of Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia

Manufacturing Leadership Certificate Program 2005

St. Lawrence College Brockville, Ontario

Certificate of Achievement Lean Principles 2003

Solutions Plus Inc. Owen Sound, Ontario

Certificates of Achievement in

Analysis & Reduction of Casting Defects 1997

Statistical Process Control for Metalcasters 1997

Metallurgy of Aluminum Casting Alloys 1996

Chicago, Illinois

American Foundrymen s Society Cast Metals Institute

OUTSIDE INTERESTS

My wife and I enjoy country living and are interested in the restoration of heritage buildings. We

currently live in an 1826 farmhouse just north of Brockville, Ontario. Golf, cycling, cross country

skiing and camping are important interests. We hope to start RVing in the future. I am a woodsman

and enjoy harvesting about 30 face cord of hardwood per year. We have three Airedale Terriers that

we love to spoil, dogs will likely always be part of our family.

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