DUANE ARNOLD

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Belair, MD. *****

585-***-****

ac4eg8@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Manufacturing Manager with extensive experience in lean manufacturing, safety, staffing, purchasing, preventive maintenance, scheduling, forecasting, inventory systems, and design engineering. Experience with quality systems, such as, SQF, AIB, QS 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, AS 9000, and TS16949. Possesses strong managerial, financial and organizational skills, known for being a manufacturing troubleshooter, I enter areas of manufacturing that lack leadership and profitability and turn those areas around. I have become a leader at training supervisors and coaching improvement teams to exceed their goals of reducing cost and maximizing profits.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Responsible for 10 Production Managers, 22 Mechanics, 110 Operators and work with our support groups; Engineering, Trades, Sales, Purchasing, Scheduling, and Transportation for projects and day to day operations.

Lead Cross Functional Improvement team in our compound area to increase our output for a savings of over $150,000.

I am currently working with all areas of the plant to help create and develop improvement teams to help each area reduce safety incidents, increase quality, reduce scrap and increase efficiencies. These improvement projects will reduce cost by $600,000 this year.

ASSISTANT PLANT MANAGER

Responsible for 6 Production Managers, 14 mechanics and 70 operators.

I have lead the culture change at Independent Can by implementing 5-S and lean strategies to help increase efficiencies, and make areas of the plant safer and ergonomically correct.

Lead improvement teams to increase production in our compound area over 50% from 3000 parts per hour to over 4500 parts per hour, eliminating the need for overtime in an area that continually worked weekends to keep up with customer demands.

Took over the 2 highest volume areas in the plant and made efficiency gains in each area.

Worked with the quality team this year to develop and implement procedures and policies to help us obtain the highest AIB quality audit in the history of the company.

Developed and implemented lean procedures, documents to engage and help develop a culture of continuous improvement. Achieving over $500,000 in savings from reductions in over time, scrap and increased through put.

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Lead the Ergonomic Kaizen in achieving a reduction in lifting for 1 department of over 1/2 million pounds per year.

Decreased set up time in the CNC area by 50% through our Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) event.

Production and OEE levels on 3rd shift were 20% higher than the other 2 shifts.

Developed different tools to help the Stamping, CNC, Tumbling and the Tool Room become more efficient and keep better track of production jobs in their area.

Receive a Bronze Award in the sub assembly area, (The first to do this in the plant).

Developed WIP caps and Job boards in 2 different departments to make them better organized and more efficient.

PLANT MANAGER

Reduced Labor by 35%, while increasing Production output by 150% this year.

Production increase has produced $2.1 M in additional sales. Increase production from 170cpph to 420cpph.

Instrumental in overseeing contractors, to create a successful opening of a new juice plant.

Developed the new plant’s SOP’s, GMP’s and other operational procedures.

Designed and engineered new projects and processes in the plant.

Lead and implemented Lean Manufacturing Practices and Procedures throughout the Plant.

Hired and training all mechanics and technicians at the plant.

Managed all aspects of manufacturing in the new plant, from the pressing of the juice, pasteurization, bottling, packaging, scheduling, purchasing and shipping of the final product.

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OPERATIONS MANAGER

Received Toyota Quality Award for Zero Defects for an entire year.

Managed a cell area that reduced cost by $1.1 M and increased production by over $4 M.

Increase production by 20% and reduce labor by 20%, though lean manufacturing.

Reduced scrap by 200% in 6 months, by involving and training technicians in Auto Quality Matrix.

Lead TPM event that increased throughput that lead to an annual savings of $3.8M.

Implemented Valeo’s lean manufacturing, quality and organizational strategies.

Achieved the highest score in the Wipers Facility during our 5-S audit.

Implemented Total Productive Maintenance in department 214 motor facilities and module wiper systems area.

Motivated a team of 7 cells and 70 technicians to produce over 1.5 M Wiper Module Systems.

Instrumental in helping to get ITT QS9000 approved.

Managed and engineered multiple flawless launches for new and advanced wiper module systems.

Reduced absenteeism from 30% to 3% through Kaizen principles and Ergonomic Workshops.

OWNER/GENERAL MANAGER

Owned ARNOLD’S RESTAURANTS, INC., which includes 3 Subway Restaurants.

Trained staff and implement Subway’s policies and quality standards along with great customer service.

Trained managers to do scheduling, ordering, inventory and other weekly paperwork, such as P&L.

Continuous promotional and marketing of product from national ads to local ads and grass roots promotions.

Kept food and labor cost to a minimum, while providing the best possible quality product on the market.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Operations Manager Independent Can Company 2017 - Present

Assistant Plant Manager Independent Can Company 2014 - 2017

Production Supervisor Southco, Inc. 2012 - 2014

Plant Manager Red Jacket Orchards 2009 - 2012

Owner/President Arnold’s Restaurants Inc. 2003 - 2010

Operations Manager Valeo Automotive 1998 - 2003

EDUCATION & TRAINING

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (UMBC) ECONOMICS (BA) Baltimore, Maryland

Six Sigma Green Belt Training LHH

Supervisor Connect Southco’s Leadership Training

Leadership Training From Red Jacket Orchards

HACCP Training and Certification/Food Safety Certification

ISO-9001 Internal Audit training from Guardian Industries

Management training from Guardian Industries

Labor Relations training from Guardian Industries

Lean Manufacturing, 5-S, VSM, SMED, Kaizen, and Gemba from Guardian Industries

Labor Relations training from Cornell University

Supervisor Leadership training from General Motors

Dale Carnegie training (Human Relations Award)

Lean Manufacturing, Auto Quality, TPM and Production Systems from Valeo

Subway Franchisee Management Training Subway Headquarters

Excel Word, SAP, PowerPoint, Outlook, Ceridian/ADP/Paycom payroll systems and more.

Train the Trainer at Independent Can Company

Business Writing Class at Independent Can Company

Leadership Training at Independent Can Company

GMP/Food Defense/SQF at Independent Can Company

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