Operations Manager

GREG DASHIELL

Phone: 812-***-****

*** ******* ****, ** *********, Florida 32086: ***********@*****.***

Plant, Production, Manufacturing and Operations Manager

• Safety, Quality, On Time Delivery, Profit, Financial Knowledge

• Thirty years working for a prime and sub-prime Defense contractor

• Twenty-five years working for a Tier One automotive supplier

• Ten years as an aerospace contractor

• Industrial Engineering, Standard Work, Project Management Skills

• Lean principles, Six Sigma Green Belt and 20 years of Continuous Improvement

• Strong EH&S experience. Change Agent. Improving Morale in the work place

• Plans, directs, and coordinates manufacturing processes, develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods, utilizing knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment capabilities, assembly methods and drawing/instruction, and quality control standards

•Analyzes and plans work force utilization, space requirements, and workflow, and designs layout of equipment and workspace for maximum efficiency

Work Experience:

Project Manager – GROTE MANAUFACTURING – Present

Automotive Lighting industry/Plastic Injection Molding/Assembly. Plant has between 400-500 employees. Assemble work teams to address cost saving, quality or safety improvements throughout the facility.

Operations Molding Manager – JOHNSON CONTROLS/YANFENG 4/2015 – 4/2016

Safety, quality, training, team work and continuous improvement. Manage assembly and plastic injection molding functions. 220 shop floor employees and 12 production supervisors. Responsible for cost, delivery. Automotive interior applications. 57 presses (150T-3500T)

Operations Manufacturing Manager – CUMMINS 12/2013 - 12/31/2014

Safety, quality, training, team work and continuous improvement. Manage fabrication, machine, test, painting and assembly function of 19-120-liter diesel engines. ITAR Training. Managed 50 shop floor employees. Responsible for cost, delivery and quality. Defense, Marine and Off Road applications.

General Manager – REGENT AEROSPACE 6/2010 – 12/2013

FFA Repair Shop. AS9100 Managed the operation/budget of approximately 100 employees repairing and cleaning airline seats, lavatories, closets and galleys. (Delta & United)

Operations Production Manager – ADECCO ENGINEERING 2008 - 6/2010

Automotive supplier of car and truck exhaust systems for GM, Ford and Chrysler. Robotic and MiG welding, machine, pipe cutting/bending, steel stamping and assembly. Planned and scheduled people and equipment.

Plant Manager/General Manager - ARMOR METAL 2002 – 2007 (1st quarter)

Director of Manufacturing 2000 -- 2002

Military supplier.

Specialized in the high and low volume steel fabrication of trailers, shipping containers, large and small fabricated parts, powder, e-coat and wet coating, bending and forming services. ISO 9001 certified. Design to prototype. CNC machining centers, sheet metal and pipe bending, shears, Turret punch, stamping, break presses, painting, machine shop (machine shop used for tooling design for production and for first article), lasers, plasma cutters, sand blasting and assembly operations and welding.

Direct reports were: Manufacturing Manager, Human Resource Manager, Engineering Manager, Procurement Manager, Quality Manager, Financial Manager and Maintenance Manager. Other responsibilities were the initial contract reviews and periodic contract updates with Defense Contract Administrators.

Indirect reports were 270-300 employees. Responsible for safety, quality, on time delivery and P&L. Security Clearance

Gave the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (Warn Act) in 4th quarter of 2006 and again in 1st quarter of 2007. Plant closed in April 2007

Business Unit Manager/Shift Superintendent - STANDARD PRODUCTS 1988-2000

Tier one automotive, consumer products, industrial rubber/plastic products and defense supplier (tank track).

General Foreman – UNIROYAL/Firestone 1976 - 1987

Tier one automotive, military, aerospace and industrial rubber products supplier of rubber products.

Education History

BS, Industrial Management Purdue University

AS, Industrial Engineering Purdue University

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