James Milligan
**** ***** **** **. * Wake Forest, NC 27587
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Professional Summary
Confident manager with great leadership and interpersonal skills. Able to bring technical, problem-solving and team working skills to your organization. Strong work ethic, self-learner, detail oriented
Profile Statement
Production management professional with many years of experience in a printing facility. Proven record of achieving improvements in quality, cost and on-time delivery of product.
Demonstrated ability to:
• Effectively develop, lead and maintain a large work team to accomplish objectives
• Identify and resolve manufacturing and maintenance problems within deadlines
• Manage multiple priorities and meet daily production deadlines to ensure customer satisfaction
• Plan daily work flow and obtain supplies in a timely manner that helped obtain maximum up time on equipment
• Developed new procedures to help improve production accuracy
• Establish and maintain acceptable quality levels for all equipment
• Worked with vendors to make sure materials were available and delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Obtained and retained good employees for many years, even in difficult market times
Work Experience
Production Manager
Glover Corporation, Raleigh, NC
May 2008 – March 2018
• Develop and execute production schedules based on business demands; obtained supplies necessary to perform needed duties, communicated plans to employees so they could prepare
• Recommended improvements to work methods or procedures; monitored daily performance to evaluate whether we were maximizing efficiency
• Coordinated departments to work together to ensure a smooth process with minimum downtime
• Assist with new quotes and price quotations for products
• Managed scheduling and shipping dates for incoming orders
• Ensure safe working environment through implementation of safety awareness and OSHA compliance
• Demonstrated assembly or use of equipment; supervised installation of new equipment and remained involved in training so I could understand problems later, obtained technical documents including instruction and procedure manuals
• Good mechanical aptitude; performed repairs on equipment and kept a good spare parts inventory based on history of repairs.
• Maintained a good relationship with vendors ensuring we could get expedited service when needed, maintained, in most cases, at least two vendors for all supplies to provide redundancy
• Developed and maintained a monthly calendar of necessary scheduled maintenance procedures and logged any special repairs that may be needed
• Conducted daily production meetings with department supervisors, CSR’s and sales force to coordinate department requirements and change orders Work Experience continued,
• Explained work orders or work techniques without micromanaging; listened to input from employees that were performing the work, implemented their ideas whenever possible
• Ordered all supplies and kept inventory of stock
• Resolve or assist workers to resolve problems; listened to employee grievances that were affecting their performance and helped make necessary changes
• Scheduled vacation to avoid conflicts in production capability Pressroom Supervisor
Glover Printing Inc.
December 1997- April 2008
• Coordinated jobs between presses and ordered and maintained supplies
• Oversaw press maintenance and repaired machines as needed
• Operated all presses as needed in the absence of a scheduled pressman
• Helped determine new equipment purchases to improve production
• Ordered ink, paper and chemicals and press supplies Education
Loudoun Valley High School
Northern Virginia Community College