James Milligan

**** ***** **** **. * Wake Forest, NC 27587

984-***-****

ac5ye5@r.postjobfree.com

linkedin.com/in/james-milligan/

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

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