CASS BENITEZ

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Professional Summary

Results oriented individual with over 35 years of professional experience in commercial, military, and aerospace manufacturing industries. Comfortable with all as aspects of management as Plant Manager responsible of production departments/production lines making distribution of man power according with production schedule, assuring that all safety programs are followed, as well as training programs, creation of team work, work with engineering to provide tools, machines and equipment to perform the line operations with efficiency, productivity and quality according with customer specifications, delivery on time according with customer request date, application of lean manufacturing methodology and best manufacturing practices, coaching and counseling supervisors, team leaders and line workers, ISO 9000 programs. Bilingual English/Spanish

Safety programs, willing to relocate and travel as the job required.

Products worked on : PCB’s, cable assemblies, wire harnesses,metal parts for auto industries, M1-A1 tank control boxes for ARMY.(DOD)

Work History

Turf design

Production Manager 03/Present

Responsible of : Production Control, Production Departments, Quality assurance,

Safety department, Training Department,Material control and inventory control,

Continuous improvements, Lean Manufacturing Methodology,Kaisen,Supply chain Management inventories .

Reynold’s Consumer Products Wheeling, IL 03/2017- 03/2018

Shift Supervisor

Third shift supervisor of Press and Consumer Department with approximately 120 employees.

Press department includes 75 punch press for aluminum containers and 13 lines of consumer products in a fast packaging operation.

Assure that production schedule is completed in a daily basis in both areas.

Assure that training is provided to all production personnel to perform quality operations with efficiency and productivity.

Attendance and pay roll with SAP programs.

Perform interviews, hiring and firing according to company policies.

Troubleshooting analysis in quality/production issues when arise and apply corrective actions.

Safety training in a daily basis following safety programs.

Coaching team leaders to provide solution to personnel issues.

Generation of forms and procedures that help to manage daily production.

ADC. American Demolition Corporation Elgin, IL 04/2016- 03/2017

Heavy Machinery Inventory Control

SCI International Elk Grove Village, IL 07/2015-09/2015

Production Department Manager

Weber Huntley, IL 11/2014-03/2015

Production Department Manager

Armstrong Aerospace Itasca, IL 02/2012-06/2013

Production Manufacturing Manager

Whitney Blake Company Monterrey, Mexico 07/2011-12/2011

Operations/Manufacturing Consultant

Otto Engineering Carpentersville, IL 09/1997-06/2011

Production Department Manager

In charge of communications division with $45 million dollars in sales per year with .25 % of scrap.

Worked with engineering department to ensure products are designed for manufacturability.

Coordinated with training coordinator to implement and execute training programs..

Participated in the actual training of new employees, both in class and hands on.

Performed personnel review evaluations according to job descriptions, including salary increases.

Participated in the interviewing /hiring process for all new employees.

Worked with management to ensure efficiency, productivity, rework, and low down times.

Responsible for helping maintain cleanliness and organization within the department.

Assisted employees with completing their certifications per IPC-J-100 standards.

Certifications and Education

MIL-STD-2000 BY D.O.D. Workmanship standards for electric and electronic products

IPC-J-STD Workmanship Standards for Commercial and military products

ISO-9000 Quality Standards .internal auditor

Achieve Global Leadership, Design for Manufacturability, 5 “S” Concepts, Kanban Systems.

Lean Manufacturing Methodology, Management by A.M.A

Analytic Trouble Shooting,

College graduated in 1983 as Industrial Engineering in Mexico City.

Special Skills

Bilingual: Spanish/English (read, speak and write)

Expertize in Production department, Human Resources, Quality,Safety, Inventory control,Purchasing, Scheduling, Maintenance,Engineering and training departments.

Effectively Lead, coach and develop work team to accomplish operational objectives.

5 “S” methodology across the whole plant.

Training programs for new/current supervisors,foreman,team leaders,inspectors and key operators.

Identify and follow root causes of issues and apply effective corrective actions.

Results producing career demonstrating continuous improvements in quality, efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction.

Expertise applying corrective actions after trouble shooting issues that are effective .

Hiring/firing as well as performance evaluations thru job description for all positions.

Following customer complains providing corrective actions that fix the issues /complains.

Strong and decisive leader experience in face to face and over the phone customer service.

On time delivery via following production schedules customer dates.

Quality Metrics,shortages,late delivery and Staff meetings.

Assure that all procedures stablished are followed .

Create and sustain a dynamic environment that encourages development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst team members.

MANAGER TYPICAL WEEK

MONDAY:

Towards the end of shift create a meeting with, production supervisors, schedulers, production control manager, purchasing manager, buyers shipping supervisor and manufacturing engineers to talk about sales orders that were not shipped according with delivery schedule and come up with the new delivery date depending in the root cause that prevent the product to be shipped, after the meeting the dates get incorporated to the schedule and this get published to all departments .

TUESDAY:

A meeting with production supervisors, group leaders, and production control to talk about people capacity issues, allocating resources where needed moving people from line to line depending in the man hours needed per line in order to maintain the efficiency and productivity, and if in case that more man power is needed, Operations manager communicate to Human Resources in how many people need to be hired and will decide how many each line/department will get .

WEDNESDAY:

Quality metrics meeting driven by Quality department to discuss defect one and defect two on each line and come up with corrective actions such as: changes in the design, new equipment and/ tools / fixtures,/ methods, techniques /training / or better supervision in the production departments, collect minutes and assign responsibilities to be followed up in the next meetings.

THURSDAYS

Shortages information between : purchasing, production control, schedules, and production departments to adjust schedule according with new dates and published for customer service and sales department.

FRIDAYS: Staff meeting to talk about how the week went and new things coming .

As Manager I have the following responsibilities:

1.Efficiency and productivity of the whole plant

a.Create reports to report efficiencies, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually reviewing labor standard rates for accuracy and effectiveness and work with production supervisors and manufacturing engineer to improve processes via fixtures, training and procedures that meet customers’ requirements

2.Safety programs established and to be established

a.Reinforce company safety procedures and/or create new safety procedures that meet local, State and federal laws creating records as per ISO 9000 requirements.

b.MSDA information available at all time .

3.Organization and cleanliness of production lines

a.Stock room, warehouse, shipping and receiving, maintenance and other areas.

b.Aisles clean and open, and everything allocated on its own location for easy finding.

4.Training programs already in process and programs to initiate

a.Review programs in place to satisfy production assemblers/supervisors job descriptions.

b.Crate a cross training program to be able to cover vacations, absenteeism, FMLA’s, sick days ETC. work with Human resources to get training records in files as per ISO9000 requirements.

5.Hiring and firing personnel

a.Work together with managers and supervisors to get performance evaluations done on time for every employee.

b.Participate in the new hiring and firing of assemblers and supervisors.

6.Performance evaluations reviews

a.Work with production supervisors and human resources to get job descriptions for each position

7.Reinforce ISO 9000 procedures established and to be established

a.Review ISO9000 procedures and assure that are followed by everybody in the whole company, propose changes to the ISO representative and replace existing ones.

8.Quality of products

a.Assure that all production personnel have the documented training records in file, all the drawings are understandable and the production procedures have enough details to prevent defects during the production builds. Attack defect one and two at all the time working with supervisors and manufacturing engineering to reduce rework and scrap. To be present in quality metrics meetings to support corrective actions .

9.Production tooling, machinery and equipment maintenance

a.Work close with manufacturing engineering to create a ongoing maintenance program to prevent shut downs during production, replace tools appropriately and get the necessary equipment to keep production running effectible,create preventive maintenance programs.

10.Vacation program/schedule

a.Create a vacation program for summer and winter time when many people want to take their vacations at the same time, unless the company closes during this time. A vacation schedule will be necessary and personnel will need to rotate vacation’s time.

11.Various shifts

a.Responsible for first, second and third shift as needed. Can alternate shifts until all programs are working as design.

12.Manufacturing engineering

a.Working with manufacturing engineering to assure that all the procedures and processes in place are working effectible, assemblers have the proper tools to do the proper job and the proper training (documented).

13.Permanent continuous improvement

a.Always looking the best way to be more effective and help the support departments to help us better and listen to the production folks ideas, many times are the best ideas .

14.Materials shortages information

a.Work closely with Purchasing Department to prevent shut downs, down time waiting for key components to arrive. Analysis of inventory levels, cost of inventory and cost reduction, using KANBAN methodology

15.Delivery on time

a.Work closely with production scheduler to assure that production department has the proper capacity per line/department to allocate personnel appropriately.

b.Work with sales and customer service to use established time frame of deliveries.

16.Work with engineering department

a. Assure that all documentation (drawings and Bill of materials) are correct before release them to the floor.

17.Accomplishes operations staff results by communicating job expectations

a.Planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.

b. Coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.

c. Initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.

18.Maintains work flow by monitoring steps of the process

a.Setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.

19.Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.

20.Create and revise systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.

21.Maintain safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.

Knowledge working in Production, Human Resources, Quality, Safety, Inventory Control, Purchasing, Scheduling, Maintenance,

Engineering and Training Departments.

Results producing career demonstrating continuous improvements in Quality, Cost and Delivery functions.

Strong and decisive leader experience in face to face, and over the phone customer service.

Effectively lead, coach and develop work team to accomplish operational objectives.

IPC –J-100 and WH 620 workmanship standard training in class room and in the production lines.

Training new/current supervisors, foreman, group leaders, inspectors and key operators.

Basic printed circuit board principals, color code for component value, component description.

Trouble shooting defects in the production lines and how to apply corrective actions.

How to establish an internal kanban system with standard parts.

How to handle and report scrap

What rework does to the cost of products.

How measure efficiency and productivity

On time delivery by schedule and by customer request

Following customer complaints

Effective corrective actions

Disciplinary actions

Training programs for all levels

Keeping procedures updated

Identify root causes of issues

Safety procedures and implementation and keeping records

MSDS sheets and chemical identification in the production floor

ISO9000 standards and procedures.

5 s’s concepts for clean and organize work stations every where.

Inter departmental organization

Product traceability

Quality metrics meetings

Shortages meetings

Late delivery meetings

Staff meetings.

Create and sustain a dynamic environment that encourages development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst team members.

Develop new procedures and processes to improve production accuracy, minimize waste, increase efficiency and productivity.

Excellent analytical, organizational, team building and planning skills.

Bilingual: Fluent Spanish and English.

Dealing with union environment.

Trouble shooting analysis inline defects.

Reduction of scrap and rework.

Disciplinary actions per company rules .

Product orientation to new and current employees.

Becoming a new line supervisor and its pro’s and con’s.

Favoritism and its consequences.

Equal with everyone at all the time.

Motivated and growth opportunity.

Scrap and retain Programs

Training metrics.

Efficiency and productivity VS rework and scrap.

Vandalism and sabotage.

Falsification of records, reports and other documents.

Shipping dated by schedule and or by customer request date.

Listen to the people on the lines and always get back to them.

Overlapping shifts.

Is not my responsibility issues.

Job descriptions.

How to identify training needs

Why companies do inventories.

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