Plant and Quality Director
Resume:
Steven J. Belair
Beaufort, SC *9906
Objective:
To build a successful world-class organization by assuming a position of challenge that provides the opportunity to leverage thirty years of diverse operations management and manufacturing technical experience.
Education:
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, Annapolis MD. B.S. Engineering, Naval Architecture, 1985. Mechanical, Systems and Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Design and Management.
Synopsis:
• Manufacturing operations leader. Electronics, Automotive, Defense/Aerospace, Heavy Equipment, Rail, and Commercial.
• Experienced startup General Manager and leader (Employee #3, Employee #1). Customer-facing. Growth from zero.
• Vast experience of industrial, manufacturing, quality and technical groups numbering from several to nearly 1,000 ... Groups comprised of military and civilian, technical and administrative, union and non-union, labor and leadership personnel…multiple production lines, ramp-up and ramp-down operations, brownfield startups and organizational “re-sets”. High-Volume/Low-Mix as well as Low-Volume/High Mix. BTO and BTS. Proprietary and non-proprietary. Sales, Warehousing, Distribution and Customer Service.
• Extensive “Lean”, “6-Sigma”, “SPC”, “Total Quality” and System/Process-Based experience.
• Exceptionally diverse experience within all facets of manufacturing and distribution operations.
Employment Experience:
Geismar North America. Rail Equipment Design, Manufacturing, Sales, and Service. Beaufort SC. May 2017 -- Present
PLANT STARTUP GENERAL MANAGER, North American Operations / Beaufort Manufacturing. May 2017 – August 2019.
Employee #1 brownfield. Completed full facility re-set of purchased site and initiated all infrastructure and processes to create the new North American manufacturing based operation. Successfully implemented transfer of warehouse operations and sales/customer service functions from former facilities. Established the North American Operation to further include Design, Manufacturing, Quality, EH&S, and After-market Repair & Service. Growth to more than 60 personnel and approaching $25M annual sales with 75 products ranging from several thousands of dollars to several million (>50% projected sales due to growth of the manufacturing function). Full establishment of fundamental Design, HR, EH&S, Technical Publications, IT, After-Market Rental/Repair/Service and Quality functions as well as a singularly well-equipped and competent local work force. Zero to ERP/MRP Live. Zero to full initial Quality Management System with functional electronic databases and key metrics. Zero corporate template groundwork at initiation, including required site skills or intended product offerings.
ESAB Cutting and Welding. Solid Welding Wire Manufacturing. Union SC. November 2015 – May 2017
PLANT GENERAL MANAGER, Midway Solid Wire Manufacturing Plant. August 2016 – May 2017.
Concurrent assignment while performing duties as Plant Quality Manager August – December 2016, followed by singular assignment commencing January 2017. Full duties and responsibilities as site general manager. $40-70M annual sales. 75 -175 personnel. EH&S and Lean Manufacturing Leader. Successfully reduced direct and indirect labor costs by 50% while maintaining or improving Safety-Quality-Delivery-Inventory-Productivity-Lean metric performance.
PLANT QUALITY MANAGER, Midway Solid Wire Manufacturing Plant. August – December 2016.
Turnaround assignment. 8-17 personnel. Successfully reduced external warranty by 50% and internal scrap by 50%. Established robust QMS practices and process stability to successfully re-garner valuable DoD business lost nearly 3 years prior. Full re-organization of quality department personnel and structure.
FN America. Weapons manufacturing. Columbia SC. July – October 2015
SUPPLIER QUALITY OPERATIONS MANAGER, North America Manufacturing Plant. July – November 2016.
Responsible for supplied material receiving and acceptance, 3rd party containment activities, quality engineering and hired as QMS/Lean Change Agent. 25 GD&T Receiving Inspectors, 7 Quality Engineers.
McLauglin Body Company. Manufacturing of large weldments – Rollover and Fallover protection (cabs, canopies) for heavy equipment. Anderson SC. October 2013 – May 2015
QUALITY DIRECTOR, SOUTHEAST OPERATIONS. Hired as employee #3 (GM and HR preceding) for brownfield startup of major expansion to the southeast, manufacturing personnel protection structures for major agriculture, mining, construction and military heavy-duty equipment. Successfully established facilities, personnel, equipment and processes to begin manufacture of 9 part numbers for Caterpillar, 2 for VT Leeboy, 4 for JLG with further expansion imminent for another major Caterpillar product. With zero to minimal department staffing, completed initial quality approvals for all products and supported all manufacturing processes. Total personnel at departure in excess of 125 and existing products running at rates approaching full production.
Force Protection Industries, Inc. & General Dynamics Land Systems. Manufacturing of wheeled military combat vehicles. Ladson SC. August 2006 – October 2013
DIRECTOR, QUALITY SYSTEMS and INTEGRATED PROGRAM QUALITY. August 2010 – October 2013. Merger-Acquisition of Force Protection Industries, Inc. to General Dynamics Land Systems – Force Protection Inc. in Dec 2011. Customer-facing Quality Representative – US and Foreign, military and commercial (DCMA, TACCOM, JPO, MoD).
SENIOR MANAGER, TRANSFORMATION CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT & QUALITY – INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS. August 2006 – August 2010. Force Protection Industries Inc., Ladson South Carolina. Originally assigned as internal change agent utilizing W. Edwards Deming’s Theories of Management and leading the development and execution of processes pertaining to Supplier Systems Capabilities and Quality Systems capabilities. Assumed senior managerial role of this group’s dozen Senior Engineers in 2007. From October 2009 onward, successfully transitioned this group to align with key quality initiatives in support of new corporate strategy, making this organization's skill-sets some of the most highly demanded both internally and externally. Successfully initiated / implemented key & core strategic quality processes across disciplines. Q2 2010 Corporate reorganization provided opportunity to establish Program Quality Group responsible for the direct quality support and advanced quality planning functions of all Integrated Product Teams, serving as the International Programs Quality Manager.
Progressive Roles and Responsibilities: Systems Capability Engineer (SCE), Systems Capability Engineering Manager, Systems Capability Engineering Sr. Manager, Supplier Quality Engineering Senior Manager, Senior Manager of Transformation / Continual Improvement / Quality, Director of International Program Quality, Quality Director, Site Quality Manager, Quality Engineering Section Manager – QS/MQE/SQE
General Motors Corporation. Manufacturing of machined automotive foundry engine and transmission components. Powertrain Division, Massena NY. 1997 - August 2006
Final Position - Quality Management Systems Engineering Lead
Progressive Roles and Responsibilities: Manufacturing Supervisor – Iron Direct Coast Clutch Housing Operations, Manufacturing Supervisor – Transfer Line Cubing & CMM Machining Operations, Manufacturing Supervisor – High Volume LN2E-4T45-4T80 Casting Operations and L850 Cylinder Head & Block Casting Operations, Quality Engineer LN2E/4T45DSS/4T80DSS, Quality Management Systems Engineering Lead
Photocircuits Corporation. Manufacturing of printed circuit boards. Glen Cove NY. 1996 - 1997
Final Position – Manufacturing General Supervisor, Primary Imaging / DES
Progressive Roles and Responsibilities: Manufacturing Supervisor – Circuit Boardwash, Electrical Test, Inspection and Repair, and High-Stress Test, Manufacturing Supervisor – Core Imaging, Manufacturing General Supervisor – Primary Imaging and Develop-Etch-Strip
United States Naval Officer, Amphibious. 1985 – 1996
Excelled at all assignments, resulting in selection and subsequent assignments of greater scope, complexity and responsibility.
Material & Operational Management Experience:
Extremely diverse:
• Heavy wheeled, blast and ballistic protected armored vehicles -- Rollover and Fallover Protection systems -- Weldments, large and small -- Weapons manufacturing, testing and certification -- Wire drawing – Die and tooling management -- Paint and powdercoat operations – Automotive assembly operations – EPS Styrofoam bead expansion and injection molding operations -- refractory coating -- ductile iron and aluminum lost-foam casting and foundry -- heat treat and annealing -- CNC & transfer line machining -- air decay leak testing -- hardness testing -- induction melters -- metallurgical / sand / metrology and coordinate measurement laboratories -- Printed circuit board electrical & high-stress testing -- bulk panel handling & lamination -- chemical develop-etch & strip -- clean room operations -- high-resolution imaging -- in-process inspection -- CNC routing & drilling -- stamping operations – HASL -- electroplating and screening
• Advanced electronic radars --navigation & communication systems -- primary gunnery weapons systems -- bulk and combat cargo systems -- small boats / landing craft / hovercraft – refueling operations – aviation support -- heavy lift / cranes / rigging -- elevators and ground tackle -- small arms weapons & ammunition management -- security/tactics -- deployment and coordination of multi-force/multi-national supporting arms -- firefighting & damage control -- wargaming simulation cells.
• After-market Rental, Repair and Service.
• Live-fire Range Officer.
• Experienced with industrial, engineering and overhaul organizations.
• Second in operational command of a major US combatant with delegated command and weapons-release authorities. Responsible or selected for leadership of all major or emergent events.
Professional Education & Training:
• Deming Management Theories, Statistical Process Control Tools and Techniques. Nearly three years as student/apprentice/direct report to W. Edwards Deming’s Master Statistician of 18 years, Mr. Heero Hacquebord.
• ISO9000/QS9000 (1998, 2000, 2008, 2015) -- ISO/TS 16949:2002 -- ISO Guide 25 -- ISO 17025 -- ISO 14001 -- Shainin Red X -- Statistical Process Control – APQP -- MSA/GD&T -- Process Control Plans – PFMEA – PPAP – ASME -- GM-Global Manufacturing System/Toyota Production System -- Lean Mfg -- Value Stream Mapping – Calibration -- Go-Fast – PFP -- 5-Step -- 7-Diamond -- Internal & 3rd Party Audits -- Corrective & Preventive Action -- Supplier Quality/Enhanced Supplier Management -- Laboratory Operations: Metallurgical, Metrological, Sand analysis, chemical analysis, spectro-chemical analysis & CMM inspection -- Standardized Work -- Product Quality Standards -- Quality Metrics -- Work Study tools – Kaizen/CI facilitation – Change Management
• Practical management and leadership -- graduate-level organizational leadership -- Total Quality Management.
• Material and operational readiness -- fiscal and financial management – engineering -- materials science -- advanced naval tactics -- industrial hygiene -- hazardous materials management.
• Trained, qualified and experienced as a Group Instructor.
• Conceiving, developing, implementing and monitoring systems to improve manufacturing quality including management system architecture. Directly responsible for achieving and maintaining multiple and concurrent QS/TS/ISO9000/ASME certifications.
• Technical problem-solving experience at all levels within the indicated organizations.
• Management, execution and evaluation of quality auditing systems … internal and third party. Certified internal quality auditor (Plexus) with greater than 1500 audit hours.
• Supplier Quality / Enhanced Supplier Engagement.
• Work study / standard work tools and evaluation.
• Management of classified materials and/or physical security programs. Top Secret government security clearance (inactive).
• Director of a technical training simulation facility.
• Evaluation of DoD weapons performance models as representative of both U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to responsible technical working groups.
• Experienced developing, establishing and managing industrial hygiene and hazardous materials management programs. Support and integration of Environmental Management systems. Liaison between facility and governmental agencies and political activist groups.
• Expert and innovative MS Office suite, Lotus and web-based applications. Minor HTML/Dreamweaver. Site administrator multiple platforms and databases.
Personal:
• Excellent Health; Single, 2 grown children.
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES GLADLY PROVIDED
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