Manager Machine
Resume:
Bruce W. Platt
Winnebago, IL *1088
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EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY
Chrysler LLC, Belvidere, IL 1994 to present
Maintenance Area Manager
Started as an hourly welder repairman. Job responsibility included programming, troubleshooting and maintaining
production machinery. Was asked to go into supervision with the increased responsibility of planning and coordinating
production and maintenance activates, training and coaching both hourly as well as salary employees on equipment.
After 2 lunches of new product lines and being a major role in both was asked to move up to manager level. This
added the roles of hiring team members both hourly as well as salary. Working with other plants on their new launches,
performing root cause analysis to help department increase throughput while reducing operating cost. As the manager
of the Body shop I was asked and performed to lead the major launch of a new state of the art body shop. This required
working with all the equipment vendors as well as our advance manufacturing teams.
Major accomplishments: Was able to launch a new model from installation to production during a two week shut
down. Work on the change over from on production machine to a new machine with no loss of production of
throughput.
Detroit Center Tool, Detroit MI 1993 – 1994
Electrician
Electrician and Controls leader. Roles was to build, debug, program and follow machines from start to delivery. Work
on machines for Ford Motor Company Dearborn MI, Chrysler Belvidere IL, and Chrysler Toledo OH. Work with Allen
Bradly PLC 3, PLC 5, GE LM90 GE series 6, and Unicor programmable controllers, Worked with Fanuc RJ,
Cincinnati Milacron, and Kuka robots.
The Paslin Company, Warren, MI 1990 – 1993
Controls Leader
Responsible for coordination of all hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical build of machines. Direct all activities to get
machine functioning through the use of programmable controllers and robotics. Responsible for shipping, installation
and startup of machine at vendor’s site. Tasked include reviewing print, ordering parts, laying out machines and
ordering material to build machine. Determine manpower and work load and schedule. Hire manpower to complete
task. Work with customs for equipment and function of machine. Run 5 different builds at the sometime.
Unified Systems, Troy, MI (Acquired by The Paslin Company) 1982 –1990
Started part time while in US Air Force till 1985 Machine builder with focus on controls, started as a builder and
moved up to manager. Worked with major customers Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Johnson Controls, and Bud Wheel.
Did all the debug and robot programming on machines, Worked with Fanuc robots from the RG to the RJ series
controllers, Worked with Allen Bradley controllers from the PLC 2 up to PLC 5. Other robot manufacture and
Programmable controls as well.
United States Air Force 1982 – 1988
Crash Fire Rescue Full time from 1982 to 1986 then Air National Guard till 1988. Obtained the rank of E5.
Major accomplishments: Emergency Medical Technician, Rescue school, NCO, 7 level for firefighting.
EDUCATION
Concordia University River Forest IL. Bachelor Degree
Hobbies
Flying
Firefighting
Golf
Medical Service
References available upon request
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