MARVIN HICKMAN
***** ****** * ***** *** ***, Southfield, Michigan 48034 H ome: 248-***-**** C ell: 248-***-****
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Professional Summary
Manufacturing Supervisor successful at exceeding production revenue and quality standards.
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l Management Professional effective at building highly-motivated teams in a fast paced environment.
l Exceptional Leader talented in Automotive Interior industry
Skills
Exceptional interpersonal communication skills Strong Decision maker
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Risk management processes and analysis Accurate and Detail
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Lean Principles know Root cause analysis
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Excel and Word PowerPoint
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Work History
Production Supervisor, 0 9/2010 to Current
Magna Seating International – Detroit, MI
l Responsible for workplace safety, training, coaching of 52 UAW members comprising of 4 units.
Managed product quality to guarantee compliance with quality policies, procedures and systems.
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Maintain company standards are followed, implementing plant floor best practices while running efficiency
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rate of 95%
Implemented Recycle strategies which resulted in 35% saving in material cost .
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Champion all 5's and Kaizen and Continuous Improvement plans.
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Responsible for 1st and 2nd row seating for Chrysler Cherokee Jeep business unit 14.5 million in annual
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sales.
Implemented procedures for limiting overtime cost by 25% by alternating work schedules.
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Saved 147,000.00 by re -alignment of jobs stations using Lean principles to reducing over head cost.
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Appointed Launch Supervisor for the 2nd row seating for the GM Chevy Volt business unit working
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engineering on floor layout and standardize processes 300,000.00 annual sales.
Responsible for the JIT Logistics systems and practices.
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Production Supervisor, 1 2/2001 to 0 8/2010
Inalfa System – Auburn Hills, MI
l Champion workplace safety and training while driving company standards, product, quality.
l Met aggressive production and company goals by 15% while minimizing equipment and line downtime by
20% .
l Directed the manufacturing process and operational efficiency procedures to achieve goal of first run
capability and efficiency rate of 96%
l Drove daily production activities involving Engineering and Upper management.
l Managed 47 UAW members l Responsible for 4 business units GM/ BMW/ Nissan/ Chrysler 17 million
annual sales.
l Developed cross - functionally Training metrics speadsheet for all 3 shift.
l Implemented Ergonomic trainnig that reduce injuries by 40% rotating job assignment and exposing risk and
injury issues.
l Responsible for controlling scrap and material cost
l Consistently out performed other shift related to Department and Plant measurable.
Account Manager, 0 3/1997 to 1 1/2001
Aramark Co – Wixom, MI
l l Assumed ownership over team productivity and managed product flow to meet or exceed quality service
goals.
l l Facilitated inter-departmental communication to effectively provide customer support.
l l Identified individual development needs with appropriate training.
l l Effective liaison between customers and internal departments.
l Maintained accurate records of past due customer account activity.
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Account Manager, 0 1/1991 to 1 0/1997
Cintas Corp – Westland, MI
Education
Associate of Arts: Business,
Shaw Business College - Detroit, MI
Accomplishments
Dale Carnegie Training - Thomas -Kilman Training.
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Increased overall productivity and quality by [35]% by implementing training programs designed to
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increase performance levels.
Trained and supervised [60] production team over [10 yr]
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Successfully recruited and trained [25] Team Leaders
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Creative Problem Solving and Diversity Training
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5's and Lean Principles Training
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Continuous Flow & Error Proofing Systems(EPS) training
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Employee Development Training in Line Balancing
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ECPL and GRASP Training.
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