Project Manager Plant

TREVOR H. HOPSTER

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Fort Branch, IN 47648

270-***-**** cell

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EXPERIENCE

W3 Group, LLC Fort Branch, IN

Master Coach 4/12-Present

• Coach and training global management staff on lean/continuous improvement tools and behaviors

• Implement principles and behaviors for coaching and mentoring for leaders

• Develop groups to coordinate efforts to achieve Value Stream objectives.

• Work with clients to develop people while developing challenges and vision for their organization

and individual value streams to reach company objectives and strategic goals.

• Work with and coach development of CI teams in conjunction with leadership teams to drive

training and activities to support process improvements.

• Perform Continuous Improvement/Lean Seminars

• Perform workshops with clients with discrete manufacturing, pharmaceuticals (GMP environment),

defense, packaging operations, service industries, distribution and many more.

• Perform continuous improvement/lean training workshops at University of Michigan and Lean

Enterprise Institute (LEI)

• Perform continuous improvement/lean training workshops for the Iowa Lean Consortium.

• Guest speaker at Michigan Lean Consortium (breakout session)

• Guest speaker at North East LEAN Conference.

http://www.northeastleanconference.org/index.php/annual-conference-111

• https://www.w3groupllc.com/about-the-firm/who-is-w3/trevor-hopster/

• Examples of results from clients. All examples within 6 mos.

• 44% OEE improvement

• 26% Productivity improvement

• 180% C/O reduction improvement

• $1 M cost reduction

• All examples were executed by employees and developed with me coaching the CI

coaches.

Delta Faucet Company Morgantown, KY

Plant Manager 2/09-3/12

• Responsible for injection molding facility with 40 presses and 300+ molds, automated and manned

assembly departments and extrusion processes. Manufacturing and distribution.

• Supervise management staff to determine best problem solving methods and action plans for safety,

delivery, quality, cost and employee morale to meet annual goals.

• Set standards based on model of Masco Production System.

• Responsible for plant budget flexed by volume.

• Lead all Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security Committee meetings and activities.

• Leader of Lean Steering Team and member of corporate Lean Steering Team.

• Provide direction for accountability meeting, charter review, material review board, staff meetings,

and production meetings.

• Successfully launched goal deployment program and supporting problem solving events to achieve

over $250,000 in annual product savings, and OEE improvements.

• Sponsor DMAIC activities, as well as Kaizen problem solving events. Support and drive lean

culture throughout facility.

• Launched and successfully implemented shop floor management in plant and providing direction to

deploy horizontally.

• Strategy to reduce lead time to customer from 55 hours to 24 hours from time order is placed to

product built and ready for shipment.

• Implemented sequenced pull utilizing kanban signals and plan for every part.

• Implemented single minute exchange of dies program.

• Participated in training for Toyota Kata and led deployment efforts at our facility.

Delta Faucet Company Morgantown, KY

Materials Manager/Product Manager 2/08-2/09

• Responsible for plant supply chain – packaging, indirect, direct components, as well as plant

production/shipments. Supervise plant planning staff, as well as project management, and

purchasing.

• Handle all outside sales and supervise sales staff. – Provide project cost and timelines.

• Responsible for new product development and any changes made to existing product line.

• Determine best problem solving methods for teams to use to solve problems. Experience in various

problems solving methods; root cause analysis, value stream mapping, facilitated kaizen events, 3

P’s, & PDCA’s. Provided training in pareto, run charts, control charts, scatter diagrams, process

maps, histogram.

• Held quarterly town hall meetings with hourly staff to update them on new product developments.

• Lead project to remove our company from 30,000+ sq. foot facility for warehousing by reducing

inventory. Project involved several members from different locations.

• Participated in accountability meetings and presented departmental performance metrics.

• Improved truck compliance to 98% from 70%. Improved shipping accuracy from 10 variances a

month to zero. Promoted

Delta Faucet Company Henderson, KY

Project Manager 11/06-2/08

• Oversee various projects, coordinating between all departments from initial concept to full

production.

• Coordinate customer specifications to production planners.

• Responsible for all new parts entered into MRP system as well as bill of materials coordination.

• Review potential component suppliers as well as outsourced goods. Work with design, engineering,

as well as suppliers to provide quotations to customer. Figure project and piece part cost.

• Developed and maintained relations with customers. Travel between plants for project coordination.

• New Technology - Managed largest project in Delta’s history to meet with California Assembly Bill

AB1953. Project worth $65 million. Managed equipment research and implementation as well as

amendments to existing building structure. Managed prototype parts through the testing phase and

production parts from implementation to full production. Facilitated Pre-production process events

to determine best way to run product to reduce waste and cost. (3P/Kaizen) Promoted

Gamco Products Company/Morgantown Plastics Company Henderson, KY

Project Manager 8/04-11/06

• Oversee various projects coordinating between all departments from initial concept to full

production.

• Coordinate customer specification to production planners. Responsible for all new parts entered into

MRP system as well as bill of materials coordination.

• Review potential component suppliers as well as outsourced goods. Work with design and

engineering as well as suppliers to provide quotations to customer.

• Developed and maintained relations with customers. Travel between plants. Gamco Products sold

and Morgantown Plastics became part of Delta Faucet Company.

EDUCATION

Mid-Continent University Henderson, KY

Business Management, Bachelors 8/07-5/09

ITT Technical Institute Newburgh, IN

Tool Engineering Technology, Associates 9/98-9/00

REFERENCES

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