Manager Engineering

JAMES W. SELLERS

W***N**** Twin Pine Circle, Hartland, WI 53029 262-***-**** ********@**.**.***

SUMMARY

Manufacturing Professional with over 30 years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, and operations management. Offers well-rounded and proven capabilities in process flow, cost analysis, lean manufacturing, and cycle time reduction. Teams well with all manufacturing functions and effectively leads and develops staff in achieving organizational goals. Strong operational skills, accounting skills, MS office skills, and SAP experience.

Plant Manager experience

Lean skills

Enthusiastic, motivated by realizing results

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SPX Transformer Solutions 2001-2014

Producer of medium and large voltage with an employment of over 750 and revenues of $400 million.

Focus Factory Leader, Waukesha, WI 2013-2014

Managed 100 hourly and 11salary personnel for the final assembly, control cabinet, and shipping areas. Responsible for safety, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, production planning, and purchasing.

Improved safety in the final assembly as plant has lowest ever Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) rate by using employee safety committees, safety audits, and 5S .

Held employees accountable and improved processes to increase productivity by 20%.

Improved quality by reducing non conformances and getting to root cause.

Shipped all units for the year to achieve plant operational goals.

Manufacturing Engineering and Facilities Manager, Waukesha, WI 2012-2013

Managed eight engineers to improve manufacturing operations and facility dependability. Continued to work with plant production planning and manpower analysis.

Managed fire recovery project to get EHV Test Bay back in operation in 3 months. Worked with outside contractors, insurance adjusters, legal, and company experts.

Improved new processes in EHV production area. Supervised new procedures and equipment installation.

Plant Manager, Waukesha, WI 2010-2012

Directly responsible for all plant operations with direct reports from production, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, quality, safety, maintenance, and production planning.

Improved plant safety via safety audits and safety committees.

Used root cause analysis to improve quality.

Outsourced the fabrication operation to make room for plant expansion.

JAMES W. SELLERS

W279N8540 Twin Pine Circle, Hartland, WI 53029 262-***-**** ********@**.**.***

Plant Manager, Goldsboro, NC 2007-2010

Directly responsible for all plant operations. Site Leader with responsibility for Design Engineering, Accounting, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources.

Changed plant culture on safety and employee engagement through lean activities. (5S,VSM,TPM) There were no lost time accidents for over 2 years.

Delivered record sales and OP to SPX in 2007 and again in 2008.

Operations Manager, Goldsboro, NC 2004-2007 Additional duties to Manager Manufacturing Engineering included day to day responsibilities for direct and indirect workforce. Operational lead in Union negotiations in 2007.

Manager of Manufacturing Engineering and Maintenance, Goldsboro, NC 2001-2007

Managed two manufacturing engineers and maintenance supervisor. Hands on responsibility for facilities maintenance. Production manager responsibilities for core/coil, including three production supervisors and 60 hourly associates. Responsible for lean initiatives.

Sparton Electronics, DeLeon Springs, FL 2000 - 2001

Manufacturer of sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy. Contract manufacturer (box build) of commercial products.

Industrial Engineering Manager 2000-2001

Managed four IE’s, four IE Technicians, three model shop employees, facility manager, and eight maintenance associates.

Improved assembly processes for sonobuoys by concentrating on cycle time reduction. Assembly process included printed circuit board assembly and assembly of PCB’s into sonobuoy product line.

Installed new 56E sonobuoy assembly line and insured on-time product delivery to US Navy.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

SQUARE D COMPANY, Palatine, IL 1981 - 1999

Facility Manager

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Senior Project Engineer

Industrial Engineering Supervisor

Cost Engineer/ Industrial Engineer

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor of Science, Business Arts

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

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