Dan Utt
Thompsons Station, Tn 37179
615-***-**** Tel.
*********@*****.***
Objective: To use my 27 years of experience as production supervisor, manager in injection molding, paint and assembly for a successful career with your company.
Experience: Please note: changes in jobs noted have been due to plant closings or department closings. It is my goal to settle in one place of employment consistently.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Kyowa
Portland, Tn
Paint Supervisor
Dec 16 2013 – present
Supervise 45 team members, 2 paint techs and a team leader across 2 paint lines
Improve first pass yield thru Toyota problem solving practices
Oversee training of all new employees
Countermeasure all process issues through problem solving skills
Daily audits of processes and inspection areas
Provide training for all employees
Promote safety and company policies
MacLellan
Nissan North America
Smyrna, Tn
Group Leader
September-December 2013
Manage a cleaning crew in charge of maintaining paint systems through deep cleans, daily change overs, 5-s activities
Safety improvements at site
Save activities improvements
Public relations with customer
Work with customer in reduction of defects through defect analysis
Manpower Temporary Services (temporary job)
Murfreesboro, Tn
Material Handler
July – September 2013
Supply product to assembly lines.
Remove empties from assy line and place in proper place
Maintain WIP racks with product used for assy lines
Vuteq
Princeton, Indiana
Assy Supervisor
July 2012 – June 2013
Manage 2 Senior Team Leaders, 10 team leaders and 40 operators on instrument panel line through line audits, team meetings, individual conversations
Enforce all safety and company policies
Assure operators are doing standardized work
Coach Sr T/L’s on day to day operations of the line
Teach T/L’s on how to direct their respective teams
Countermeasure quality defects at customer
Liason for company on quality issues with customer
SRG Global
601 North Congress Avenue
Evansville, Indiana 47715
Paint Supervisor / Scheduler
July 2010 – June 19, 2012
Plant Downsizing
Supervise 22 operators on 2 overhead conveyor paint lines and assy cells
Schedule operators and assy cells for daily customer needs
Review daily all quality issues with operators
Inventory control of painted and assembled parts
Continuous improvement of assy cells through kaizan events
Track daily efficiency of assy cells and paint lines
Daily report of scrap and labor efficiency
Scheduling of both paintlines using batch runs
A Schulman (temporary position)
Nashville, Tennessee
Sprew Machine, Master Batch Operator
May 2010 – July 2010
Mix all batches using prescribed formulas with weights and percentages
Responsible in keeping area 5-s
Taking inventory of materials used in making batches
Labeling and weighing containers before placing into wip storage
Dell (temporary position)
Nashville, Tennessee
Forklift Driver / Packaging Operator LTL Dept
April 2010 – May 2010
Work on continuous flow line using scanners to place components into boxes
Responsible to load product direct from packaging line to trailer
Certified forklift driver
International Customs Products (3 month contract job)
Lewisburg, Tennessee
Distribution Supervisor
October 2009 – December 31 2009
Supervise 15 drivers in distribution center consisting of 26 docks
Scheduled all inbound and outbound trailers with dispatch in accordance to priority
Set up all next day trailers to docks based on quantity and location of parts in warehouse
SUMMIT POLYMERS Shelbyville, Tennessee
AUTOMOTIVE INJECTION MOLDING, AUTOMATED PAINTING, AND ASSEMBLY
Plant closing
Finishing Manager
October 2008 – February 2009
Manage 8 supervisors along with 8 paint techs, 5 assembly leads to produce a quality part for our customer
Oversee the daily activities of the finishing department which includes operator work instructions, engineering changes, scheduling of all 4 paint booths and all 20 assembly cells.
My other duties is to improve the process flow of the entire department by running a lean inventory of parts for assembly and the paint lines to keep inventory and overtime cost to a minimum.
Create and maintain assembly and paint line efficiencies along with keeping the BOM current to any and all changes made to the process.
Strive to improve quality and production while at the same time lean out the paint and assembly processes.
Continuously improve current paint programs for cost savings through paint usage, increase yield rate, and reduce labor
Write and implement all new paint programs along with paint racks
Manufacturing Paint Engineer
July 2008- October 2008
Continuously improve current paint programs for cost savings through paint usage, increase yield rate, and reduce labor
Write and implement all new paint programs along with paint racks
Train all paint techs to paint processes
PLASTECH ENGINEERING Franklin, Tennessee
Plant closing
AUTOMOTIVE INJECTION MOLDING, AUTOMATED PAINTING, AND ASSEMBLY
Paint / Robotics Engineer
December 2005 – July 2008
Preventive maintenance on 20 paint pumps, 3 2-K mixers, and all 8 robots
Responsible for repair of robots with updates to software, fiber optics, IO boards
Manage 3 paint lines with 8 robots, 6 paint techs, 20 paint pumps, 3 2K-Mixers
Continuously improve current paint programs for cost savings through paint usage, increase yield rate, and reduce labor
Write and implement all new paint programs along with paint racks
Create spreadsheet with 1st time yield of all paint programs monitoring spray time to track paint per part, tact time of each program, and efficiency of paint lines
LEAR CORPORATION Huron, Ohio
AUTOMOTIVE INJECTION MOLDING, ACCOUSTIC, PAINT AND ASSEMBLY
HURON, OH
Supervisor II
March 2004 – December 2005
Managing 3 assembly lines, 2 launch lines, 1 paint line (a total of 60 operators)
Setting up work processes for both launch lines and paint line through lean
manufacturing
Maintaining OEE reports for assembly production lines
Scheduling and training operators on production jobs
Supervise 85 operators along with 35 injection molding presses
Schedule presses to meet customer requirement
LDM TECHNOLOGIES/PLASTECH Circleville, Ohio
AUTOMOTIVE INJECTION MOLDING, PAINT AND ASSEMBLY
Plant closing
CIRCLEVILLE, OH
July 1985 – March 2004 – 18+ years covering the following positions: (resigned 6 months before plant closing)
Operator (1985-1987)
Assembled parts for automotive interior parts using pad printers, hot stampers, sonic welders, air driven heat stakers
Material Handler (1987-1990)
Supplied all assembly lines with components and parts
Assembly Tech (1990 – 1999)
Maintained all assembly equipment including pad printers, air driven heat stake machine, sonic welders, hot stamp machines, screw feeders
Monthly PM on equipment
Paint Technician (1999 – 2001)
Set up paint lines with waterborne, solvent and solvent borne 2-k paint. Maintained paint guns, 2-k mixers, pressure pots. I also set up all paint to process which includes viscosity, flow rates. Troubleshoot issues with Finishing Manager to resolve issues and improve 1st time yield.
Finishing Manager (2001 – 2004)
Managed 45 operators, 3 supervisors over 3 shifts
Continuously improve assembly and paint processes through Kaizan methods
Scheduling of production requirements for department
Develop training rotation for associates
Monitor OEE of department through created spreadsheet
Set up all paint and assembly processes
AAR approval for all injected molded, paint and assembly
Responsible for EPA Title V reporting
EXPERIENCES:
Color matching both injection molding and paint
Hazardous waste handling
EPA VOC Emission reports Title V
Assembly cell layouts
Production Scheduling
Kaizan work cells to help balance out work and lean out labor and costs
8-d and fishbone for quality issues
Action item logs for tracking issues
OEE reporting
Fanuc Programming Paint P100
ABB Paint Robot C5.3 version
Motoman XRC Paint Robots
Plastics polypro, polycarbonate, ABS, phenolic, PC/ABS
Paint: 2k-solvent, 2-k waterborne, solventbase, waterbase, clearcoat, primer
2k mixers gear driven and pump driven
EDUCATION:
1985
Circleville High School
Circleville, OH
High school diploma
PRJVC Vocational Center – Law Enforcement Graduate
CERTIFICATIONS:
ABB Robot Training 12/19/1997
Fanuc Robot Training 02/15/1994
Adept Robot Training 10/29/2001
DOT Training 8/12/1997
Macbeth Training 6/12/1995
ISO / QS 9000 5/17/1996
ISO 14001 EMS Training 8/21/2001
REFERENCES:
Bill Currence
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer at the Productivity Team
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Orvil Allgood
Former Finishing Manager Plastech
Doug Paschal
Friend United Paint Sales Rep
Jerry Warren
Supervisor Summit Polymers