Welding Equipment
Resume:
Brian J. Deaton
*** ******* ********** *****, **
**********@*****.***
563-***-**** (Cell)
Objective:
My objective is to leverage my experience while continuing to be challenged. I have 20 plus years of experience working in the industrial manufacturing field. My background in Management, welding, robotic welding, CNC, Project Management, Process Management as well as Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma; these skills represent a unique combination of disciplines.Personally, I have the drive and determination to consistently achieve success as a leader in all of the organizations that I have worked with in the past.
Experience:
XL Specialized Trailers Manchester IA
1st Shift Weld Production Manager November 2014 to July 2015
●Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
●Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.
●Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
●Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
●Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
●Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
●Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
●Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, recordkeeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.
●Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
●Maintains working relationship with the union by following the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
●Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action.
●Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
●Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Energy Manufacturing Monticello IA
3rd Shift Supervisor January 2014 to Present
●Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
●Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.
●Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
●Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
●Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
●Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
●Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
●Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, recordkeeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.
●Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
●Maintains working relationship with the union by following the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
●Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action.
●Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
●Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Alamo Group Gibson City, IL
1st Shift Welding Department Supervisor February 2010 to 2013
●Supervised and coordinated activities of workers engaged in
welding and cutting products, applying knowledge of welding and
cutting techniques, materials and equipment and fabrication
requirements.
●Executed daily operations of Welding Dept, Robotic Welding Dept.
●Analyzed work orders and blueprints to determine need for supplies and sequence of operations required.
●Requisitioned supplies, such as weld rods, gas, and welding wire.
●Inspected work and conferred with others to maintain specified standards and quality.
●Trained and managed 47 welders, 3-Motoman Robotic Welders and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
●Trained workers in operation of equipment.
●Trained all new employees in Standard Operational Procedures.
●Supervised over 50 employees
●Scheduled work hours, resolved conflicts.
●Supervised fitting and assembly of structural frames.
●Studied production schedules and estimates worker-hour requirements for completion of job assignments.
●Interpreted company policies to workers and enforced safety regulations.
●Interpreted specifications, blueprints and job orders to workers and assigned weekly duty assignments.
●Recommended measures to improve safety, production methods, equipment performance and quality of product.
●Suggested changes in working conditions and use of equipment to
●Increase efficiency and safety of shop, departments.
● Analyzed and resolved work problems and assisted workers in
solving work problems.
●Initiated and suggested plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
●Recommended and initiated personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, discharges and disciplinary actions.
●Trained new workers.
●Purchased and maintained all welding equipment.
●Maintained Man-hour reports and production records.
●Purchased welding consumables, while maintaining effective inventory control.
●Conferred with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments
●Well versed Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point).
Caterpillar Decatur, IL
1st Shift Nontraditional / Welder March 2006 to 2011
●TPA to Caterpillar Weld School as instructor’s assistant.
●TPA as a Weld Consultant to an engineering group for Wheel Tractor Scraper lines.
●Assigned to Motor Grader Processing for MCD areas.
●Responsible for requesting, and collecting all data on laser checks for 8170 (drawbars), 8163 (tandems), and 8165 (circles).
●Assists Processors in day-to-day activities; tool orders, routings and floor operations for MG and WTS.
●Assisting in implementation of Standard work, responsible for timing workstations to verify procedures and updating JMI.
●Assisting in implementation of Inventory accuracy in MG and WTS
●Completed and passed Caterpillar’s Management Selection Process.
●Assigned to 8170 Drawbar tack.
●Trained in all cells in 8170 (drawbars) tack, robot, finish, cleaning, and straitening.
●Trained in all cells in 8165 (circles) tack, prep, robot, finish, and clean.
●Trained in all cells in 8163 (tandems) tack, prep, robot, finish, cleaning, and hardware.
●Trained in all cells in 8171 (moldboards) tack, finish, straitening.
Wise Company Inc. Piggott, AR
1st Shift Welding Department Supervisor July 1995 to July 2005
●Supervised and coordinated activities of workers engaged in
welding and cutting products, applying knowledge of welding and
cutting techniques, materials and equipment and fabrication
requirements.
●Executed daily operations of Welding Dept, Robotic Welding Dept, and Metal shop Dept.
●Tracked and maintained company welding certification records.
●Analyzed work orders and blueprints to determine need for supplies and sequence of operations required.
●Requisitioned supplies, such as weld rods, gas, welding wire.
●Worked with Engineering Dept for design of new fixtures.
●Inspected work and conferred with others to maintain specified standards.
●Trained and managed 20 welders, 8 Motoman Robotic Welders and 2 CNC Tube benders and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
●Trained workers in operation of equipment.
●Trained all new employees in Standard Operational Procedures.
●Set up machines and made trial welds to make test runs and experimental products.
●Supervised over 30 employees in three different Departments.
●Scheduled work hours, resolved conflicts, determined salaries for all three departments.
●Supervised fitting and assembly of structural frames.
●Studied production schedules and estimates worker-hour requirements for completion of job assignments.
●Structured, maintained and performed a maintenance schedule for robotic welders.
●Interpreted company policies to workers and enforced safety regulations.
●Interpreted specifications, blueprints and job orders to workers and assigned weekly duty assignments.
●Established and adjusted work procedures to meet production schedules, using knowledge of capacities of machines and equipment.
●Recommended measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and quality of product.
●Suggested changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shop, departments, and work crews.
● Analyzed and resolved work problems and assisted workers in solving work problems.
●Initiated and suggested plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
●Recommended and initiated personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, discharges and disciplinary actions.
●Trained new workers.
●Purchased and maintained all welding equipment.
●Maintained Man-hour reports and production records.
●Purchased welding consumables, while maintaining effective inventory control.
●Estimated, requisitioned and inspected raw materials as well as spot checks on completed parts.
●Conferred with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments.
Education:
Kata Training Manchester, IA XL Specialized Trailers 2015
American Intercontinental University Decatur, IL
AABA in Business Administration 2008
(Operational Management) GPA 3.24
Caterpillar University Decatur, IL
Lean Manufacturing 2008
Caterpillar University Decatur, IL
(6-Sigma) Green Belt Certification 2008
Caterpillar University Decatur, IL
(Caterpillar Production System) CPS Production 2008
Welder Qualification
FCAW, GMAW, GTAW
Caterpillar University Decatur, IL
(Caterpillar Production System) CPS Manufacturing 2008
Engineer Qualification
Caterpillar University Decatur, IL
(Caterpillar Production System) CPS Team Member 2008
Core Qualification
MCE Welding School Decatur, IL Caterpillar Welding Certification (1F, 2G 3G) 2006
FCAW, GMAW, GTAW, SAW
U.S. Navy Annapolis, MD
(Total Quality Leadership) TQL Program 1993
U.S. Navy Gulfport, MS
Welding Certification (1F, 2G, 3G, 4G) 1990
CAW, FCAW, GMAW, GTAW, SMAW
U.S. Navy Gulfport, MS
Pipefitting School 1990
U.S, Navy Gulfport, MS
SW A-School (Steel Worker) 1989
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