Manager Plant

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Over ** years of Plant and Facility Management in ever changing and cost reduction environments in the Automotive Industry. Successful in building and motivating dynamic teams to advance improvement and project completion is key to my success. Cultivating a company culture of continuous improvement, promoting individual responsibility as well as their “ownership” of projects promotes individual success and fulfillment. Setting and ensuring standard work and utilizing best practices through out the production process reducing quality cases and improves profitability. Utilizing investigative tools such as 5 whys, fish bone, A3’s and kaizen to find the root cause and putting in place corrective actions is key to eliminating/reducing the occurrences. Promoting 5s activities which uncovers waste and inefficiencies.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Operations Management Warehouse Management

Facility Management Quality & Safety Orientated

Manage multiple projects Cross Functional Team

Lean Manufacturing JIT

Project Management TS16949/ISO9001, APQP, PPAP

Manufacturing and Facility

Maintenance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

8/2015-11/12/2015 Dallas Plant Manager

Tubelite Inc – Dallas, TX (Store Fronts and Curtain Walls)

Continue Lean Journey

Align staffing with KPI’s

Improve Hour by Hour and Leader Standard Work

Raise awareness and investigate quality cases

Investigate expansion options

Improve efficiencies

Build stronger team and shared work

05/1997 to 06/2015 Director, Manufacturing (2007-2015)

Fujikoki America, Inc - Dallas, TX (Thermostatic Expansion Valve manufacturing for the automotive industry)

Build team of 200+ Managers, Supervisors and Operators.

Efficiency improvement 5% year over year.

Improve tact by 10% and reduce operators by 30% manual lines.

Reduce finish good inventory by $2M.

Reduce HVAC repairs by 50%.

Consolidate manufacturing improving maintenance response time by 30%.

Close customer complaints within specified time.

Improve quality from 6.3 ppm to 1.6 ppm.

Utilize automation to improve output and reduce operators by 60%.

Increase capacity from 7M to 11M.

Contract and purchase order review to reduce cost by 60%.

5s

Plant Manager, Plants 2 & 3 (1997-2007)

Increase capacity from 2M to 7M.

Increase automation on new rotary transfer machines reducing changeover time 50% and increasing tact time by 20%.

Build maintenance team to handle all major and minor repairs, reducing the need for Japanese machine manufacture visit ($15K minimum/visit).

Instigate processes and procedures to secure ISO9001, QS9001 and TS16949 certifications.

05/1990 to 05/1997 Director Safety, Director HR, Safety Engineer

Virginia KMP Corp - Dallas, TX

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering

Texas Tech University - Lubbock, TX, USA

AFFILIATIONS

Board Managers, Oak Cliff YMCA

Asset Renewal and Expansion Chair

Prison Fellowship Member

Sanders Estes Correctional Facility Volunteer (8 years)

EXPANDED PROFESSIONAL EXPERENCE

Fujikoki America:

Supervised:

1 – Plant Manager

1 – Assistant Plant Manager

1 – Materials Manager

1 – Warehouse Supervisor

8 - Production Supervisor’s (4 days, 4 nights)

2 – Maintenance Supervisor’s

2 – Process Engineers

2 – Manufacturing Engineers

1 – Automation Specialist

6 – Facility Team Members (3 – HVAC, air compressors and general maintenance. 2 – Janitors (1 day, 1 night), 1 - Grounds

2 – Purchasing/Spare Parts members

Set goals and KPI’s with expectations

Review of production schedules (12 lines), preventative maintenance, samples and PPAP production.

Continuous Improvement – reduce tact time, combine operations, reduce operators, improve changeover times.

Write and approve standard operating procedures.

Planning for capital equipment, purchase and installation.

Reduce cost by searching and qualifying new vendors including bringing production in-house.

Lead and work with team on Customer and Internal ‘Corrective Action Reports’ utilizing 5 Why’s, 8D and custom reports.

Work with Quality, Sales, Sales Engineering, Accounting, Technical Center and Administration on new products (APQP) and personnel issues.

Prepare weekly and monthly management reports including efficiency, minutes per piece and cost of quality.

Approve all blanket and daily purchase orders. Reduced cost by purchasing from on-line vendors.

Review contracts and approve (gases, waste and recycling).

Audit processes utilizing PFMEA’s, PCP’s and work instructions.

Maintain Vendor database.

Maintain 5s standards

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