Manager Customer

James Stewart

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PRODUCTION MANAGER/ MANUFACTURING/INTEGRATION/Logistics

** *****’ experience in management

Analytical, highly organized and meticulous manager with an exceptionally strong background in operations management, and sheet metal manufacturing. Knowledge required of parts, for materials to meet multiple concurrent production and shipping schedules while maintaining accurate and minimum inventory levels. Effective communication, relationship building, decision making and problem solving skills. Readily adaptable to a dynamic, production environment. Track record of successful partnerships with internal teams, customers and suppliers. Strong ability to deliver exceptional results in on-time delivery, cost reduction and quality to consistently meet the customer’s requirements and schedules.

SUMMARY OF KEY STRENGTHS

Continuous Process Improvement

Shipping/Receiving Management

Lean Green Belt

Production Workflow Management

Manufacturing Processes

Inventory Control & Management Sheet Metal Manufacturing Manager

Operations metrics & Management

Six Sigma Green Belt / ISO procedures

Resource Utilization / Optimization

Capacity Analysis of Labor

Cycle Time Reduction

Vendor / Supplier Relations

Lean Manufacturing / Kanban

Forklift Safety Instructor Training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD, PLANO, TX October 1998 – December 31, 2015

Flextronics International is a leading worldwide contract manufacturer of sheet metal fab, and diverse SMT based products for a multitude of different product and service oriented companies.

Production Manager / Manufacturing of Sheet Metal and Integration Systems

Plan and execute labor plans for manufacturing and integration for 7 customers concurrently. Ensure availability of parts, materials and resources to support all customer demand, and enable on-time-delivery to a diverse customer base using system metrics to measure success.

Established effective communication with program managers, customers, planning, process engineering, and quality engineering and production team members to drive on-time delivery through monitoring operations from start to finish.

Optimized labor needed on a daily bases using lean process to reduce labor cost. Maintain quality levels and maintaining work in process inventory. Identifying root causes that require inventory adjustments and having engineering correct BOM issues identified in process.

Coordinated, balanced and allocated production resources to consistently meet the schedule and production requirements of all Program Managers and their multiple customer accounts.

Recommended and revised production schedules with Planning to recalibrate schedules and shift resources to maximize utilization and efficiency. Report production progress to schedules and strategies for optimizing of resources’ needed for on time delivery for customer demand.

Provided effective leadership and direction to team members to complete work on time. Consult with planning, purchasing, engineering, quality control and other related departments daily. Make management decisions, while working in partnership with internal teams to drive the highest standards in quality, service and customer satisfaction, to meet all corporate financial goals and objectives.

FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD. (continued)

Selected Achievements:

Direct involvement of new customer layout using lean practice from start. Responsible for writing procedures/processes needed in order to maintain quality results. Working with engineering and senior management to sustain customer demand.

Have been successful in inter-company transfers of customer products including labor, floor layout, material and delivery of products on time. FMC technology awarded excellence in 2014 for Kaizen work shop.

Managed labor needed for production plant move and production line setup for Red Box Automated Retail, Cameron, FMC, Dominion voting machines, while insuring minimal production impact and still meeting 90% scheduled deliveries. Successful in cutting labor cost on Cameron and FMC technology by 40% compared to previous site metrics.

MERCHANT FAST MOTOR LINES, DALLAS, TX January 1975 – February 1997

Merchants was an LTL carrier that operated in in several states, carrying products for a multitude of customers.

Inbound / Outbound Dock Supervisor

Planned and scheduled labor of over 200 employees over two shifts. Supervised the inbound and distribution of customer products. Insured on-time delivery of customer products for the DFW area.

Selected Achievements:

Successfully managed the opening of two locations for new operations – Longview, TX and Tyler, TX. This included hiring and training drivers.

Successfully trained dock workers to become city drivers through a training program.

Maintained trailer inventory and logged in metrics for home office.

Successfully completed all manager training with the company at the time of its closing in 1997.

Best achievement was to increase route coverage by 20%, with same number of drivers.

Education

Terrell High – GED

Trinity Valley – Two years no degree- Major business.

United States Air Force

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