Plant Manager

JOSE A. DIEHS

**** ** *** ****, ***** Florida ***85

786-***-**** cell/ ***********@***.***

Objective Highly motivated professional looking for a challenging position with an organization that would benefit from my extensive Industrial & Process Manufacturing Engineering experience.

Education

2012-2013 MS in Engineering Management, Florida International University

Graduation date: Dec 2013

1994 – 1997 MBA, Florida International University, Concentration in Finance

Graduation date: May 1997

1989 - 1992 B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Work Experience:

TESCO Equipment,Coral Spring FL.

Plant Manager 2015-2016

Working for a manufacturing facility in the Aviation Industry. In charge of all manufacturing operations, maintenance and safety of the facility. In charge of salary and hourly employees. In charge of all product and production, scheduling as well as shipping and receiving. Acquisition of new crane system and document/dwg. improvements. Increase efficiency of employees and established new rules and procedures. Created a new PM system for all equipment in facility. Improvement of dwgs

The Protective Group, Miami Lakes, Fl.

Manufacturing/Process Engineering Manager 2011-2014

Working in a Secure Facility for a company in the Aerospace Industry. In charge of Manufacturing and Process Engineering depts. Work closely with R&D, Design Engineering and Sales depts. for new products and improvements of legacy products. Provide support and develop/design tooling for production to increase productivity, reduce lead time and safer operations. I have managed all the facilities and maintenance of these secured facilities and equipment. Knowledge of government contract management, selected salary and hourly personnel for the project at hand. Make corrections to Engineering documents such as drawings, BOM, Routings, etc. Helped in the forecast of personnel requirements, conduct product specific labor hours. Managed different projects from new introduction, facilities improvements and equipment acquisitions. Six sigma and hands-on kaizen events. Experience in selecting special adhesives for the products at hand.

Universal Engineering Solutions, Doral Florida

Business Owner 2004-2011

Responsible for securing new business and manage the administrative part. Also responsible for supervisory work and safety of operations. Direct and manage employees and subcontractors to achieve 100% on time completion.

Fine Art Lamps, Miami Florida

Process/Manufacturing Engineer 2000-2003

Engineer in charge of process/manufacturing improvement (for the complete facility)in final assembly and shades department. Conducted pilot runs and testing for new products including packing design and packing testing. Managed other projects involving new products and legacy products as well. Conducted QC inspections and training of personnel. Evaluations of returned product as to find out root cause and failure elimination. Support of other projects involving maintenance, facilities. Prepared budgets for department and justifications for new equipment and other capital expenditures. Experience in developing operating procedures for approve adhesives and other coatings used in production.

USF Fabrication, Miami, Florida

Plant Manager 1997-2000

Responsible for performance of the facility. Plan, assigns and reviews daily production and performance of subordinates and skilled employees. In charge of manufacturing/production operations (4 departments such as steel welding, aluminum welding, grates and forming/fabricating ), Maintenance dept., and safety (OSHA compliance). Hiring of personnel, approval of salary and reviews. Approve/justify capital and personnel requirements. Reduced overtime by 75%, improved on-time delivery from 60% to 100%, reduced lead time from 4 weeks to 1 wk. Purchase/installation of new equipment. Facilities layout, Engineering and customer support.

Landis & Gyr Metering Inc., Miami, Florida

Plant Manager 1993 - 1996

Responsible of manufacturing/production of facility. In charge of (sub-assembly, welding, final assembly, packing, painting depts.). In charge of maintenance and safety depts.. Hiring of personnel, approves salary and reviews. Approve/justify capital and personnel requirements. Transferred electrical connector product from Indiana to Miami(machines, equipment, personnel, layout), elimination of production bottlenecks, Increase production output, installation of new cleaning system and Paint line. Set up of cell manufacturing and Kanban systems. Managed the automatic paint line and responsible for selecting appropriate coating for products, specs and QC of final assembly.

Manufacturing Engineer 1992 - 1993

Increased production levels, set production standards, overall dept. Implemented time studies to increase production. Fixed all product costs by operations which help accounting reflect actual cost of products, eliminated product bottle necks, increased capacity of the facility, installation of new conveyor system for final assembly. Programming and optimization of CNC programs which increased production.

Some work related accomplishments:

Management

Manage production facility with 150 people

Manage departments such as manufacturing engineering, process engineering, pre-assembly, metal, welding, final assembly, paint, maintenance, bending, aluminum, rolling, shipping.

Increase capacity of the facility by 50%

Increase delivery from 65% to 99% on time

Reduce overtime by 65%

Increased sales and productivity records

Approval of capital and personnel requirements

Maintenance and Safety

Developed safety program

Introduction of noise reduction program

Develop/introduced guards and protectors for machines and personnel

Cleaning system for connector product

Selected, bought and installed new Maintenance Program

Selection and validation of equipment (waterjet, laser, plasma, punch presses, cnc, bending, etc)

Enforcing OSHA compliance

Engineering

Six Sigma

Project Management

Labor standards for operations (provided accurate cost and times of products)

Production capacity and flow of materials optimization

Test/validation of new products

Die design

Process improvements, set up times reductions

Budgets

Autocad layouts and flow optimization

Packing design and testing

Pilot runs

BOM and BTP

CNC programming and optimization of old programs

Waterjet programming and optimization

Elimination of bottlenecks

JIT

Kanban

Cell Manufacturing

Quality control assurance

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