John Dluhos

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Slippery Rock, PA **057

814-***-****

acvl46@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Experienced in all aspects of manufacturing and plant supervision including operations foreman and manager responsibilities. Proven team leader with expertise in continuous improvement, cost reduction, safety processes, project management, and coaching cross functional teams. Skilled in motivating to achieve business goals, problem solving, administration, maintenance functions, and communicating effectively.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Managed the operations and maintenance of a plant operation and reduced production costs by 5% in one year on an annual spend of $66 million by daily monitoring costs on key spending.

Improved safety performance by implementing processes that reduced the OSHA reportable rate by 93% in five years.

Championed six sigma improvement projects that improved quality and reduced costs by $800,000.

Coached best practices and reduced delays that improved productivity on a process that established a new company best.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TMK IPSCO, Beaver Falls, PA

Assistant Plant Manager 2011-2016

Responsible for operations of the Koppel Plant of the Seamless Tube Division. Manage and lead the Electric Arc Furnace Melting, Billet Casting, Quench and Temper (finishing), Steel Yard (billet cutting) and Maintenance departments. Manage a team of 4 Department Managers while indirectly managing approximately 300 personnel.

Increased productivity in the Melt Shop from 16 heats per day to 20 heats per day.

Exceed performance objectives in Quality, Cost, Productivity, and Safety.

Profitably managed the plant during the record year of 2014 that saw record production and controlled variable costs to $4.5 Million below budget for the year.

Lead quality initiatives that dramatically improved plant quality performance. Melt Shop Scrap Rate reduce by 20% in 3 years. New stirring technology introduced at the Ladle Furnace to improve internal quality.

North American Hoganas, Hollsopple, PA

Department Manager 2003-2011

Responsible for the operations and management of the Melting and Atomizing Department that makes iron powder from scrap.

Increased production in one type of product by 20%.

Established a new company best production record for one day, one month and one year.

Reduced raw material costs in one product by 12%.

Won the best project for Hoganas AB in 2006, saving the process $500,000.00

Led the department in TS Automotive Quality certification.

Developed processes for the production of two new products.

Bethlehem Lukens Plate,Coatesville, PA 1987 - 2003

Department Manager 2000 - 2003

Responsible for the operations and management of a steel Melt Shop that had the capacity of 900,000 liquid metal tons.

Guided the plant-wide effort of a cross functional team and became ISO 14001 qualified in environmental matters.

Facilitated continuous improvement and technology changes that improved efficiency and reduced costs. Lowered material cost in one operation by 30% and utility use by 40% in another.

Superintendent 1998 - 2000

Supervised the melting operations from raw materials through chemistry refining to the semi-finished product of carbon, alloy and stainless liquid metal.

Exceeded cost saving targets and realized an annual savings of $1.6 million by improving thru put and developing alternative raw materials.

Selected to attend the company Leadership training program for high potential management candidates.

General Foreman 1997- 1998

Responsible for all manufacturing activities to include personnel, equipment and operations in the liquid metal area of the department.

Selected and trained a new vendor for the $10 million raw material management contract.

Developed a new brick installation technique that improved equipment life to a record level.

General Foreman 1993 - 1997

Responsible for manufacturing activities and managing 41 employees and an annual budget in excess of $10 million.

Developed and implemented practices at the Continuous Caster for manufacturing two new products that resulted in the ability to produce a new product line.

Reduced the occurrences of product misses by 14% by examining upset conditions and standardizing corrective actions.

Reduced delay by 12 percent with the careful management of resources.

Operating Manufacturing Engineer 1989 - 1993

Responsible for continuous improvement projects and reliability efforts in two key areas of the plant.

Improved equipment availability to a very high 95% by effectively planning each repair.

Executed the changes necessary to increase process speed by 30% by installing new equipment and revising standard practices.

Maintenance Manufacturing Engineer 1987 - 1989

Improved maintenance operations in the semi-finished product and finished product area of the plant.

Developed written check lists that resulted in complete and repeatable repairs of key spare assemblies.

Headed expedited repair of breakdowns that improved shop equipment readiness.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science - Applied Science and Engineering 1979

United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

CERTIFICATES

Penn State Visible Emissions Training Program 2006

Leading into the Future: Bethlehem/Wharton School of Business 2001

Pennsylvania Engineer in Training 1979

TRAINING

Somerset County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program 2005

Six Sigma 2002

Dale Carnegie 2007

Continuous Casting of Steel, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 1988

AFFILIATIONS

Electric Metal Maker’s Guild 2000 -Present

Association for Iron and Steel Technology 2006 - Present

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