Manager Manufacturing

Professional Summary

Proven Leader with **+ years of Senior Level Manufacturing and Operational experience in the Oil & Gas, Defense, Automotive, and textile industries. Demonstrated track record of quickly improving operational performance using multiple disciplines with focus on improving Safety, Quality, Productivity/Delivery, and EBIT. Expertise in Strategic Planning, Lean Manufacturing, Operational Rationalization, and Supply Chain Management. Highly effective communicator with outstanding interpersonal skills that are amendable for all levels within the organization; fostering teamwork and collaboration, driving understanding, ownership, personal accountability, enablement and empowerment.

Educational Development

University of Houston – Victoria (Currently Enrolled)

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A – Strategic Management and Operations)

Texas A&M University - San Antonio (Graduated May 2014)

Bachelor of Applied Arts and Science (BAAS – Business Management)

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training Program

Professional Development Services (PDS) – Sealy, Texas

Project Management Professional (PMP) Fundamentals Training Program

Project Management Institute (PMI) – Houston, Texas

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training Program

University of Houston – Houston, Texas

Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR) Training Program

San Antonio College – San Antonio, Texas

Technical Skills Summary

Lean Systems Implementation

Value Stream Mapping

General Labor Law and Positive Employee Relations

Toyota Problem Solving Methodology

Six Sigma Methodology

Industrial Engineering concepts

Toyota Way of Quality

TPM /Autonomous Maintenance

Professional Work Experience

Weatherford International, US (Tubular Running Services) Houston, TX

Weatherford (NYSE: WFT) is one of the largest global providers of products and services that span the drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention cycles of oil and natural gas wells.

August 2014 – Present

General Manager, U.S. Manufacturing Operations – Well Construction

Full P&L Responsibility and Managerial oversight of $300M+ budget for Tubular Running Service Product Line Manufacturing, as well as all support functions at the Northwoods Manufacturing Center. (i.e. Assembly & Test, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Quality, Material Operations, HSSE, Accounting, Production Control, Engineering, and Operational Excellence)

Work with organizational Senior Officials to plan business objectives, develop organizational policies to coordinate functions and operations between Departments, Facilities, and Product Lines to establish responsibility and procedures for attaining objectives.

Restructured the leadership team and reduced the amount of functional silos, and duplication of effort which resulted in improved velocity of decision making and flow of information throughout the business unit.

Responsible for establishing strategic plans by evaluation of market strategies and product development, increasing capacity to support product demand, identifying tooling and equipment requirements, development of shop layouts, and establishing priorities for the Northwoods Manufacturing Center.

Planned and organized the implementation of Modular Build for the Manufacturing Operations and Assembly function (Optimized Lean Flow) and Lean Systems for JIT line side Parts Presentation at the facility; which is a first of its kind in the organization.

Responsible for effectively managing the Supply Chain function to deliver and maintain 95%+ OTD to the Manufacturing & Customer Commitment dates with emphasis on supplier quality, vendor management, and robust production planning and forecasting.

Maintain significant focus on financial performance of the Business Unit with emphasis on Absorption, Utilization, and Productivity measurements as leading indicators for EBIT and profitability.

FMC Technologies Inc. (Subsea Systems Manufacturing) Houston, TX

A global corporation; the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier for Subsea Production systems within the oil and gas equipment and services industry with 27 production facilities in 16 countries.

November 2012 – July 2014

Manufacturing Operations Manager – Well Completion Systems

Western Region/Subsea Systems

Responsible for Managing the Machining, Welding, Manufacturing Engineering, and support resources for a large subsea tree manufacturing plant, with responsibility for resource hiring, training, and development, for safety, quality, throughput, and cost improvements, as well as for overall manufacturing strategies and the development and implementation of the Product Line business strategy.

Responsible for developing strategic manufacturing operations plans by evaluating marketing and product objectives, calculating equipment, process, capacity and requirements, determining tooling and maintenance objectives and requirements, developing layouts, and establishing priorities.

Responsible for coordinating operations to ensure product quality requirements are met, resolution of problems, increased production efficiency, reduction of machine down time, and reduction in waste.

Serve as "Chairman" of the Houston Manufacturing Operations Council responsible for coordinating all manufacturing operations improvement activities across multiple product lines and several business sectors in Western Region.

BAE SYSTEMS (Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division – GTS) Sealy, TX

Contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense and other foreign country defense organizations providing tactical wheeled vehicles for military applications.

October 2009 – November 2012

Site Operations Manager

(Manufacturing Operations/Engineering & Continuous Improvement)

Responsibility for budgetary performance ($100M+) for all physical aspects of Manufacturing Operations including Fabrication, Paint Systems, Assembly/Inspection/Testing, Manufacturing Engineering, Continuous Improvement, and Integration/Retro-fit Departments.

(Multi-Shift Manufacturing Operation with 700+ Hourly & Salaried Workforce)

Manage the Manufacturing Operations teams which produced nearly 9,500 Military Vehicles

(FMTV - Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, CMTV – Caiman Multi-Theater Vehicles, Patriot Missile Trucks, and Severe Duty Commercial Trucks) from October 2009 to the present time with 100% on time delivery to the customer, as well as led activity that resulted in Customer Quality improving from 35 defects per vehicle in October 2009 to 0.25 defects per vehicle in April 2012; a 99% improvement.

Direct activity towards reaching Safety Maturity Matrix Level 5 which contributed to the company achieving a 41% reduction in Safety incidents from January 2010 to October 2012 and over 8.5 million man-hours worked without a lost workday case. October 2012 marked the 13th consecutive month without a recordable injury.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) San Antonio, Texas

TMMTX produced the Motor Trend “2008 Truck of the Year - Toyota Tundra”

And earned the JD Power and Associates “2008 SILVER PLANT AWARD”

June 2006 - October 2009

“Senior Production Group Leader” - Paint Department

Responsible for managing plant start-up and pre-SOP activities that included process set-up, high volume production readiness trials, standardized work instruction development, takt-time/cycle- time ramp-up, and the staffing of hourly Team Members.

Managed safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, moral, maintenance, and engineering issues to ensure that all “Toyota Way” competitive manufacturing practices, metrics, and policies were achieved, as well as coordinated quality improvement and defect reduction activities with other Group Leaders to improve the overall quality and reduction of Flow-out from the Paint department.

Led process improvement activities that resulted in a 3 month turn-around of the paint department where productivity increased from 70% OA to 95% OA. Also during that time the overall quality improved from .15 DPV to .06 DPV in SQA Plant audits and a “Zero” DPV score in 3 separate TEMA (Corporate) Quality Audits which became the benchmark for all Toyota Manufacturing Plants in North America.

Developed workflow optimization strategies for the Paint Department which included process improvement and stabilization efforts utilizing the Toyota Way of Quality and Toyota Business Practice model for sustainability.

Miller Curtain Company Inc., USA San Antonio, TX

MCC is a privately held Curtain, Bedding, Draperies, and Home Furnishings company with annual sales of $74,999,999.

(The following reflects 13 years - 10 Months of Continuous Career Progression)

July 1992 – May 2006

Director – Plant Operations & Human Resources

Plant Manager

Production Manager

Department Manager

Supervisor

Worked closely with company’s senior leadership to identify Human Resources strategies and program requirements needed to maintain a diverse and progressive work culture in support of the effective recruitment, development, and retention of a high-performing manufacturing staff.

Identified qualitative and quantitative requirements for Recruitment, Awards and Recognition, Learning and Organizational Development, Staff and Labor Relations, Benefits, Human Resources Information Systems, and Employee Occupational Health, Safety, and Wellness.

Managed Upper-Level managers in a multi-shift manufacturing operation with 200+ hourly employees utilizing industrial Engineering and Ergonomic concepts to conduct time studies and method studies to establish production standards and procedures to increase productivity and reduce work-related injuries.

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