Manager Plant

William F. Jenkins, Jr

Plant Manager/Operations Director

Highlights of Qualifications

Participative manager with 28 years in plastic/rubber molding and stamping operations of Consumer products and Tier1 Automotive components with experience working in world-class manufacturing plant operations and environments. Provided strategic leadership in development and implementation of quality driven systems in the work place including TS16949, QS-9000, ISO14001, and other progressive manufacturing systems. Utilize Lean principles and six sigma problem solving tools with an ability to build cohesive teams and organizations that are driven and consistently exceeding the organization goals and customer expectations. Strong innovative, creative, team builder that utilizes diversity in the work place to continuously be innovative and empowering people to enhance critical thinking to improve methods, processes, and products. An outstanding leader with excellent interpersonal skills who promotes a participative working environment.

Professional Experience:

Woodbridge – Formed Plastics November 2015 – Present

Plant Manager

Global Tier 1/Tier II supplier of innovative urethane and particle foam technologies, to serve the automotive, commercial, military and recreational vehicle industries, along with several other business sectors including: Protective Packaging, Healthcare and Building products.

● Daily leadership with P&L responsibility for the manufacturing plant locations, Sales $18 million, 80 employees.

● Oversee the companies day to day operational details, implement strategies for growth and succession planning, develop goals and objectives for the manufacturing plants to change the culture of the plant and re-align the structure of the team in plant to refocus on goals and objectives required to be successful.

● Evaluate the Plant staff structure and a function, accessing each individual making sure it aligns with the direction I have established for the plant. Mentoring and developing progression paths to re-focus on corporate objectives.

● Monitor and review monthly income statement with the plant management highlighting areas of improvement and developing plans for continual improvement.

● Review monthly quality operating systems (QOS) scorecard with plant management highlighting any areas that require improvement.

● Set guidelines for personnel evaluations, recruitment and advancement.

● Support Corporate with policies and guidelines to establish functional standards for maintaining the plant operations.

● Design and implement new strategies and practices to drive lean principles forward in the plants.

● Work to ensure that Health, Safety and Environmental standards are maintained and in compliance with policies and procedures pertaining to facility and divisional adopted standards such as TS16949 and ISO14001.

SaarGumi LLC, Pulaski TN January 2015 – October 2015

Global Tier1 supplier of extruded and injection molded EPDM/sponge rubber and thermal plastic static and dynamic sealing components for the automotive industries. Private owned Chinese based company with RMB 11.26 billion of sales revenue.

Director of Engineering for the Americas

(Tier 1 Automotive Supplier)

● Oversee the manufacturing process engineering for 300 employees, 3 locations - United States, Mexico and South America.

● Establish and maintain a global standardization for capital and tooling throughout the organization.

● Develop and implement Industrialization standards

● Support manufacturing plant with process issues and implementation of new capital and tooling.

● Review and sign-off on product design concepts, tooling design and capital purchases.

● Establish a lean system to manage, track and report out on annual lean projects.

WESTERN PLASTIC, Portland TN November 2012 – January 2015

Global supplier of molded engineered polymer for containers and assemblies in the consumer markets of vacuum cleaners and power tools. Subsidiary of the private owned Berkshire Hathaway organization.

Director of Operations

(Plastic Injection Molding – Consumer Products)

Manager and direct the plants operational goals with the plant managers based on key indicates. Develop obtainable matrix and hold accountability to the plant manager for achieving budget objectives. Interphase with corporate officers on annual budget criteria and objectives based on long range forecast predictions.

COOPER STANDARD AUTOMOTIVE, Goldsboro, NC May 1987 – November 2012

Global Tier1 supplier of extruded and injection molded EPDM/sponge rubber, thermal plastic, and plastic static/dynamic sealing components, and metal stampings for the automotive industries. Private owned company with 27,000 people globally and operates in 20 countries around the world. Sales revenue of $3.4 billion.

(Tier1 - Rubber, Plastic, Molding, Metal Forming and Stamping)

● Business Unit Manager - multiple locations (Plant Management 2006 - 2012)

● New Programs Engineering Manager (1993 - 2006)

● Senior Project/Tooling Engineer, Divisional Cost Engineer Manager (1992-1993)

● Chief Industrial Engineering/Manager of Divisional Cost Engineer (1990 - 1992)

● Division Cost Engineer / Senior Industrial Engineer (1988 - 1990)

● Industrial Engineering Technician (1987 - 1988)

Additional Professional Accomplishments

Transformed a company culture to one of continuous improvement in all functions with accountability metrics at all levels. Transformed poor performing plant in less than 12 months by implementing lean/kaizen concepts, instituting three levels metrics – plant floor, plant management and quality management and re-aligning the goals and objectives to create a culture of accountability. Reduced operating cost by 15%, improved delivery to 99%, reduced safety incidents by 35%, major reduction in scrap from 18% to 6%, increasing productivity by 28% and reducing the PPMs down to below 200, and improved overall EDITDA to 15.6%.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Business Management

Mount Olive College - 1990

Associate of Applied Science Degree in Industrial Engineering Technology

Lenoir Community College – 1986

CERTIFCATES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

● A.I.A.G. QS9000/1, TS16949 Certified

● Wheeler Statistical Process Control

● GOT&E Training

● Six Sigma (process and design) - Green Belt

● Kaizen Certified (Trainer) Kimba

● Rubber and Plastic Molding Processes

● Kiazen Training (Cash, Administrative, Gimba)

● Counseling for Improved Performance

● Certified Interviewer Training

● DFMEA'S, PFMEA'S, DVP&R, DFM

● Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP)

● Successful Leadership Behavior

● Effective Leadership through Self-development.

● Excellent computer skills in MS Office (Excel, Word, Project, Visio)

● Auto Cad, Minitab, ERP systems (Oracle, JD Edwards, MAPICS, CMS)

Core Competencies

● Financial and Budget Controls

● Design for Manufacture (DFM)

MRP/ERP System Planning

● Multi-Plant Management

● TS16949/ISO9001 Experience

● FMEAs and Dvp&r training

● Lean Process Improvement (kaizen/5S)

● Driving TPM systems

● Empowering People/Coaching

● Successful Team Building Leadership

● Value Stream Mapping/Management

● Customer Focus

● Six Sigma Processes (Green Belt)

● Participative management style

● DOE/Analytical Approach

● Multiple Plant Start-Ups

● JIT/TPS Implementations

● Safety / OSHA Standards

● Designing Ergonomic Workplace

● Packaging Design

● Data Driven/Quality Systems

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