Phillip Nott

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McMinnville, TN. *****

Cell: 956-***-****

acyngv@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

With 38 years of experience in the highly energetic world of apparel manufacturing.

Corp Maintenance Manager and Engineer like vision for Omega Apparel Inc. Maker of Military uniforms and private label apparel.

U.S. Based Tech Support for Fruit of the Loom in the USA, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Haiti, Honduras and El Salvador. U.S. Based Chief Mechanic/R&D Engineer Manager for VF Brands Western Hemisphere. Off Shore Assistant Chief Mechanic Manager. Off Shore Area Mechanic / Trainer and US Based Plant Sewing Machine Repair Specialist Class A.

Bilingual: fluent in written and spoken Spanish. Products: Intimate apparel, backpacks, swimwear, tops, Tee shirts, men underwear, various private labels and military uniforms.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Omega Apparel Inc., Smithville & Nashville, Tennessee June 2015 – Jan - 2017

Manager of industrial sewing machine mechanics and building maintenance personal with 4 in Smithville, TN facility and 2 at the Nashville, TN facility.

Key player in setting up Omega’s new plant in Nashville, TN.

Responsible for ordering all equipment and parts.

Working with engineer like focus in all areas for improvement such as sewing operations in need of higher efficiency and quality.

Floor setups for highest possible efficiency.

Worked directly with sewing operators, leads, production supervisors and production managers to help improve work methods, quality and efficiency.

Worked with all pneumatic, hydraulic and steam equipment with preventive maintenance programs and 5S’s.

Established a complete equipment inventory, parts system and equipment down time monitoring program, which reduced % of down time from double digits to 1% and less.

Worked with all vendors to ensure that we got the best price for parts and equipment needed.

Responsible for training all personal in areas needed for peak efficiency improvement along with maintaining their machines and area according to the 5S’s.

Conducted quarterly and yearly performance evaluations. I am all about helping my teammates to improve in areas needed.

Over plant security and briefings.

Performed interviews, hiring and terminations.

Yamato USA Inc., Fort Mills, South Carolina. Feb 2014 – June 2015

Technical/Sales Manager

FRUIT OF THE LOOM / VANITY FAIR BRANDS (VFB), Mission, TX. June 1983 – Aug 2013

Mechanical Technical Support Manager (2009 to Aug 2013)

Worked in Quanaminthe, Haiti from Jan 2009 - April 2011 to assist with the startup of two contractor-sewing facilities making intimate apparel for VF Brands and Fruit of the Loom.

oResponsible for all sewing, maintenance equipment, buildings, equipment inventory, parts purchasing and budgets.

oSet up and maintained training programs for sewing mechanics and maintenance personal.

oSet up and maintained basic mechanic training programs for operators, supervisors, engineers, sewing trainers and quality personal.

oAfter a successful completion of the Haiti project I was moved to the Tech Support Department for Fruit of the Loom in May 2011.

Received extensive training, as Tech Support in all Fruit owned sewing facilities.

Received extensive training in the area of pad printing – sewless care labels.

Training and troubleshooting pad-printing problems. Pad printing new style set up. This included set ups and training at contract facilities in many different locations in Southeast Asia.

Pad printing ink mixing laboratory set up and training lab technicians.

Assisted in new style setups. Helped locate and assemble equipment and accessories for best setup.

Help the company save over US$3 million the first year by converting from conventional sew labels to pad printing labels.

Traveled to Vietnam, Cambodia, India and Dubai to provide set up, training and technical support for pad printing, ink laboratories and Cobalt laser machines for itching art work for label printing.

Fruit had a need for a bar tackers to close waist elastic for a cost saving project. I recommended the modification of existing equipment instead of purchasing new ones saving more than US$1.2 million. Trained mechanics to modify equipment needed for the project.

Worked with other cost savings projects such as chopper guards to eliminate safety problems for operators. Total saving’s companywide was approximately US$1.3 million.

Setup SOP’s and schedules for sewing machine preventive maintenance for all style packets used throughout the Fruit Company.

VANITY FAIR INTIMATES (VFI), McAllen, TX.

Chief Machinist Manager: (2002 thru 2008)

Products: Intimate apparel, backpacks and swimwear.

Responsible for purchasing all equipment needed for expansion of offshore manufacturing for 21 company owned facilities in Mexico = 14 sew plants, 1 cutting plant, Honduras = 2 sew plants, 1 cutting plant, Dominican = 3 sew plants, USA = Off-shore tech support department, equipment purchasing and managed the parts department.

Fluent in %S and Lean Manufacturing.

Manage all mechanic and maintenance departments in Mexico, Honduras and Dominican Republic; including staff of 21 Head Mechanics and 19 Maintenance Supervisors. In addition to McAllen, TX facility managed one equipment storage manager and 5 mechanics along with 6 parts room personal reporting to me.

Conducted annual evaluations of my personnel. I worked with each that had weak areas, set goals that were reasonable for them and monitored them for improvement.

Manage mechanic and maintenance parts and equipment budgets including equipment inventories.

Manage training programs for the mechanic and maintenance departments.

Train and manage the development of special attachments, folders, machines for new operations and new styles, choppers, clicker dies, molding attachments and cost saving projects with a total savings of approximately US$1.5 million from 2002 to 2008.

Establish and manage preventive maintenance programs for all offshore facilities including all pneumatic and hydraulic equipment.

Control parts usage budgets, equipment purchases and negotiated prices. Reduced parts budget from US$3.2 million to US$325,000 during 2002 to 2008 saving US$2.8+ million.

Monitor safety programs for the mechanic and maintenance departments.

Monitor machine down time and adjust training as needed.

Monitor and report each facility’s electrical usage to upper management as a cost savings overview.

Manage new facility installations and expansions.

Troubleshoot new styles / products.

Responsible for the sale of all excess equipment when product manufacturing was transferred to Asia.

Initiated numerous cost savings projects including modifying electronic programmable Juki bar tackers. Also designed the Eprom/chip program necessary for the design of the tack needed along with all other tacking programs used in the company. The cost of a new tacker was US$6,000. To modify was less then US$90n each with savings of more than US$1.5million.

During the process of eliminating obsolete equipment, made contacts with several vendors and set up bids to sell to the highest bidder. Traded obsolete equipment for equipment needed.

VANITY FAIR INTIMATES, Matehuala, SLP, Mexico.

Area Mechanic / Assistant Chief Machinist (1992 to 2002) Lived in Central Mexico

Assisted US based Chief Machinist by managing all off shore Mechanic and Maintenance departments.

Managed and trained mechanics and maintenance personal in their area of duties.

Developed special attachments, folders and machines for specific areas related to quality problems, new style problems and cost reduction projects.

Set up a folder making shop in each plant. With mechanics trained in making folders the company made folders customized per specific operation. The savings of making folders for many different types of applications companywide averaged US$750,000+ per year.

Developed a new type of folder for attaching leg elastic to panties. This folder reduced the operator training curve from 6 months down to 3 weeks @ 100% efficiency. Operators cross training to leg elastic – training time was min 2 weeks @ 100% efficiency. With new folder cross training was reduced to 3 days @ 100% efficiency.

Set up parts departments in all off shore plants and monitored parts usage. Worked with local vendors for best price.

Assisted in new facility installations and expansions.

Trained and monitored the safety programs for the mechanic and maintenance departments.

Monitored machine down time and set up training as needed. In 1992 the percentage of machine down time (MDT) was in the double digits. Through training and monitoring, my team reduced MDT to 1% and less. This increased % of efficiency and improved quality problems.

Troubleshoot new styles / products.

Set up, trained and monitored preventive maintenance programs for the mechanic and maintenance departments to include all pneumatic and hydraulic equipment.

Established and monitored a centralized equipment storage area for Mexico.

Developed a “Hot Tip’s” manual for each plant to use to aid in resolving problems normally overlooked.

VANITY FAIR INTIMATES (VFI): Mill 15 Luverne, Alabama.

Sewing Machine Class A Repair Specialist: (1983 to1992)

Responsible for 12 sew lines with an average of 185 sewing operators.

Day wear and night wear, various types of long leg spandex pants, casual pull over dresses, house coats, house slippers, bras and panties were just some of the various types of apparel sewn in my area.

LADY ARROW: Brantley, Alabama. April 1980 to May 1983

Sewing Machine Repair Specialist

Product sewn in this facility - women blouses.

EDUCATION:

Lurlene B. Wallace State Junior College, Alabama 1983 to 1985.

Mechanical and industrial engineering courses

PERSONAL:

Married, 2 children

Open to relocate

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