Michael Roberts
Assistant Production Manager (Operation Manager)
Bartlett, TN 38134
*.*******.*******.*@*****.*** - 901-***-****
WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant Production Manager (Operation Manager)
BROTHER INDUSTRIES U.S.A - Bartlett, TN - 2012 to 2016 Bartlett, TN
$120M office and home electronics manufacturer, owned by multi-billion-dollar international corporation. Assistant Production Manager (Operation Manager) 2012 to 2016
• Managed 7 Supervisors with 213 people.
• Reporting to the Director
• Piloted diverse type of lines including:
- Straight Line - New Assembly - Multi-shift Department
- Cell Line - Refurbishment - Product Verification
- Automation - Special Projects - OEM
• Managed following departments:
PCB - 4 manual lines with automation lines with SMT, axial, radial and solder machines
Injection Molding - 4 machines with robots
P-touch (RF Packaging) - 3 lines manual and 1 automated
Refurbishment - Toner, K7 (mailing machine), GEM (mailing machine), Midjet (mailing machine), Printers
(clean and wipe) and Typewriter
Completed new build - Excalibur (mailing Machine), Abra (laminator)
Part Sales and Pick Pack Ship - Kitting and packaging of part and subassemblies
Product Verification- RTS (to China, Vietnam) Connect+ (Testing China Units)
Other - Shipper (Store Displays), MRO, Recycle, Epoxy, Pad printing
• Manufacturing Department:
Manning - Forecast, control, and analysis; including contract personnel.
Budget and Cost Control - Supplies usage and analysis. Capital decision making.
Leadership Development and Onboarding - Developed program, trained, and followed-up.
5S- Developed program, education, and implementation
Efficiency - Created targets and spearheaded areas for improvement
QCC - Improvement activity
Hashira - Business improvement/transformation. Brother's Manufacturing system. Area Supervisor
- 2004 to 2011
• Managed 4 Supervisors with 167 people
• Reporting to the Director
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Technology
University of Memphis - Memphis, TN
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Core Competencies
- Operation Management and Business Development / Transformation - Change & Turnaround Management. Startup & Product Launch.
- Cost Reduction & Control, Manning Analysis,
Departmental P&L
- Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access
- Lean Manufacturing / Continuous Improvement - Forecast and Budgeting, KPI Development
- 5S and Safety Education and Implementation
- Quality Management / Root Cause Analysis
- ISO 9001 and 14001
- Inventory and Parts Management.
Achievements and Value
• Delivered efficiency improvements over 5 years, resulting in $1.8M in manning savings, exceeding 10% improvement goal each year, resulting in a reduction of 45 people.
• Reduced P-parts (part damage caused by operators) by reviewing all issues with each supervisor and implementing corrective actions, saving $1.4M+ over 5 years.
• Mentored Quality Control Circles (QCC) activities, saving company $0.37M.
• QA Defects Rates- TW (1.99% to 0.65% with a goal of 0.98%); IM (0.05% with a goal of 0.30%) PT (0.003% with a goal of 0.3%); GEM (2.64% defects to .80% defects); C+(0% for 26 months); Ton (0.01% goal 0.04%); EX (0% for 17 months); RTS (0.9% goal 0.2%). Used root cause analysis methods (5 whys, fishbone diagram, brainstorming, QKY, charts, and video) with production, QA, and engineering teams.
• Nurtured and developed 9 people into supervisors; 4 supervisors won Leadership award. Created training material for onboarding, education, guideline usage, and job description.
• Drove successful start-up launch of PCB 2nd shift and RTS departments (returned printer verification); implementing new ventures into injection molding, RF packaging, and mail machine assembly.
• Initiated turn-around in underperforming areas:
Typewriter repair - increased output by 21% in less than 2 weeks. Improved units from 7.18 units to 13.84 units per person by end of year. Reduced leadership staff from 6 to 2.5.
PCB - Improved efficiency by 14% in 3 months. Cut supervision 50%.
Gem (mailing machine) - Increased daily average from 246.4 units to 301.2 units per line. Prior management made 300 only 7 times in previous 2 years. Improved receiving line by 240%, increasing from 450 to 1,100; closed 2nd shift receiving line, reducing 16 people.
• Appointed by President to spearhead business transformation activities in production department, as Hashira trailblazer, meeting manufacturing standards. Led production, engineering and QA teams, increasing audit score 60% (23.4 points from starting point of 14.6 points).