Monica Vaughn

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Clinton Township, MI 48036

Mobile Phone 248-***-****

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American Battery Solutions

Government Program Manager, (May 2023 – present)

Function as the company liaison between the DOE and their independent technical advisor and independent financial accountants.

Use my Influence skills to interpret legal documentation into a minimum amount of detailed reporting with the least interruption to the rest of our workforce.

Implement requirements for the 5-year, $286M DOE Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan agreement.

Learn program management processes used at ABS to educate all others involved in the administration of the loan.

Create a dashboard using Smartsheet and the data room to facilitate the collaboration and sharing of project schedule, project KPIs, Change Orders, financial model, customer orders and sales volumes.

Monitor all financials across multiple programs, create template to show spent funds in buckets represented in the financial model, gather all invoices for DOE validation.

Retired from GM to take care of terminally ill father for 8 months before looking for employment.

General Motors LLC

Operations Group Manager, 6 years

Function as the single point of contact for all facility related issues for each site. This included environmental activity, waste management, janitorial, facility maintenance, utility operations, wastewater operations, paint shop cleaning, fleet management and repair, construction, appropriate capital funding, roads and grounds, security systems, and data room operations.

Lead multiple facilities operations teams located in 10 sites across the US (30 million sq feet, vehicle assembly and automotive stamping manufacturing) consisting of salaried and 3rd party employees. Scope included a total of $60M budget and over 500 total team members.

Responsible for driving zero safety incidents through ensuring root cause of near misses, sufficient safety training for assigned tasks, walk arounds including construction sites for safety behaviors and violations. Follow through key for both consistency and safety culture expectations.

Develop and broaden teams by visiting with sites regularly, ensuring that KPIs are met. Extend help and interest beyond manager level staff so that individual stake holders get focus on wider spread issues.

Control costs and optimize spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades. Achieve YOY reductions minimum 5%. (Greater than 14% in 2020).

Direct emergency situations for optimal resolution. One of the most complicated was collaborating and implementing Covid requirements for the safe return of factory workers.

Oversee the creation of the SOW for each new 3-year Facility Maintenance contract, participate in bid reviews / clarifications and ultimately contract awards with Purchasing.

Develop team members through one on one sessions, mentoring them to achieve goals by providing an experienced voice, drive DEI corporate initiatives by encouraging an emotionally safe environment.

Led the ramp up of a joint effort with a ventilator company to convert an abandoned 3 story engineering building at the Kokomo complex to a stand alone operation to manufacture ventilators during the Covid shortage.

Successfully led several Opex / Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement workshops impacting cross functional teams with silo goals to enterprise optimized goal. Apply CI principles such as Plan, Do, Check, Act.

Senior Capital Asset Manager, 6 years

Subject matter expert for facilities enterprise asset management consisting of multiple billions of assets across 40+ sites organized in a database linked to project funded prioritization tool. Provided leadership with future costs of accurate replacement cost data and advise corporate finance (5-year outlook, 10-year outlook).

Lead annual planning cycle of capital budgeting for all facilities related assets (need billions, budget approximately hundred million). Included global initiative to communize the process. Coached I/O, SA and Europe regions how to set up and use the process.

Wrote dozens of Appropriate Requests to replace assets according to corporate finance capitalization rules. Presented waterline every year and obtained approval up to CFO level.

Responsible for project scope definition, develop timelines with critical paths, manage budget across several concurrent projects between $1M and $5M

Utilize SAP to manage project lines, capital vs expense, money moves between projects and total overall budget management. (use WBS for each type of site, type of project and type of funding)

Experience with presenting and communication to high level leadership on both CapEx plans as well as progress (budget, safety, time, quality).

Successful in spending all asset sustainment money within 1% to budget without being over budget every year.

Document requirements and cost for renovated, expanded or new data rooms for both manufacturing and corporate engineering headquarters by collaborating with the IT departments and end customers.

Regional Engineering Manager, 3 years

Responsible for annual project budget for projects of $13.5 million, staff of 23 engineers in 15 powertrain manufacturing locations.

Oversaw all facility related projects through delegation of my staff and used various construction practices to complete the work. Examples: new roofs, powerhouse equipment replacement, large air stack replacement, water tank refurbishment, substation breaker cleaning and calibration, IT room modification, HVAC R&R, conversion of functional use of existing floor space.

Proven successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.

Evaluated business cases for solar panel installations. Execute successful business cases working with solar engineering company.

Recruited, placed and oversaw project staff for optimal project results.

Assist company in bankruptcy planning, work with outside auditing company to understand which properties stay and which properties were to be liquidated.

Support in selection of construction company. Ensure that all GM construction terms and conditions were being followed. Audit projects per procedures agreed upon with purchasing and GM legal.

Exposure to Europe Region to help lead through crisis with Opal. Joint effort between employees of the Russelsheim facility, Real Estate organization and myself on all tasks need to leave property in warm shut down.

Facility Manager, 3 years

Oversaw day to day facility operations in a large vehicle assembly plant running 3 crew 2 shift production schedule.

Supervised staff of 30 in day-to-day activities. Staff included, engineers, maintenance supervisors, janitorial supervisors, powerhouse staff, dispatchers, paint shop booth supervisors, paint shop technicians, chemical management, etc…

Responsible for facilities side of the data room which was critical to production. Systems of note, HVAC, emergency power including UPS system and generators

Conducted weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual equipment inspections of facility grounds, external structure, and systems, including powerhouse, wastewater treatment, roof equipment, docks, fire alarm, fire protection, etc...

Set and enforced departmental budgets, goals and deadlines. This included energy budget and upgrades / repairs necessary on powerhouse equipment to stay in compliance. Understand metering for all utilities and opportunities for consumption reductions.

Reviewed and oversaw construction and renovation projects. Including RFQ, scope documents, project schedules and coordination with plant activities, Value Engineering, Safety Reviews, Project adherence to GM standards, document open list items, sign off project.

Prepared reports and optimized weekend work schedules with accuracy.

Oversaw all aspects of equipment installation, maintenance, and repair for both internal and external services.

Followed and enforced collective bargaining agreement. Participated in labor negotiations to find ways to implement corporate strategies regarding core work / non-core work separation and minimization of total number of trades and classifications to simplify business operations.

Responsible for inventory / tasks / frequencies in Maximo (CMMS) for equipment within my responsibilities.

oIncluded all functionality and improvements to clean room for paint shop operations.

Product Program Project Leader, 4 years

Successfully oversaw GM technical specifications for the design and build of body shop tooling for `new product program tooling. Heavy emphasis on robot cells, welding equipment and conveyors, Specializing in PLC programming, ladder logic, tag-based programming, connectivity on different network systems.

Responsible for installation of tooling meeting required deadlines.

Develop training material and organize training classes for the local skilled trades on the operation of the new equipment. One challenging situation was in Mexico with equipment built and installed by a German company.

Develop detailed project timelines with milestones on Microsoft Project, work with suppliers to clarify scope and questions on specifications. Drive value engineering with design and build suppliers for cost reductions.

Integrate new tooling over weekends / holidays with existing plant equipment. Meet readiness schedule such that there was no impact to planned production schedules. (Multiple times, multiple programs)

Manage project schedules to complete installation on time and under budget (example $100M project across 3 truck manufacturing plants implementation simultaneous).

Lead 5- 10-person project engineer team supporting 4 truck assembly plants for mid cycle / new product programs.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Applied Mathematics

Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN

Performed teacher assistant duties for higher level mathematics courses.

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Kettering University - Flint, MI

Dean's List

Minor in Optics

COMPUTER SKILLS

Advanced MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook, MS Teams, Intermediate MS Project, MS Power BI, Smart sheet, Plex, SAP, One Note, share point, share drive, Windows 11, Adobe Acrobat,

Basic CMMS, Cognos, CAFM, Oracle, Primavera, AutoCAD, Workday, ADP

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