Production Supervisor with 18 years in fast past manufacturing.
Resume:
Kyle Molkenthen
Manufacturing Supervisor
N**** Lake Dr Unit A
Hustisford WI 53034
***********@*****.***
SKILLS
●People Management
●Safety minded
●Decision Making ability
●Communication
●Interpersonal skills
●Training and Mentoring
●Ethical leadership
●Problem solving
●Time management
EXPERIENCE
Triton Trailers, Hartford WI.
July 2022-February 2024
Trailer Manufacturer
1st Shift Production Supervisor
●Enclosed recreational trailer Manufacturer
●Supervise and mentor up to 24 employees.
●Supervise weld department
●Ensure all safety guidelines are being followed within the plant.
●Facilitate daily huddle meetings. Meetings include task management, safety talks, and plant status.
●Review inventory on the line, stock what is needed, and if parts are not available communicate to necessary parties.
●Troubleshoot issues as they arise in plants and escalate if necessary.
●Review and maintain quality throughout the line.
●Maintain time keeping for assigned employees.
Stoughton Trailers-Stoughton, WI
January 2022-July 2022
Semi trailer Manufacturer
1st Production Line Supervisor
●Supervise and mentor up to 24 employees.
●Ensure safety guidelines are being followed on the production line.
●5S areas of line.
●Ensure the line is on takt and if not make decisions to help ensure the line gets back on track.
●Provide employees with feedback on quality issues that may arise and use disciplinary action to correct recurring issues.
●Work with other supervisors and inventory control to ensure employees running line have materials needed to construct products.
●Facilitate cell quality & OSHA safety training meetings.
Signicast – Hartford, WI 2005 - Jan 2022
Investment Casting Manufacturer
Shift Supervisor, 2019 to Present (1st shift) & 2016 – 2018 (3rd Shift)
●Supervise and mentor up to 24 employees.
●Ensure all safety guidelines are being followed within the module.
●Performance reviews and coaching dialogs with all employees.
●Track and complete all employee training matrices and onboarding paperwork.
●Hold employees accountable for following procedures.
●Facilitate cell quality & OSHA safety training meetings.
●Maintain daily direction setting boards and facilitate meetings.
●Assist quality and engineering on various quality issues/improvements.
●Create plans with production control and manufacturing to meet customer demands and sales budget.
●Perform internal process and procedural audits to maintain AS9100, IATF16949, The Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU certifications.
●5S departments.
●Program FANUC robots for wax pick/sprayer robot, waterblast robot, gate cutoff robot, and Automated Finishing Cell robots.
Dip/Melt Department Lead, 2010 to 2016
●Oversee dip and dewax department.
●Responsible for productivity and quality within the department.
●Complete preventative maintenance checklist items and troubleshoot equipment.
●Communicate major issues to shift supervisor
●Responsible for scheduling furnace repairs/maintenance.
●Responsible for all training and development of new employees within the department.
●Work with other modules to assist in achieving departmental goals.
Technician, 2005 to 2010
Finishing
●Inspect, gate grind, and straightening parts on press.
●Maintain quality while meeting productivity goals.
Melt/Rough Clean
●Cold breaking parts off sprues.
●Setting molds in sandboxes to be filled with molten metal.
●Melting various allows, maintaining temperatures and chemistry per part specs.
●Use of spectrometers to run samples of metal, use calculations to determine elements needed to create specific alloys.
Dip/Dewax
●Melt wax out of castings in pressurized vessel.
●Patch visible cracks on molds.
●Mixing shelly building slurry per procedures
●Reclaim used wax.
●Perform preventative maintenance on cell equipment.
●Perform testing on shell building slurry’s to help maintain PH, SIO2’s, and bacteria.
EDUCATION
Hustisford High School, Hustisford Wi- High school diploma
2001 - 2005
TRAINING COURSES
●MRA Front Line leadership Series
●Internal Continuous Improvement training- 5S, Value Stream Mapping, and Lean Manufacturing.
●First Responder
REFERENCES
Ana Medinger
Process Engineering Manager
Signicast
1800 Innovation Way
Hartford WI 53027
Jamie Loss
Automation Support
Signicast
1800 Innovation Way
Hartford WI 53027
Travis Luy
Maintenance Technician (former supervisor)
Signicast
1800 Innovation Way
Hartford WI 53027
Kevin Boylen
Plant Manager (former manager)
Badger Alloy
5120 W State St
Milwaukee WI 53208
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