Manufacturing Manager Quality Control

JOHN GALASKAS – Manufacturing Manager **** Grey Bull Lane, Corona, CA 92882

US Citizen and Available for relocation 714-***-**** / *********@*********.***

Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Successful career experience in manufacturing/ operations management within the commercial, military aerospace and rPET Recycling industry. Responsible for processing the timely execution of all plant operations across multiple shifts, overseeing production operations of the shop floor, manufacturing support, and supply chain management teams. Successful resolution of workflow issues within Operations. Implementing new process methods which improve product line performance and people while reducing production cost and cycle time. A proven track record of improved productivity and OTD by eliminating systemic wastes and maximizing process methods.

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering / Automotive and Machine Design at California State University, Northridge, Hybrid Electric Vehicle Senior Design Project.

Composites Machine Shop /CNC Resistance Welding

Aerospace Electrical Harness Manufacturing Titanium Honeycomb Panels Photodiode Assembly

Military / Aerospace Switch Gear Stainless Castings Electronic Assembly

Direct Union Labor IPC-A-600, IPC-A-610, and J-STD-001 AS9100

Danaher Business System Courses

Value Stream Mapping, Change Management, Training & Facilitation Techniques for instructors, Environmental health and safety Issues, Preventing Workplace Harassment, Understanding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Smarteam User & Workflow Training.

Licensed Forklift driver, Hazardous Waste Material storage and disposal, Storm Water Sampling, Disaster Preparedness, First Aid, CPR and EAD

Evergreen Recycling

Recycling Department Manager

Riverside, CA

03/2023– 9/2023

Recycling Department Manager, overseeing a 300,000 sq.ft factory operation of food grade rPET plastic recycling production. Annual sales over 24M. Overseeing a production staff of 45 associates.

Restored startup business operations to a rPET Plastic Recycling business.

Consecutively Increased monthly Bale production output by about 15,000 lbs per month

Consistently met 92% of Wash Line Flake output

Consistently exceeded Flake yield goal by 89%

Implemented equipment preventative maintenance schedule

Implemented new warehouse inventory location system

Reduced monthly chemical usage and cost

FEI-Zyfer

Operations Manager

Garden Grove, CA

01/2020 – 06/2021

REASON FOR LEAVING-LAYOFF DUE TO REDUCED PANDEMIC BACKLOG

Operations Manager, responsible for efficient business operations. Directing a supervisory staff including quality assurance and stockroom to ensure that all AS9100 requirements for the manufacturing of precise time and frequency GPS reference systems were met. Producing both commercial and military custom designs to meet customer requirements with annual sales over 18M.

Maintained safe production operations during COVID-19 pandemic

Improved on time delivery from 40% to an average of 96%

Improved failed production meeting by revamping utilized Backlog Report

Improved failing RMA processing, reduced the average number of in-house RMA’s from 200 to less than 50

Analyzed and repaired several inherent design processing issues which reduced MRB and scrap

Chaired weekly MRB and NCMR meetings which targeted disposition and root cause, which greatly reduced the number of open NCMR’s

Digitran a unit of Electroswitch

Operations Manager

Rancho Cucamonga, CA

03/2017 – 06/2019

REASON FOR LEAVING-LAYOFF

Operations Manager, overseeing all aspect of the production of Switches used in the Military and Commercial Aviation industry with annual sales over 5M.

Relocated business operations to a new location $22K under budget. Reduced floor footage from 10K to 3K ft . Organized factory material flow from Receiving to Shipping. Layout of all new compact product line Production Cells.

Implemented Cycle Counting procedure resulting in improved stockroom accuracy to 98% and reduced on hand inventory value from $1.2M to approximately $800K.

Defined and implemented new AS9100 drawing and routing packages.

Reduced purchased material cost by 14%.

Redefined all manufacturing processes and trained production staff.

Arrowhead Products

Operations Plant and Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Los Alamitos, CA

06/2015 – 11/2016

REASON FOR LEAVING-LAYOFF DUE TO REDUCTION IN WORKFORCE

Interim Plant / Manufacturing Engineering Manager overseeing the production of high and low pressure composite ducting for use on commercial and military aircraft.

Managed all aspects of a Manufacturing Engineering department consisting of Manufacturing Engineers, Tool Designers, Plaster Shop, and Tech Writer staff of 11 associates.

Resolved Missile Dome wrinkles and flange thickness processing issues.

Develop Process Routing and Work Instructions.

Successful completion of five Bombardier development aircraft On Board Air and Exhaust ducting, including molds, Jigs and assembly fixtures.

Successful completion of five Lieaberr Aerospace development aircraft On Board Air and Exhaust ducting, including molds, Jigs and assembly fixtures.

GKN Aerospace

Process Improvement Manufacturing Engineer

Santa Ana, CA

11/2014 – 5/2015

REASON FOR LEAVING- BUSINESS REDUCTION (Contract Position)

Process Engineered several inherent processing issues for the fabrication of Titanium Honeycomb Panels for use in Rolls-Royce commercial Jet Engines.

Target the removal of Alpha Case Oxidation contamination produced during Heat Treating Process.

Developed new Robotic Resistance Weld schedule on Titanium honeycomb panels targeting the elimination weld defects.

Develop and implemented department Visual Management.

Target the elimination of defects do to Process and Material Handling.

Implemented Standard Work Instructions and 5S methodology.

(Resulting in increased material flow from 5 to 30+ panels weekly.)

Advanced Photonix, Inc. (Luna Opto)

Engineering Project Manager

Camarillo, CA

02/2010 – 09/2013

REASON FOR LEAVING- LAYOFF DUE TO BUSINESS REDUCTION

Worked directly with customers and engineering on the development of project timelines and milestones.

Layout of product line production cells, time study, process analysis, capacity loading and standard work documentation.

Delivered new product pricing based on customer RFQ’s, material and test requirements.

Worked directly with Production and Quality departments to maintain special project schedule requirements.

Teledyne Controls

Senior Operations / Planning Manager

El Segundo, CA

02/2008 – 03/2009

REASON FOR LEAVING- LAYOFF DUE TO BUSINESS REDUCTION (Recession)

Directed managerial and planning staff to improve the company’s flow of material through Shipping/ Receiving, Stockroom and Production.

Implemented morning production floor staff meetings to set and monitor production goals by coordinating resources and material flow.

Implemented a stockroom visual productivity management system, eliminating overtime and reducing staff requirements from 10 to 6 associates.

Reduced planning staff from 7 to 6 associates.

Reduced Material Shortage and Expedite report from 15 to 4 pages within four months.

New Shipping and Receiving layout which reduced packaging cycle time and improved material and product flow.

ATK Space (Northrop Grumman)

Manufacturing Engineering Department Manager

Corona, CA

04/2007 – 10/2007

REASON FOR LEAVING- LAYOFF DUE TO FACTORY CLOSURE (Business Merger)

Directed a Manufacturing Engineering, M&P, Tool Design and Document Control staff of 22 associates.

Successfully implemented phase one of Deltek Costpoint MRP software package.

Increased the flow of released work instruction by 90%.

Implemented new controlled Mylar tool drawing review and control process.

Implemented stage one of new Model Based Definition drawing and tooling inspection process.

Pacific Scientific (Meggitt)

DBS Leader/Manufacturing Engineer III, Accessories Dept.

Duarte, CA

2002-2007

REASON FOR LEAVING - RECRUITMENT OPPORTUNITY

DBS Leader/ Manufacturing Engineer III, Accessories Department

Led lean conversion kaizen events, designed and implemented cell Standard Work instructions, conducted cycle time analysis, devised production cell operator loading schemes, layout product line Value Streams, setup and Kanban material requirements.

Recognized for Gold Standard in product line excellence.

Project engineered and managed the design and purchase of a new automated Multiblast bottle finishing system, reducing processing time from 20 to 8 min., annual saving $40K.

Reduced the Accessories department lead time from 21 to 4 days.

Production Manager, Accessories Department

Production Manager of the FireX Accessories Department consisting of high precision robust Pressure Gauges; Temperature Compensated Pressure Switches (TCPS); Rupture Disk / Fill Fitting; Explosive Squib Housings; Extinguisher Bottle Outlets / Check Tee / Discharge Indicators. Directed a staff of 28.

Implemented Policy Deployment objectives and maintained departmental Key Performance Indicators of Productivity, Safety, Quality, On Time Delivery and Cost.

Reduced 350K past due down to 15K, improving on time delivery from 50% to 90%.

Improved departmental productivity KPI from .25 to .45 $/hr.

C&D Aerospace (Safran)

Production Manager, Electrical Assembly Department

Garden Grove, CA

1996-2001

REASON FOR LEAVING- LAYOFF DUE TO BUSINESS REDUCTION (Result of 911)

Managed all aspects of electrical harnesses production for installation in advanced commercial aircraft, as specified by FAA/CAA requirements.

Directed and supervised departmental staff in excess of 70+ first shift, and 15 second shift employees.

Maintained electrical component inventory, maintaining 98% accuracy on $700,000 with 6.2 inventory turns per year.

Analyzed requirements and redesigned production methods of a failing production department.

Consistently exceeded performance cost by 12% and estimated delivery schedules by 8% with an annual savings of $500,000.

Developed and implemented custom Paradox MRP program which created a direct connection between sale orders, purchase orders, inventory requirements, routing generation, pull-kits and shippers.

Designed new part specific routing detailing customer specific requirements and specification.

Created one-to-one scale tool drawings incorporating wire list connections, breakouts, and splice locations as a full scale representation of the finished Wire Harness.

Laid out detailed production specifications incorporating best practice methods and conducted certified operator classes based on customer requirements.

(Resulting in Improved production standardization to meet Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier specifications. This allowed C&D to gain Boeing certified vendor approval and ISO compliance.)

Stainless Motors, Inc

Production Manager, Manufacturing Engineer

Chatsworth, CA

1994-1996

REASON FOR LEAVING – CAREER ADVANCEMENT

Coordinated and responsible for overseeing all aspects of manufacturing and deliveries of sanitary wash-down duty single and three phase stainless steel electric motors for use in the Pharmaceutical, Bio-Technology and Food Processing industries.

Analyzed factory requirements for Novel Network system; laid out hub harnessing, and designed and built individual workstations.

Responsible for maintaining a high volume production shop, assembly and workflow schedule.

Purchasing agent for Make and Buy raw material.

R&D Engineer on new product development and custom specialty one-time applications.

Quality inspection and test engineering of final assemblies.

Program and Replaced PLC chips used in Allan-Bradley power converters/motor controllers.

Setup and programmed YAG Laser part-engraving system.

Established client relations and provided professional customer service.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, ProEngineer, AutoCAD, RINO, BPCS, Novel, M2M, Royal-4, ORACLE, VANTAGE

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