Lean Manufacturing Operations Manager

MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS / FACILITIES / and EH&S MANAGER

Manufacturing Solutions Intellectual Engagement Leadership by Example

Meticulous Operations Manufacturing Management Professional with 20+ years’ experience including Lean Manufacturing, Program Management, and Project Engineering. I use solid business principles to drive fast paced and complex manufacturing environments to succeed beyond constraining circumstances. An effective and proven track record of critical thinking, process improvements, lean manufacturing implementation, and the engineering sciences ME/IE/PE.

Manufacturing Collaborative Team Building Hazardous Material Organizational Leadership Strategic Development Staff Training Thought Leader Process Improvement Communication & Interpersonal Skills Strategic Vision Critical Thinking Analytical Skills Continuous Improvement Troubleshooting Equipment Technical Services

Professional Experience

NEW WORLD MEDICAL Rancho Cucamonga, CA 09/2021- 11/2023

Facilities Manager:

Managed 4 company locations and two direct reports. Designed and upgraded multiple campus wide improvements. Oversee all services, janitorial, grounds, security, and cost savings objectives.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Installed new campus wide HVAC units saving 23k annually with an ROI of 7 years.

Installed new security system.

Planned and managed multiple 100K+ projects new build and campus upgrades.

Improved Class7 cleanroom performance.

Managed all SOW activities for the new 3.5M Class6 Cleanroom.

Saved 5K per month through process improvement lean principles.

EH&S Manager:

Responsible for all OSHA and CCR requirements. Conducted and scheduled all required safety training in accordance with health and safety code 1799.102. Managed all hazardous and bio-hazardous waste streams.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Achieved a TRIR of “0” for the past 2 years.

No workplace recordable injuries.

Reduced overall cost of the waste disposal by 10K year.

LUXFER Superform Riverside, CA 04/2019 – 12/2020

Operations Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manufacturing, facilities maintenance, manufacturing engineering, and CNC programming.

Staffed with 45 direct and 6 indirect employees 1st and 2nd shifts.

KPI’s; OTD, Scrap, OEE, EH&S, and RMA’s.

Lean implementation of 5S, SMED, OPF and pull system.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Successful rollout of the 5S process with a re-design of the facilities material flow.

OEE tracking and lost time reporting improved touch labor cost by 25%, product throughout and reduced operator errors.

FXI-FOAMEX Orange, CA 2017 -2018

Operations Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manufacturing, facilities maintenance and safety, customer service, shipping and receiving.

Staffed with 85 direct and 10 indirect employees’ 1st and 2nd shifts.

KPI’s; OTD, Safety, Scrap, OEE, OT and RMA’s.

P&L performance.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Working with Serta Simmons engineering team developing new packaging design savings them $1.2M in material cost corporate wide.

As a layout specialist designed material flow solution reducing on hand inventory and scrap by $135K annually.

B/E Aerospace Corona, CA 2014 - 2017

Manufacturing and Facilities Manager / EHS Coordinator / Senior Manufacturing Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Managed 75 direct and 6 indirect staff (Maintenance Techs, CNC Programmers, Supervisors and Manufacturing Engineers).

Managed city, county and state government licensing along with all plant services.

Project engineering manager for all capital equipment acquisitioning and installation.

EHS, Federal, State, and County Hazmat compliance.

Lean implementation Material Flow (POU), 6S, JIT, Cellular Manufacturing and SPF.

KPI’s OTD, Safety, Scrap (FPY), OOE, OEE and Customer Returns.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Reduced recordable incidents turning our TRIR from 12 to 1.3 within 10 months earning company safety award.

Saved company $120K annually with the installing of an industrial freezer eliminating offsite storage (ROI 9months).

Developed manpower scheduling solution improving OTD from 62% to 98% earning preferred supplier award.

Increased CNC OEE from 58% to 85% through SMED, scheduling and CNC program improvements.

Retro-fit Glycol cooling system for our composite panel presses increasing capacity by 130%.

HITCO CARBON Gardena, CA 2013 - 2014

Senior Industrial Engineer Project Manager

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Re-engineered one-piece flow assembly lines increasing throughput by 40% and touch labor by 25%.

Developed work measurement process for the Boeing 787-9 floor beam assembly lines.

Designed a tool and fixture storage system economizing floor space and reducing SMED from 9 minutes to 3. Saving $120K in reduced scrap and damaged tooling.

Successfully increased OEE from 72% to 88% best in company’s history for Boeing machined floor beams.

Given IE excellent recognition by Boeing onsite management.

GENTEX Corporation Rancho Cucamonga, CA 2008 – 2012

Manager – Manufacturing & Process Engineering, EH&S Coordinator

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Successfully reduced tooling costs by 25% through building strong and solid relationships with tooling vendors.

Effectively reduced NVA processes by 30% through the process mapping of all major assemblies.

Increased product quality and reliability through the swift implementation of electronic online work instruction.

Developed and implemented manufacturing operations systems successfully reducing touch labor cost by 25%.

Drove the implementation of one-piece flow manufacturing cell utilizing a 2 bin KanBan pull replacement system.

Maintained TRIR of <1.0 for 4 years.

Reduced overall waste expense by 50%.

Implemented Velocity software for all EH&S needs.

Company History:

NewBasis Polymer Concretes- Director Industrial Engineering and Quality Assurance

Axiom/Transtarr Automotive – Lean Manufacturing Manager and Maintenance Manager

Northrop Grumman – Senior Industrial Engineer, Project/Program Manager

Boeing – Methods Improvement Industrial Engineer II

Cessna Aircraft Corporation – Methods Industrial Engineer I

Education, Professional Development & Affiliations

Bachelor’s Degree – Industrial Technology / Computer Science, Business Management Minor – Tennessee State University

CERTIFIED – Statistical Process Control – El Camino College / Process Simulation – Pro Model Corporation / Green Belt – Online University

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – DOT Hazardous Materials / RCRA and HazWop Certified / CNC Bobcad Cam / Green Belt / CERT / Member – Institute of industrial Engineers / Member – National Safety Council / Member – SME / OSHA – 30 Certified

TECHNOLOGY PROFILE – Auto-CAD / Microsoft Office Suite / MS Project / Visio / JD Edwards / Mapics / DAP / Infor / SAP / Epicor

AWARDS – B&E Aerospace Safety Recognition Award / Northup Grumman – Outstanding Performance Awards / Boeing Corporation – Professional Industrial Engineer Award (3x) / Axiom Automotive – Patent Award / New World Medical – Quarterly Performance Award.

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