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JOSEPH R. CHESHIRE
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position that will enable me to use my strong organizational skills, superb management skills, and ability to work well with people.
SUMMARY OF SKILLS
Highly motivated professional with over 10 years of management experience. Proven leader with demonstrated abilities to achieve organizational goals in a cost-effective manner. Dedicated professional, offering extensive experience on determining quality issues and finding new ways to improve efficiency and building successful teams. Self-starter and cooperative team player equipped with excellent ability to communicate verbally and written with individuals and groups. Detail oriented, armed with verifiable history of correctly evaluating, organizational challenges, and converting ideas into workable solutions. Able to multi-task in a high-pressured environment including at multiple international locations.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
US Air Force
SSgt Production supervisor/ Aircraft Lead Mechanic United States Air Force, June, 2005 - Nov, 2013
-Supervised and evaluated 50+ Personnel while organizing maintenance.
-Completed 6 week Leadership course becoming proficient in building and leading teams, and developing people.
-Certified safety representative for 50+ personnel in accordance with AF and OSHA standards.
-Built new safety standards with 35 AF safety representatives to mitigate risk/injuries in aviation maintenance field
-Completed annual evaluations on maintenance personnel to determine job proficiency & degree of training.
Faurecia tier 1 automotive supplier
Production supervisor, stamping press department, Faurecia Dexter facility MO, May, 2014- Dec 2014
-Lead the Quality Cost & Delivery performance for stamping department
-Worked cross functionally with production control and logistics and Quality to drive down the amount of customer returns, reducing amount of customer complaints and returns by 85%
-Implemented TPM schedule and Die maintenance tracking system to improve tooling, resulting in fewer safety mishaps and direclty affecting quality of product.
Production supervisor, muffler/tube mill department, Faurecia Dexter, Dec 2014 - May 2015
-Lead the Quality Cost & Delivery performance for muffler department.
-Direclty involved in implementation of Being Faurecia monthly acknowledgment program, driving Faurecia values into our operators daily routines.
Production supervisor, GM final assembly department, Faurecia Dexter, May 2015 - Mar 2016
-Lead the Quality Cost & Delivery performance for GM final assembly department.
-Drove Faurecia 7 quality basic principles into my Gaps resulting in our flawless quality record and contributing to receiving GM supplier of the year award 2015.
Production supervisor, Diesel exhaust assembly department, Faurecia Gladstone CVE, Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
-Lead the Quality Cost & Delivery performance for LDD department
-Implemented 5s standards which directly contributed to reduced safety mishaps by 10%.
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Lead supervisor/Deputy UAP manager, CVE, Faurecia Columbus South, Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
-Leads the Quality Cost & Delivery performance for Columbus south plant launch.
-Worked closley with our customer/partner and contractors to ensure proper implementation of schedule, process flow, line industrialization, and plant layout leading to improved customer relations and production output.
-Communicated with managers, production supervisors of other shifts, and support functions to ensure information flow, worked with production teams and other functions to define action plans for improved communication leading to 20% less production downtime for organizational issues.
-Introduced continuous improvement tools and systems that fostered team accountability which directly attributed to increased productivity, higher quality products.
UAP manager, UAP 3 XL Rolling, Forming, Canning CVE, Faurecia Columbus South, Mar 2018 – Jan 2020
-Responsible for driving for budget achievement through clear action plans and daily KPI tracking to continuosly improve overall department performance.
-Led my team in Scrap Cost reduction convergence plan that ultimately drove set-up and process scrap down 70%.
-Served as official plant representative to customer ensuring quality, quantity, delivery and cost issues addressed during daily customer calls and weekly meetings.
-Management nominee member of policy review committee; responsible for writing new policies and procedures that is promoting positive communication between Local IBEW union and Faurecia.
-Developed 5 new supervisors to understand a complex and technology driven process and use the continuous improvement tools and systems to guide them through the development process and daily shopfloor governance.
EDUCATION
15 Oct 2013, Associates of Applied Science (Aviation Maint Technology) – Community College of the Air Force
Currently enrolled at IUPUC pursuing bachelor’s degree in business management
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Nov 2010, Graduated Military Leadership course
-Conflict management
-Time management
-Professional relations
-International relations
June 2013, Accident investigation course/ Three Rivers Community College
Oct 2015, Continuous improvement course
Continuous Extensive operational excellence training in Lean Manufacturing
2010,2018, Safety training for AF / OSHA standards
Nov 2019, Trained on industrial Ergonomic standards and how to identify risk and reduce risk of injury
REFERENCES
Jason Wood: E-mail: ****.*****@*****.*** Home number: 573-***-****
Matthew Perry: E-mail: *******.*****.*@**.**.*** Home Number: 907-***-****