Engineer Manager

John Rumler

815-***-**** *** East Broadway Street, Mount Carroll, IL 61053 addi0h@r.postjobfree.com PROVEN EXECUTIVE LEADER

Proven Executive Leader with demonstrated strategic leadership, expertise, and distinguished performance in Production Management, Quality Management, PPAP, APQP, Personnel Development, Safety, Delivery, and Budgeting. Extensive salaried and Wage Management Experience with background to include: Strategic Leadership of organizational Lean transformations, Value Stream Mapping, 6 Sigma DMAIC Methodologies, 5S implementation, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen training, evaluate Customer warranty data, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, time studies, line balancing, performance management and coaching. Combining practical execution of strategic initiatives with effective leadership of cross-functional staff and development of key alliances to capture and enhance overall quality, productivity, and bottom-line financial performance. Increase Productivity Trains Teams PPE

Decrease Costs Balances Flow Develops Leadership

Challenge Processes Inspires Vision Solves Problems Motivates Supervision Enables Action Enhances Communication Acts Decisively Gantt Charts Builds Teamwork

Models Integrity Eliminates Waste Strengthens Safety Frantz Manufacturing – Sterling, IL - $12MM, 70 employees Vertically integrated manufacturer of bearings used in warehousing, and general industry. Operations Manager – 7 direct reports 6/19 – Present

• Analyzed sales data to determine Make to Stock inventory SKUs and calculated Finished Good Inventory levels and reorder points.

• Instrumental in leading the production effort to complete the build of MTS product.

• Reinstituted the use of an AS400 Shop Floor Control tool known as the Production Dispatch.

• Organized and started a weekly Production Operations meeting that resolved production issues and increased interdepartmental communication and coordination.

• Coaching supervisors on skills of using planning tools, organizing daily department activities, directing employees.

Clysar LLC – Clinton, IA - $80MM, 300 employees

Continuous flow manufacturer of shrink films used on food, consumer and industrial packaging. Finishing Process Superintendent – 5 direct reports 9/16 – 3/19

• Transformed the Finishing department schedule from 4 crews rotating every seven days to 3 crews 5 days a week. Increasing machine utilization by 25%, daily production by 19%, reducing overtime by 75% and staffing requirements by 25%.

• Reduced external quality returns in one year by 50% from $600K to $300K by focusing on operator training and increased quality awareness.

• Instrumental in establishing daily production targets and improving communication protocols for all facets of Finishing for accountability and information flow.

• Introduced Learning Teams which utilize Human Performance principles focusing on organizational learning and strengthening processes emphasizing prevention rather than punishment to improve safety.

• Instrumental in assuring FSSC 2200 food safety compliance in Finishing Operations by auditing production areas for contaminants, insects and other pests. Continuous Improvement Manager – 4 direct reports 9/14 – 9/16

• Spearheaded the implementation and ERP systemization of a “Make to Stock” (MTS) inventory process via detailed analysis of data and deploying statistical methods to set reorder points, min and max quantities to support a 5 day or less delivery window. This reduced total Finished Goods inventory from $1.6MM to $600K.

• Consolidated a remote 100,000 SQF warehouse with inventory totaling $4.1MM into 40,000 SQF on site warehouse in 9 months safely and on schedule in concert with reducing inventory via MTS implementation.

• Simplified Finishing defect codes for easier, more accurate defect assignment and ERP systemization allowing near real-time data analysis and resolution of quality issues.

• Led the layout team for the relocation of the warehouse requiring the location of more than 121 SKUs of MTS inventory and 150 SKUs of Make to Order inventory. John Deere – East Moline, IL - $35B, 2,700 employees Manufacturer of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment for the global market. Contract Manufacturing Engineer 7/12 – 8/14

• Provided engineering support to sheet metal fabrication operations in a UAW environment.

• Updated, verified, production operations related to programming and tooling for sheet metal.

• Improved safety via Human Performance advocacy for Harvester Works in X – Building. Anchor Coupling Inc. – Sterling, IL - $60MM, 102 employees Wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar that manufacturers high pressure hydraulic hose assemblies. Facility Manager – 17 direct reports 2/08 – 4/12

• Led and mentored a Value Stream Transformation, completely realigning and relaying out assembly operations seamlessly without disrupting daily shipments to customers that resulted in an improvement in capacity and productivity of 20% saving $250K annually and reducing lead time from 5 days to 2 days.

• Led a successful 18-month organizational realignment transition and implementation of end- to-end custom systems and processes to SAP; requiring the development of new production control and monitoring tools from scratch.

• Reduced internal defect rate from 1,100 to 360 DPM over a 4-year period via training and quality awareness shop meetings that were held weekly or as required.

• Instrumental in leading the reinvigoration of visual management tools and 5S in the Assembly and Warehouse onsite operations.

Austin-Westran LLC – Byron, IL - $30MM, 175 employees A tier-two supplier to Caterpillar of sheet metal weldments subassemblies to Bergstrom Inc. Process Engineer 8/05 – 8/07

• Transformed independent, non-synchronous batch sheet metal spot welding fabrication operations into a multiple continuous flow cells linked by in process Kanban.

• Introduced and trained operators in 5S principles and then implemented in production.

• Realized savings through reduced lot sizing strategies, increase speed of flow through manufacture and set-up reduction.

Early Career

Invensys Appliance Controls – Hanover, IL – Production Manager Elkay Manufacturing – Savanna, IL – Manufacturing Services Manager LCN / Ingersoll-Rand – Princeton, IL – Industrial Engineer McDonnell Douglas Aerospace – St. Louis, MO – Industrial Engineer Education

Western Illinois University – BS, Industrial Technology Art Institute of Pittsburgh – AS, Graphic Design

St. Ambrose University – MBA (Ongoing) Business Emphasis University of Wisconsin Exec Ed. – Project Management Curriculum

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