SUMMARY

Goal oriented, results driven Plant Manager with 19 years experience in successfully managing multiple manufacturing operations in Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Marine and Plastics Manufacturing. A self motivated, understanding, innovative individual who has an excellent sense of driving for results through use of lean skills. Skilled in the Toyota Production System, P & L, Total Productive Maintenance, standard work, kaizen, and constraint management. Extremely skilled in developing direct reports. Firm believer in extreme employee ownership and hands on approach.

●Lean Manufacturing

●Hiring and Staffing

●Organizational Planning

●Process Management

●Motivating Others

●Learning on the fly

●Employee Engagement

●P&L

●Building Effective Teams

●Manufacturing operations

●Customer Focus

●Culture Change

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Windsor Door

Little Rock, AR 2020-Present

Plant Manager

Managed a multiple line manufacturing facility in the production of Garage Doors in a union environment. Manage 72 hourly and 12 Salary employees. Currently going through culture change in plant in training of 5S and Lean Principles. I have improved the plant through put in the 3 months I’ve been here to include level loading the production schedule and employee hours.

AlumaCraft Boats

Arkadelphia, AR 2019-2020

Plant Manager

Managed multiple product line boat manufacturer. Taught and implemented 5S process for the plant. Improved Safety for the plant to take plant to 1 year without any lost time, first aid or recordable injuries. Set up Cap-Ex projects and set up ROI on the projects. In charge of P & L for the plant and managed purchasing team ensuring costs were within plant budget. Managed Safety, Engineering, Purchasing, Operation Supervisors, Shipping, and Maintenance departments. Met customer demand to meet sales of 161%. Evaluated lines, and reorganized to increase throughput. Improved customer service in warranty area. Improved quality by creating an ownership process between departments.

GRAHAM PACKAGING

Kansas City, MO 2016-2019

Production Manager

Extrusion Blow Molding for the Mfg. of Detergent bottles. Improved safety record by setting up standard meeting and employee engagement. Set up 5S process for plant and improved efficiency by 20% by stream lining color changes through kaizen events. Managed 3 salary supervisors, 44-64 wage roll employees and 12 contract employees in a unionized facility. Took over the Materials Manager role for the shipping department and improved OTD to 100%. I have improved the plants customer satisfaction by improving quality from 14 customer complaints prior to zero. By improving the customer relationship with our customer, it opened up more volume for the plant that moved a product line from Mexico to Kansas City. Directly involved with P&L for plant and strategic planning through A3.

CHALLENGE MFG.

Kansas City, MO 2014-2016

Operations Manager

Launched Tier 1 Supplier plant for GM. Operations Manager for the Weld Dept. in the manufacturing of underbody automotive parts. Directed daily schedule through use of JRP through Plex. Managed ramp up of new process with 35 weld cells and 350 personnel. Set up standard work for robotic cells and process flow. Worked directly with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Contractors. Managed direct salary supervisors, wage roll employees, and contract employees. Ensured that all deliverables were met to achieve customer satisfaction. Implemented lean manufacturing principles to include 5S, 5 why, JIT and visual factory.

MAST TECHNOLOGY INC. 2013-2014

Independence, Missouri

Operations Manager

Operations Manager over multiple manufacturing operations and two different locations in the ammunition and ordnance industry. Directed day to day schedules of different product lines to meet on time delivery. I ensured that both mfg. sites met day to day safety, quality and delivery schedules to meet profit goals. Greatly improved processes by creating visual work to standardize all processes to minimize errors and rework costs. Converted materials and labor into finished products to maximize the profit of the organization.

●Started up two new product lines with extreme success and profitability.

●Decreased scrap rate to less than 1%.

ALLIANT TECH SYSTEMS (ATK) 2001 – 2013

Independence, Missouri

Value Stream Manager

Managed and supervised multiple production value streams. Ensured that the operations met safety, quality and delivery goals. Validated processes through standard work to ensure compliance. Headed up a project for standardization and to streamline the process for 7.62mm and .50 caliber commercial ammunition to increase sales. Set up standard procedures on how both domestic and import shipments were to be handled and labeled to meet DOT standards.

●Led a team to map the process and accomplished changing process for other value streams.

●Wrote, implemented and trained departments to procedures to meet goals.

●Set up standardized labeling system for commercial packaging to meet DOT Standards.

●Increased sales in bulk pack operations from 300K to 4M rounds a month.

●Directly interacted with Federal Ammunition on purchase orders and completion of the orders.

Operations Manager

Manager of multiple departments with increased progression of responsibility. Areas included high explosive areas of high speed manufacturing. Managed departmental budget & improved efficiency through lean overtime & maintenance projects.

●Increased production from 15 million to 20 million a month while in charge of Case Operations.

●Led kaizen team to develop production pull system through use of visual factory.

●Developed training plan for nine areas and implemented Job Instruction Training.

●Implemented Total Productive Maintenance into operations to get PMs to operator level.

●Led kaizen team in facilitating a quality plan to decrease cost of quality from 4% to 1.8% to a contract low.

●Led teams in multiple failure analysis groups.

●Cut cost by 104K per yr. by changing a high use item from metal to hardened plastic.

U.S. Army

Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Specialist

EDUCATION

General Studies in Business Administration and Pre-Law

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

University of Maryland Hanau, Germany

Bachelors in Business Administration

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