DAVID R. WILKERSON

**** ***** *****, *******, ** 60050

815-***-**** adr767@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Progressive career growth with 25+ years of leadership and operational excellence experience in large scale, high-volume/low-margin production & assembly manufacturing environments related to the metals industry sector.

Take-charge individual with positive and effective motivational leadership attributes via energetic interpersonal skills working with all staffing levels in a team-oriented environment encompassing customers, vendors, corporate executives and plant operations associates in both union and union-free environments.

Proven Skills with fortitude and strengths relative to Safety, Quality, Productivity and Delivery metrics coupled with Team Building and Company Pride Instilments engaging all associates in attaining said metrics.

Heavy in applied skills high-lighting: Continuous Improvement Processes such as Value-Stream Process Mapping / Lean Manufacturing / Cost Reduction / Kaizen Strategy’s / Time & Motion Studies / Waste Elimination / Purchasing / Toyota Production System (TPS) / Operations Excellence Best Practices / ISO9000 - TS16949 Quality Standards / Six Sigma application and 6S efficiency standards with a results-proven track record of success delivering significant improvements in both customer satisfaction and financial performance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CHARTER AUTOMOTIVE 2020 – 2022

A Tier 1 and 2 supplier of engineered fuel system components for the automotive industry with customers in the light vehicle, truck, motorcycle, motorsport, energy, and agricultural industries.

Production Manager / Shift Supervisor

Responsible for all departments of a start-up plant with production capabilities including multi-spindle, CNC, Hydromat, & Robo-drill machining units.

Built a team of approximately 60 employees, developed SOPs from scratch, and implemented lean manufacturing training program.

Led improved Safety performance with a 25% reduction in incident rate from 2020 to 2021.

Achieved a 15% reduction in rework/scrap product during the first 3 quarters of 2021.

SUPERIOR HEALTH 2018 – 2019 (project mgmt.)

A Health Care Alliance Group providing scale and coverage for 1400 customers in the hospital textile industry encompassing the Chicagoland area.

Plant Manager

Hired to re-stablish collapsing personnel structure and produce positive change and introduce lean principles to the firm.

Accountable for key metrics entailing all operational and production aspects including facilities, maintenance, transportation, and plant personnel relations.

Assignment completed in a highly successful manner.

TC INDUSTRIES, INC. 2013 – 2017

134 year old family owned and operated business leader in the field of thermal processing alloy steels, low carbon steels and stainless steels in addition to an established leader in the manufacture of wear components and ground engaging tools for the OEM sector with facilities in North America and Europe comprising of an approx. 700 non-union employees.

PSC Production Manager

Responsible for ensuring that PSC Success Matrix goals are driven to attainment via TCI Production System and instilling a positive culture change of management across all shifts. This encompassed both the development & restructuring task of all management staffing to achieve said goals.

Championed & facilitated enhanced Safety training for all division management to drive associate awareness of metrics largest bars (within first 6 months), impacting the reduction of established incident rate across said division to a record low.

Significantly reduced PSC Quality external & internal PPM non-conformance rate thru developed charter while increasing OTD metrics percentage within the first year resulting in the Team achieving its first OEM Supplier “Caterpillar Silver Certificate Award”.

Successfully implemented Kaizen productivity events to introduce, drive and attain company’s first material flow Kan-Ban system reducing labor/consumables and product lead time (net monetary savings of $68,500 over a 7-month period), in addition to enhancing 5’s plant improvements culminating in a “visual communication showplace” for the division.

JOY GLOBAL INC. (FORMERLY P&H MINING) 2011 – 2013

A world leader of large heavy equipment - manufacturer of surface mining/drilling structures supplying the global market through a 1000+ Union employee operation based in Milwaukee.

Value-Stream Manager

Accountable for successfully achieving production-orientated metrics goals in a 3-shift, 24/7 operation including Safety, Quality, & Line supervision coupled with Tech Engineer support Teams.

Achieved record production during the firm’s 124 year history.

Developed and championed unique cost-control method related to plant consumables resulting in significant costs reduction ($63,000.00) in the first 8-months.

Implemented a PPE Safety Compliance program which achieved a 98% compliance rating within a 10-week period, improving upon a high of 65% from the prior 5 years.

Introduced & facilitated operations first Standard Work along with Lean/CIP/Six-Sigma Management practices for all salaried departmental and production floor personnel.

ROBERT BOSCH LLC / AKEBONO 2005 – 2011

A 500+ employee division and Tier 1, manufacturer/supplier of motor vehicle brake systems & parts to leading North American and International automotive makers and their dealers/service centers. The company was a division of Robert Bosch Corporation but was recently acquired by Akebono resulting in significant restructuring.

Value-Stream Production / Assembly Area Unit Leader

Accountable for Safety, Quality, efficiency, positive customer, employee, & vendor relations highlighting all associate activities in achieving corporate directives in a Tier 1 automotive production environment. This via the direction of operations through an assigned Value-Stream support staff that included several lead-advisors, an engineering-staff and controls-staff, in addition to varied maintenance cooperatives to attain metric goals for division and ensure that innovation and performance were a constant among said staff members and driven to floor level.

Championed and achieved the highest OEM launch quality award (perfect 14-point score), from Ford Motor Company.

Realized and Maintained lowest safety and quality infractions (plant-wide), in assigned value-stream department for five years running.

Directed through staff management personnel, company’s first “Standard Work” application to entire value-stream manufacturing/assembly process to improve productivity/labor efficiencies with record takt-time results.

EDUCATION, TRAINING, & ASSOCIATIONS

United States Army 5th Engineer Combat Unit (full honorable discharge with leadership proficiency honors)

Process Improvement Training: Value-Stream Process Mapping, Lean Manufacturing & Cost Reduction, Kaizen Strategies, Time & Motion Studies, Waste Elimination, Purchasing, Toyota Production System (TPS) / Best Practices / ISO9000-TS16949 Quality Standards / Six Sigma belt certified, Standard Work - 5S/6S facilitation.

Leadership Training: Lean Sensei Coaching Methods, Management Development Program, One-Minute Manager, Situational Leadership, Praise and Reprimand, Goal Setting, Delegating with Trust, Activating Change, Empowering Employees, Workplace Harassment, Problem Solving and Managing Conflict, Revitalizing Poor Performance, Hiring Selection Process, Operational Excellence.

Computer: MS OFFICE: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Explorer plus Mainframe Inventory and Materials Management Systems, SAP programming.

Safety Training: Safety & Hazardous Materials, OSHA Compliance and Record Keeping, OSHA 10-hour Occupational Safety Training Course in General Industry Safety and Health, Move Smart Ergonomics, Hand Safety, Hearing Conservation, Machine Guarding, Lock-Out / Tag-Out, Fire Prevention & Extinguishers, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Blood Borne Pathogens, Workplace Violence Awareness & Prevention and Emergency Procedures / Evacuation

Procurement / Cost-Containment / Negotiation skills

Manufacturing Service Centers (time & motion consultant)

Transportation / Logistics - Traffic Managers Board

Formal Education: Triton College – Concentration in Business Management

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