Supervisor/coach

Tommy A. Lancaster

**** ********* **.

Burlison TN. 38015

*****************@*****.***

Cell# 901-***-****

Summary of Qualifications:

•Familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams

•Worked in QAD for scheduling and planning for production lines and running other reports for keeping the team updated on customer orders.

•Worked in ADP time keeping for the production lines I was responsible for and entering EE’s vacations.

•Coaching teams to help improve morale, production, safety, and trust.

•Worked with Visual Factory writing work instructions, quality issues, and safety.

•Very adaptive to learning new tasks as well as working well with teams to achieve goals.

•Extremely dedicated, organized, and dependable.

•Always looking for a better, more efficient, safer way of doing tasks.

•Lean six sigma yellow belt.

•Was awarded the Welbilt 2017 Innovation Award.

Work History:

Chief petty officer club (CPO club Millington Naval Base) 6-1988 thru 10-1988

Dish Washer/short order cook/stockroom

Busted tables and restocked the salad bar with plates and utensils, washed dishes, stocked the shelves as well as rotated the stock, cooked short orders, catered special events, worked the bingo room.

Arrowhead Backhoe Service (family business)10-1988 thru 5-2-1993

Operated backhoe, dozer, excavator, tractors with implements, dump truck. Supervised work crews both in the field and back at the shop.

The Delfield Company 5-3-1993 thru 5-1-2023

Assembly worker: worked on the production lines learning multiple tasks from assembling units, foaming units, brazing and charging units, hy-poting units, inspecting and crating, and repairing units.

Fabrication worker: off loaded the shear, bent parts on the press, spotwelded, mig/tig/arc welded, finishing buffing.

Senior Group Lead: lead a production line to meet daily work order demands.

Value Stream Leader: Lead two production lines to meet their daily demands and achieve the lines hour per unit target. Worked on process improvements, ergonomics, safety, workload balance, 5’s, line flexing, and lean manufacturing.

Visual Factory Support: Wrote work instructions, clipped videos, edited pictures to better explain critical processes, assisted IT with maintaining computer/tablet equipment up and running, trained new EE’s on the task expected to be done, safety requirements, and quality issues.

Special projects team member: Lead the rebuilding of a struggling department to turn it around to being profitable and efficient.

Scheduler/Planner: Responsible for maintaining customer’s units stock levels, communicating with sales on new order expected completion/ship dates, forecasting future requirements and production planning, heading up meetings with upper management on sales and production targets, updating all lines on order status and what is priority. Creating new model sku’s through the SMR process.

General/production Supervisor: Supervised three production lines as well as two other departments. Conducted the meetings for all supervisors and leads on what needs to be worked on and what is coming up. Coached the lines VSL’s on culture changes, trust, commitment, conduct, safety, and how to stay compliant with the companies' policies. Creating Value stream analyses for each production line and identifying bottlenecks to break and improve productivity without compromising safety. Set expectations and held people accountable for their actions. Entered all EE’s on my teams’ time approvals and leave request daily.

Education:

High School Graduate (Munford High School class of 88)

Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma (More Steam University) completed 8-4-2013

EPA HVAC Universal Technician (Tennessee Vally Technical Programs)

Technician TYPE I, II refrigeration (ARI)

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