Project Manager
Resume:
Jimmy Kenniston
Fort Mohave, AZ *****
******@***********.***
MANAGER FOR MANUFACTURING AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLIES AND COMPLETE AIRCRAFT SECTIONS, Team player. I endorse the employees to advance through my training. I am a team player that interacts with other departments, management, and customers. I assure the products are what the customer expects and deliver these on time. I enjoy working with Lean concepts, participated in TPM’s, work towards improvement on value streams and value employee safety. I train employees to learn and improve their products, assisting them to grow and prosper.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Work Experience
Manager, Manufacturing Operations
Ryan
619-***-**** Manager for manufacturing aircraft assemblies and complete aircraft Sections and detail parts.
Incorporated Lean Manufacturing in every position for each company I worked for. Participated for Rohr Aircraft, Lockheed Aircraft, Senior Aerospace Jet Products, and new facility in Arkansas for Rohr Aircraft to provide state of the art machinery, detail parts manufacturing, aircraft assemblies, Ryan Aeronautics manager for assembly of the aircraft. detail parts. Trained as many as 650 employees in aircraft manufacturing, assembly, aircraft overhaul and repairs, crash damage aircraft and parts of damaged aircraft, modifications, machinery usage, heat treat, anneals, use of tools, fasteners, various types of metals.
Used in house employees to rebuild offices, improved air, and heating thru-out the facilities, built cafeteria and patio for employees to use.
SKILLS Required outside contractors to submit bids for various jobs thru-out the facilities and reduced the contractors’ cost.
Required contractors to provide drawings and approved these to our needs. Saved thousands of dollars for companies using these methods.
Implements ISO14001 for the environmental and safety for employees, reduced accidents by 20% and created quarterly safety training for all employees. Established safety teams and internal auditors to provide in house Employees work areas improved the accident rate and housekeeping. by having these inspections. Trained all employees on the facets of safety, holding classes for confined spaces, forklifts, OSHA requirements, lifting devices, machinery.
Guarding for all machines.
Manager, Production Manager, Project Manager, General Supervisor Rohr Aircraft and Department of Defense, Senior Aerospace Jet Projects. Manager of assembly for helicopter program, structural detail parts. Aircraft repair for all type of aircraft Jet aircraft, Refueling Aircraft, Passenger aircraft. Bombers, Helicopters,
Cargo aircraft, assembly of aircraft mating, overhaul and modifications for military aircraft). Worked on crash damage aircraft. Saved over 10 million dollars for the various programs by utilizing excellent training for all. employees working on aircraft parts, assemblies, and modifications. Trained EES on use of measuring tools, use of various machines, tools, types of metals used, fasteners, heat treatment of parts using various. sizes of furnaces, solution heat treat, annealing. Worked closely with machine shop for repairs of older tooling as needed, repaired tooling. and manufactured new tooling for production.
Received Performance Excellence awards and improved output of the products with EE’s saving hours and reducing discrepancies on all. customer products using Kaizen, improving performance. Developed a training program for EE’s training them on parts. manufacturing, assembly manufacturing, heat treat of parts, usage. of all types of hand tools, various machinery such as brake press, stretch bend, punch presses, drop hammer, trim and drill, layout. development, drill press, rivet guns, drill motors, how to read and
CERTIFICATIONS understand blueprints. Manufacturing engineers worked for me as well as outside engineers fulltime from McDonnell Douglas and in house USAF completion of aircraft engineers, Industrial engineers, production controllers, IT’s. Repairs, modifications, heat Completed aircraft repairs and major modification programs on military. Treating, honeycomb, tube and commercial aircraft for the Department of Defense and Lockheed. Bending, welding, trained Received certificates for reducing costs (over 10 million dollars) both. others on how to work with DOD and State of Arkansas Governor. on major aircraft, civilian and Military and perform inspections of same.
EXTRA CURRICULARS.
Enjoy working with aircraft including modifications overhauls and completing new aircraft builds. Working with training EE’s on working with the above.
LANGUAGES
Education
2 years college, many classes on management in Business Management San Diego City College - San Diego, CA
January 1967 to February 1969
Skills
• SKILLS
• Required outside contractors to submit bids for various jobs thru-out
• the facilities and reduced the contractors' cost.
• Required contractors to provide drawings and approved these to our
• needs. Saved thousands of dollars for companies using these methods.
• Implements ISO14001 for the environmental and safety for employees,
• reduced accidents by 20% and created quarterly safety training for
• all employees.
• Established safety teams and internal auditors to provide in house
• Employees work areas improved the accident rate and housekeeping.
• by having these inspections.
• Trained all employees on the facets of safety, holding classes for
• confined spaces, forklifts, OSHA requirements, lifting devices, machinery. Guarding for all machines.
• Manager, Production Manager, Project Manager, General Supervisor, Rohr Aircraft and Department of Defense, Senior Aerospace Jet Projects.
• Manager of assembly for helicopter program, structural detail parts. Aircraft repair for all type of aircraft Jet aircraft, Refueling Aircraft, Passenger aircraft.
• overhaul and modifications for military aircraft).
• Worked on crash damage aircraft. Saved over 10 million
• dollars for the various programs by utilizing excellent training for all.
• employees working on aircraft parts, assemblies, and modifications.
• Trained EEs on use of measuring tools, use of various machines, tools,
• types of metals used, fasteners, heat treatment of parts using various.
• sizes of furnaces, solution heat treat, annealing. Worked closely with
• machine shop for repairs of older tooling as needed, repaired tooling.
• and manufactured new tooling for production.
• Received Performance Excellence awards and improved output of the
• products with EE's saving hours and reducing discrepancies on all.
• customer products using Kaizen, improving performance.
• Developed a training program for EE's training them on parts.
• of all types of hand tools, various machinery such as brake press,
• Bombers
• Helicopters
• Cargo aircraft
• assembly of aircraft mating
• manufacturing
• assembly manufacturing
• heat treat of parts
• usage.
• stretch bend
• punch presses
• drop hammer
• trim and drill
• layout.
• development
• drill press
• rivet guns
• drill motors
• how to read and
• Lean Manufacturing
• Lean
• Blueprint Reading
• Mechanical Knowledge
• Fabrication
• Forklift
• Troubleshooting
• Military Experience
• Technical Support
• Operations Management
• 5S
• Six Sigma
• Mechanic Experience
• Process Improvement
Military Service
Branch: USAF
Service Country: United States
Rank: Sergeant
April 1962 to April 1966
Awards
Training employees in Arkansas at new facility and also many employees on facets of using drawings, metals and many others.
April 2001
Many awards form companies, military, opening new manufacturing facility, training hundreds of employees on the facets of manufacturing aircraft parts, sections, repairs, modifications, plus complete overhaul of fighter jets, over 300 .
Certifications and Licenses
USAF Aircraft Structures, Honey Comb, some welding, Mfg. various parts, and repairs on aircraft
April 1962 to Present
Manufactured aircraft parts, repaired aircraft, honey coms parts, worked on flight line aircraft as well as in the shop.
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