JAMES DELLINGER

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

**** – Present – Assistant Plant Manager – American & Efird, INC Gastonia, NC

Scheduling and planning production for 13 departments

Direct reports three department managers, with 7 supervisors, three shift operation 5 and 6 days a week.

Directed all plant operations from Human Resources, lab, shipping, receiving, production, inventory control, and plant maintenances.

Responsible and direct all plant committees such as safety training, OSHA compliance, and corrective actions.

Develop and enforce lean manufacturing practices, and good manufacturing philosophies.

Oversee and auditing plant Layered Process Audit (LPA)

Oversee production activities to ensure product quality, achievement of productivity at targeted levels, adherence to lead-time schedule.

Tracking, analyze and post visuals for performance metrics and drive improvement using Gemba boards, and I Auditor software.

Lead and coordinate equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines. Managed capital expense for plant.

Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product, including changes in working conditions and the use of equipment to increase production efficiency.

2017 – 2020 – Department manager – Blum Inc Stanley NC

Scheduling and planning production for injection molding machines

Supervisor day to day production requirement

Write job procedures and work instruction

Inventory control

2015-2016 – Plant manager – Ames Textiles, Inc, Christiansburg VA

Directed all plant operations from Human Resources, lab, shipping, receiving, production, inventory control, and plant maintenances.

Responsible and direct all plant committees such as safety training, OSHA compliance, and corrective actions.

Responsible for reviewing and writing plant policies and procedures, employee handbook.

Responsible for all Quality systems, and Lab personnel.

Managed all plant supervisors, and staff, ensuring all plant policies are implemented, and enforced by management.

Working with outside agencies such as Virginia Unemployment Commission, New River valley Community College, and OSHA safety compliance consultants.

Reviewing and signing off on contacts such as job bids, pay increases for employees, construction projects, and any plant contacts.

Customer relations: Key customers have a follow up telephone meeting monthly or any time they feel it is needed with a direct line to me.

2015- 2015 – Plant production supervisor – Pharr yarns, LLC, McAdenville, NC

Directed all the twisting, doubling and winding department for production, cost, quality and safety.

Forecasting work schedules and production planning, and inventory control.

Develop employee and enforce lean manufacturing practices, and good manufacturing philosophies.

Developing employee relations.

2014 – 2015 – Assistant plant Manager - Tuscarora Yarns, Incorporated, China Grove, NC

Directed all plant operations for spinning, winding, carding, drawing, intimate blending and Open-end spinning.

Directed Quality lab, reviewing and approving or disapprove all Lab data.

Managed all plant cost, production, and safety of 24/7 of manufacturing

Direct and develop 140 hourly associates, plant staff and supervisors.

2007 – 2014 Production Manager- American & Efird, LLC, Gastonia NC

Directed all three shifts of filament twisting for cost, P&L, production, product quality and employee relations.

Directed Greenbelt project with team interaction, root cause analysis.

Ordering all raw materials from vendors, inventory control, and the plants day to day production and planning.

Managing department for special engineered yarns for the wire and cable industry

Managing department ISO goals and making sure we maintain our certification through collaboration with BSI Auditors.

Interviewing and hiring all personnel for the industrial filament department.

Develop and enforce lean manufacturing practices, and good manufacturing philosophies. Calculating the TPM six losses of identifying your OEE.

Inventory control with month inventory.

2004 – 2007 Plant Supervisor - Pharr Yarns, Incorporated, McAdenville, NC

Managed the daily planning for spinning and outside contractors, in relationship to preventative maintenance programs, machinery upgrades, and plant layouts.

Developed preventative maintenance programs with written work sheets for maintenance personnel.

Supervision all personnel in carding, roving, spinning, link spinning, textured twisting, open end jet spinning, and winding within the years of employment.

1995 – 2003 Dry Processing Manager - American & Efird, LLC, Mount Holly, NC

Managed three shifts of industrial sewing thread for cost, P&L, production, and product quality and employee relations.

Responsible for bonding, glazing, and winding departments

Responsible for inventory control and work in process levels.

Forecasting work schedules and production planning.

Interaction with sales to manufacturing.

Implemented TQM, SPC and Quality Audits in the winding and packages areas creating an environment of continuous process improvement.

Managed Quality lab, and root cause analysis.

1988- 1995 Production Manager – Dixie Yarns / Threads USA INC / American & Efird, Gastonia, NC

Managed dyeing, finishing, glazing, and bonding of yarns of three shifts for cost, P&L, production, and product quality and employee relations.

Responsible for inventory control and work in process levels.

Ordering of all raw materials and product supplies for the plant.

Development and implementation of production goals and efficiency.

My time with Dixie Yarns monthly customer visits helping with sewing problems and technical needs.

1980 – 1988 Quality Control, Product Development Specialist – Dixie Yarns / Threads USA INC, Gastonia, NC

Technical services: Going out and working with sewing, and weaving, factories with any sewing thread needs Knowledge in sewing.

Overseeing Quality reporting, root cause analysis, and customer complaint reporting.

Direct the development of “air textured” yarns, from machine development to managing the manufacturing processes. Assisted customers transitioning to using “Air textured “products.

Overseeing the development of bonding filament sewing thread.

Working with woven and nonwoven on the manufacturing floor with technicians, building relationships with operators and management.

Overseeing testing of all plants processes, dyeing and finishing, spinning, textured twisting, and winding.

Using a sample dye machine: dyed and shade matched sample lots for customer testing.

SPC charting reviewing process data for control levels and base lines and reporting any anomalies to management.

Development finishes for sewing thread.

Note: From 1980 to 1995 same plant was purchased three times last company American & Efird, LLC

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Computer Training

Windows 95, 98, XP and windows 10

Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, )

Adobe Reader X

Internet Explorer

Mainframe

Konno’s / UltiPro payroll system

JD Edwards inventory system

E-Mail – Lotus notes, Outlook Express, and AOL

SAP

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

North Carolina Center for Applied Science of Textile Technology

Associate degree in yarn manufacturing -1985

2013 -Green Belt – (Certificate)

6 Sigma - lean

Graduate Philip Crosby’s Quality College – (Certificate)

Total Quality Management (TQM)

North Carolina State University - Certificate

Introduction to Statistical Process Control Program

52 hours in Total Quality Management (TQM) and (KPC) (Certificate)

Gantt Charts

I.M.R. Charts

Process Flow mapping

North Carolina Center for Applied Science of Textile Technology (Certificate)

10 Hours in Introduction to SPC

1990 Attended Gaston College completed classes in

Algebra I, II, and III

Trigonometry I and II

Calculus I, II, and III

While maintaining a 3.8 GPA

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