Production Manager Business Management

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James Writt

Franklin, IN

SUMMARY:

Production Manager with over 30 years of experience in a manufacturing and production setting; particular skills in managing employees and budgeting.

SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office

• Facilities Management

• Production Management

• Facilities Maintenance

• Budgeting

• Business Management

• CMMS – EAM

• Succession Planning

• Management

WORK HISTORY:

Pridgeon & Clay-Franklin, IN 2017 – 9/13/24

Maintenance and Facilities Manager

• Oversee all maintenance functions, working with suppliers and contractors to maintain the equipment in the most efficient, cost-effective manner.

• Also oversaw the plant spending and maintain the budget.

• Supervise internal maintenance technicians, robotic technicians and controls technician to maintain equipment.

• Ensure that all CM's and PM's are completed correctly and on schedule by using CMMS. Stamping Supervisor

• Supervise all aspects of metal stamping operation. Production Coordinator

Pilkington North America-Shelbyville, IN 2015 – 2017

• Responsible for pattern cutting, breaking, finishing, painting and tempering of automotive glass to OEM

• specifications

• Manage 17 hourly employees

• Coordinate pattern cut schedules with furnace schedules to meet OEM delivery schedules Diamond Chain Company-Indianapolis, IN 1994 – 2015 Assembly Operations Business Unit Manager 2003 - 2015

• Managed day-to-day assembly operations with gross sales of $70 million

• Oversaw variable and non-variable budgets of $350K- Calculated a 10 % cost down each fiscal year

• Managed 51 hourly and 3 salary employees

• Responsible for performance evaluations and succession planning

• Coordinated schedules with planners and floor supervisors to satisfy expected delivery dates

• Controlled inventory levels to meet on- time delivery requirements and budget expectations

• Created monthly business management review presentations for monthly staff meetings

• Created PPE work instructions for 38 work centers

• Maintained and updated Quality Control checklists

• Set up and monitored TPM schedules

Plant Supervisor 2001 to 2003

• Directed all plant operations

• Supervised 50+ hourly employees

• Updated all department managers on work centers and key production equipment.

• Maintained departmental shift schedules for fabrication, heat treat and assembly operations. Assembly Foreman 1998 – 2001

• Supervised 17 employees in final assembly operations

• Maintained department schedules in assembly department to meet required delivery dates.

• Prepared and prepped for next day operations, briefed oncoming supervision of key concerns and any follow up items.

Set Up/Service Technician 1994 to 1998

• Set up and repaired machines on mechanical and hydraulic presses

• Read blueprints

• Conducted specification measurements

EDUCATION:

Vocational

Central Nine Vocational School – Greenwood, IN

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