Production Manager
Resume:
Richard M. Rice Jr.
Madison, AL *****
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EXPERIENCE
YKTA, Madison, AL- Group Leader
August 2024
• While working as Group Lead, led a team of 1 team lead and 14 operators in improving efficiency, safety, continuous improvement projects, and Kaizen projects.
• Helped drive efficiency improvements by performing cycle study analysis as well as work process analysis.
• Coached and disciplined employees for performance and attendance issues. Mitchell Plastics, Huntsville, AL- Production Manager May 2023-August 2024
• While working as Production Manager, led a team of 3 supervisors and 1 process tech in improving area safety, efficiency, quality, and scrap reduction. Areas managed included resin injected molding presses as well as 2 paint lines.
• Coached supervisors on areas needing improvements such as accountability as well as time management in completing tasks.
• Coached and guided supervisors on how to use a 4D board to help drive improvements in the department.
• Helped drive team on improving cycle times to ensure capacity plan is met. Monitored and set up trial runs for material improvements for cost savings.
• Drove the focus on keeping inventory accurate and the importance of keeping inventory accurate. Performed secondary level LPA audits. Mitchell Plastics, Huntsville, AL- Production Supervisor February 2020-May 2023
• While working as Production Supervisor, led a team of 30 plus operators in driving quality, safety, and efficiency improvements.
• One key project worked on as supervisor was keeping a 4D board updated with metrics to use to attain these improvements. Items tracked included safety, scrap, and productivity KPI.
• Ensured operators were trained appropriately and coached where needed. Issued disciplinary actions for insufficient quality, productivity, and safety.
• Performed daily cycle counts as well as LPA audits. Federal Mogul/Tenneco, Athens, AL- Operations Supervisor July 2018-February 2020
• While working as Operations Supervisor duties performed include conducting quality, safety, and production audits, 5s, and liaison between Group leader and Value Stream Manager.
• Other duties include performing KPI’s to track scrap percentage, OEE and OEA,
• Gross Margins, production output, COG’s, hours worked, productivity, and sales.
• Utilized Kaizen and A3 to help improve inventory control to mitigate losses. Scheduled all processes from raw material to finished goods.
• Performed personal evaluations and gave feedback to keep a team of 30+ consistently improving in the areas of productivity while producing good quality, scrap reduction, and safety.
• Tracked progress and downtime of machinery using excel spreadsheets and pivot charts.
Federal Mogul, Athens, AL — Team Leader/Setup-Tech March 2012- July 2018
• While working in the Setup-Tech position duties performed include operating assembly machine equipment used to assemble oil seals for major motor companies such as Ford and GM.
• While working in the Team Leader position duties performed include supervision of employees, scheduling of shipments, coordinating and planning mold press and assembly cell operations.
• Ensured safety and quality practices and 5S manufacturing standard EDUCATION
Calhoun Community College Huntsville, AL – Expected Graduation 2024 Associate’s Degree with a Major in Business Administration SKILLS
Great communication
Machine Assembly
Equipment troubleshooting
Assembly Line Operations
Safety Standards
Quality Control
Inventory Control
Cost prevention
Operations Supervision
Microsoft Excel
Team Management
Time Management
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