Joe N. Smith
Saint Clair Shores, MI 48080
586-***-**** Home
586-***-**** Cell
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Objective
Seeking a position in a company that seeks an ambitious and career conscious person, where acquired skills and education will be utilized toward continued growth and advancement for company development.
Experience:
Shift Supervisor:
2/7/21 – Present Miba HydraMechanica
6625 Cobb Drive
Sterling Heights, MI 48312
Responsible for setting targets, implementing plans, tracking daily results, making appropriate adjustments in resource planning in order to attain desired results. Driving actions for improvement: Communicating with the Autonomous Production Unit Manager, Production supervisors on other shifts, and support functions to ensure a transparent information flow, collaborate to define improvement areas and precise action plans. Also responsible for managing team performance, defining areas for performance improvements with team members, drive teamwork, lead problem solving groups, lead workshops on quality improvement methods.
Managing team performance: ensuring daily team management, ensuring appropriate headcount and ensuring the respect of standardized work methods. Developing employees, ensuring proper staffing, integrating new team members, developing individual training plans and ensuring punctual job evaluations.
Production Supervisor
5/30/2017 – 2/7/21 Maclean-Fogg (Master Automatic)
Plymouth, MI 48170
Responsible for leading and supervising assigned areas to achieve safety, quality, delivery, morale and cost objectives. Ensuring that associate’s adherence to all company policy and procedures. Lead teams to continuously improve processes and eliminate waste within their areas. Coach and develop team members to reach their full potential.
Also responsible for:
Tracking and monitoring LDM activities and implementing action plans. Monitoring/participating in team meetings and coordinates team activities.
Completing and administering performance reviews, disciplinary action, training, policy/procedures compliance on a timely basis. Conducts interviews and investigations.
Communicates and coordinates activities with other supervisors and departments.
Scheduling production work assignments. Implementing adjustments as needed to ensure customer requirements are met.
Coordinate resources for scheduled machine set ups/change over’s, repairs and preventative maintenance activities.
Communicate critical machine downtime to plant manager and engineering.
Ensuring that associates follow ISO/TS 16949, ISO 14001 and customer requirements.
Conducts LPA’s. Resolving non-conformances. Performing duties as shipping and receiving clerk and managing two facilities.
Production Supervisor
8/22/2016 – 5/26/2017: Sakthi Automotive Group
Detroit, MI 48209
Responsible for planning, assigning, directing and coordinating activities relating to shift operations, including safety, quality, production, and employee relations. Managing setup tech's, maintenance and machine operators in a CNC machining environment.
Also responsible for: tracking and reporting daily production and driving improvements where necessary. Ensuring that all company policies, procedures, plant standards and safety rules are consistently adhered to. Assisting the production manager in determining and managing appropriate manpower requirements.
Production Supervisor/PC&L
9/28/2015 - 8/19/2016: Faurecia Interior Systems
Taylor, Mi 48180
Responsible for setting targets, implementing plans, tracking daily results, making appropriate adjustments in resource planning in order to attain desired results. Driving actions for improvement: Communicating with the Autonomous Production Unit Manager, Production supervisors on other shifts, and support functions to ensure a transparent information flow, collaborate to define improvement areas and precise action plans. Also responsible for managing team performance, defining areas for performance improvements with team members, drive teamwork, lead problem solving groups, lead workshops on quality improvement methods.
Managing team performance: ensuring daily team management, ensuring appropriate headcount and ensuring the respect of standardized work methods. Developing employees, ensuring proper staffing, integrating new team members, developing individual training plans and ensuring punctual job evaluations.
Warehouse Distribution Manager
8/2014 - 3/2015: Advanced Nutrients
Livonia, MI 4150
Responsible for supervising, assigning, and reviewing the work of employees engaging in shipping, receiving, storing, distribution and maintaining inventories of supplies and finished goods. Training employees, planning, assigning and directing work, assist with appraising performances and scheduling hours. Maintaining accurate records of goods received and shipped, reviewing documents for accuracy. Preparing BOL and shipping documents.
Production Supervisor
10/2012 - 7/2014: KAMAX L.P.
Troy, MI 48198
Responsible for supervising, directing, training, coaching and motivating employees. Review production orders to ascertain product and quantities needed. Plan production operations monitor production of each workstation to ensure that production goals are being achieved. Monitor employees work methods and procedures to ensure that full compliance with production standards is followed.
Quality Control Auditor/Inspector
05/2010 - 10/2012: KAMAX L.P.
Troy, MI 48198
Responsible for maintaining quality standards by approving incoming material, in-process production and finished products, recording quality results. Approve incoming material by conforming specification, conducting visual audits and measurement test, rejecting and returning unaccepted material to the vendor/supplier. Documents inspection results in SAP by completing reports and logs into quality data base.
Machine Operator
03/2009 - 05/2010: KAMAX L.P
Troy, MI 48198
Responsible for machine setup, cleaning and visually auditing the machine for foreign material and oblivious defects. Programming machines such as retinas, retina vision and mectrons to ensure that machines are registering the correct characteristics and dimensions of each part and meeting the production needs.
Quality Auditor/Inspector
11/2007 - 3/2009: KAMAX L.P.
Troy, MI 48198
Responsible for maintaining quality standards by approving incoming material, in-process production and finished products, recording quality results. Approve incoming material by conforming specification, conducting visual audits and measurement test, rejecting and returning unaccepted material to the vendor/supplier. Documents inspection results in SAP by completing reports and logs into quality data base.
Shipping & Receiving Supervisor
1/2000 - 11/2007: KAMAX L.P.
Troy, MI 48198
Supervise all shift employees and complies with all safety, quality, quantity, and housekeeping. Supervise all personnel and operations on the shift. Maintains thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment. Trains, evaluates, coach and review employees. Check shipping notices, BOL, invoices, orders and other records to define shipping priorities, work assignments and shipping methods required to meet shipping schedule. Overseeing incoming outgoing shipping actives to make sure accuracy, completeness and condition of shipment are met to customer’s standards.
Skills
Knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, SAP, Plex, Classic Plex, FasPac, X-3, AS400 and Aspen.
Knowledge of Quality standards and procedures, TS 16949, quality gaging tools, blueprint reading, optical comparator, concentricity gages, micrometers, calipers, keyence measuring machine, height gages, plug gages, flush gages, etc.
Knowledge of 5S, 5y, Autonomous maintenance, kaizen, team building, lower level management training, lean manufacturing, OEE, rate boards, KPI’S and customer service.
Knowledge of Quality control, inventory control, material management, shipping and receiving, advance shipping notices, MRP, ERP systems, warehouse management, production management, department management, license hi-lo driver.