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Senior Production Manager - Automotive Manufacturing

Location:
Center Line, MI
Posted:
March 25, 2026

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Resume:

Mario Velasquez

E ******************@*****.***

C 586-***-****

H 8146 Helen Centerline mi 48015

Career Summary:

●Ambitious, highly qualified Production Manager with a progressive work history and more than 14 years of relevant production supervision experience in automotive manufacturing.

●Exercised full management for plant production including: manufacturing, quality assurance and material/supply chain management.

●Built strong/production teams, start up operations, resolved complex production problems, and work major manufacturing projects.

●Outstanding quality and time saving track record.

●An effective team player with strong ability to work independently.

Technical Skills:

●Lean Manufacturing

●Material Management

●QS 9000 internal auditor

●ISO TS 1649 internal auditor

●CS-1- GP 12 Containment Coordinator

●5s

Core Competencies:

●4 years certified Hilo Driver - handle peg style containers, maintain scrap bins, chip hoppers, restock raw casting and finish material, monthly & daily inventory, unload & reload semi ( proper weight disperse), daily hi-lo check sheets

●Basic computer skills, FIFO system, scanning in all incoming and outbound material

●5 years Machine Operator - (Mazak, OKK, Vigel, CNC Horizontal ), loading and unloading of raw or machine casting, quality checks of machine casting with QC gages, (bore, step, height, plug gages), daily machine checks, fixture, coolant, tooling, program, visual inspection of in process material, daily production sheets, quality and downtime reports, tool log sheets, rejection and in process tags, 5s work area.

Professional Experience:

Detroit diesel Corporation Redford Mich.

September 2018 - June 2019/ 3nd shift production supervisor. Dept HDEP / DEPT 564&565 CONROD, Machine Dept.

●responsible for a Workforce of 20 UAW employees

●communicate with with other supervisors what daily issues to keep in sync address daily issues from, quality,production, tooling, and attendance issue.

●Report daily hourly output and quality concerns

●Follow all UAW rules and regulations

●Request daily trades to work on manufacturing issues

●Daily inventory recording

● maintain daily process that's been implemented for production and quality Department

●Daily meetings with other supervisor Department, maintenance supervisor quality supervisor, materials supervisor

● input daily maintenance tickets for proper identification of work being done

●Overlooked CMM reports of daily quality issues.

Flex-n-Gate, Warren Michigan

June 2018- September 2018

Second shift hourly supervisor molding Department

●Responsible for a Workforce of 30 + UAW employees

●Managing and improving process to enhance production quality and maximize efficiency.

●Complete production Planning by scheduling and assigning personnel to designated workstations

●Promotes worksafe practice in a safe environment.

●Communicate with shift supervisors making sure we're all in sync address any concerns immediately quality or production issues

●Record hourly output and quality concerns

●Promote 5S throughout the entire plan

●Weekly meetings with quality management of quality issues and disciplinary actions for Quality concerns

Hppelzer Automotive,Pt.Huron Mi

June 2017- Nov 2017

Midnight Production Supervisor.

●supervisor of 30 or more hourly employees

●Handout daily assignments

●Record hourly output

●Hourly walkthroughs for Quality concerns also downtime issues

●Follow all safety policies and company policies

●Authorized to give disciplinary write-ups

●Daily meetings with supervisors, maintenance and quality

●Review of (FRB) Fast Response Board Concerns

●Review hourly time cards authorized you okay OT

●Inspection of entire plant for 5S

Nov 2016 - March2017- working as Machine Operator while seeking career opportunities to continue career as Production Manager

Sakthi Automotive, Detroit MI Nov 2015 - Nov 2016

Production Manager (Aug 2016 – Nov 2016)

Production Supervisor (Nov 2015 – Jul 2016)

●Responsible for supervising a work force of 60 or more union employees and 3 Shift Supervisors.

●Managing and improving process to enhance production quality and maximize efficiency

●Complete production plan by scheduling and assigning personal; accomplishing work results; developing reports procedures and system.

●Prioritize, assign and review duties and work activities to meet production and quality goals.

●Plan, organize and monitor resources to achieve used of labor, equipment and materials planning, assigning and directing production work.

●Promote safe working practices in a safe and orderly environment.

●Ensure all pertinent information to achieve the effective operation of the organization to communicated to all concerned personal.

●Make sure that products are to highest grade and production standards.

●Ensure that company policies and procedures, facility rules and regulations are adhered to.

●Assumed complete responsibility for daily production priorities.

●Check the plant floor for any safety issues that would cause any injuries to work or customer.

●Communicated with shift supervisor making sure we were all in sync and addressed any concerns or needs immediately.

●Scheduling of overtime per customer requirements.

●Ensure operation of equipment and scheduling of preventive maintenance with maintenance manager.

Oct 2014 – Oct 2015 - working as Machine Operator while seeking career opportunities to continue career as Production Manager

Tranform Automotive Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

Temp Assignment

●Responsible for quality checking of steel shaft for any defect or major scratches, also quality check Transmission shell that shafts was welded to for no defects after being welded, also hourly checks, 3 times daily had to cut 1 part in half and check for weld depth penetration and recorded, inform shift supervisor if out if Customer Specifications, and recheck after proper adjustments were made. Packed into proper container per customer requested, make labels for individual container and master package labels, banding of container, filled out daily production sheets and chart of quality scrap and production output graphs.

Oct 2011 – May 2014 - working as Machine Operator while seeking career opportunities to continue career as Production Manager

SMW Automotive, Warren MI Nov 1998 - Sep 2011

Production Supervisor

●Responsible for managing a work force of 16 employees and supervisors that were responsible for producing quality base automotive products. Oversaw production floor and operator safety, assist in the process of continuous improvements and training and motivating, guiding skilled and semi-skilled drivers workforce, enforcing company rules policies and procedures.

●Reviewed production schedules each day to make sure we operated at maximum productivity and met goals.

●Responsible for training, coaching, mentoring, and developing personnel team that effectively meet production goals base on demand

●Assumed complete responsibility for daily production priorities.

●Walked the production floor prior to the shift start up to ensure proper set up of parts, container and change was completed.

●Communicated with shift Supervisor making sure we were all in sync and address any concerns or needs immediately

●Consistently met schedule compliance

●Complete check and verified all paperwork and that the process and procedures were followed for each job.

●Facilitated daily and weekly quality control meeting to make shore we shipped out high quality product.

●Monitored hourly counts on all jobs in concentrated area of the plant.

●Check shortages for next day and informed Production Manager thru variance reports

●Input all production counts into AIM system.

Education:

●Mt. Clemens High School

High School Diploma



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