Quality Manager IATF 16949 Auto Manufacturing Expert
Resume:
Benjamin Light
**** **** ****** ***, ****** Harbor, MI 49022
***.*********@*******.*** 269-***-****
Summary:
Experienced Quality Manager with 10+ years in Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive manufacturing, specializing in IATF 16949 compliance. Proven expertise in continuous improvement, process optimization, and managing quality systems to ensure high standards and customer satisfaction. Strong leadership in cross-functional teams, auditing, and driving corrective actions for sustained quality excellence. Accomplishments:
● Supervised 15 plus employees in a day to day work environment.
● Scheduled production.
● Customer service for production order creation and staging.
● Scheduled truck pickups and expedites.
● Inventory control, cycle counting and 4 wall inventories.
● Warehouse layout and staging.
● Know first in first out system and experienced with lean manufacturing.
● Know how to do purchase orders, material handling and ordering for manufacturing.
● Driven forklift for 20 years in a warehouse environment for the automotive industry.
● OSHA 10-hour training
● Scrap Reduction team lead have reduced scrap through team effort upto 4 percent annually.
● 8D and A3 trained for CAPA customer response and corrective actions.
● PPAP and APQP experience.
● MSA and SPC experience.
● Mini Tab experience.
● Primary Customer Contact for quality issues that are reported.
● Calipers, Micrometer, Ring and Plug Gage, Ferro Arm Scanner experience.
● Certified to give forklift licenses.
● Certified to ship hazardous materials with UPS and Fed EX ICAO/IATA standards.
● Certified IATF 16949 auditor
● Operations Management ran a job shop for General Manager scheduled all production and repairs as needed.
● PC DEMIS level 1 certification through Hexagon
Professional Experience:
Quality Manager
Hoffmann Die Cast, ST. Joseph MI, 11/04/2023 to Present
● Assistant Quality Manager over 16 LPDC machines trim saw and X-Ray.
● QMS updates and certifications IATF
● Back up CMM programmer Level 1
● 8D answering and closures
● Scrap, PPM, customer returns and red tag tracking and charting
● Operations slides for reporting quality PPM, Customer Scorecards, Scrap Reporting
● Document Control
Assistant Quality Manager
Aludyne Stevensville MI, 4/04/2022 to 11/4/2023
● Assistanted Quality Manager over 16 LPDC machines trim saw and X-Ray.
● QMS updates and certifications IATF
● Back up CMM programmer Level 1
● 8D answering and closures
● Scrap, PPM, customer returns and red tag tracking and charting
● Operation slides for reporting quality PPM, Customer Scorecards, Scrap Reporting
● Document Control
● X-ray Department Corrections to Views for customer issues Quality and Operations Manager
Michigan Die Casting Dowagiac, MI, 4/20/2020 to 4/04/2022
● QMS updates and certifications IATF
● Worked with Process Engineer to help with quality concerns with customers
● Schedule all overtime and vacations
● Worked with Odyssey MRP
● Scheduled for HPDC Die Cast 16 machines, Foundry, Machining, Shipping, Quality
● All customer concerns for all departments.
● Scheduled production repairs to machinery ordered supplies
● Scheduled change overs for product runs
● Tracked OEE and scrap rates
● PPAP take over business for customers
Quality and Logistics Manager
New Products Corp, Benton Harbor, MI 08/20/18 to 4/20/2020
● Quality Manager over HPDC 10 Machines including Machining
● Manage the shipping department schedule pickups and deliveries to outside suppliers
● Scheduled overtime and vacations for 7 employees’
● Scheduled die cast and machining presses according to EDI.
● Maintain inventory of packaging, skids and the outside warehouse
● Worked with Odyssey MRP system
● In charge of making reports and spreadsheets in Excel.
● Negotiated packaging, supplies and pallet contracts with supplier.
● In charge of all quality aspects quality alerts, TWI’s for sorts, work with engineering to update FMEA’s and control plans, updating the QMS, wrote work instructions, customer visits to qualify them for being a supplier.
● IATF internal audits for recertification.
Warehouse Safety Manager
Ausco Products Inc., Benton Harbor, MI 09/25/2017 to 08/14/18
● Managed the shipping department handled carriers, receiving material, Inventory control, cycle counts, negotiated contract with Fed EX and UPS.
● Managed the assembly of kits and scheduled overtime.
● Pulled stages and orders for the floor to run.
● Set up Kanban system for packaging.
● Set the safety committee and put safety procedures in place.
● Safety Audits.
● Ordered safety supplies.
● Worked with Infor Mapics MRP system.
Warehouse Manager
Dimplex Thermal Solutions, Kalamazoo, MI, 08/01/2016 to 05/19/2017
● Controlled all functions of shipping and receiving.
● Managed the material handlers that stocked the line and pulled orders.
● Rearranged warehouse to give more room and saving money by controlling the inventory.
● Implemented an inventory control system with cycle counts lowering orders.
● Improved organization of shelves to control inventory.
● Drove forklift standup and sit-down trucks.
● Worked with the Infor MRP system.
Shipping Supervisor
JVIS Manufacturing LLC, Benton Harbor, MI, 12/17/1995 to 08/01/2016
● Supervised shipping department.
● Promise requirements and answer for shortages for Chrysler, Ford and Visteon.
● Handled scheduling trucks and expedites.
● Answered Smart tickets and 8D violations for shortages.
● Drove forklift.
● Ordered packaging and parts to stock lines.
● Warehouse Management kept warehouse clean and inventoried.
● Worked with CMMS, CMS and MRP systems.
Education and Certifications:
● High School Diploma Hartford High School Hartford, MI-1994
● Business Management Degree LMC Benton Harbor, MI- In Progress
● Cad Certificate Lawrence Votech Center Lawrence, MI-1994
● Leadership and Supervisor Training LMC Benton Harbor, MI-2002
● Ford Customer Service Training JVIS Manufacturing LLC Benton Harbor, MI-2002
● Kanban and Hazmat Training JVIS Manufacturing LLC Benton Harbor, MI-2002
● IATA Certified for Shipping of Hazardous Materials Dimplex Kalamazoo, MI-2016
● Forklift Training Certified Ausco Products Benton Harbor, MI-2017
● OSHA Certification-10 hour Ausco Products Benton Harbor, MI-2018
● PC DEMIS level 1 certification through Hexagon 2022 SKILLS:
● APQP
● IATF 16949 & ISO 9001
● MS Office suite (word, excel, powerpoint)
● Minitab
Volunteer Experience:
● Building homes for Habitat for Humanity.
● Cleaned fire trucks for Hartford Fire Department.
● Coached little league baseball for Watervliet Elementary Schools.
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