Manager Plant

Roberto Ramirez Shirasago

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Bilingual Industrial Engineer & Cost Reduction Specialist

Six Sigma • ISO 9000 • MRP • SPC • Kaizen • GMP • VSM • 5S • TPM • SMED • UL • JIT • TQC

Lean Manufacturing Implementation • Budget & P&L Development & Oversight • Supply Chain Management

Production & Inventory Control Programming • Scheduling • New Product Development & Implementation

Safety & Compliance • Preventative Maintenance • Quality Assurance • Team Motivation • Reporting

• More than 13 years of experience reducing operating costs & improving bottom-line profits by leading process improvements for manufacturing organizations producing $1.35M to $50M in annual profits.

• Created a shared operational & continuous improvement vision while managing operations budgets from $100K to $20M & leading as many as 400 employees across five operational areas.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Interconexiones • Guadalajara, Mexico • July 2012 to Oct. 2012

Consultant

Temporary role assisting in the planning, structuring and launching of a regional transportation & logistics start-up before bringing plant management and cost reduction expertise back to the US.

Boral Roofing/MonierLifetile • Colorado, Florida, California & Mexico • Nov. 2005 to July 2012

Plant Manager • Guadalajara, Mexico • Mar. 2009 to July 2012

Selected by the CEO to develop and implement a master turnaround plan for the Guadalajara plant while overseeing day-to-day operations across the production, maintenance, quality and shipping/receiving divisions.

• Led efforts that enabled the plant to achieve world-class manufacturing standards and earn recognition as the top performing plant in North America based on OEE, reduction of scrap and overall production costs.

• Implemented lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives, including VSM, SMED, 5S, TPM and Visual Management, to improve cultural awareness, safety and production efficiency by 40%.

• Negotiated supplier pricing to help reduce overall production costs by more than 20%.

• Analyzed floor operations before educating and empowering employees to take ownership of quality, leading to a reduction in the plant’s rejection rate from 2% to 0.5%.

• Adjusted tact time based on customer demand to help increase line throughput by 20%.

• Chaired the Safety Committee and led safety training and initiatives to achieve 2+ years of no LTIs or MIs.

• Interviewed, hired, trained, coached and clearly communicated expectations to promote employee success.

Production Manager • Denver, CO & Boca Raton, FL & Stockton, CA • Nov. 2005 to Mar. 2009

As part of Boral’s leadership program, transferred to work with different plant operations teams in designing and implementing process and efficiency improvements that helped achieve service, quality, cost and safety goals.

• Collaborated with HR, plant and maintenance management and production and operations team members while leading the launch of 2nd shift operations that matched the efficiency of the 1st shift after one month.

Implemented lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives, including Visual Management and 5s, to help enhance Denver plant efficiency by 10% in less than a year.

• Led Stockton facility labor and production planning, plant restructuring, and new product testing and employee cross-training to take plant capacity from three teams running two lines, to two teams running three lines.

Developed and executed master plans that maintained production schedules and met quality standards.

• Key to Denver team earning Best Plant of the Year award in 2008 over 17 other facilities.

Roberto Ramirez Shirasago

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Hoopeston Foods, Inc. • Denver, CO • Mar. 2004 to Nov. 2005

Packaging Manager / Warehouse Manager / Distribution Manager

Led 120 employees across three divisions, transforming operations from 60% historical production rate to 100%.

• Applied lean manufacturing tools to maintain throughput while reducing shifts from three to one.

• Negotiated with top three freight providers to reduce material transportation costs by 20%.

• Implemented cycle count program for 120K+ sq. ft. warehouse to achieve 96% inventory accuracy.

• Worked closely with the Director of Procurement to improve packaging and shipping dept. performance.

Implemented metrics to measure and track daily performance and guide a 40% efficiency improvement.

Graham-Field Health Products, Inc. • Guadalajara, Mexico & Lakewood, CO • Dec. 2000 to Mar. 2004

Sr. Production Planner / Master Scheduler

Led production planning and scheduling for 400-employee plant before operations were transitioned to Asia in April 2002. As the only employee out of 400 retained and transferred to the US, assumed remote oversight of Asia operations while boosting production for a customized shop from $720K to $1.2M per month.

• Analyzed EOQ and implemented an MRP system to reduce finished goods and raw materials inventories by 40% within one year at the Colorado plant.

• Collaborated with the Lakewood-based production team to understand processes and goals before implementing a Kanban system that helped bring down delivery time by 71%.

• Increased customized product inventory turns from two to six per year to enhance cash flow.

• While still at the Mexico-based plant, implemented outsourcing that reduced in-house labor and improved manufacturing costs by 20% and implemented better planning of finished goods and shipments to reduce the backlog from two months to one week

Flextronics International • Guadalajara, Mexico • Mar. 1999 to Dec. 2000

Supplier Quality Engineer & Functional Leader for BaaN System

Led BaaN system improvements across divisions while supervising 36 employees from three departments, developing the supply base and continuously coordinating supplier quality improvement initiatives.

• Led supply chain audits, generated supplier ratings, recommended corrective action plans (8Ds) and worked directly with 30+ suppliers to guide them in earning supplier certification.

Introduced a dock-to-stock program to eliminate inspection time for certified suppliers.

• Restructured receiving department separated over four buildings to take $2M MRB to $500K in six months.

• Performed root-cause analysis and introduced an improved RMA process to help reduce quarantine time from an average of six months to just two weeks in less than a year.

TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

Lean Manufacturing Bronze Certification Training • OSHA 30-Hour Safety Training • TOPS/8D Program

Analysis & Interpretations of Financial Statements for Project Leaders • Flextronics Negotiations Training

(CPIM) Colorado APICS Chapter 81 Course Work • STOP DuPont Safety System Training

TECHNOLOGY

BPCS ERP • BaaN • SAP • Citrix • Microsoft Office • Excel Expertise

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration concentration in Decision Making

University of Colorado at Denver • Denver, CO • Anticipated Completion Date: Winter 2013

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BSIE) concentration in Manufacturing Processes

ITESM Campus Guadalajara • Guadalajara, Mexico • 2001

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