David P. Houle
Flint, MI *****
Objective:
My career objective is to acquire a full time and permanent job in a company where a creative and energetic individual can use his skills to lead a department or team to achieve the required goals and go beyond the normal and be a leader in today’s workplace. To be a leader and assist in a team environment were a skilled person could be apart of a world-class workforce.
Skills:
Through my 20 years of Manufacturing Supervision I have acquired many skills, Lean Manufacturing and Team Build our at the top of the list. I have also been trained in QS9000, QS9001, TS16949, and ISO14001. In the last 4 years at Delphi we have used
Maximo as are way of communicating with the maintenance people to get things fixed and a way of keeping tract of what machines are getting fixed and up time. I have been an Inspector for paint and defects for an automobile carrier for more than 2 years.
Computer Skills:
MSWord, Excel, Lotus Notes and Peoplesoft.
Employment History:
Delphi/Bartech
Flint, MI
07/2007 to 12/2007
Supervise hourly UAW workers in various jobs, Assembly of Fuel level senders, and repacking various products to ship to customers. There are many functions of a floor supervisor. Scheduling, running a production line, daily audits of our process and flow. Plus, many more functions required of a floor supervisor.
RYDER LOC/AEROTEK
Lansing, MI
03/2007 to 07/2007
Supervise hourly employees in all facets of a Lead Optimization Center. Receive, inspect, and check in freight so that it can be put into inventory to ship to 2 GM assembly plants. Daily functions of a receiving dock supervisor but not limited to this, as we are required to help other departments as needed. Receive 50 to 60 trucks a shift that has to be safely put into inventory so that it can be picked to ship to the Lansing GM assembly plants. Numerous daily functions that a floor supervisor has to do, Work with an hourly workforce and with truck drivers from various companies.
Saginaw Steering/ TAC Worldwide
Plants 7 and 5
Saginaw, MI
09/2005-02/2007
Contract Supervisor
Supervised hourly workers in various production departments. Fabrication and assembly, of housings for Intregal gears, Rack and Pinion and Half shafts for GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, and Nissan. Daily coaching and training of a new workforce to assemble these parts and to ship to assembly plants. Various functions that were required, including daily-layered audits and sequencing of parts to assemble and ship to assembly plants.
GM Service Parts Organization / Aerotek
Waterford, MI
01/2005-05/2005
Contract Supervisor
Supervise hourly (UAW) workers packaging various parts from suppliers that are shipped to Parts Distribution Warehouses all over the US, plus many other responsibilities that are required of a floor supervisor.
Delphi / Kelley Services
Flint, MI
10/2002 - 12/2004
Contract Supervisor
Supervised hourly (UAW) workers in daily production and fabrication of automotive parts to the big 3 automakers. Daily supervisor responsibilities include, scheduling, building, and shipping parts to the customer, and dealing with the daily happenings with the hourly workforce and any other responsibilities that are required of the floor supervisor.
Lansing Car Assembly / Troy Design
Lansing, MI
12/2000 - 07/2002
Contract Supervisor
Supervise production workers in a team build environment were a supervisor is giving the authority to make daily decisions on running the department they are in charge of. Daily responsibilities that were required of the floor supervisor.
Comprehensive Logistics / Troy Design
Lansing, MI
08/2000 - 09/2000
Contract Supervisor and Management
Put on an implementation team to set up a Sequencing operation of a Tier 1 supplier to Lansing Car Assembly. Set up the warehouse to receive material and ship to the assembly plant, sequenced for the production line.
Flint Metal Center / Troy Design
Flint, MI
09/1999 - 08/2000
Contract Supervisor
Responsibilities included the supervisor in a union environment of production lines in various sheet metal presses, radiator support, inner fender presses, outer fender presses, and triax presses. Also ran offline-welding operations.
BBK Warehouse / Troy Design
Romulus, MI
07/1998 - 08/1999
Contract Supervisor/Auditor
Did Y2K assessments for Navistar international. Ran parts repackaging and storage operation in Romulus for various General Motors operations.
GMARA/ARAMARK
VARIOUS CITIES, MI
10/1989 - 09/1998
Supervisor
Ran various operations in numerous GM plants, mostly in housekeeping and facilities management. Worked with hourly (UAW) workers to accomplish daily-required tasks to keep the plants running.
Education:
Associates Degree
Major: Business Administration, Marketing, and Management
Baker College
MI