Production Supervisor

Ronald Sisk

****-****** *****

Kingsport, TN ****4

Cellular 423-***-****

blhesf@r.postjobfree.com

Production Supervisor

SUMMARY

Production Supervisor with over 15 years experience in a manufacturing environment and 15 years supervisor experience in improving safety, efficiency, performance, promoting employee involvement and continuous improvement. With strong knowledge of 5S, human resource policies and procedures, planning and organizing, production processes and standards. Proven ability to manage shop floor associates in a fast paced, high volume manufacturing environment to ensure that daily, weekly, monthly objectives, schedules and performance levels are met through the best business strategies and lean concepts. While continuously developing a safe team oriented environment.

SKILLS

Personnel Supervision, Production Processes and Standards

Planning and Organizing, Inventory and Materials Management

Coaching and Motivation, Leadership and Delegation

Communication, Deadlines and Scheduling

Excell Lean Tools, Operational Reports

EXPERIENCE

Production Supervisor - 1994 to 2009

Exide Technologies - A global leader in stored electrical energy solutions, Greer, South Carolina & Bristol Tennessee

Executed daily,weekly and monthly assembly production schedules through the utilization of manpower, materials, machinery, methods, quality standards, lean concepts to meet customer requirements, schedules, compliance and cost objectives set forth by the company, resolved employee issues and conflicts, trained, coached and evaluated employees, reported daily payroll, production, scrap and machine, materials, quality and safety issues on respective shift, with up to sixty employees.

* Maintained production schedules and cost objectives by: prioritizing daily activities, planning and revising production schedules due to equipment failures, material shortages or operating problems, which improved efficiency.

* Conducted formal and informal performance evaluations with shop floor associates by; applying fair, consistent performance expectations with one on one communication to meet production schedules and further develop their abilities, which improved performance.

* Effectively utilized daily shift start up meetings to communicate to shop floor associates about safety, quality, machine, materials, production and scrap issues of previous day or upcoming, which promoted employee involvement and continuous improvement.

* Successfully trained, coached shop floor associates in what 5S is and why we do it, also how to effectively perform a 5S audit, which improved safety, quality, productivity and promoted clean, neat, orderly work cells.

* Resolved employee issues and conflicts in appropriate timely manner, which improved moral.

* Successfully reported daily payroll, production, scrap and machine, materials, quality and safety issues through formal and informal methods.

* Reduced assembly line change over's by; monitoring daily production schedules and revising when needed. Improved assembly line set up times by; promoting employee involvement and continuous improvement.

EDUCATION

Silver Career Readiness Certificate

Alliance for Business & Training, Elizabethton, Tennessee

Certificate- Leadership and management Development

Northeast State Technical Community College, Blountville, Tennessee

High School Diploma

Nation High School, Lynchburg, Virginia

TRAINING

* Standard First Aid / CPR, American Red Cross

Exide Technologies-In House Training

* Lean / Six Sigma Kaizen Problem Solving Processes and Methodologies

* Statistical Process Control

* Team Leader / Facilitator

* Quality Control / Process Control

* Human Resource Policies and Procedures

* First Line Management

* Hazardous Waste Handling and Storage

* QS9000 Internal Auditor

* TS16949

* Excell Lean Tools

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