Manager Engineer

Graceson George

**** **** ***** ****, ******, GA 30519 770-***-**** email:

**********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KIK Custom Products, Gainesville, Ga. 300507, (April 2012 - Present)

KIK Custom Products is a chemical manufacturer of fragrance and aerosol products for the

consumer retail market.

Title: Assistant Fragrance Production Manager

• Ensures adherence to procedures, including GMP requirements

• Varying quantity batches of custom formulated fragrances and flavors

• Direct the development and implementation of activities in production area(s) to meet

production goals, quality, and cost objectives.

• Supervise operations staff in accordance with company policies and procedures.

• Achieve expected internal yield and delivered product quality levels.

• Operational responsibilities include controlling costs in raw ingredients, packaging, direct

labor, operating expenses, and capital expenditures.

• Maintain and care for equipment and facility.

• Ensure team compliance with safety, quality, production, and security policies.

• Establish goals, conduct feedback reviews, provide personal development counsel to staff.

• Maintain material inventory accuracy and generate production metrics and reports.

• Conduct interviews, hire operations staff, and assist with employee orientation.

• Establish efficient production schedules to manage operation to meet customer service

level agreements.

• Responsible for work assignments, shift rotations, training, vacations, and overtime.

• Maintain effective communications with team members and all support departments.

Briggs & Stratton, McDonough, Ga. 30253 (October 2008 – April 2012)

Briggs & Stratton is a supplier of OEM and aftermarket yard and home products.

Title: Lean Manufacturing Manager

• Develop value stream maps to target improvement strategies.

• Collaborate with leadership team to structure the organization goals.

• Lead Kaizen team activities to drive improvements through waste reduction, inventory

accuracy, and schedule compliance.

• Provide Lean manufacturing expert support in all 7 elements throughout the plant.

• Communicate Lean Manufacturing principals throughout the organization to promote

culture and behavior changes.

• Define and establish guideline to advance employee participation and acceptance of Lean

Manufacturing concepts.

• Facilitate monthly departmental training and workshops to communicate improvement

activities and Lean transformation journey.

• Directly responsible to support and evaluate and report 5S implementation and

sustainment.

• Directly responsible to ensure Lean audits are successful.

• Responsible for developing cost-reduction and process improvement strategies (Kaizen,

VA-VE, LEAN, 5’s).

Lund International Lawrenceville, GA 30045 (November 2007 – February 2008)

Lund Intl is a supplier of OEM and aftermarket automotive accessories.

Title: Sr. Industrial/Project Engineer

• Responsible for providing resolution of all process problems.

• Planning (assisting in generating daily production schedule)

• Production Coordination (assisting with work load allocation)

Graceson George

3531 Hard Creek Lane, Buford, GA 30519 770-***-**** email:

**********@*****.***

• Material handling (direct responsibility for setup of material storage, allocation and kanban

system).

• Install and Setup Process Equipment

• 5S projects coordination

Barco View Duluth GA 30097 (April 00 – October 06)

Barco View is a supplier of mission critical display product for military, avionics, and medical

applications.

Title: Manufacturing Support Services Manager

• Accountable to ensure product Quality, Cost, and Delivery targets.

• Organize and direct tactical teams for company wide LEAN program implementation.

• Organize and manage project resources and tasks.

• Responsible for providing resolution of all process problems associated with new product

development, product sustaining activity and continuous improvements.

• Develop Manufacturing Bills of Materials.

• Responsible for statistical approaches to root cause analysis of manufacturing processes.

• Coordinate engineering changes (ECO, ECN) to ensure the built products represent the as

designed intent.

• Extensive interaction and coordination with Design Engineer, Program Manager,

Production Control, Accounting, Quality Assurance, and Vendors to ensure project

success.

• Develop and manage annual department and capital budgets.

Nacom Corporation Griffin, GA 30224 (March 96 – April 00)

Nacom Corporation is a supplier of electrical systems for the automotive industry.

Title: Manufacturing Engineer

• Responsible for providing resolution of all process problems associated with

product introduction through an advance product quality planning team (APQP).

• Generate product assembly documents (WI, PFMEA, Process Flow, etc.).

• Establish product packaging materials (returnable, expendable).

• Develop methods for reducing manpower, customer defects, scrap rate, and

process cycle time.

• Ensure pre-production product builds are carried out to demonstrate capability,

quality, and productivity targets.

• Develop floor layouts with regard to efficient flow, capacity, balance, material

logistics, ergonomics, services and environmental safety considerations.

• Responsible for developing cost-reduction and process improvement strategies

(Kaizen, VA-VE, LEAN, 5’s).

• Generated production equipment maintenance schedule guidelines (TPM).

EDUCATION

Devry University, Atlanta, GA.

Major: Operations Management

Graduation: February 1996, Bachelor of Science

Devry University, Atlanta, GA.

Major: Electronics Technology

Graduation: June 1994, Associates of Science

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