Production Manager

Name Eduardo R. Ferrero

Address **** ******** ** *********** **, 22152

Phone Primary Phone: 954-***-****

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BACKGROUND

 Production Manager for a factory in North Virginia, increasing productivity over 25% with no new personnel or machinery and reducing rejects to a minimum.

 In charge of a very successful middle sized High Volume High Quality manufacturing plant, responsible for making production grow over 1000% in 6 years, with quality and customer satisfaction as our main goals.

 In all the positions of the career implemented and participated in the development of Standard Practices for Manufacture and Maintenance to improve and maintain standards of efficiency and quality applying the principles of Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management and Root Cause Analysis reducing Waste, Rejects and Rework to a minimum.

 Organized or reorganized several warehouses to make them adequate to the companies needs.

 Did a good deal of work in troubleshooting old and new equipment in the oil sector, for the food industry and in manufacturing.

 Responsible for training and coaching operators and mechanics in different working environments.

 Project Engineer for an Engineering Consulting firm experienced in project design and implementation in the oil sector, including piping design, plant layouts, Material Requirements Planning, Bills of Materials.

 Computer literate, Microsoft Office, ERP softwares and various other design and control computer programs.

 Bilingual English-Spanish, USA citizen.

EXPERIENCE

PRODUCTION MANAGER, PROLINE PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS. Springfield VA 6/2005 – 2/2008

• In charge of efficiently scheduling production according to customer requirements, design, operators ability and machine availability, increasing production capacity over 25% without new machinery. Responsible for shipping of the goods according to specifications in or better before the agreed date.

• Developed Process Specifications, (Standard Practices) to standardize procedures, maximizing efficiencies and facilitating inspections, achieving at the same time a very high level of quality.

 Supervised and evaluated the training of the machine operators.

 Responsible for quality control in the final products and in the designs. Reduced rejects to a negligible amount by implementing modifications in the production forms and procedures to make sure Production knew exactly the customer requirements with no assumptions by any of the parts.

• Digitizing or editing most of the designs using ETHOS or EDS4. Also making sure old designs would run properly.

• Reorganized the Warehouse to match the production flow and Shipping & Receiving, improving the existing system to match it with the Production, Sales and Billing needs.

• In charge of Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of all the production equipment.

OPERATIONS MANAGER, PLASTILINA C.A. San Cristobal /Venezuela 3/1991 – 12/2003

 Coordinating with the Production Manager organized schedule and prioritization of jobs.

 Developed Process Specifications, (Standard Practices) to standardize procedures, maximizing efficiencies and facilitating inspections, achieving at the same time a very high level of quality.

 Supervised or in charge of the training of the machine operators and in the use of the Embroidery Design Software.

 Responsible for the installation and start up of new equipment, preparation and revision of Preventive Maintenance checklists and of most of the Corrective Maintenance.

 Established close relationships with many customers to make sure we had the right products to meet their needs and procedures of Quality Control to make sure that the jobs were being made according to their requirements.

 Had to be one step ahead of the competition researching for new trends and services the customers would require even before they actually knew it.

 Also in charge of most of the sourcing of materials.

MAINTENANCE AND INSTALLATIONS ADVISOR

Fabrica Nacional de Chocolates/ Quesos Corona, San Cristobal/ Venezuela 8/1990 – 12/1999

 The main responsibilities were mostly in developing the Preventive Maintenance procedures, Failure Analysis of parts or machines and reverse engineering of parts for machines that were obsolete.

 Mechanical design and Installation for a complete new line for manufacturing mainly Mozzarella and Pizza Cheese. Posterior to the installation responsible for the startup of the whole new plant and set in operation.

 Training of operators and mechanics in some specific functions.

ROTARY EQUIPMENT ANALYST LAGOVEN, S.A. Maracaibo/ Venezuela 9/1986 - 7/1990

 Assigned to the 4 main Gas Compression plants LAGOVEN, S.A. (now PDVSA) has in the Maracaibo Lake. The main functions of a ROTARY EQUIPMENT ANALYST were the following:

 PREPARATION OF FAILURE REPORTS.

 PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE ADVICE.

 FAILURE PREDICTION.

 Involved with all the rotary equipment in the 4 main offshore gas compression plants in the Maracaibo Lake, such as Gas Turbines and Centrifugal Compressors. Would deal also with electric motors, centrifugal pumps, overhead semi-gantry cranes and some others.

JUNIOR PROJECT ENGINEER

CONSULTORES OCCIDENTALES S.A. Maracaibo, Venezuela 9/1983 - 8/1986

 Involved in the all the steps of the design or refurbishing of different sorts of oil industry installations, such as: Oil Flow Stations, Dehidratation Plants, Gas Compression Plants and Pipelines. The job experience included the following aspects:

 BASIC ENGINEERING.

 DETAIL ENGINEERING

 FIELD INSPECTION, making sure final results would match the drawings as much as possible and that any change made "in site" had the lowest impact in the desired operation of the installation.

EDUCATION

Universidad del Zulia Venezuela-Zulia-Maracaibo 12/1983

Bachelor's Degree Graduated as Mechanical Engineer, at the top of the class.

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