Tool and Die Manager

TERRY WOLFE

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Home 330-***-**** • Cell 330-***-****

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Tool & Die / Molding / Stamping

Innovative change team leader with more than 20 years experience streamlining productivity, conducting operations analysis, expanding employee skills, prioritizing quality and safety while maximizing profit, and optimizing procedures. Extraordinary results in capturing significant cost savings through proven solutions to complex problems. Excellent in analysis applied to promoting efficiencies, building sustainable working relationships, and expanding productivity. Exceeds expectations in designing novel solutions and quickly implementing necessary changes in alignment with organizational needs, current direction, and financial goals.

Streamline & Automate Machining Process • Creative Solutions • Operational Efficiency

Employee Training & Development • Line Productivity • Cross-Departmental Communications

Strategic Planning & Analysis • Trouble-Shooting • Reduced Down Time

Full Project Life Cycle • Financial Planning, Tracking, & Oversight

Hands-on Team Leadership • Participative Management • Safety & Prevention Measures

Cost Containment • Ground-Up Tool & Die Expertise

Continuous Process Improvement • Dedicated Key Contributor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCHAEFER EQUIPMENT, Warren, Ohio • 2009-Present

Forging and heavy gauge stamping for the railroad suspension industry

Tool and Die Maker

Responsible for the entire stamping business platform as the sole tool and diemaker. Products are a variety of railcar suspension components from 1/8” to 9/16” thickness high carbon steel.

• Building and designing new die components, repairing out of specification dies, heat treating tool steels and programming HAAS cnc mills to complete projects

CHRYLSER, Twinsburg, Ohio • 2007–2008

Chrysler stamping plant producing Class A, structural, and component metal panels for a multitude of Chrysler vehicle platforms. Employed 1,200.

Tool & Die Supervisor • 2007–2008

Supervised new model try-out, assembly, welding, and machine shop. Oversaw preventive maintenance, schedules, defects, production runs, and safety measures on Class A stamping dies.

• Demanded high quality, while encouraging high morale and team member ownership, with hands-on, participative management style for staff of 50.

• Reduced down-time, via preventive measures, team member ownership, and safe machine operation.

• Utilized Total Maintenance System to efficiently track repetitive problems and equipment repair, accessible to all employees, increasing staff input into plant processes and productivity.

Quality Supervisor • 2007

Responsible for inspection, tracking and containment of all Class A product from stamping lines, assembly and shipping.

• Participative management style with a staff of 10 quality inspectors.

• Containment and notification of all non-conforming product to affected assembly plants is crucial to JIT supply chain

DELPHI AUTOMOIVE SYSTEMS, Warren, Ohio • 1995-2007

General Motors Corporation electrical distribution parts division producing electrical cable and terminals. Employed 14,000.

Tool & Die Maker

Built high speed stamping dies and plastic injection molds. Completed try-out work on new production models. Implemented engineering changes.

• Stimulated trouble shooting efforts, training other die makers on process of building and assessing quality of progressive dies during production runs, and saving costs by reducing errors and down-time.

• Eight years in high technology tool room utilizing the latest in CAD/CAM software to design and program CNC machines to produce tooling.

• Proficient in operating all standard machine shop equipment including extensive experience on wire/sinker EDM, CNC mills and lathes.

• Capable of setup and operation of high speed stamping presses (1500SPM) and plastic injection molding presses (single and multi-cavity molds).

• Recognized for dedication to corporation/team member relations in appointment to Tool and die Team Leader and for ingenuity in constructing new dies.

FLAMBEAU PRODUCTS, Middlefield, Ohio • 1992-1995

Plastic injection molding facility for the outdoorsman market. Employed 300.

Mold Maker

Proficient in building plastic injection/blow molds from pocket sized parts to full size deer decoys

• Recognized by management for consistent high quality work and promoted into the CNC department to operate EDM equipment producing tooling for the molds

AMTECH TOOL & MACHINE, Youngstown, Ohio • 1988-1992

Tool & Die Maker Apprentice

• Indentured apprentice trained in all SOP’s, equipment operation, and trade applicable schooling

EDUCATION

Associate of Industrial Trades Technology

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

State of Ohio CertifiedTool and Die Apprenticeship

Smartcam CNC programming, Introduction to Metallurgy

Introduction to Unigraphics (NX) Solids for Die Makers, NX Fundamentals

Mechanical Schematics, Modern Die Making Technology, CNC Setup & Operation for Mill, Lathe and EDM operations

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