JOSE DEL MURO
Downey, CA **240
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Operations Manager with extensive experience in a large Aerospace company. Leader committed to quality and building an organization focused on teamwork, agility, creativity, and profitability Excels at being customer-focused, organized and knowledgeable about business process improvement. Able to motivate a workforce to sustain high levels of productivity and accomplish challenging goals. Recipient of numerous awards in excellence for quality, deliveries and achievement. Areas of expertise include:
• Planning Management, Program Management, Labor Relations, Operating Budget, Excellent Employee Relations
• Six Sigma/Lean
• Customer Delivery mind set
• Transition
EXPERIENCE
• Eaton Aerospace Corporation, Irvine, California 2007/2010 Operations Manager Tijuana Facility
• Managed day-to-day operations for a staff of 265 employees in a deadline-oriented production line along with the responsibility for the safety of all employees.
• Transition team member ( manufacturing processes from UK to Tijuana Mexico
• Start-up operations on a new facility in Tijuana, Mexico
• Set-up new production ( lines ) cells including new processes,
• Heat Treat, Paint, welding, Clean Lines, Machine Centers,2 Water Jet cutting , Tool Room, 5 Hydraulic Bend Machines, 4 X-ray Booths and 2 NDT Inspection Lines.
• Business unit growth from 0 to 265 Employees within 2 years.
• Managed recognition and activities programs for all associates in the facility, improving employee satisfaction survey results by over 5% annually.
• Trained, developed and coached staff to improve quality and productivity by implementing standard work to increase on-time Customer deliveries by 20%.
• Responding to corporate directive to reduce costs, lowered overtime by 25% in one year, meeting corporate objective of eliminating redundant work.
• Designed accountabilities in performance review system, increasing frequency of performance discussions with supervisors from twice per year to weekly.
• Managed daily strategic production meeting with all supervisors and coached them to increase overall organizational performance/productivity.
• Managed monthly all-employee communication meeting to discuss safety, quality, customer deliveries and overall performance of the business unit.
• Managed scrap reductions process improvement teams to reduce scrap by 45% annually which resulted in a savings of over $250K in 2009
• Acting as a Program Manager for All Customers including Rolls-Royce, Bombardier and Honeywell
• Lean and 5 S implementation including internal EBE certification in 2009
• Led 5 Kaizen Events to improve process flow
• 95% Forecast accuracy for 2009
• 50% past due reduction for 2009
• 85% on-time delivery for 3 major Customers.
Honeywell Aerospace, Torrance, California/Mexicali, BC MEXICO 1979 to 2007
• Operations/Transition Manager 2002 to 2007
• Responsible for operations and production, budget, safety, process improvements. In charge of 525 employees including Manufacturing and Quality Engineers at Mexicali facility
Production Manager 2001/2002
• In charge of 80 Employees.
• Transition Leader Torrance, ca facility 1997/2001
• Responsible for transferring over 500K hours of manufacturing labor to a new facility in Mexicali, Mexico. Set up new production lines ( cells ) and new processes such as welding, clean lines, machine centers, dip braze, vacuum braze Hydraulic forming, paint, tool room, metrology, and CMM,
CELL LINE SUPERVISOR 1985/1997
Managed 40 Employees to support production schedules
Sheet Metal Operator 1979/1985
Very well knowledge of fit and assy of Pre-coolers
Oil Coolers Heat Exchangers as well as final Assy.
Pre-Production coordinator
FAIR Coordinator
Certify Operator
Certify Tig welder
Quality Inspector
EDUCATION
El Camino Community College – Course in Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering
Company training courses on Leadership and Management Skills, Valuing Diversity, Effective Interviewing, Communication Skills, MS Office
CERTIFICATIONS
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (Honeywell)
Fully Trained in Lean Manufacturing (at Honeywell no certification)
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