Plant operations manager

WILLIAM E. SENAVAITIS

*** ***** ******** **** *********, PA 19506 610-***-**** *********@***.***

OBJECTIVE: Operations / Plant Management

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Eight years lean implementation and training experience.

• Ten years experience in successful turn-around and crisis management positions.

• Exceptional problem solver, driven to succeed with strong interpersonal and negotiating skills.

• Boundless energy, capable of adopting a number of roles simultaneously, determined to stay on course.

• Excellent presentation skills.

• Dynamic leader, trainer and team builder.

• A natural at developing long term measurements and solutions.

• Directed the mental and physical changes needed to turn around three non-performing companies.

• Project leader for company wide orientation and implementation of Activity Based Management.

• Assumed the role of COO/President of two tier 1 automotive supply companies, gaining two years of valuable executive experience.

• Currently leading a major pump manufacturer to the most profitable operations year ever, by cutting labor, overtime and operating expenses to 30% below budget, while increasing business volume.

RELEVANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Executive Lean Management

• Coordinated the merger of two companies to successful common goals.

• Implemented division wide goals and measurements for turnaround continuous improvement efforts.

• Skillfully negotiated a joint labor agreement with two different union locals within one site after a merger.

• Significantly improved two separate company ratings with two major auto manufacturers.

• Improved safety metrics through training and awareness.

• Improved quality, reducing rework and scrap

• Improved on time delivery for every manufacturing operations that I managed.

• Improved productivity 22 to 30 % in the manufacturing of trucks, automobile parts and pumps.

Continuous Improvement

• Directed and trained process improvement teams, reducing direct labor.

• Developed plans reducing excess inventory by 70%, and conventional warehousing by 60%.

• Implemented, trained and maintained continuous improvement initiatives, 5S, Kaizen, Visual Factory, TPS.

• Implemented ergonomic improvements, which reduced lost time injuries.

• Implemented poke-yoke devises to improve first time quality

• Implemented internal and external Kan-ban systems.

Team Building / Leadership

• Developed first UAW self-directed work teams in UAW manufacturing shop.

• Facilitated all process flow team projects for entire division of major truck manufacturer.

• Developed process flow teams in Australian Division of major truck manufacturer.

• Facilitated a major turn around of an industrial pump company.

Production Management

• Developed first accountability procedures for built in position assembly line quality and productivity.

• Successfully managed machining, stamping and assembly operations.

• Managed all areas of assembly process of heavy-duty truck company.

• Managed machine Shop, Assembly, Shipping, Receiving and Maintenance for major pump company.

Bottom Line

• I will assist in identifying value-added vs. non-value added work and establish control measurements.

• I will develop processes and programs to transform your facility into a lean culture.

• I am prepared to make the tough decisions to implement culture change.

• I am prepared to assist your company reduce cost, and improve quality and delivery.

WILLIAM E. SENAVAITIS

770 North Garfield Road Bernville, PA 19506 610-***-**** *********@***.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mfg. Operations Manager Gould Pumps Inc. Ashland, PA 2007-Present

Industrial Pumps

Operations Manager Debill Inc. Bernville, PA 1999-2007

Frameless picture Mfg.

Vice President of Manufacturing Genesis Mfg. and Fab. Detroit, MI 1996-1999

Tier 1 Supplier of automotive parts to GM and Chrysler

Manager Special Projects Mack Trucks, Inc. Allentown/Macungie, PA 1978-1996

Class 8 heavy-duty truck Mfg.

Manager Productivity and Process Flow

Section Manage Process Flow

Section Manager Materials

Section Manager Assembly Production

Assembly Production Supervisor

Machine Shop Supervisor

Machinist

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Faas Consulting Green belt training

Pennsylvania Certified Machinist and Tool Maker Apprenticeship

Fifteen years of extensive, on the job training in lean continuous improvement methodology

Penn State University Engineering

Penn State University Business Management

AMS Institute Strengthening Management Skills

Mack Trucks Team Building Training

Mack Trucks Brainstorming

Productivity Inc. Visual Factory Implementation

The Joyce Institute Principles of Ergonomics

Renault (France) MCTM (predetermined standards)

Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. Dale Carnegie Leadership Course

Mack Trucks SPC Training

QIP, Inc and PQ Systems, Inc Blue Print for Total Quality

Mack Trucks Total Quality Transformation

Mack Trucks Becoming a Leader

Northampton Co. Community College Team Communications Training

Time* Power Training Time* Power Training

Renault (France) Kaizen Concepts

Renault (France) Poke-Yoke

Renault (France) Process Mapping

Renault (France) J.I.T Concepts

Renault (France) Industrial Flow Concepts

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