Production Manager
Resume:
Wilber Galloway
Abbeville, South Carolina 29620
Summary:
Seventeen years of dyeing/bleaching supervisory and management experience in union and non-union manufacturing operations. Education experience includes induction into the “National Technical College Honor Society” which recognizes Honor graduates from two-year colleges. Presently, I am Senior, with three courses remaining, maintaining a perfect 4.0 at the university level, while pursuing a bachelors degree concentrated in business management. Six-Sigma and Lean Manufacturing experience includes earning a “Lean Six-Sigma” greenbelt certification by completing an eighty-hour certification course. I have completed a DMAIC project, several kaizen and pdca events, implemented 5s, Overall Equipment Effectiveness and standard operating procedures at the department and plant levels. Certification leadership experience includes ISO 9001, ISO 14001, TS 16949, QS9000 and Tier 1 designated. Trial experience includes evaluation of new processes, products, procedure and production equipment. Computerized payroll system experience includes 12 years of using “Windstar” and “Kronos” time and attendance tracking systems. ERP experience includes being trained and designated as an “ORACLE” super-user at the plant level. A super-user effectively navigates and utilizes the purchasing, receiving, warehousing, manufacturing, routing, shipping and report generation functions of the Oracle system. I played a major role, mostly by training hourly and management associates, in Hollander Home Fashions Georgia Plant implementation of ORACLE’s ERP system. Start-up experience includes being selected as an initial supervisory member of Sara Lee Knit Products (SLKP) $20,000,000 plant opening. SLKP opening was then North America’s second-most technological textile plant.
11/2009 - Present Production Manager Hollander Home Fashions
• Provided management support, as a mentor/coach, to salaried supervisors in a multi-shift, multi-department operation
• Generated and published plant level production schedule, based on customer’s purchase orders cancel and ship dates
• Established and implemented effective strategies to meet departmental and plant safety, quality, production, cost, continuous improvements, training and lean manufacturing goals.
• Implement change-agent solutions to maintain and enhance production efficiency, production scheduling, production staffing and production direct labor performance.
• Monitored inventory levels of received components , WIP and Finished Goods, to ensure purchase orders could be successfully fulfilled
• Updated bill of materials at the plant level for existing and new customer specifications
2009 – 7/2009 Automotive Supervisor HP-Pelzer
• Provided supervisory leadership for a hourly team-leader and twenty-five production associates in an acoustic automotive manufacturing operation
• Performed dock audits, material review board (MRB) inspections and first-piece inspections
• Scheduled and balanced associates to meet the production priority plan which included ship quantity and ship dates
2008 – 2009 Forming Supervisor Advanced Glassfiber Yarn
• Supervised production associates, lab technician and material handlers in a high-volume glass fiber manufacturing operation
• Responded to automated failures (plc faults) when key variables such as time, temperature, dispensing and transferring parameters were not met
• Recommended technical, maintenance, engineering, process and policy changes to maximize departmental performance
Wilber Galloway
103 Diamond Street
Abbeville, South Carolina 29620
2006 – 2008 Assistant Department Manager Safety Components Technical Fiber
• Served as the assistant department manager of a three-shift manufacturing operation
• Provided management and leadership to hourly team-leaders, production associates and production scheduler
• Implemented lean manufacturing and Six-Sigma methodologies at the department level
• Wrote Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Control Plants, Lot Control Sheets in preparation for 3rd party(ISO) observation and re-certification audits
• Wrote departmental production schedule
2005-2006 Dyeing/Finishing/Inspection Supervisor Southern Weaving
• Supervised a hourly team-leader and 20 production associates in a web weaving/dyeing plant
• Established and formalized unwritten work instructions for job tasks
• Trained associates on OSHA, team-building and problem-solving techniques
1993 – 2005 Dyeing/Bleaching /Color Control/Quality Supervisor Sara Lee Knit Products
• Provided leadership for production and laboratory associates in a dyeing and bleaching operation which was robotic, computer-integrated and plc controlled
• Customized corporate quality systems in a user-friendly plant process
• Wrote work instructions for quality and production processes,
• Utilized America Association of Textile Colorist and Chemist (AATCC) testing guidelines to ensure customer quality standards were met
Education:
Associates Degree (Business Management) (HONORS) Greenville Technical College
Training:
Logistical Leadership Advance Microsoft Excel Lean Six-Sigma Greenbelt Manufacturing Certificate
Lean Leadership Certificate Supervision Certificate Good Manufacturing Principles Incipient Fireman Certificate
Business Literacy Frontline Leadership Training the Trainer Varied Technical Seminars
Team Building Certificate Textile Operation Certificate Workforce Diversity Certificate Varied Business Seminars
Oracle Super-User Change-Agent Certificate
Computer Applications:
Oracle (ERP) Word Power Point Access Go To Meetings
AS400 Outlook Excel Impact Linux
Intellution SAP/Citrix Kronos Windstar
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