Project Manager

• Sep 2021 - Present

Responsible for opening two manufacturing facilities in Georgia and Utah. Contractor recruitment, screening, and evaluation to provide quotes and complete tasks associated with the project. Develop, and track plans to complete complex construction and machine assembly and procurement to facilitate manufacturing facility. Develop and track budget and task timelines to meet start up goals. Identify issues early to create mitigation plans to keep the project on time. Work with Federal, State, and local agencies to apply and obtain tax credits, permits, licenses, building inspector approvals, and grants based on requirements. Track and maintain vendors in the accounts payable system to ensure quotes and entered and received timely and accurately. Provide hands on supervision of projects to train and streamline the installation and of equipment and maintenance personnel. Work with transportation providers and vendors to develop material movement logistics to ensure manufacturing raw materials are available and is cost efficient. Review contracts for approval to upper management to identify unfavorable verbiage and check for accuracy. Work with plant managers and supervisors to assist in production startup operations. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Design, manufacture, and implementation of a manufacturing machine modifications to reduce safety incidents of product and the automation of production equipment to increase production and reduce employee turnover. Improve hiring procedures, and methods to attract and retain a more robust employee pool. Promoted to Project manager. Completed 1.6-million-dollar manufacturing site in Georgia 1 month ahead of schedule. Planned and implemented 2nd phase of 6 phases of a 10-million-dollar manufacturing site in Utah. Show less

Night Operations Manager

• Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

Responsible for 3 departments in a manufacturing environment. 33 direct reports, 2 production Supervisors and 1 maintenance technician. Manage plant safety, KPIs, quality standards, and maintenance preventive maintenance functions.

Maintenance Supervisor

• Apr 2013 - Aug 2020

Responsible for all aspects of maintenance in a manufacturing environment for 4 production lines and supporting equipment for a 250,000-sf. manufacturing facility that produces 6 million lead-acid batteries annually. Responsible for the hiring and termination of employees, training, and planning workloads and documentation of all certifications both required internally and external regulatory agencies for 14 maintenance staff members as well as manage the maintenance department budget. Responsible for a 10-million-dollar annual maintenance budget including forecasting, inventory control, cycle counting systems, cost reduction initiatives. Responsible for the planning and implementation of Preventive Maintenance of the equipment and hold weekly meetings to both follow up on the execution of the PM event, and to discuss the findings and observations from Operators, Technicians and PM Observers to refine and improve the PM process, as well as, to plan the next PM. Directed the Maintenance Planner and Technical Writer in their day to day duties to develop accurate PM tasks based on both failure data and PM feedback information to develop Predictive Maintenance tasks and frequencies and to develop SOPs to ensure that PM maintenance tasks are performed correctly and provide repeatability. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Led the successful implementation of SAP for maintenance for the first U.S. plant to convert from the Maximo system to a fully integrated SAP maintenance management system. Developed and improved the Machine Maintenance to achieve record production levels and was a key factor in the plant reaching the goal of being the first U.S. plant achieving level 3 in the Johnson controls Manufacturing System. Show less

Operations Lead Supervisor for Boeing Commercial

• Oct 2011 - Apr 2013

Responsible for all manufacturing aspects for 3 production lines generating 18 million dollars in revenue annually. Responsible for meeting on-time delivery to customer promise dates, material inventory levels for proper delivery and turnover for maintaining material time in WIP as well as quality control for outside vendors, manufacturing efficiency for meeting quoted labor hours and direct-on-indirect labor charges, quality initiatives, engineering coordination schedules, production scheduling, and 112 manufacturing personnel in a union environment. Responsible for developing, maintaining, tracking of departmental TTI’s. Responsible for the organizing, leading, implementation, and sustaining of Kaizen events for continual improvements to meet or exceed stretch goal initiatives. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Reduction in labor hours by 49% thru multiple Kaizen lean event implementations over 8 months, increased on-time delivery from 0 to 100 % within 3 months, Successfully transferred production line operations to a Mexico facility to further reduce labor hours below the quoted price that resulted in increasing business unit GP from 12% to 15%. Decreased quality squawk findings that resulted in the total elimination of supplier funded source inspections. Lead a successful Green belt project to eliminate a 100% non-conformance that resulted in an $85,000 annual savings. Show less

Industrial Maintenance Foreman for South Texas

• Apr 2008 - Jul 2011

Responsible for all maintenance operations for 3 compost plants in San Antonio, as well as satellite sites in San Marcos, and Victoria TX including scheduling maintenance between site managers, part inventory, establish and maintain wear part inventories, maintain maintenance budgets, Perform cost analysis of projected cost of equipment for operations to use warrantees to the fullest capacity, and to reduce cost and increase the resale value of 76 pieces of equipment ranging from heavy equipment wheel loaders, industrial horizontal grinders, to PLC controlled bagging machines. Provide daily reporting of maintenance costing and functions for machine availability and reliability calculation. Work with site managers to increase production efficiencies thru process improvements. Oversee and manage outside contractors for special projects to ensure time schedules and budgets are meet ,as well as, support and direction. Show less

Maintenance Group Leader

• Mar 2007 - Apr 2008

Train, supervise, and motivate team members to safely and efficiently maintain, repair, and modify equipment in automotive body stamping and robotic welding operations. Troubleshoot and identify opportunities and implement improvements to maintain and increase production levels and quality standards. Implement preventive and predictive maintenance. Responsible for 230 Robots and three 100,000 ton stamping machines. Develop and maintain down-time repair schedule with Production Supervisors to minimize production downtime. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Implemented overtime reduction plan which resulted in the reduction of overtime costs by 50%. Established and organized training program for Maintenance team members that resulted in the increase of machine up time by 20%. Show less

Group Leader

• Aug 2006 - Feb 2007

Responsible for all aspects of production in a manufacturing environment. Responsible for hourly performance calculations, reporting, and posting. Hire, train, and manage 137 production personnel within company guidelines. Prioritize activities on the production floor to assure that direct labor resources are effectively utilized to meet production goals of on time shipment of quality products with special focus on labor stability, TAKT time and standard work calculations and implementation, as well as, inventory control in a supplier e-Kanban system. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Implementation of standard work and systematic labor layered audits which resulted in a 30% increase in production efficiencies to beyond record levels. Implemented one day material stores Kanban procedures which resulted in increasing inventory accuracies from 63% to 97% overall. Show less

Production Supervisor

• Feb 2004 - Jun 2006

Responsible for all aspects of production including labor, materials, quality, safety, equipment, costing, of two separate departments consisting of two leads and 25 employees in a fast paced, results orientated environment. Responsible for hourly performance calculations, reporting, and posting within the work stations, as well as, the development of the production staff to promotion performance levels. Hire, train, and manage production personnel within company guidelines. Prioritize activities on the production floor to assure that direct labor resources are effectively utilized to meet production goals of on time shipment of quality products. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Implementation of one piece flow system which resulted in a 14% increase in production efficiencies to beyond record levels. Awarded the first Quality Process Improvement Award for implimenting a process change that improved the 4th corner patch on IG units that resulted in significant cost savings for all Milgard locations. Show less

Manufacturing Manager/ Cost Accountant

• Mar 2003 - Jan 2004

Responsible for all aspects of production including labor, materials, quality, safety, equipment, scheduling, and maintenance. Hire, train, and manage a production staff including two FAA Certified repairmen, three lead persons and 50+ production and support personnel. Responsible for the operations of a FAA Repair Station repair, as well as, the manufacture of PMA and OEM aircraft filtration system components for both government and public contracts. Establish and maintain costing methods, standards, and procedures with in a manufacturing environment including standard costing of manufacturing operations. Responsible for the processing of shipping and receiving invoices. ACCOMPLISHIMENTS: Implementation of cost accounting production procedures resulting in the reduction in indirect labor cost and accurate production costing. Implementation of a cycle count program increasing inventory accuracy from 82% to 98%. Developed and modified quality procedures to meet AS9100 standards resulting in the certification of overall company certification to AS9100. Show less

Plant Superintendent

• Nov 2001 - Mar 2003

Main responsibilities include; work with the president and sales/marketing department for the introduction and development of new products. Responsible for all aspects of production including labor, materials, quality, safety, equipment, scheduling, and maintenance. Responsible for cost of production reports and budgets, including maintenance budgets. Hire, train, and manage a production staff including two production supervisors, three lead persons and 50+ production and support personnel. Prioritize activities on the production floor to assure that direct labor resources are effectively utilized to meet production goals of on time shipment of quality products. Responsible for maintaining overall operations budget, cost accounting of production sales contracts, project cost estimations and budget projection, inventory management costs. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Implementation of MRP system to achieve paper less manufacturing process. Increase warehouse inventory accuracy from 72% to 92%. Implementation of company safety program. Reduced employee turnover by 30%. Show less

Production Supervisor

• Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

Maintenance Forman

• Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

Heavy Equipment Mechanic Field Supervisor

• Jan 1994 - Jan 1996

Maintenance Mechanic/ Forklift and Skip loader Mechanic

• Jan 1993 - Jan 1994

Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic

• Jan 1990 - Jan 1993