{"id":1563,"date":"2022-09-27T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:51","slug":"plant-mgr-operations-leader-207666-aerospace-automotive-forging-casting-machining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/production-operations-quality\/plant-mgr-operations-leader-207666-aerospace-automotive-forging-casting-machining\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANT MGR. OPERATIONS LEADER (207666) Aerospace, Automotive \/ Forging, Casting, Machining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Impressive Manufacturing Leader withs a strong history of strengthening compliance; improving processes; and elevating output, quality, customer satisfaction, and employee morale to all-time bests.<\/strong> His broad operations experience includes machining, heat treating, melting, forging, casting, grinding, thermoforming, and trimming operations. He has a strong teamwork mentality with experience in both union (UAW, UAW) and nonunion environments. He is experienced in SAP and Oracle ERP systems. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He brings leadership\/team skills, a successful track record of cost savings, continuous improvement, and a metrics-driven process optimization competence to the table. He is single, renting, and willing to relocate. His notable experience includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Plant Manager with a proven record of meeting and exceeding safety, production, spend, revenue, and costs metrics. <\/strong>
\u2022 Managed full P&L, demonstrating strong financial results while maintaining high levels of equipment uptime.
o Met or exceeding the financial plan (P&L) 15 out of 16 months
o Achieved aggressive and strategic cost savings reduction from 28.7% of revenue in 2019 to 20.1% 2021 YTD, <\/strong>
\u2022 Coaching and developing team members at all levels, collaborating with all levels of the organization, and using continuous improvement tools for CI identification\/implementation when misses occurred with KAIZEN and A3 processes.
\u2022 First location in the BU to fully train and implement Six Sigma White Belt for all levels of the team
\u2022 Responsibility of multi-site operational leadership in Q3 & Q4 2021<\/strong>
o Meeting our P&L commitments in Martinsville, VA
o Achieving YTD record revenue shipments <\/strong>
\u2022 Operations included Forging, heat treating and machining operations to make aluminum wheels for 18 wheelers.
\u2022 Ensured all Environmental & Safety policies are followed.
o Member of the team that has never had a finding through corporate or agency audits.<\/strong>
\u2022 Monitoring performance and implementing corrective actions to meet goals.
o Increased throughput by 100% in 2017<\/strong>
\u2022 Solved problems to the root to prevent recurrences; using A3 problem solving and tracking to leverage 5 why\u2019s, Poka-Yoke, and fishbone to understand, plan, and track improvement opportunities that result in financial improvements.
\u2022 Front line interaction with the workforce and union leadership in administering, applying, complying, and enforcing the bargained contract.
\u2022 Led and participated in several initiatives for cost savings
o Improved training, ensuring safety performance
o Improving first pass yield
o Measured by improved on-time delivery to our customers.
\u2022 Improved employee production documentation compliance by standardizing the company auditing frequency and modifying feedback to union employees.
\u2022 Used Andon performance management system for production tracking and continuous improvement <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 BS in Business Administration \/ INDIANA WESLAYAN UNIVERSITY
\n\u2022 University of Phoenix – Information Technology
\n\u2022 Howmet Business Systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impressive Manufacturing Leader withs a strong history of strengthening compliance; improving processes; and elevating output, quality, customer satisfaction, and employee morale to all-time bests. His broad operations experience includes machining, heat treating, melting, forging, casting, grinding, thermoforming, and trimming operations. He has a strong teamwork mentality with experience in both union (UAW, UAW) and nonunion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,311],"tags":[34,117,138,152,157,499,562,563],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plant-manager","category-production-operations-quality","tag-automotive","tag-machining","tag-aerospace","tag-casting","tag-plant-manager","tag-forging","tag-grinding","tag-operations-mnager"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}