{"id":1777,"date":"2022-12-29T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:47","slug":"manufacturing-operations-maintenance-leader-83397-automotive-aerospace-metals-certified-black-belt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/maintenance\/manufacturing-operations-maintenance-leader-83397-automotive-aerospace-metals-certified-black-belt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Operations \/ Maintenance Leader (83397) Automotive, Aerospace, Metals \/ Certified Black Belt -4 \/ Will Relo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Accomplished Operations and Maintenance Leader who is highly skilled in the reduction of costs for manufacturing operations. He has a bachelors in Operations Management and has 4 Black Belt Certifications in Six Sigma, Lean, SMED and Total Production Maintenance. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has led manufacturing teams of 175+. He has an impressive track record of driving continuous improvement, reducing costs, and increasing productivity and profits while focusing on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Inventory (SQDCI). He is trained in SAP, Epicor, and Baan MRP systems. But that is not all, as he understands the importance of keeping the lines running as he has also managed production maintenance teams Implementing TPM to achieve big savings and even bigger uptime gains in equipment! This game changer is currently employed but is interested in exploring new manufacturing Operations or Maintenance Leadership opportunities. Put his broad skill set, impressive track record and experience in Automotive, Aerospace and Metal component manufacturing to work for you! <\/strong>His notable experience includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Success in leading upwards of 7 supervisors and 165 skilled employees
\u2022 Experienced Operations Lead who is fluent in managing departments for peak production
\u2022 Skilled in training\/mentoring of all associates in lean manufacturing
\u2022 Expert in Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Increased Productivity
\u2022 Foundry Operations
\u2022 Achieved on-time delivery of 95%<\/strong> to customers through 2019
\u2022 Reduced perishable tooling cost by for grinding by 25%<\/strong> through strategic sourcing
\u2022 Achieved customers\u2019 needs on all first article parts 100%
\u2022 Initiate and implement cost improvements through reduced costs and new tooling
\u2022 Reduced budget by $225K in two months
\u2022 Implemented cost savings of $110k in first three months<\/strong>
\u2022 Lead core Plant SMED team driving reductions in the changeover of >30%<\/strong>
\u2022 Lead CMMS implementation team and facilitate TPM implementation<\/strong>
\u2022 Facilitated TPM implementation for all maintenance and tooling in wire room
\u2022 Identified a cost avoidance of $1.5 million<\/strong> while gaining opportunity potential of $4.5 million in billing dollars
\u2022 Lead all manufacturing activities for aerospace engines in three plants
\u2022 Lead 7 supervisors and 165 skilled employees.
\u2022 Responsible for plant turnaround of failing plant 2 and implemented LEAN<\/strong>
\u2022 Increased productivity by 12% in first 50 days <\/strong>through standardization and accountability.
\u2022 Reduced OGV processing time by 50% <\/strong>by increasing tool capacity on a 100MM dollar product line.
\u2022 Led turnaround transformation through a culture change in a troubled plant within the site.
\u2022 Increased productivity while driving lean initiatives by 25% in 1 month.<\/strong>
\u2022 Led all P&L activities for two plants in the fabrication and assembly of semi-trailers
\u2022 Increased machine capacity by 7% in the first 45 days <\/strong>by establishing a break relief system
\u2022 Increased plant productivity by 12% in the first 50 days<\/strong> through standard work and setting expectations
\u2022 Implemented a cost avoidance of $35k <\/strong>by moving a sheet metal part to a different work center
\u2022 Directed all Plant Site Activities (Kaizen) leading to $500k+ in first six months<\/strong>
\u2022 Reduced scrap by 40 % <\/strong>through identifying critical elements in standardized work (KPI) and rapid experiments
\u2022 Improved productivity and schedule attainment by 10% in three months<\/strong>
\u2022 Reduced raw material inventory by $820k in six months
\u2022 Increased inventory turns from 5.1 to 6.4 in six months<\/strong>
\u2022 Realized cost savings of $540k <\/strong>through strategic sourcing of a purchased part within one month
\u2022 Reduced setup and changeover time by 38% and 51%<\/strong> on stainless steel linkage machining and assembly line through SMED
\u2022 Reduced $300k backlog of $3MM machining product line in 3 weeks<\/strong>
\u2022 Rebalanced labor on brake shoe and lining assembly lines to achieve $500k+ annual savings<\/strong>
\u2022 Reduced downtime in U-cell by $66k <\/strong>through change in error proofing resulting in $13k personal award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Maintenance Team Leadership
\u2022 Plant Turnarounds
\u2022 Steel Manufacturing
\u2022 Foundry Operations \u2013 Art Metals
\u2022 Casting Operations
\u2022 Automotive \/ Aerospace
\u2022 Chemical Manufacturing
\u2022 Assembly Operations
\u2022 Stamping Operations
\u2022 Welding Operations
\u2022 Fabrication Operations
\u2022 General Manufacturing Operations
\u2022 Transportation Maintenance
\u2022 Plastics Manufacturing
\u2022 Part\/Component Manufacturing
\u2022 Facility Maintenance Planning
\u2022 Maintenance Planning
\u2022 Multicraft Unionized Workforce
\u2022 Working with Contract Maintenance
\u2022 Leading Multiple Shift Maintenance
\u2022 Capital Equipment ROI
\u2022 Equipment Purchasing
\u2022 Maintaining Critical Spares Inventory
\u2022 Equipment Installation
\u2022 Moving Production Equipment
\u2022 TPM Total Preventative Maintenance
\u2022 CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management System
\u2022 Improving Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
\u2022 Lean Manufacturing
\u2022 Holding Kaizen Events
\u2022 Holding Kanban
\u2022 Managing Work Orders
\u2022 Troubleshooting Equipment
\u2022 Equipment ROI Metrics
\u2022 Machine Repair
\u2022 Dismantling \/ Moving Equipment
\u2022 Planning \/ Scheduling \/ Organizing
\u2022 Project Management
\u2022 Stamping Presses
\u2022 Extrusion Equipment
\u2022 CMMS
\u2022 Cost Savings Implementation
\u2022 Budget Reduction
\u2022 Tool Commodity Management
\u2022 Capacity planning, costs, profit and loss
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Education & Certifications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 B.A. OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Development<\/strong>
\u2022 Delphi Manufacturing System \/ Toyota Production System Seminar
\u2022 Trained in Lean manufacturing tools.
\u2022 Trained in SAP, Epicor, Baan MRP systems.<\/strong>
\u2022 Certified ISO9001-2008 internal auditor. Trained in TS16949, AS9100 Rev C.
\u2022 Certified Six Sigma Black Belt<\/strong> from ISSC
\u2022 Certified SMED Black Belt \/ Total Productive Maintenance Black Belt \/ Lean Daily Management Black Belt <\/strong>from (Belden)
\u2022 Train the Trainer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accomplished Operations and Maintenance Leader who is highly skilled in the reduction of costs for manufacturing operations. He has a bachelors in Operations Management and has 4 Black Belt Certifications in Six Sigma, Lean, SMED and Total Production Maintenance. He has led manufacturing teams of 175+. He has an impressive track record of driving continuous…<\/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":[311,310],"tags":[34,49,50,51,77,115,132,138,162,190,248],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-operations-quality","category-maintenance","tag-automotive","tag-sap","tag-erp","tag-mrp","tag-maintenance","tag-lean","tag-foundry","tag-aerospace","tag-black-belt","tag-metals","tag-equipment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","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=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}