{"id":1923,"date":"2023-04-11T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:43","slug":"continuous-improvement-manager-220854-black-belt-cpim-cmq-oe-cnc-machining-stamping-extrusion-heat-treat-mixing-compounding-injection-molding-and-assembly-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/engineering\/continuous-improvement-manager-220854-black-belt-cpim-cmq-oe-cnc-machining-stamping-extrusion-heat-treat-mixing-compounding-injection-molding-and-assembly-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Improvement Manager (220854) Black Belt, CPIM, CMQ\/OE \/ CNC Machining, Stamping, Extrusion, Heat Treat, Mixing\/Compounding, Injection Molding, and Assembly \/ Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Virginia based Manufacturing Prodigy with 25 years of experience in taking broken, underperforming operations and taking them from last to first place in the rankings. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt who uses GEMBA and Management By Walking Around to turn lemons into lemonade! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He puts strong focus on maximizing available resources in order to safely produce quality products on time while beating cost goals. He has spent the bulk of his career leading Machining, Stamping, Extrusion, Mixing\/Compounding, Molding, Heat Treat and Assembly operations t<\/strong>o new performance heights and records. He just completed a contract role and is looking for a new opportunity to improve operations, reduce costs and blow up profits! His notable experience includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Business development, management skills, technical guidance, experience leading and directing all aspects of high and low volume processes, manual, CNC, and robotic systems in 24\/7 continuous operations, create effective planning with ranking Executives while sharing these visions with engineering, direct & indirect reports, creating new business opportunities by leveraging existing resources, streamlining and documenting processes, using proven analytical forecasting by use of Lean Six Sigma Black Belt tools such as Statistical Process Controls.
\u2022 Strong customer engagement skills with an \u201cAll hands on Deck\u201d approach to the resolution of issues.
\u2022 Improved the company’s \u201cGo Green\u201d implementation by going paperless and reduced storage space needs by over 80,000sq\/ft., which now can be Value Added space for manufacturing opportunities.
\u2022 Flowed best practices into a VSM so no wasteful activities occurred. (LEAN, QMS, etc.)
\u2022 Improved communication & eliminated wastes, sped up delivery cycles (was 45 days, now 6 days).
\u2022 Investigated customer complaint investigations and feedback. Virtually eliminated all customer complaints.
\u2022 Reduced customer downtime from months to same-day service.
\u2022 Reduced PCB cost to the customer by 40% and company costs by 63%.
\u2022 Multiple roles (QA\/QC, MFG, Production Control, HR, etc.) were held at one time, and many were intermixed at one time.
\u2022 Implemented and trained members to the ISO-9001 & 14001 methodologies.
\u2022 Created Value Stream Maps (VSM) so that we could \u201csee\u201d and prioritize the issues.
\u2022 Developed 1st Pass Yield (Defects) tracking, Training, and Calibration systems for the Division.
o Created SOP\u2019s for all activities. All activities noted above improved:
Turnaround time from 7 days to 1.
Reduced inventory turns from 45 days to <2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Improved cash flow? Improved Customer Satisfaction from 12th place (last) to number 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Held Change Management training for the staff to see the \u201cbigger picture\u201d, rather than “We’ve done it this way for 20 years”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 By assessing VSM bottlenecks, restructuring was completed for manpower and equipment. \u2022 Responsible for P&L including all non-allocated related costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Implemented training systems and methodologies in order to measure manpower skill sets. Gaps needed were prioritized and closed. Policies & procedures\/rules & regulations had to be established and all members had to steadfastly accountable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Eliminated 12 warehouses by controlling JIT manufacturing. Cost savings >$1.2 million per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Chemical Plant Operations
\u2022 CNC Machining Operations
\u2022 Stamping Operations
\u2022 Extrusion Operations
\u2022 Mixing Operations
\u2022 Compounding Operations
\u2022 Molding Operations
\u2022 Metal Manufacturing
\u2022 Assembly Operations
\u2022 Heat Treat Operations
\u2022 Engineering Team Management
\u2022 Team Leadership (450)
\u2022 Handling Grievances
\u2022 Creating SOPs \/ Ensuring Compliance
\u2022 Process Safety Management
\u2022 Leading Problem Solving Teams
\u2022 Using Statistical Process Control
\u2022 Analyzing Plant Data
\u2022 Monitoring Data Collection
\u2022 Troubleshooting Unit Processes
\u2022 Optimizing Operating Units \/ Processes
\u2022 Increasing Yield
\u2022 Training Operators on SOPs, Policies
\u2022 Increasing Production Capacity
\u2022 Effectively Managing Production Resources
\u2022 Reducing Operation Costs
\u2022 Enforcing EHS Standards
\u2022 Planning Plant Outages
\u2022 Using Six Sigma Projects \/ Tools
\u2022 Troubleshooting Equipment
\u2022 Implementing System Upgrades
\u2022 Creating Project Specifications
\u2022 Capital Project Execution
\u2022 Compliance with Labor Agreements
\u2022 Managing Multiple Projects
\u2022 Implementing Lean Manufacturing
\u2022 Repair Operations
\u2022 Preventative Maintenance
\u2022 VSM bottlenecks
\u2022 TAKT Time
\u2022 Design of Experiments DOE
\u2022 Leading Manufacturing Teams
\u2022 Optimizing Labor Utilization
\u2022 Reducing Inventory
\u2022 Meeting Production Goals
\u2022 Using ERP Systems
\u2022 Implementing Lean \/ Six Sigma Methods
\u2022 Taking Cost Out
\u2022 Improving Manufacturing Methods
\u2022 AutoCAD
\u2022 CAPA
\u2022 GEMBA
\u2022 MBWA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education \/ Training<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 New York State BOCES \u2013 AS degree Automotive Technology
\u2022 Lively Technical College \u2013 AS degree Machining, Metrology, Metallurgy
\u2022 Thomas Nelson Community College \u2013 ISO registrar, Business
\u2022 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB)
\u2022 Lean Certified
\u2022 Certified Toyota Production Sys.
\u2022 Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
\u2022 Change Management Certified Professional
\u2022 Deming\u2019s 14 point Strategy
\u2022 Canon Production Systems (CPS)
\u2022 Toyota Production Systems (TPS)
\u2022 Certified Manager of Quality\/Organizational Excellence (CMQ\/OE)
\u2022 QMS
\u2022 Aerospace Machining
\u2022 Certification for Metrologists (CMS)
\u2022 Moldmaking Level III
\u2022 Shokuvisor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia based Manufacturing Prodigy with 25 years of experience in taking broken, underperforming operations and taking them from last to first place in the rankings. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt who uses GEMBA and Management By Walking Around to turn lemons into lemonade! He puts strong focus on maximizing available resources in order…<\/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":[307,311],"tags":[106,117,118,162,259,274,306,346,375,494],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-production-operations-quality","tag-assembly","tag-machining","tag-stamping","tag-black-belt","tag-injection-molding","tag-continuous-improvement","tag-gemba","tag-extrusion","tag-mixing","tag-cpim"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","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=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}