{"id":1928,"date":"2023-04-18T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:42","slug":"general-manager-220859-masters-material-science-bachelors-metallurgical-engineering-black-belt-metals-engineered-tube-wire-mfg-investment-continuous-green-sand-permanent-mold-casting-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/finance\/general-manager-220859-masters-material-science-bachelors-metallurgical-engineering-black-belt-metals-engineered-tube-wire-mfg-investment-continuous-green-sand-permanent-mold-casting-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"General Manager (220859) Masters Material Science, Bachelors Metallurgical Engineering, Black Belt \/ Metals, Engineered Tube, Wire Mfg \/ Investment, Continuous, Green Sand, Permanent Mold Casting\/ Tier 1, 2 Automotive \/ Will relo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exceptional Manufacturing Leader with 20+ years of experience in metal products. He has a Masters in Materials Science; a Bachelors in Metallurgical Engineering and is a Six Sigma Black Belt,<\/strong> He is a results-oriented engineer and team builder who is skilled at identifying a diverse team\u2019s strengths and weaknesses and coaching them for success. He has led teams of up to 150 people and has deployed Continuous Improvement programs across a 950-member site. He has trained and mentored a lot of Green Belts and has used Hoshin Kanri methods to drive progress and action at every level toward the company’s goals. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to a severe loss of base business, his last employer restructured and eliminated all their General Manager roles so he is seeking a new leadership role. His leadership track record, education, and casting metals industry experience make him a strong candidate for you. His notable experience includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Lead growth efforts in automotive, transformer, and diversified products throughout the company<\/strong>
\u2022 Managed two new product introductions worth 2X revenue<\/strong>,
\u2022 Team established a process for merging process data from equipment to MRP to the effective use of OEE measurement
\u2022 Led APQP teams to the completion of 15 new product launch<\/strong>es
\u2022 Achieve IATF Automotive Quality standard in Technology labs
\u2022 Integrated manufacturing excellence platform and OEE systems at manufacturing locations
\u2022 Implemented ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management system in 9 months via use of Mean Time between Events (MTBE) and effective use of outsourced talent.
\u2022 Taught two waves of green belt student<\/strong>s on DMAIC green belt curriculum. (24 students)
\u2022 Mentored 17 green belt students with both in-process and new project charters.<\/strong>
\u2022 Mentored 11 completed green belt projects i<\/strong>n safety, quality, variable cost reduction, on-time delivery, and project management.
\u2022 Led, facilitated, or coordinated 21 3P\/Kaizen events involving major capital expansion, quality, safety, production throughput, delivery, equipment uptime, PM\/PdM optimization, and plant capacity.
o Expansion of testing lab to meet sales forecast.
o Expansion of Casting Capacity to meet sales forecast.
o Reduction of ID\/Traceability risk in all departments.<\/strong>
o Increased throughput to forecast levels in the work cell.
o Reduced ergonomic risk by 75% for employees in the testing lab.<\/strong>
o Optimized PM\/PdM\u2019s in the bottleneck work center.
\u2022 Successfully led the implementation of a new $38M casting process capital project<\/strong> using the latest technologies.
\u2022 Improved setup time by reducing travel time to the machines. 45 minutes down to 30 minutes.
\u2022 Managed team to 25% ROI and highest operating income in the division<\/strong>
\u2022 Managed team implementation of Alcoa-based Safety culture; reduced SIIR from 15 to 2
\u2022 Consistently achieved the highest performance metrics in Division<\/strong> for scrap, productivity, and product development
\u2022 Responsible for purchase, installation, commissioning, and training of manufacturing technology at Greenfield Plant JV in China in Changshu, Jiangsu province, China.<\/strong>
o Designed layout, purchased, installed, and commissioned 50% of equipment in 200,000 ft2 factory, including a new copper forming technology.<\/strong>
\u2022 Transfer new insulation process to Monterrey, MX facility in 3 months.
\u2022 Implemented Division Quality Platform with Malcolm Baldridge program expectations and built upon ISO-9000 foundation.
o Led team to achieve 75% reduction in customer quality rejections, 63% reduction in internal rejections, and 25% scrap reduction.<\/strong>
\u2022 Implemented Lean Foundation and fostered an environment for Lean Continuous Improvement.
o Developed Lean Engineer and tailored hires to help reduce the skills gap
o Implemented 5S in insulating department
o Implemented VFM in warehouses and WIP areas
o Kaizen events to reduce interference waste associated with multiple machines per operator
\u2022 Implemented a Two-Tiered wage system for production employees resulting in 32% labor savings per employee.
\u2022 Decreased electrical costs in the facility by $0.02\/Kwh.
\u2022 ROI 25% on average and maintained 95% (all customers)<\/strong>
o Develop a culture of flexing hours and schedule of both floor and office personnel to deliver planned and unplanned customer expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Team Leadership (150)
\u2022 Investment Casting \u2013 Spokane Ind, SCAFCO
\u2022 Continuous Casting Copper Rod
\u2022 Lost Wax Casting \u2013 Spokane Ind
\u2022 Permanent Mold Casting \u2013 Spokane Ind
\u2022 Green Sand Casting \u2013 Spokane Ind
\u2022 Aluminum Manufacturing
\u2022 Non-Ferrous Metallurgy
\u2022 Ferrous Metallurgy
\u2022 Heat Treating
\u2022 Ensuring Dimensional
\u2022 Aging Heat Treatment
\u2022 Annealing
\u2022 Selective Heat Treating
\u2022 Pouring Operations
\u2022 Tier 1, Tier 2 Automotive
\u2022 Batch Furnaces Reducing Equipment Setup Time
\u2022 Ford Q1
\u2022 TS16949
\u2022 PPAP
\u2022 APQP
\u2022 Product Engineering
\u2022 Product Launch Activities
\u2022 6S Experience
\u2022 A3 Experience
\u2022 Achieving Cost Reduction
\u2022 Conducting Design Reviews
\u2022 Continuous Improvement Goals
\u2022 Corrective Action
\u2022 Cost Estimating
\u2022 Achieving Cost Reduction
\u2022 Design \/ Layout
\u2022 Design Of Experiments (DOE)
\u2022 Developing Cost Effective Manufacturing Processes
\u2022 Value Stream Mapping
\u2022 Visual Systems
\u2022 Engineering Management experience
\u2022 FIFO Staging
\u2022 Gage R&R
\u2022 Control Charts
\u2022 Create \/ Process FMEAs
\u2022 Electric Discharge Machining \u2013 ETI,
\u2022 Engineering Change Notification
\u2022 Improving Manufacturing Methods
\u2022 Team builder
\u2022 Lean Six Sigma Engineering
\u2022 Strategy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri)
\u2022 ERP Implementation
\u2022 Communication to diverse audiences
\u2022 People development
\u2022 ISO 9001 Implementation
\u2022 International Greenfield Plant
\u2022 P&L Accountability
\u2022 Safety & Environmental Management (ISO 14001 implementation)
\u2022 Organization Structure & Succession planning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION\/DEVELOPMENT —————-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 MS, Materials Science & Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
\u2022 BS, Metallurgical Engineering (, Michigan Technological University
\u2022 Six Sigma Black Belt, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) (1997)
\u2022 Coaching, Effective Plant Management; American Management Association (2000)
\u2022 Finance\/Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive, Wharton School of Business, Univ. of Pennsylvania (2001)
\u2022 Effective Negotiating, Karass (2001)
\u2022 Shift Scheduling Strategies, Circadian (2002)
\u2022 Alcoa Health & Safety Management System (2002)
\u2022 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, BMGI (2013)
\u2022 Certificate for the Emotionally Intelligent Leader Weatherhead School of Management (2019)
\u2022 Lean Manufacturing Principles, CONNSTEP (2004)
\u2022 OSHA 501 10 Hr (2010)
\u2022 Pimsleur Mandarin I (2011)\/Rosetta Stone Mandarin 2+ (2013)
\u2022 Crucial Conversations (2012)
\u2022 Response Surface Methodologies (2013)
\u2022 Internal Auditor Training (2015)
\u2022 Priority Planning (2018)
\u2022 Executive 360 Coaching (2018)
\u2022 Rosetta Stone Spanish (2019)
\u2022 Wazzump! Program (2020-2022)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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