{"id":2019,"date":"2023-05-30T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T19:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:40","slug":"director-manufacturing-operations-209603-tier-1-2-automotive-cnc-machining-assembly-injection-molding-greenfield-operations-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/production-operations-quality\/director-manufacturing-operations-209603-tier-1-2-automotive-cnc-machining-assembly-injection-molding-greenfield-operations-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Manufacturing Operations (209603) Tier 1, 2 Automotive \/ CNC Machining, Assembly, Injection Molding \/ Greenfield Operations \/ International"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michigan-based continuous improvement leader with a 20 year record of accomplishments in quality and productivity with bottom-line profitability in the automotive industry.<\/strong> He is knowledgeable in all facets of operational excellence and manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, supply chain management, project management, and quality management. His strong leadership, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and negotiation skills are utilized to lead and motivate teams to achieve goals. John has an impressive track record of reducing operating costs and exceeding all profit objectives while maintaining high product quality and customer satisfaction. He has started up facilities globally and in the United States. . He comes highly recommended and is described by other leaders as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He is an outstanding, driven leader. He brings a keen technical depth to his relentless pursuit of delivering for customers and to an overall business strategy. He cares about others and not only invests in them but also does not hesitate to “get his hands dirty” in demonstrating how to solve challenging problems!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He is a dedicated and gifted leader who excels in balancing the priorities of the business with the skills and personalities of many. He has an incredibly strong drive and commitment to operational excellence, eliminating waste across business\/production, and knows precisely how to lead to achieve a common goal.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is currently employed in a nonmanufacturing role and is looking for an opportunity to return to an Operations Leadership role in MI, NC, SC, GA, FL, or TN. His notable experience includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Establish a new 170,000 sq ft operation in Detroit<\/strong>
\u2022 Establish greenfield site in TN, <\/strong>project manage the setup, and start operations.
\u2022 Led over 15 Kaizens which ranged from complete current and future state value stream analysis with improved average delivery times of 20% and savings of over $90,000.<\/strong>
\u2022 Facilitated over 20 SMED \/ quick changeover events and reduced changeover time by approximately 56%<\/strong>
\u2022 Decrease spare parts purchasing by 58%<\/strong> through inventory visibility and common part design usage.
\u2022 Increase process stability and reduce rejects by 22%<\/strong> by standardizing machine start-up and reaction processes.
\u2022 As part of the key team, successfully lead the completion of a turnaround from losing $800,000\u2019s a month in May of 2018 to a net profit of $250,000\u2019s net profit in both Jan and Feb of 2019.<\/strong>
\u2022 Implement an APQP\/program Management process that resulted in a 72% improvement in program deliverables.
\u2022 Achieved 40% waste reduction.<\/strong>
\u2022 Meet with customers to mitigate previous deliverable misses. In one specific case, negotiated a walk away agreement avoiding additional financial hardship
\u2022 Per the Executive committee agreed upon vision Consolidate operation from 3 facilities to 2 facilities<\/strong>
\u2022 Increase profitability year over year by 1%+ through this period of time<\/strong>
\u2022 Consolidate operation from 5 facilities to 3 facilities while reducing labor from 300 employees to the current 193<\/strong>
\u2022 Reduce labor from 300 employees to the 193
\u2022 Reestablish profitability in early 2009 with an average of 10%
\u2022 Cut overall operating expenses by 33%<\/strong>
\u2022 Establish and full implementation of TS 16949 at 3 facilities in the US, Mexico, and Central America<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Ford Q1
\u2022 TS16949
\u2022 PPAP
\u2022 Product Launch Activities
\u2022 6S Experience
\u2022 Achieving Cost Reduction
\u2022 APQP
\u2022 Continuous Improvement Goals
\u2022 Corrective Action
\u2022 Cost Estimating
\u2022 Design \/ Layout
\u2022 Design Of Experiments (DOE)
\u2022 DMAIC
\u2022 Enterprise Resource Planning
\u2022 FIFO Staging
\u2022 Gage R&R
\u2022 Control Plans
\u2022 Developing Work Instructions
\u2022 Hiring \/ Training
\u2022 Implementing Continuous Improvement
\u2022 Improving Jigs \/ Fixtures
\u2022 ISO9001
\u2022 Kaizen Events
\u2022 Lean Manufacturing Methods
\u2022 Managing Multiple Projects
\u2022 Manufacturing BOM
\u2022 Material Management
\u2022 P & L Responsibility
\u2022 Process Capability Index (Cpk)
\u2022 Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
\u2022 Process Manufacturing Improvements
\u2022 Project Planning
\u2022 Providing Technical Support
\u2022 Root Cause Analysis
\u2022 Scrap Reduction
\u2022 Standard Work
\u2022 Statistical Process Control (SPC)
\u2022 Supervising Multi-discipline Teams
\u2022 Total Quality Management (TQM)
\u2022 Troubleshooting
\u2022 Value Stream Mapping
\u2022 Visual Systems
\u2022 3-axis, 4-axis, 5-axis, 6-axis
\u2022 Single Spindle CNC Milling
\u2022 Tier 1 \/ Tier 2 Automotive
\u2022 ERP Systems \u2013 QAD, AimSolutions
\u2022 Reducing Equipment Setup Time
\u2022 Mold Design
\u2022 Improving Manufacturing Methods
\u2022 Implementing CMMS Systems
\u2022 Lean Manufacturing
\u2022 Managing Machining Operations \u2013 Eclipse Mold, iNFLUX
\u2022 Project Management
\u2022 Quality Documentation
\u2022 Reading Blueprints
\u2022 Reducing Equipment Down Time
\u2022 Work Instructions
\u2022 Solidworks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michigan-based continuous improvement leader with a 20 year record of accomplishments in quality and productivity with bottom-line profitability in the automotive industry. He is knowledgeable in all facets of operational excellence and manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, supply chain management, project management, and quality management. His strong leadership, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and negotiation skills are utilized to…<\/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":[34,106,117,148,151,259,268,541,659],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plant-manager","category-production-operations-quality","tag-automotive","tag-assembly","tag-machining","tag-cnc","tag-tier-1","tag-injection-molding","tag-international","tag-tier-2","tag-greenfield"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","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=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}