Production Manager / Supervisor Resume

Desired Industry: Manufacturing	SpiderID: 14497
Desired Job Location: Little Rock, Arkansas	Date Posted: 8/3/2007
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: Immediate
Desired Wage: 50,000.00
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25%
Highest Degree Attained: Other	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
With over 20 years experience and proven leadership in a manufacturing environment, I have a diverse and stable background in many facets of Production and Materials Management. I consider myself a results orientated manager possessing strong analytical and problem solving abilities, particularly as they relate to the implementation and operation of manufacturing processes.

I am a progressive thinking individual, looking for a company that shares my forward thinking outlook. I attribute my successful career to my ability to learn new systems and both manage and measure them. Having worked from the bottom up, I understand the roles, functions and needs of many departments.

My enclosed resume will provide you with a general outline of my experience. Immediate relocation possible.

Experience:
Production Manager
IL Jun 2000 � Present

� Manage paint, welding, and welding fabrication departments
� Manage quality control to maintain established quality standards
� Schedule production of departments for first and second shifts
� Schedule machine and tooling maintenance
� Facilitate and verify appropriate training for employees in the area (including but not limited to job skills, safety and quality)
� Work closely with materials to maintain inventory controls and labor costs
� Trained with materials group to assist with implementation of new MRP software
� Ensure company wide compliance with all EPA requirements of emissions permits by maintaining reports and all related documentation
� Utilize resources and raw materials in the most efficient and productive manner possible
� Manage multiple priorities in a manufacturing plant setting.

Nuway Speaker Products: Production Manager
Antioch, IL Mar 1998 � Jun 2000

� Managed department supervisors
� Scheduled production of spider department for first and second shift
� Maintained inventory balances
� Scheduled machine and tooling maintenance
� Interacted with quality control to maintain standards
� Interacted with engineering to establish standards on new products.

Fischer Imaging Corp. Production Manager
Addison, IL Jan 1991 � Mar 1998

� Managed paint, silkscreen, grinding and lead lamination departments.
� Reconfigured an existing turnkey paint system for optimum production at lowest expense.
� Within six months brought paint department well into environmental compliance by replacing solventbornes with waterbornes at a substantial savings.
� Setup silk-screen and lead lamination assembly area.
� Managed sheet metal fabrication department.
� Scheduled production of departments for first and second shift.

Sun Electric Corp. Production Supervisor
Crystal Lake, IL Jan1981 � Jan 1991

� Supervised paint and silkscreen departments.
� Scheduled production of departments for first and second shift.
� Instituted purchase of electrostatic spraying equipment, resulting in a 20% paint and filter savings.
� Performed maintenance on turnkey system and all related equipment.
� Setup and supervised cabinet and parts kit assembly area.

Education:
College of Lake County
Grayslake, IL
� Course work towards an Associate�s Degree in production management.

Northern Illinois University ISO 9000
Oak Brook, IL 1997
� ISO internal quality auditor training course.

Grant Community High School General Studies
Fox Lake, IL 1978

Position Specific Training

� An ability to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost and employee relations.
� Computer literacy - Capabilities with PC applications (spreadsheets and word processing).
� The Macbeth, Fundamentals of Color Seminar. A two-day course of lectures and demonstrations on color, covering the application of visual and instrumental techniques to practical industrial color problems.
� The Xerox, Leadership Through Quality. Problem Solving Process Seminar.
� The Xerox Leadership Through Quality. Mining Group Gold Facilitation Techniques Seminar.
� GMP Training course, company sponsored.
� SPC Training course, company sponsored.
� Just In Time Training Course, By David W. Buker Inc. & Associates.
� 5s familiarity.

Reference:
Furnished upon request.

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