Tooling Manager
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Industry: Manufacturing

Resides: Tennessee

Salary: Open

Relocate: Yes

On the Market:

Summary of Qualifications

Thirty years experience in the engineering and manufacturing environment.
Well-rounded background in Shop Operations including facilities layout, product flow, cell layout and employee involvement and work team operations.


Carboloy Inc. (a Seco Tools Co.)  Warren, MI United States                          1974-2001

Manager of Special Tooling Products Operation/ Lenoir City, TN                 1996-2001
Multiple responsibilities included comprehensive planning, start-up and running of new business venture.  Maintained oversight of layout and construction, purchasing of equipment, selecting and training of employees.
Developed and coordinated pricing structure for special tooling products
Responsible for the manufacture and quality of all special tooling products
Interfaced with Detroit engineering inside sales and field sales
Responsible for taking a historically non-profitable product and making it into a profitable new business within 3 years and managed to reduce cycle time in the process

Manager of Engineering Shop Support/ Lenoir City, TN                        1993-1996
Instrumental in Implementing team environment concept
Successfully managed quality control, facilities engineering and shop support
Responsible for the documentation and implementation of our plant ISO-9001 quality system
Participated as charter member of the ISO corporate steering committee and served as functional representative for Lenoir City facility
Recommended purchase of new equipment that revitalized our manufacturing process
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Manager of Shop Operations, Lenoir City , TN                                       1990-1993
Assigned responsibility for manufacturing operations and facilities engineering with goal of restoring employees= trust and confidence in management
Played instrumental role in a successful counter-union campaign
Established employment involvement and with their commitment, undertook incremental business from our parent company, Seco Tools, and finished ahead of schedule and under projected cost

Manager of Engineering, Lenoir City, TN                                                1989-1990
Responsible for the supervision and training of designers of standard products
Responsible for the successful development new MATS product line

Unit Manager Tooling and Carbopax/ Lenoir City, TN                           1988-1989
Supervised Tooling and Carbopax manufacturing


Supervisor  DesignIProduction Engineer, GE Carboloy, Warren, MI         1984-1988

Relocated to Lenoir City, Tn when our company consolidated 7 manufacturing units
Responsible for the supervision and training of designers
Responsible for the set-up and training of a vendor network for the manufacture and design of tooling products

Senior Design Engineer                                                                  1981-1984
Served as Lead Engineer and trained the designers in the design of tooling products
Performed trouble shooting of  design related manufacturing problems
Served as corporate interface for engineering with Cleveland facility
Interfaced design engineering with manufacturing and project engineers

Design Engineer                 1974-1981
Designed and checked special tooling products
                                                                               
Pioneer Engineering and Manufacturing, Warren, MI             
Designer              1970-1974
Outsourced contract draftsman worked for Dodge Main, Bauer Ordinance, ABC Conveyor, Excello-Willey Carbide and GE Carboloy
Draftsman              1964-1967

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Military Service

United States Military, Army                1967-1970
Radio Communication Terminal Operator/Shift  Leader
Promoted to Sergeant and Site Chief of Headquarters Communications Terminal, in Würzburg, Germany

Education
South Macomb Community College, Auto Design,  Warren, MI, United States         1970-1971
Did not complete for a degree, I took courses that would add to my knowledge and skills to support my work.
Wilbur Wright CO-OP Trade High School, Detroit, MI, United States               1963-1966
Graduate in Mechanical Design Engineering
 At Wright we worked 2 weeks and went to school for 2 weeks alternating, I advanced quickly and was assigned to Pioneer in my second semester of 10th grade and 16 years old.

Special Training


ISO9001 Training, Lead Auditor Training, Internal Auditor Training; Perry Johnson Inc.
Management Development Seminar; Wimberly & Lawson.
Cell Design & Implementation Productivity Inc.
Team Facilitator and Team Management Training; Ed Cornelius / U.S.C.
What are Teams and Team Implementation Training Seminars'; Ed Cornelius  / U.S.C.
Employee Involvement Seminar; Concepts International
Induction Heat Treat Seminar
Ion Nitriding Seminar
The Super Supervisor Training
Just In Time Manufacturing
Story Boarding Training; GE Carboloy
GE Business Management GE Carboloy
Legal training on sexual harassment in the workplace
Training on FMLA and other leaves

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